1. Osler Committee Elections and TINGEWICK BOP – Friday 30th April
2. Richard Doll Society Medics’ Garden Party – Sunday 25th April
3. Richard Doll – Alternative Careers Talks – Monday 26th April
4. OSM and OGHG Event – Tuesday 4th May
5. Tingewick Jazz Night – Friday 7th May
6. 3 Peaks Race – Sponsor us!
7. Case studies wanted for Gazette
8. Plastics Questionnaire
9. E-mentoring

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1. **Elections and TINGEWICK BOP**

Keep voting for President, VP and Treasurer.

The next round of hustings for all other Committee positions will be on Friday 30th April….

DON’T STOP READING!!!!!

Stick around after Hustings for the first Tingewick Bop of 2010!!!

Original and Exciting theme……………. watch this space!

Shots and cocktails of all colours and flavours,

The best DJs in the JR,

Entry just £3!

How could you miss it???

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2. **Richard Doll Society Medics’ Garden Party**

Sunday 25th April
3 – 6pm at Green College

Food ~ Drink ~ Live Music
Dress: Smart and Summer-y.

Tickets £4 Pre-paid or £5 on the door.

Email Sheila (sheila.lumley@medschool.ox.ac.uk) for more information
and to book your tickets!

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3. **Richard Doll Society of Medicine presents:**

Alternative Careers Talk

Monday 26th April
7pm
GTC

See attached poster for more details.

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4. **Oxford Society for Medicine and Oxford Global Health Group present**

PROFESSOR HUGH MONTGOMERY:
“SURVIVAL: Who lives, Who dies, And why?”

All welcome – FREE entry and NO registration needed – JUST TURN UP!
Tuesday 4th of May 2010, 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre

We are honoured to bring you Prof Hugh Montgomery, Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, and UCL and Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College Hospital London. He is also accredited at consultant level in cardiology and internal medicine, and currently leads an expanding research group in the department of cardiovascular genetics at UCL. His research into the responses to exercise training, inflammatory responses in critical care outcome amongst other areas has led to over 100 publications including several in Nature, Lancet and Circulation.

As if this wasn’t enough, Professor Montgomery is also renowned for his super-human array of achievements including running three 100 km ultra-marathons, holding the world record for underwater piano playing, writing a Hollywood produced film in 6 weeks (“Reputation and Control”) and authoring two novels!

Professor Montgomery will be talking on ‘The physiology of human survival’ following on from the famous Royal Institution Christmas lectures he gave in 2007. In this talk he will address how progress in medical science is intimately linked with understanding the limits of human survival such as increases in adult life expectancy and the survival of 24 week old foetuses. The human body can cope with remarkable extremes of temperature, from desert to Arctic conditions. It can also endure long periods of starvation and thirst – as any survivor cast adrift at sea will testify. The capacity of the body to recover from the most devastating trauma is impressive and the power of the survival instinct never ceases to surprise…

What happens when these systems are pushed to their absolute limit? Are we all survivors? Or are they special? And, if so, are they born or made?

These questions, amongst others, will be answered in what is guaranteed to be a stimulating and highly thought provoking evening!

Any queries, e-mail: omar.abdel-mannan@medschool.ox.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you at what promises to be a special event!

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5. **TINGEWICK JAZZ NIGHT**

When? Friday, 7th May, 7.30pm til Midnight

Where? Tingewick Hall

Dress? Black tie

Come and enjoy cocktails, canapés and the talents of some of Oxford’s finest Jazz musicians!!!

Tickets: Alcoholic tickets £12 (includes 2 free drinks)
Non-alcoholic tickets £8 (includes 2 free non-alcoholic drinks)

Email tingewicktickets@googlemail.com to reserve you tickets!

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6. **3 Peaks Race**

A group of us (medics) are going to climb the three highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales over a 48 hour period on the first weekend in May…what we like to call the Three Peaks Race ;-)

Alongside this endurance challenge we would like to raise money for K.E.E.N. an Oxford based charity where students support younger special needs children through recreational activities.

Please help us to raise as much money as possible to support this local charity. Any amount would be much much appreciated! To donate visit the following website:http://www.justgiving.com/threepeaksrace

It will only take 5mins (less than that really) and it will make us very very happy! Thank you very much! Naieya x

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7. **Gazette**

Case studies wanted for the next issue of the Gazette:

Interested in writing for the Oxford Medical School Gazette? We are looking for short (200 words) pieces on interesting patients students have come across. For more information contactlucy.farrimond@medschool.ox.ac.uk.

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8. **Plastics Questionnaire**

Dear Medical Student,

Please take a few minutes to complete the following anonymous, online
survey regarding Plastic Surgery teaching and clinical attachments in
the undergraduate medical curriculum. There are 35 short questions which
take less than 5 minutes to complete;

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Medical_Student_Questionnaire

Please click on the above hyperlink or paste it into your web browser to
proceed.

As a thank you for completing this survey, all participants will be
able to enter a free prize draw for a case of 6 bottles of mixed wines,
courtesy of NakedWines(tm). For more information about why we are
interested in your opinion on Plastic Surgery in the undergraduate
curriculum, please see the attached Participant Information Sheet.

With kind regards and best wishes,

Ryckie G Wade, Medical Student, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Mr Andrea Figus, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Sam Leinster, Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy & Practice, University of East Anglia

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9. **E-MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES**

The University of Oxford Access Office is looking for E-Mentors to
provide email support and advice to bright, enthusiastic students from
UK state schools. All students are currently studying for their AS
Levels (or equivalent) and are considering applying to Oxford or other
top Universities in the coming year.

We are looking for Undergraduates and Graduates who are willing to
become an E-Mentor to one or two students from June until December 2010.
As an E-Mentor you will be linked to students who are interested in
applying for a subject which is the same as or closely related to that
which you study. We ask a commitment to send one email per fortnight per
student (so if you have two students, it works out at one email per
week) – an extremely small commitment, but something which could really
make a huge difference to a student’s aspirations and achievements.

The application form is available at www.ox.ac.uk/mentor and the
deadline for applications is Friday 30th April (Friday of Trinity 1st
Week). If you would like more information about this project, please
email kathryn.spicksley@admin.ox.ac.uk or call (01865 2)80126

University of Oxford
Access and Widening Participation Office