1. Bop last Friday
2. Alternative Medical Careers Evening – Monday 26th April (tomorrow)
3. OFMH Talk – Modern Medicine – Thursday 29th April
4. Tingewick Bop – Friday 30th April
5. OGHG Masterclass – Monday 3rd May
6. Electives in Sri Lanka
7. Volunteer for Nightline
8. April UKFPO Bulletin

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1. **Bop last Friday**

Dear all,

As many of you will be aware, the fire alarm went off at the end of the bop. I know that this was done intentionally by someone. I am not going to expend loads of energy trying to figure out who did it, but I just wanted to say that this kind of behaivour is just not acceptable. It turned what was a very fun bop into something much less fun. I spent ages on the phone to the alarm company, the fire service came to Osler (what an appalling waste of the tax man’s money…) and one of the women from the medschool came up at 2.30am because the hospital security services had contacted her. What a royal waste of everyone’s time. And it was VERY embarrassing. I am personally going to have to apologise to this woman and potentially face other members of the medical school staff – not what I particularly want to do. It really doesn’t make Oxford medical school look good – we are meant to be grown-up responsible people who are going to be very important members of society one day. We are not freshers anymore and so please noone do anything like that again (for example at the Tingewick bop next Friday). Rant over.

Hope you have all enjoyed the sun this weekend.

Sophie

xx
P.S. On saturday morning I picked up a green shiny purse with some money it from the driveway at Osler. If anyone has lost it then please let me know and I will return it to you.

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2. **Alternative Medical Careers Evening**

Ever thought about getting involved with healthcare policy work? Ever considered going abroad to work for MSF? Ever been excited by the idea of working as a military doctor?…But unsure as to how any of these are compatible with a career in the NHS? The Richard Doll Medical Society at GTC presents its much anticipated ‘Alternative Medical Careers’ evening, featuring talks by three experienced speakers on what working in healthcare policy, military medicine or overseas relief work really involves.

Time: Monday 26th April (tonight!), 7pm (sandwiches from 6:45pm)

Venue: Green-Templeton College, main lecture theatre

Information on speakers:

Dr. Douglas Noble BSc BM BCh MRCS MPH DFPH read science and medicine at St. Andrews and Oxford and has been a Research Fellow at GTC since 2004. Training initially in general surgery he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2006. Subsequently he worked as Clinical Adviser to the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, from 2006-2008, one of the first doctors in training to hold such a post. His advisory position involved regularly briefing the Chief Medical Officer on health policy, speech writing and extensive liaison with the World Health Organisation. Recently completing a master’s degree in Public Health from the renowned Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA, he is now back on the frontline of the NHS at Tower Hamlets as a Public Heath Registrar. Regularly publishing in the medical press he has an ongoing series in the Health Services Journal on American healthcare reform and a blog with the British Medical Journal.

Wing Commander Dr Simon Hughes BSc MBBS FRCA EDIC RAF. As well as working as a Consultant Anaesthetist at the JR, Dr Hughes is a consultant with the RAF Critical Care Air Support Team, undertaking regular two month deployments to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, working in the Field Hospital on the Medical Emergency Response Team, and on the Tactical CCAST (Critical Care Aeromedical Support Team). In between deployments, he has a heavy on call duty as a Consultant Anaesthetist for the Strategic CCAST to retrieve critically injured casualties from Afghanistan and worldwide.

Darryl Stellmach has worked for over ten years in development & relief. For the last six years he’s been a field worker with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), where he worked on and led projects in Sierra Leone, Northern Uganda, Colombia and Somalia. Most recently, he ran MSF’s intervention in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Pakistan’s Afghan border. At Oxford he’s studying for an MSc in Medical Anthropology.

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3. **OFMH Talk**

OFMH is proud to present Dr Druin Burch, author of “Taking the medicine”. Working as a practising doctor here in Oxford, Dr Burch’s book has been described as a “gripping history of the blundering progress of medicine”. This is a talk about the history of drugs and our struggle to recognise which treatments are effective and which are not. Doctors pledge to ‘first, do no harm’ yet by relying on belief rather than evidence it is argued that until recently quite the opposite has been happening. He is not the first doctor to express doubts.

This promises to be a thought provoking evening and a definite must for anyone interested in the direction of modern medicine.

As our previous events have had a high attendance, please arrive early to avoid disappointment. A buffet will be provided before the lecture.

Thursday 29th April 2010
Merton College, Mure room

Buffet 6pm for lecture at 6.30pm

For more information, see our facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=117737108245187

All are welcome. For more information e-mail: emma.bodenham@gtc.ox.ac.uk

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4. **Tingewick Bop**

Coming soon to Osler House…

The un-dead fans of heavy metal return……in tweed!

TINGEWICKS’ GOTH-TOFF BOP!!!

Friday the 30th April
After Osler Committee Hustings until Midnight
Original cocktails and the best DJs all night long!
£3 entry includes one free drink

(If you’d like to be one of the ‘best DJs’ contactanna.kaleva@medschool.ox.ac.uk)

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5. **OGHG Presents**

A Masterclass organised by the Oxford Global Health Group:

“Technology & Tele-Health in Extreme Environments:
Medécins Sans Frontières Along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border” a talk by Darryl Stellmach.

When: Monday May 3rd at 8pm
Where: Green Templeton College, Barclay Room
All welcome.

“Much has been made of the potential for medical technologies to
transform health care in the world’s poorest places. But what works
and what doesn’t in remote, resource-poor or violent settings?

Darryl Stellmach spent a year and a half running MSF’s programs in
the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the conflicted zone dividing
northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Using the example of MSF’s
programing along the frontier, Darryl puts forward his argument for
the human and structural components needed for successful tele-health.”

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6. **ELECTIVE PERIODS IN SRI LANKA**

See the following poster
(http://medicalelectives2srilanka.com/leaflet1.jpg)
for information on electives in Sri Lanka.

Dr Asoka Thenabadu
MBBS DCH MRCPCH

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7. **Nightline**

Nightline is an independent listening, support, and information
service run for and by students. We aim to provide every student in
Oxford with the opportunity to talk to someone in confidence. We
don*t
pretend to have all the answers, or try to solve people’s problems,
but we care about whatever is on your mind and we will listen to
whatever you want to talk about in a non-judgemental way. Every term
we run a training course for people who wish to join our team of
volunteers. This teaches the listening and support skills they will
need to work for us. Training requires commitment, but is a rewarding
and worthwhile experience. It consists of three one-day sessions,
either on the Saturdays or Sundays of 3rd/4th, 4th/5th, or 5th/6th
weeks.

If you think you might like to become a Nightline volunteer, please
have a look at our website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~nightln, where
you can find more information about the training process.
Alternatively, you can get in touch with us at nltraining@gmail.com,
or ring us at (2)70270. Then, if it sounds like something you’d be
interested in, please go to the section that says “Apply to Train
Online” and fill out a training form.

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8. **April 2010 Medical Student Board Bulletin**

See the attached bulletin from the Medical Student Board regarding UKFPO.

As you will see the focus is on the upcoming academic programme recruitment. It is very important that all students are aware of the academic foundation programme and this bulletin will play an important role in this process.

There is also a copy on the website, which can be found at: http://www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/pages/medical-students/student-board