NB 4th Years – notice about MedEd2 booklets.
Also, no more vacancies are available for work with The Electives Network (advertised in Bulletin on 4th May) – please don’t send them anymore CVs!

Osler Bulletin

1. 4th Years: MedEd2 booklets now ready
2. Gazette Writers Meeting TODAY – Mon 17th May
3. OGHG Talk ‘Health Impact Fund’ – TODAY
4. OFMH Talk ‘From Genomes To Health – TODAY
5. Oxford Society for Medicine – Prof Peter Ratcliffe – Weds 19th May
6. OGHG Masterclass – Monday 31st May
7. Compete In OU Varsity Triathlon
8. Sports & Exercise Medicine Evening – 15th June
9. Doctors’ Mess Summer Ball – Friday 9th July
10. Intensive Care Society Essay Prize 2010
11. Single & double room to let in Headington
12. Lots of books for sale

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1. **MedEd2 booklets now ready**

For 4th years…

MedEd2 booklets are now printed. If you didn’t get one at today’s lectures, the rest are in the Medical School Office – in a box on the worktop on the right just inside the door. There are enough for one each.
It is also on the MedEd page on weblearn:

https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/medsci/student_site/meded

Or, click on ‘Medical Sciences Division’ tab, then ‘Student sites’ (under Sub-sites on left-hand side), then ‘MedEd’.
Once you’ve visited the site once, it’ll be added to ‘My Active Sites’ so will be easier to find next time.
Hope you find it useful.

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2. **Gazette Writers’ Meeting**

Dear All,

The next issue of the Gazette is nearing completion and will soon be going to the printers. However, rather than resting on our laurels, we are already looking ahead to the following issue, the theme of which will be ‘Stranger than fiction’. To this end, there will be a clinical writer’s meeting at 18.00 on Monday 17 May in Classroom 7, JRH Academic Corridor. This is an opportunity for both veteran and budding writers to come along and pitch their ideas, bounce them around, and develop them in response to feedback. The theme has a very broad scope, but please do not feel constrained by it: if you have an idea that’s unrelated to the theme, we’d still love to hear from you. If you’d like to contribute, but can’t make the meeting, please send your ideas in by e-mail to emma.burke@oriel.ox.ac.uk.

Looking forward to seeing lots of you there,

Matt Harris
OMSG Editor

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3. **OGHG Event**

The Health Impact Fund: incentives for improving access to essential medicines
Date:Monday, 17 May 2010
Time:19:30 – 21:30
Location:Green-Templeton College, Barclay Room

On behalf of Oxford Global Health Group
Dr. Amitava Banerjee – The Health Impact Fund: Incentives for improving access to essential medicines
Monday 17th May, 7:30pm
Barclay Room, Green Templeton College
Everyone welcome!
Join us for a discussion of one of the most innovative global health initiatives around: using carrots, not sticks, to ensure the pharmaceutical industry develops the drugs the world’s poorest people need.
Changes in the way pharmaceutical research and development is funded may be essential for improving access to effective medicines.
Dr. Amitava Banerjee is the medical advisor to the Health Impact Fund, a proposed structure aiming to stimulate research and development in life-saving pharmaceuticals, and encouraging low-cost, accessible and effective interventions.
For more details, see this article in the Guardian by the ethicist Peter Singer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/16/health.pharmaceuticals

Or Dr Banerjee’s recent article in the Lancet:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961296-4/fulltext?version=printerFriendly

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4. **OFMH Talk**

*From Genomes to Health*
Sir Mark Walport

Buffet 6pm; Lecture 6.30pm
Monday 4th Week (17th May)
Merton College, Mure room

OFMH is proud to present “From Genomes to Health”, a talk by Sir Mark Walport concerning the Human Genome Project, its most recent advances and future directions.
As Director of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Mark Walport heads one of the world’s largest biomedical research charities, which spends over £400 million every year, pursuing its mission to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health.
Since the Human Genome Project began in 1990 both a working and complete draft of the genome have been published providing us with clues to the understanding of human biology and revolutionizing the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.
This promises to be a fascinating evening providing an insight into our current understanding of the Human Genome and its future potential.

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

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5. **Oxford Society for Medicine presents**

PROFESSOR PETER RATCLIFFE, F.R.S.
“Following the oxygen sensing pathway to a career in medical science: expect the unexpected”
Wednesday 19th May, 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Harris Lecture Hall, Oriel CollegeAll welcome! FREE entry, refreshments and snacks for all!

We are honoured to bring you Professor Peter Ratcliffe, who is Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at Oxford and was awarded the highly prestigious Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2009, a prize that is awarded to researchers carrying out outstanding biological research with significant implications for future medicine and healthcare. The award recognises Professor Ratcliffe’s pioneering research on how cells in the body detect how much oxygen is available to them, and especially how they respond to a lack of oxygen. This has led to a better understanding of the development of diseases such as cancer and pulmonary or cardiovascular disease, where a lack of oxygen in the cell plays an important role. Professor Ratcliffe’s team is now working to better understand these pathways and how they can be manipulated for the treatment of these diseases.

On this occasion, Professor Ratcliffe will be talking about his outstanding research from a clinical perspective. This event promises to be a fascinating insight into medical research and the clinical implications for the development of treatments that result from such translational research. Any questions, please email: Anisha.bhagwanani@medschool.ox.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you there!

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6. **A Masterclass organised by the Oxford Global Health Group**

‘A long flight to the hospital: Trauma Management and First Response Training in Subarctic Canada’ A talk by Aaron Orkin
When: Monday 31st May 8pm
Where: GTC Barclay Room

Aaron is a family doctor from Canada, with experience working in subarctic First Nations communities and with other rural and remote populations. His presentation will discuss logistical and clinical challenges in managing trauma in remote and isolated settings. Aaron will present early findings from a new project designed to develop emergency first response skills in Sachigo Lake, an isolated subarctic community accessible only by air. Participants will address real clinical scenarios and decisions, as well as some of the cultural and anthropological aspects of practicing medicine and teaching first aid in these settings. No clinical experience or training is necessary.

All Welcome

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7. **Varsity Triathlon**

Oxford University Triathlon Club invites you to take part in this year’s Varsity Triathlon match. Open to all, and set in the picturesque Emberton Park near Milton Keynes, the Varsity Triathlon match promises to be a great race – whether it’s your first triathlon or whether you’re a seasoned pro. The race will take place on Sunday 6th June and is an open water sprint triathlon: 750 m swim / 20 km cycle / 5 km run.

Entry deadline is the 24th May 2010 – for more information please visit www.outric.co.uk or contact club President, Adam Willington (president@outric.co.uk).

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8. **Sports & Exercise Medicine Evening**

Dear All,
I writing to inform you about an exciting evening on Sports and Exercise Medicine (The Newest medical speciality) on the 15th of June in the Education Centre (RBH). This is a great opportunity to hear more about the speciality and see if it is the right career for you.
We have organised some excellent speakers including the CMO for London 2012, a top Orthopaedic Surgeon involved in Sport, a leading research cardiologist and final year trainee in SEM. So even if you’re not mad about sport there’s talks on Cardiology and Orthopaedic surgery.
The evening kicks off at 6pm with two fourty minute talks. There will then be a free buffet, a chance to chat to BASEM and FSEM members about a future career in SEM and a charity raffle for C.R.Y (prizes include signed Reading FC and Wasps RFC shirts!). Followed by two further talks finishing up at 9pm. For more details see the flyer attached. Remember all this is FREE!
We have applied for CPD points from the Royal College of Physicians and there will be certificate of attendance provided to put in your portfolio.
To Register go to:
rbhsportsconference.co.uk

We have a limit of 70 people so please register early.
It should be a great evening. Any further questions you can email the sports medicine conference team: rbhsportsconference@gmail.com or catch us around the hospital.
Kind Regards,
Ralph Smith , Anna Crane, Marc Batistia

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9. **John Radcliffe Doctors’ Mess cordially invites you to attend**

THE SUMMER BALL 2010:
‘Step back into 1920’s glamour for an evening of swing dancing, dinner and cocktails’
Friday 9th July 2010 at St Hilda’s College

Dress: Smart with a 1920’s twist
Jazz and swing band
3-course meal included
Cocktails courtesy of Duke of Cambridge
JR Mess members £50
Non- mess members £60
Non- dinning £15
MEDICAL STUDENTS WELCOME

Please email summer_ball@hotmail.co.uk to reserve your place.
Limited tickets available so book now

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10. **Intensive Care Society Undergraduate Student Essay Prize 2010**

Please see attached flyer.

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11. **Single and double room available in Headington from August 2010 with current 5th years**

We’re fifth year medics living in Headington, and we will have a single bed room (£290 pcm) and double bed room (£335 pcm) available in our house from August 2010. Both rooms also include a desk, chair and wardrobe. The kitchen is well equipped, including panini maker, espresso machine, steamer, and a nifty environmentally friendly Breville hot cup machine. The house also has a conservatory with two sofas, separate sitting room with 27″ TV, two bathrooms, broadband by Virgin, bike racks and car parking space.

Please email ojdyar@yahoo.com for any questions or to visit!

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12. **BOOKS FOR SALE**

Contact me at tasneem.khan@medschool.ox.ac.uk, can see books before purchase

Medicine and Surgery
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th Edition (good condition) – £5
Surgical Talk, Revision in Surgery (by Goldberg and Standby, Imperial College Press) – good as new – £8
Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery, 24th Ed (very good condition but spine has 2 inch tear from one end) – £35
Surgery at a Glance, by Grace and Borley, 4th Edition (brand new) – £10
Core Clinical Cases – Medicine and Surgery, by Bain and Gupta (as new) – £5
Core Clinical Cases – Medical and Surgical Specialities, by Bain and Gupta (underlining on some pages, also pages 47 -80 have printing error, can see book before purchase) – £4

Obs and Gynae
Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1st Edition (as new, but highlighting on some pages) – £5
Core Clinical Cases Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2nd Edition (good condition, some pages contain underlying) – £4
Obstetrics and Gynaecology by Lawrence Impey, 2nd edition, Blackwell publishing (good condition) – £5

Paeds – Pocket essentials of Paediatrics (Kumar and Clark family) – brand new – £10

Pharmacology
Crash Course Pharmacology, 3rd edition (as new, some pages highlighted/underlined) – £4
Medical Pharmacology at a glance, by M.J.Neal, 4th Edition (good condition, highlighting on some pages) – £4

Other books
Wheater’s Functional Histology, 4th Edition (CD-ROM missing) – good condition – £4
Fundamentals of Biochemistry by Voet Voet and Pratt – very good condition – £15
Principles of Physiology by Berne and Levy, 2nd Edition – good condition – £4
Physics in the Life sciences by George Duncan, 2nd Edition – good condition – £4
Psychology of Hearing, by Brian Moore, 5th Edition – very good condition – £10
Immunobiology by Janeway, 6th Edition, contains CD-ROM – very good condition – £10