This is my last bulletin, thanks to the faithful followers and anyone who has read at least one this year! From now on next year’s VP, Miriam Thake, will be sending them.

Juliet.x

Osler Bulletin

1. Lockers in Osler House
2. Civitas for Medics Notices
3. Marrow Clinic – Tuesday 25th May
4. Oxford Psychiatry Society Meeting – Thursday 27th May
5. Undergraduate Surgical Conference – Saturday 13th November

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1. **Lockers in Osler House**

We now have keys for all the lockers next to the toilets in Osler. If you would like a locker key please put a deposit cheque for £10 (to cover the cost of cutting a new one if it is lost) in the Vice-President’s pidge and you’ll get a key in your pidge. Deposits will be returned when we get the key back.

There aren’t enough lockers for everyone to have one and we’d like them to be used by students who really need them (sports kit etc) so please make do with your locker next to the lecture theatre if you don’t really need a second locker.

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2. ** Civitas for Medics events AND looking for Oxford reps, 2010-2011**

*NHS – the envy of the world? London*
Tuesday 25th May

Just a quick reminder if you haven’t already done so… of your last
chance to sign up to our last event, ‘The NHS: the envy of the world’.
This will take place on Tuesday 25 May (next Tuesday) in Lecture
Theatre 1 of the Sir Alexander Fleming (SAF) Building, Imperial
College (South Kensington Campus), 6-8.30pm.

We’re delighted to announce that Roy Lilley will be joining Professor
Stephen Smith (CEO of Imperial) as our second speaker. Roy used to be
chairman of the Homewood NHS Trust and is a a member of the NHS
Training Executive’s Group on training Boards and Non-Executive
Directors. He is a frequent broadcaster and writer on health affairs;
and – most importantly – twice has been voted the top speaker in
England on NHS issues.

The NHS is just one of a number of ways to provide universal,
comprehensive health care. Here, we will explore how health care is
organised in other countries – particularly in Europe. What can we
learn from other systems and what can others learn from the NHS?

To attend, please fill out the online form at:

http://www.ycfm.org.uk/event5.php.

Any other queries do contact us through our general e-mail, or e-mail
our rep for your particular medical school here. We’re always happy to
answer any questions you may have!

This event is jointly hosted with Imperial College and kindly
sponsored by Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise, which
supports the role that clinicians and medical students can play in
healthcare improvement www.diagnosisltd.co.uk.

*Oxford Reps for 2010-2011 Wanted*

YCFM is also looking for student representative(s) for Oxford for the
year 2010-2011. More information about what the project involves can
be found at www.ycfm.org. For more information, e-mail
grace.li@medschool.ox.ac.uk.

All the best

YCfM Steering Committee

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3. **Marrow Clinic**

Save a life- join the bone marrow donor register at the MARROW CLINIC 25th MAY 5.30- 9pm, Brasenose College, Old Library. Please come and join the register if you haven’t already done so. This is a SALIVA CLINIC so just involves filling out a form and giving a spit sample- v quick to do. There will be free food!

It would also be great for medical students to come along and help, you can get a useful portfolio certificate if you train and volunteer as a Marrow counsellor.

Keen to get involved?

Oxford Marrow is looking to recruit a new committee to carry on its work holding bone marrow donor recruitment clinics and fundraising for the Anthony Nolan Trust. Marrow is a volunteer student organisation based in medical schools across the UK. It works in association with The Anthony Nolan Trust, taking back lives from leukaemia and raising the charitable funds needed for these lifesaving activities. We need to recruit a President, Treasurer, Secretary and Publicity Officer, but if lots of people are keen new positions can be created. The process of donor recruitment is changing to saliva collection (instead of a blood test), so this year is a great opportunity to recruit lots more potential donors to the register. If you are interested in finding out more about any of the positions or want to join the committee, email me atisla.kennedymcconnell@medschool.ox.ac.uk and we will arrange a meeting to form the new committee in the next few weeks.

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4. **OXFORD PSYCHIATRY SOCIETY**

Are you interested in finding out more about how the mind works?

Do you want to find out about research, prizes and publishing opportunities for medical students?

Would you like to improve your job applications by being a member of an organising committee?

Are you considering a career in Psychiatry and want to find out more from doctors working in this speciality?

If so, the Oxford Psychiatry Society has all the answers!

Come along for a meeting on Thursday 27th May at 6pm, in the Angel and Greyhound pub in St Clements. We will be looking to elect a new committee for next year.

Contact us to find out more:
Dr Larissa Ryan (ST3 Psychiatry)
larissaryan@doctors.net.uk
Toby Pillinger
toby.pillinger@new.ox.ac.uk

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5. **Undergraduate Surgical Conference**

Dear Medical Student,

The second Undergraduate Surgical Conference will be held at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow on Saturday 13th November 2010. It is open to all UK undergraduate medical students and FY1s who have an interest in pursuing surgical careers. This meeting is aimed at giving motivated students a greater insight into surgical career paths, practical experience and discussion with peers and guest speakers.

The day will consist of morning lectures by eminent consultants, with the keynote speech being given by Professor Roy Spence, head of surgery at Queens University Belfast. A famously entertaining speaker, Professor Spence has a wealth of experience in general and trauma surgery through working during the troubles in Northern Ireland.

A detailed timetable of events may be viewed in the attachments and includes 6 lectures on surgical training and the scopes of different surgical specialties. Afternoon surgical skills tutorials include basic and advanced suturing, knot tying, laparoscopic technique and a plastering session, new to the 2010 meeting. We would like to point out the skills tutorials are limited to 75 people and early booking is advised – last year’s meeting was fully booked within 3 weeks by students from 17 different UK medical schools, and we would welcome students from Oxford once again.

Further information and booking may be viewed HERE

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts for Poster Presentations are being accepted until Midnight on Friday 3 September 2010.

We ask that delegates submit abstracts under either of the two prize categories:

1. Research – this may be from a lab based project or clinical audit relevant to surgery

2. Clinical – this may be a case presentation, review of a surgical technique or other surgical topic of interest

A mixed committee of medical students, surgical specialists and RCPSG representatives will decide on successful abstracts. The work must be the delegate’s own, and all authors must be referenced in the abstract and poster. Word limit is 200 words including titles, references and tables.

Abstracts and other queries should be emailed to Elizabeth Dykes
at elizabeth.dykes@rcpsg.ac.uk

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