Annual medicine overseas conference
Friday 16 April 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE, England
Online registration is now closed. You can still register on arrival at the meeting however we cannot guarantee lunch.
Registration Details:
RSM Fellow: £80
RSM Associate: £80
Student: £35
Trainee: £75
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £45
Consultant/ GP: £155
RSM Retired Fellow: £45
RSM Student: £27
RSM Trainee: £50
Meeting ref: CCA01
CPD: 5 credits
8.30 am |
Registration, tea and coffee |
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Organisations and opportunities |
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9.00 am |
Introduction - History and philosophy |
| Professor Jim Ryan, President of the Catastrophes & Conflict Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, Emeritus Professor at UCL (Leonard Cheshire Centre of Conflict Recovery) and SGUL (establishing a new Centre for Trauma and Catastrophe), International Professor of Surgery at USUHS, USA | |
9.10 am |
Merlin |
| Linda Doull, Director of health & policy, Merlin | |
9.40 am |
Medecins Sans Frontieres |
| Marc Dubois, Executive Director of MSF UK | |
10.10 am |
The International Committee of the Red Cross |
| Robin Michael Coupland, International Committee of the Red Cross | |
10.40 am |
Tea and coffee break |
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International links and working overseas |
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11.10 am |
Stepping off the treadmill - MMC and the humanitarian |
| Dr Fred Martineau, Alma Mata, Medact, Medical Justice and paediatric ST3 | |
11.40 am |
Essay prize presentation Medical student essay prize presentation |
| Winner of the 2010 essay competition : 'One Man's Terrorist can be Another Man's Terrorist' – A Discussion, Mr Ammar Waraich, Imperial College London | |
11.50 am |
Medical student presentation: 'Hospex - macrosimulation training for field hospitals' |
| Laura Hayes, SGUL | |
12.00 pm |
Lunch |
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INSIGHTS INTO HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS |
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1.30 pm |
Darfur |
| Maria Kett, Assistant Director of the Leonard Cheshire Centre of Conflict Recovery, Disability and Inclusive Development Centre at UCL | |
2.00 pm |
Medical consequences of conflicts and catastrophes |
| Professor Jim Ryan, President | |
2.30 pm |
Ebola in Africa, bullet wounds in Sarajevo: working for WHO overseas |
| Dr Simon Mardel OBE, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and WHO Clinician | |
3.00 pm |
Tea and coffee break |
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Training and preparation |
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3.30 pm |
Personal and professional preparation for working overseas |
| Mr Steve Mannion, Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, founder of charity Feet First, Past President of the Catastrophes & Conflict Forum and Honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine | |
4.00 pm |
Careers overseas and elective preparation - update |
| Mr Mark Wilson, Author of 'Medic's guide to work and electives around the world'. Expedition medic, neurosurgeon & HEMS doc | |
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And Finally... |
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4.20 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
4.30 pm |
Trauma in Afghanistan: The Camp Bastion experience |
| Mr Nigel Tai, Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon, Royal London Hospital, London , Lieutenant Colonel, RAMC, Defence Medical Services | |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting |
| Followed by a wine reception | |
