Annual medicine overseas conference

Friday 16 April 2010

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE, England

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

Organisations and opportunities

9.00 am

Introduction - Humanitarianism - history, philosophy and law
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
Philippa Parker, Head of ICRC Health Unit, Geneva

10.40 am

Tea and coffee break

International links and working overseas

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

Medical student presentation: 'Hospex - macrosimulation training for field hospitals'
Laura Hayes, SGUL

12.00 pm

Lunch

INSIGHTS INTO HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS

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 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

3.00 pm

Tea and coffee break

Training and preparation

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

And Finally...

4.20 pm

Completion of evaluation forms

4.30 pm

Working in global health; from student to (somewhat more!) senior
Dr Alex Van Tulleken, Diploma in Tropical Medicine, Fulbright scholar, Harvard with a Masters in Public Health, Merlin doctor and one half of Channel 4's 'Medicine Men Go Wild'

5.00 pm

Close of meeting
Followed by a wine reception

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