Posted by Jonathan Meldrum Mon, 16 Apr 2012 Medical student currently on second year out. Currently Medsin-UK National Director. Mid-transfer between Oxford and UCL before clinical medicine. When I made the decision to apply for Medsin Vice-Coordinator I suspected, in an unarticulated and almost subconscious way (indeed this is the same form most of my … Continue reading integrated our parts – together for global health equity
Month: January 2017
Posted by Vita Sinclair Thu, 12 Apr 2012 This is an adaptation of something I wrote for my application to study at KCL next September. If you disagree, please comment. It’s open for debate; I am neither an economist nor a global health student (yet). What might be the main effects of the on-going world economic crisis … Continue reading global health in a recession
Posted by Vita Sinclair Fri, 6 Apr 2012 I decided to attend the Swiss Medical Students’ Association (Swimsa) Congress this weekend because as one of the Co-Presidents of the Organizing Committee for the imminent Medsin Global Health Conference, I thought it would be valuable to learn how another country does it. What’s more, the theme … Continue reading swimsa convention – disaster & emergency medicine:
Posted by Vita Sinclair Wed, 4 Apr 2012 “The silence that surrounds children affected by HIV/AIDS and the inaction that results is morally reprehensible and unacceptable. If this situation is not addressed, and not addressed now with increased urgency, millions of children will continue to die, and tens of millions more will be further marginalised, … Continue reading the silence that surrounds children affected by hiv
Posted by Dan Knights Tue, 3 Apr 2012 Dan is currently Joint National Coordinator of Medsin-UK (along with Felicity) and is also a fourth year medical student at Cambridge uni. Contact him on nationalcoordinator@medsin.org. Tweets @dphknights The Spring General Assembly will take place 28th-29th April in LEEDS. Booking for places is now open HERE. The … Continue reading are you national committee of 2012-2013?
Posted by Hollie Kluczewski Tue, 20 Mar 2012 Hollie is intercalating in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research at LSHTM. Ex-national coordinator of Sexpression:UK, current transnational project coordinator of SHAPE, Policy and Advocacy assistant to SCORA. Contact her on hkluczewski@gmail.com Day 5 in the Big Brother Hotel has been what I’d call the calm after the … Continue reading day 5 reflections from a sexpressioner
Posted by Kevin Garrity Fri, 16 Mar 2012 Being relatively new to Medsin, attending the IFMSA March Meeting has been both a privilege and a pleasure but more significantly for myself, a huge learning curve. I'm a 4th year medic from the University of Glasgow. I got involved in Medsin via attending the Association for … Continue reading being educated at the march meeting
Posted by Marion Matheson Wed, 14 Mar 2012 I've started this blog about a million times, but keep failing to actually finish it! The reason for this, I think, is that I just had such a fantastic week at the IFMSA March Meeting in Ghana, that I can't quite figure out how to put it … Continue reading reflecting on the ifmsa’s march meeting in accra, ghana
Posted by Matthew Tuck Tue, 6 Mar 2012 Matt is currently a Final Year medical student in Newcastle and was National Coordinator for Sexpression:UK from 2013-2014. Hi everyone. In the relative tranquillity of the delegation HQ (i.e. one very cluttered hotel room) I thought I would let you all know a bit about the … Continue reading ifmsa ga – 1st day
Posted by Felicity Jones Mon, 5 Mar 2012 Felicity is a fourth year medical student at King’s College London. She is currently Joint National Coordinator of Medsin-UK, along with Dan Knights. Contact her on nationalcoordinator@medsin.org and follow her on twitter: @faejones. It is the other students that make the experience special. As a newcomer to … Continue reading learning from others at the president’s pre-ga
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