Category: Blog Archive 2012

Posted by Cameron Stocks Fri, 20 Apr 2012 Medsin-UK National Director. Barts med student recently transferred from Cambridge. On Wednesday, a delegation of 5 medsinners travelled to Prague to represent the UK at the European Regional Meeting (EuRegMe) of the International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA). EuRegMe is a 3 day conference, where medical … Continue reading medsin at the ifmsa euregme in prague

Posted by Hollie Kluczewski Thu, 19 Apr 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 NECSE (Northern European Cooperation of Sex Education projects) is a 4 day event that is generally … Continue reading european collaboration

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

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 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