Afternoon everyone,
I hope you had a lovely weekend, congratulations to BL Water Polo for organising a very successful RAG fundraiser and to Liam's Mean Men for winning the tournament. In case you missed it our 2019/20 RAG charities voted by you are:
-British Heart Foundation
-Dreams Come True
-Fareshare
Last week I had a number of meetings regarding personal safety and security on campus. To make sure you are all kept in the loop I am putting pressure on the university about the following:
Whitechapel Library courtyard card access
Improve visibility of security at Garrod and make the second set of double doors card access
Commit to improving CCTV across all campuses
Increase the number of security staff based at each campus and have a supervisor at Whitechapel and Charterhouse Square around the clock
We are monitoring the efficiency of the patrols that the security team carry out on a daily basis and I am going to be sitting on a committee that discusses the above as well as things like improved lighting. If there is anything that would make you feel more safe please do contact me.
On a cheerier note, a few of us went down to St Pauls on Friday to get the ball rolling on Rites of Passage, 20th July 2020, a date finalists may well want to pop in their diaries.
My drop-in hours are 1-4pm this Friday, I will be in the BLSA building, if you want to speak to me another time just drop me an email.
Lots of BLSA love,
Meg
Advice for my BLoved:
"Always Have A Spare Joke In Mind"
What's on at BLSA
BLSA Building open 10:00 - 21:00
Black History Month Panel Discussion
Tuesday 22nd October 18:00 - 20:00
Clark Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Tables
Wednesday 23rd October
The Griff Inn
War of The Wards
Friday 25th October
Reynolds Bar
Annual Student Meeting
Tuesday 29th October
Mason Lecture Theatre, Bancroft Building
Bulletin Notices
1. BATLAA BLSA Dinner
2. BL Alpine Trips
3. Peer-assisted learning society (PAL): Year 3 and 4 pre-ICA course tutor recruitment
4. Recruitment for Trainer in Basic Life Support and AED (Barts City Life Savers)
5. West Smithfield Library- Opening Earlier
6. Mile End Library Accessibility- student feedback wanted!
7. Reading List Workshop
8. Free SJT Preparation Course for Final Year Medical Students
Advert: The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
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1. BATLAA BLSA Dinner
Friday 8th November 18:00-22:30, The Great Hall, Barts Hospital
We are revamping the dinner this year- this is going to be a celebration of all things BLSA. The dinner is taking place in The Great Hall, there are discounted tickets available for those who perform so let me know if you are keen to do so. In addition to this, the student group who has the most members present will receive £50 into their subs account.
2. BL Alpine Trips
We are BL Alpine Club and we have space on our Halloween and Christmas trip for you! To sign up, please follow these two steps:
Step 1 - fill out your membership profile (you should receive an Alpine ID within the hour or so)
Step two - sign up to all the trips you can make:
It is a great chance to step outside London. We offer a range of activities through the day, including hiking, scrambling and climbing. In the evenings we all get together for a lovely dinner, board games and drinks, and of course there is always cheese and wine!
We look forward to seeing you on trip
Alpine Love x
3. Peer-assisted learning society (PAL): Year 3 and 4 pre-ICA course tutor recruitment
YEAR 3 CRASH COURSES: TUTOR SIGN UP (Finalists/Year 4/ Intercalating post-year 3 students)
We are recruiting for those who would like to teach Year 3 students in the run up to their ICAs (25th-29th November evenings) This is a fantastic opportunity to add to your portfolio and get more experience in teaching. Please sign up here.
YEAR 4 CRASH COURSES: TUTOR SIGN UP (Finalists/Intercalating post-year 4 students)
We are recruiting for those who would like to teach Year 4 students in the run up to their ICAs (18th- 22nd November).We will also provide learning objectives and past presentations that you can modify to use. Sign up here.
4. Recruitment for Trainer in Basic Life Support and AED (Barts City Life Savers)
Deadline for applications is Friday 15th November 2019
Barts City Life Savers is an organisation that delivers adult, baby and child BLS and AED training to members of the public and healthcare professionals. We are recruiting for trainers who are medical student in year 1,2 & 3 (or GEP year 1 & 2). If your application is successful, you will receive a £50 reward on completion of our competency-based training programme and a minimum of £14 per hour for any training delivered after qualification. This is a great opportunity to develop your teaching, presentation, communication, leadership and many more skills.
For more information and an application pack contact: info@bartscitylifesaver.org.
5. West Smithfield Library- Opening Earlier
The library will be opening early in a pilot this term. It will now be open 10:00-20:00 Monday to Friday for the whole of this term.
6. Mile End Library Accessibility- Student Feedback Wanted!
QMUL are planning construction works for Mile End library and want to know what aspects of the library are currently less accessible for students with disabilities, so that they can address these issues with the new construction works. If you have any feedback regarding any accessibility issues with Mile End library, please email Jack, BLSA Disabled and SLD rep disabled@bartslondon.com so feedback can be collated and sent over to the architects for consideration in their planning.
7. Reading List Workshop
Thursday 7th November 13:30-14:30, Library Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Mile End Library
We want to hear from you!
We are interested in hearing your thoughts about reading lists and what we can do to improve them.
We would like to hear from taught students and are arranging a workshop to gather feedback.
Each student who attends will receive a £15.00 Amazon voucher for participating.
If you are interested, please register here to let us know you will be attending.
Looking forward to meeting you!
Paula Funnell
8. Free SJT Preparation Course for Final Year Medical Students
Friday 25th October 18:00-21:00, Barts Hospital
As part of a nationwide group of courses, Prepare for the SJT are offering a free course for a all fifth year students prior to their SJT next Friday (25/10) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Meet in central square at 6pm.
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