The Royal College  of Emergency Medicine Careers Day

Wednesday 29 May 2019

Octavia House, 54 Ayres Street, London SE1 1EU

The careers day is a day for students, foundation doctors and anyone else with an interest in pursuing a career in emergency medicine. The day will include a number of informative talks, covering topics such as why EM is a great career choice, specialty and subspecialty training, flexible working, global emergency medicine, paediatric emergency medicine. Pre-hospital and trauma. In the afternoon there will be interactive workshops allowing delegates to get involved in scenarios based on real life situations, and an opportunity to ask questions during a Panel Q&A.  The cost for the event is £25 and the last date for registration is 22 May 2019. For further information and the event programme, please visit: https://www.rcem.ac.uk/RCEM/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=SD190529&WebsiteKey=b3d6bb2a-abba-44ed-b758-467776a958cd.

Sustain@BL Green Week

This week is our Green Week and we have three amazing events which I was hoping you could drop into the bulletin!


Tuesday - Griff Goes Global

- Griff Inn 5-7pm

In collaboration with student for global health, Sustain@BL are providing the topics for this weeks GGG.  So head over to the Griff Inn for some friendly discussion about all things sustainability and health, as always talking points and pizza are provided!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1340696366079052/

Thursday - How Does Climate Change Affect Me? 

- Milton LT 6-8pm 

This free panel discussion will involve 6 speakers including QMUL lecturers, a local GP who has worked with MSF and the WHO and a lecturer from London School fo Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The first half will be a series of mini lectures from each speaker about their field of interest and the second half will be a Q&A with questions from the audience. There will also be a stall in the Garrod foyer from 5-6pm from a sustainability charity that provide education about and methods of sustainable living!

https://www.facebook.com/events/599454177196868/

Saturday - Swap Shop

- Laird Hall 12-4pm

Everyone knows spring time means spring cleaning and what better place to start than your wardrobe! We have cleared out our clothes and brought them to Laird hall where you lucky people can bring or buy, swap or shop! Pop down on Saturday with either clothes to donate/swap or some cash to bag yourself a bargain. With items starting at £1.50 there’s no better way to spice up your wardrobe!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2224873667773694/

Student Group Survey

Part of a Society, Sports Club, Volunteering Group, Student Media Outlet or RAG? Then this survey is for you! This is your opportunity to give your feedback on your experience of being part of a student group and the support you have received from the SU. And Most importantly there are CASH PRIZES TO BE WON! Complete survey using the link above.

Members and Committees – tell us about your experience this year

We wouldn’t be the Students’ Union if we didn’t ask you for feedback. Before you think “Oh no, not another survey!” we hope you’ll take a moment to read the rest of this post and give us the chance to convince you to take part.

If you don’t need any convincing, why not get started on the survey already? Click here

If you need a bit more convincing before you do the survey, here are a few reason why you give us your feedback:


We're giving away prizes

You can win prizes for yourself and your group - there are big prizes and small prizes.

One lucky student will win £50 to be spent on whatever they like.There’ll also be a lucky group (that could be YOUR group) that wins £50 to make their end-of-year event extra memorable or buy that really essential piece of equipment they’ve been longing for all year. All you need to do is share the survey with your members and tag us in your social media post or send us over an e-mail to show what you have done. But what about all those people that don’t win the big prizes? To increase your chances of winning, we have added lots of small prizes this year, and we’ll draw winners several times over the next few weeks, so the sooner you do the survey, the bigger your chances are of winning.

What do society drop-ins, increased staff presence at BL and the Student Media Correspondence Dinner have in common? They’re all the result of your feedback from last year. Yes, your feedback matters. Yes, we will make changes based on your suggestions. But we can’t do it, if you don’t tell us about it.

We all love to procrastinate. At least we do… And what better way to procrastinate than filling in the survey? You may be procrastinating and avoiding the thing you really should be doing, but at least you’re doing something genuinely useful. Fill in the survey now (yes, it works on mobiles too).


Still not convinced?

You’re hard to convince, but try to think about it this way:

If you’ve had a great experience, this is your chance to tell us about it. If you or someone else has put a lot of time and effort into your groups activities, you kind of want to tell the Students’ Union just how great it’s been. And this survey is a way of doing it.

If you haven’t had such a great experience, we’re really sorry. But if you don’t tell us, we’ll never know about it. So tell us now, so we can make improvements for next year.

So fill in the survey, win prizes and help us to make change.

Flourishing Through Creative Enquiry

CASH PRIZES TO WIN

Calling all creatives!

We are launching a new open access collection of ideas and reflections around the arts and human flourishing in the field of health and illness. 

The theme is mental health and wellbeing (for patients, carers, practitioners or students). You can use any creative medium for your submission including art, photography, music, dance, and spoken word.

Submit your piece alongside a written reflection to https://goo.gl/forms/CUFUVNZYY2xA4CN93 by Sunday the 5th of May

Flourishing through creative enquiry

We are launching a new open access collection of ideas, images, poems and reflections around the arts and human flourishing within the field of health and illness. We would like to give people on all sides of the health care community a voice to share lived experience, to connect and communicate. Theme: Arts, Mental Health, Well being (for patients, carers, practitioners or students). This might include contributions around mental health, compassionate care, flourishing or learning through the arts. You may use any creative medium for your presentation, for example: music, dance, monologue, painting, photography, prose, poetry, sculpture accompanied by written reflection (limited to 500 words). The best 30 creative texts (poetry, image, prose etc) selected by the judging panel will be exhibited at the ‘Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health’ conference 17-18th May, QMUL. Entries will also be made into an educational series of postcards and feature on a new website designed to share practice, ideas and cre

1st prize £100, 2nd prize £50, 3rd prize £30"

BL OpenMinds Volunteering Opportunity

BL OpenMinds Volunteering society have arranged for volunteers to run mental health workshops at a local school- Mulberry School for Girls in Whitechapel. In order to volunteer, you must have attended three psychiatrist teaching sessions and the safeguarding session. 

The dates and times requiring extra volunteers are:

29th April 11am- Schizophrenia 

13th May 11:50am- Psychosis

3rd June 2:40pm- Substance misuse

Please email  openminds.blqm@gmail.com or go on our Facebook page- BL OpenMinds Volunteering Society to register your place! 

Healthy Starts Healthy Hearts AGM

Healthy Starts Healthy Hearts committee warmly invite you all to apply for a position in next year's committee at our AGM on Tuesday the 9th of April, 5.30 - 6.30pm, in the BLSA Study Room. This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference and to be an integral part of the university's volunteering committee. We encourage as many people to apply as possible, especially current first years and second years, so please come if you are interested!

The following posts are available:

President (1) 

Treasurer (1) 

Vice President (1) 

Pre-clinical representative (1)

You do not need to have attended a school visit to apply.

All elected candidates will be asked to stay behind for handover from this year's committee. 

Please email in a short manifesto by next Tuesday at 3pm to healthyhearts@bartslondon.com