Autumn 2008

Friday 14th November 2008
Mary Ward House
5-7 Tavistock Place
London, WC1 H 9SN

www.marywardhouse.com

Our meeting “Reaching the Work-Life Balance” focuses on women doctors’ careers, especially on issues such as training and the European Working Time Directive, women in academic medicine, problems with flexible training, women and pensions, and pregnancy and maternity issues.

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Programme

9.15am Coffee and Registration

9.55am Chair: Dr Helen Goodyear, President of MWF.
Introduction and Welcome.

10.00am Professor Alyson Pollock

10.30am Abstracts
Chair: Drs Beryl De Souza & Rosalind Ramsay, Joint Honorary Secretaries of MWF

10.30am Miss Helen Fernandes, Chair, Women in Surgery

10.40am Abstracts

11.10am Coffee

11.40am WORKSHOPS

• Maintaining Doctors Health
• Patient-Doctor Boundaries
• Women as Leaders
• Negotiating contracts
• ACCEA Workshop (MWF Members Only)

12.45pm Feedback

1pm Lunch

2pm Chair: Dr Clarissa Fabre, President-elect of MWF
Dr Elizabeth Poskitt

2.30pm Abstract Presentations
Chair: Dr Anita Holdcroft, Treasurer of MWF

3.00pm Dr Jennian Geddes - The Endell Street Military Hospital Plaque

3.10pm Tea

3.45pm Chair: Dr Meera Kishen, Vice-President of MWF
Prof Katherine Rake, Lecturer in Social Policy, London School of Economics and Director of the Fawcett Society

4.15 pm Making Part-Time Work – Dr Helen Goodyear

4.30pm Women in Medicine – Jane Dacre

4.45pm To be confirmed

5.00pm Presentation by Helen Goodyear, MWF President, of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Prize for best Abstract presentation

5.10pm Close

 

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts (maximum 250 words) are invited on any subject of interest to women doctors, related either to the theme of the conference, to the health of women or their families, or to women doctors’ careers, for presentation or as a poster.

Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 17th October 2008

The ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON PRIZE will be awarded for the best abstract presentation.

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Council Meeting (open to all members) will be held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln’s Inn Fields from 10.00 am -1pm on Saturday 15th November.

Social Programme: Gala dinner at The Royal College of Surgeons on Friday evening 14th November 2008.

 

Delegates are required to find their own accomodation. For a list of possible places to stay please click here.

Please note Weekend Special Rates at the Royal College of Surgeons England are £55 per night for two nights for up to two guests. For one night stay £65 for up to two guests. Email nuffield@rcseng.ac.uk

For further call Central Office on 0207 387 7765 or email admin.mwf@btconnect.com

 

 

 

 

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