Our latest Newsletter
Written by Dr Rosalind Ramsay and Dr Beryl De Souza
What Make Women
Sick? MWF Spring Meeting, Belfast, Friday 9th May 2008
Dr Janine O'Kane and colleagues in the province organised our spring meeting
in the splendid setting of the Culloden Hotel just outside Belfast. Michael
McGimpsey, Health Minister for Northern Ireland, opened the programme by acknowledging
the importance of women in the workforce. Eminent local and national speakers
covered a range of topics related to women's health including...
WAM launch
at House of Lords
Baroness Ilora Finlay held the launch of Dr Anita Holdcroft’s published
report on Women in Academic Medicine. The report explores the barriers to
women's careers in medicine both in the NHS and in Universities. Sir Liam
Donaldson was in attendance and said the DH expected the Royal Colleges to
commit towards the recommendations in the report with six monthly reviews.
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/content/wam270308
Women Psychiatrists
and their Careers
The Royal College of Psychiatrists Women in Psychiatry Special Interest Group
(WIPSIG) held its Spring Conference on 23rd April 2008 at the Institute of
Psychiatry in London. The lectures inspired enthusiastic discussion among
the panel...
ACCEA (Advisory
Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards) Vacancies
We urge members to put themselves forward to sit on the ACCEA committee as
there are vacancies for professional members, consultants or academic GPs...
Institute of
Education
Accredited short courses for clinical teachers....
Women Take
Part
This is a piece of work funded by the Government Equality Office, looking
at the participation of women, in particular under-represented women, in governance
and decision making in both community and public life...
Endell
Street Hospital Campaign
Grateful thanks for the contributions to this fund from the Campaign. Dr Jennian
Geddes will be speaking at the autumn meeting on the history of the Endell
Street Hospital.
Bial Award
2008-04-28
The Bial Foundation award aims to distinguish intellectual written work on
any medical topic that presents research of high quality and scientific relevance...
Volunteers for new series of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word...
East
Midlands Local Group News...
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