2014 NSW MSC Future Leaders' Symposium
NSW MSC is proud to announce its 2014 Future Leaders Symposium.
This free event will provide the following opportunities for attendees to:
- Hear from Dr Elizabeth Marles, President, RACGP on how she survived medical school.
- Meet and network with future leaders from across the state's seven schools, hear what they're up to and how they're doing it.
- Discuss medico-legal scenarios and cases to help keep yourself out of trouble.
- Learn who the NSW MSC is, what we do and why we do it.
- Have a say on what your NSW MSC does and how we do it.
Numbers are currently strictly limited - 9 tickets will be allocated to each medical school. MedSoc Presidents and NSW MSC representatives will be in charge of selecting attendees. Please get in touch with your NSW MSC representative for more info.
Please read below for more information about the keynote speaker as well as our agenda for the day.
This free event will provide the following opportunities for attendees to:
- Hear from Dr Elizabeth Marles, President, RACGP on how she survived medical school.
- Meet and network with future leaders from across the state's seven schools, hear what they're up to and how they're doing it.
- Discuss medico-legal scenarios and cases to help keep yourself out of trouble.
- Learn who the NSW MSC is, what we do and why we do it.
- Have a say on what your NSW MSC does and how we do it.
Numbers are currently strictly limited - 9 tickets will be allocated to each medical school. MedSoc Presidents and NSW MSC representatives will be in charge of selecting attendees. Please get in touch with your NSW MSC representative for more info.
Please read below for more information about the keynote speaker as well as our agenda for the day.
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Agenda
11:00 - Introduction and Overview of NSW MSC 11:15 - Introduction to the Executive and Council Members 11:30 - Keynote Address: Dr Elizabeth Marles, President, RACGP - 'How I survived medical school' 12:15 - Lunch, sponsored by Avant 13:00 - Presentations from Medical Schools MANDUS WUMSS UNEMSA UNSW MedSoc SUMS UWSMS UNMS 14:15 - Dr Chatu Yapa, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Volunteer - 'My time abroad, what it taught me and what it can teach you' 15:00 - Avant Medico-Legal-Ethics discussion - Doctor/med student wellbeing - Managing unexpected and adverse outcomes - Managing patient expectations 15:45 What I want from NSW MSC summary discussion 16:00 Close |
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Elizabeth Marles BMed(Hons), BSc(Hons), FRACGP, DipEd, FAICD
Liz is the President of the RACGP. She is Deputy Director of the Hornsby General Practice Unit in NSW, which specialises in GP teaching, particularly registrar remediation and prevocational education, taking 10 Prevocational General Practice Placements Program placements per year. For the past 15 years Liz has also been a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern where she is a GP supervisor with a special interest in diabetes and presenter in the aboriginal health training component of Regional Training Provider GP Synergy's registrar teaching program. Liz was a foundation Director and is a past Director on the General Practice Education and Training Board, and was previously a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney. She is passionate about general practice training, Aboriginal health and the future of general practice.
Dr Elizabeth Marles BMed(Hons), BSc(Hons), FRACGP, DipEd, FAICD
Liz is the President of the RACGP. She is Deputy Director of the Hornsby General Practice Unit in NSW, which specialises in GP teaching, particularly registrar remediation and prevocational education, taking 10 Prevocational General Practice Placements Program placements per year. For the past 15 years Liz has also been a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern where she is a GP supervisor with a special interest in diabetes and presenter in the aboriginal health training component of Regional Training Provider GP Synergy's registrar teaching program. Liz was a foundation Director and is a past Director on the General Practice Education and Training Board, and was previously a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney. She is passionate about general practice training, Aboriginal health and the future of general practice.
Dr Chatu Yapa is a Auckland based doctor. At 28, Dr Yapa has already volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on 3 field placements in the past two years.
In South Sudan where she spent six months based at a 90 bed hospital at the peak of diarrhoea season, Iraq and most recently to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
Dr Yapa is currently studying a masters in epidemiology in Sydney and looks forward to sharing her motivations, experiences and hopes for career with MSF.
In South Sudan where she spent six months based at a 90 bed hospital at the peak of diarrhoea season, Iraq and most recently to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
Dr Yapa is currently studying a masters in epidemiology in Sydney and looks forward to sharing her motivations, experiences and hopes for career with MSF.