On Thursday 23 November five young doctors will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year. Marking the culmination of the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2016/17 prize programme for trainee doctors, the awards evening will celebrate the very best of the RSM and its trainees. The RSM will be awarding prizes […]
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Digital technology can be a powerful force for social good and can help people to become mentally stronger and more resilient. For example, positive prosocial peer interactions through social media platforms and Internet chatrooms etc. can be really empowering and supportive. However, I do recognise that social media can also be associated with negative outcomes […]
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Compassion fatigue is what happens when you see the same terrible suffering day after day. When I was reporting on the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, talking about the people who drowned on the treacherous crossing, people would say ‘I’ve heard all that before.’ But it was a different story and different victims. There were […]
Volunteers at Doctors of the World help child refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq as well as Libya, Eritrea and Somalia. Dr Sarah Dickson will be speaking on their behalf at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine conference, The Challenges of Child Refugee Health: Everyone’s responsibility. It will take place in London on Tuesday […]
Dr Julian Abel is speaking at the annual Marie Curie Palliative Care Research conference held in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine which takes place today in London. Have you ever looked after someone who has died? And if so, what do you think was the most important thing to him or her? In […]
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Professor Gunn Grande is speaking at the Annual Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Conference 2017 held in London tomorrow. Marie Curie jointly hosts an annual research conference with the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. It is attended by Marie Curie staff, but is also open to other healthcare professionals. ‘We don’t […]
Over 18,000 people are affected by Marfan syndrome in the UK but only around half of those actually know they have the connective tissue disorder which can affect the heart, eyes and skeleton. It’s a big concern because we know that Marfan is an entirely treatable condition if it is diagnosed early but it can […]
September 2017 meetings at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Tuesday 5 September: Registration 08:15 Microbiome in cancer and beyond Organised in collaboration with researchers at Imperial College London, this meeting is about the new world of the microbiome in medicine, with a focus on microbes in cancer aetiology and therapeutics. The microbiome represents a developing field that […]
Mr Vinay Varadarajan, awarded an RSM Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship in December 2016, will be learning about pioneering surgery that allows the removal of benign and malignant tumours from the base of the skull when he travels to Vancouver later this year. Currently in the UK, this is an area of practise which is just beginning […]
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Neurology trainee Dr Smriti Agarwal, awarded an Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship in December 2016, has recently moved to Sydney, Australia for a post-doctoral position. She will be working with Professor Matthew Kiernan and Professor John Hodges, who run a world class collaborative research programme in neurodegenerative disorders at the Sydney Brain […]
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