University of Buckingham GP Society

🗣 Announcing our annual ETA revision workshop! 💉🩺 session will cover high yield topics from Terms 1 and 2 📕📗. The session is FREE for all to attend across all cohorts to consolidate your revision and refresh your knowledge! We will send out the Link closer to date 📥 GPsoc members receive certificate for attendance! 📜 if you are interested in becoming a member before the event, send us a DM 🙂

✨🩺 MEET THE COMMITTEE 🩺✨ keep your eyes peeled, we have some exciting positions coming soon! Also, we have just opened our IG account, give us a follow .GP.Soc 🩺

Thank you to the MED17 students Salonie, Sheryl, Shiva and Tushar for making our virtual "Phase 2 LEP Experience Talk" on the 3rd of July a huge success! Over 50 students from MED19 tuned in to see the honest first-hand opinions of each hospital base. The students that attended gave an overwhelmingly positive feedback with particular mentions to the brilliant speakers, the useful resources and revision techniques for phase 2. We are very glad to hear that the students attending felt more informed and better prepared for the next stages in the medical school!

Hello Everyone,

Please see the message below regarding a national survery from Rohan Pancharatnam who is our UBMS SPICE-19 Representative:

An important study on the effects of COVID19 on the mental health and wellbeing of medical students and interim foundation doctors is currently underway. If you could spare 15 minutes to complete an anonymised questionnaire, that would be greatly appreciated!

https://psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6XOiXhLIvsnITQx

The results from the study will create awareness about particular struggles that are faced by medical students particularly during this time and how best the government and Universities can address this. The University of Buckingham will also receive its own anonymised results, in order to address concerns specifically here.

Thank you for your time! :)

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Thank you to all the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals serving NHS England in the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you to our very Co-founder and former Events Officer Dr Richard Lin and the rest of MED15 Buckingham junior doctors saving lives at the frontline.

Thank you for all that you are doing!

‪Investing in general practice is investing in the entire NHS, make sure that the next government will read the manifesto here: https://ctt.ec/5K1lE+‬

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Interesting read. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, outgoing RCGP chair, was the first to mention the initiative. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/920400?nlid=132251_5144&src=WNL_ukmdpls_191026_mscpedit_gen&uac=315899MJ&impID=2144475&faf=1

GPs 'To Join Specialist Register' The days of GPs and specialists being registered separately by the General Medical Council may be over.

Second day of our Mock OSCE practice complete ✅ some amazing feedback!

✨ All but one feedback rated the event a 10/10 for satisfaction and that they felt better prepared. In "The Best Part of the Session" feedback section, answers mainly revolved around the 1-minute feedback at the end of each station which students found valuable.
On "Improvements", answers were mainly: "perfect as it is" and "more stations"
"Other Comments" include: very well organized, stations were representative of real OSCE, examiners were professional. ✨

Our examiners will get their teaching tickets verified by Professor Greg Simons on their E-portfolio and certificates within the next week. Thank you everyone for another oversubscribed and successful event!

Thank you to our examiners for making the first round of GPsoc Mock OSCE’s a success! Some great acting and stern faces! Round 2 tonight!

🎓🥂Congratulations MED15! 🥂🎓

May your graduation be just the beginning of a lifetime of fulfilment for you ✨

Best wishes for you on your graduation from university! An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest 💐

If interested in watching the graduation, you can do so live on: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/graduation/livestream/

Were partnering up with Med Sports and Event Society to bring you the biggest and most prestige Ball Buckingham’s had!

Proud to announce our famed flagship event:

✨ SUMMER MEDIC BALL✨

The biggest event of the year is here!
The Medic Summer Ball 2019 takes place on the Friday 21st June at the prestigious DoubleTree Hilton Hotel (MK Dons Football Stadium). All students (Phase 1 & 2) and staff from the Medical School are invited.

The ball for the much awaited has been set in motion; truly a night for the medics to treat themselves to delicious food and delightful music that is guaranteed to have your feet tapping and your bodies twisting and twirling 💃 🎶

EVENT
• Welcome drink (alcoholic & non-alcoholic) on arrival at Hilton Doubletree Hotel🥂
• 3 course dinner 🍴
• Entertainment throughout the night including live music & performances, sports mementos, a renowned DJ throughout 🎤
• Also including photographer (with instant photographs!)📸
• And more!

💉A medically recommended indulgence; prescribe it to everyone you know.

ENTRY 🎟
First 50 tickets at a discounted rate of £25. Otherwise they’ll be on sale for the £35 once they are gone. Tickets go on sale from this week, so either contact us or we’ll be coming to the hospitals/medical school soon. We’ll keep you posted.

It’s going to be a great night!
Stay tuned with our event and Insta page () for latest info!
The 2019 Summer Medic Ball Committee ✨

Thank you to everyone who came to the Discover GP Conference!! We hope you had an amazing time and learned more about the fascinating careers GPs have!! 🙂

We’re at the discover GP conference today at the RCGP! We’re having a great time 🙂

Thank you to the Teachers and for all those who attended the ETA1 revision session! We hope that you found the session a valuable experience. Good luck with your examinations! 📚Any further help and enquiries don’t hesitate to contact the committee [email protected] 😊

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Brilliant step forward!

Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira's Bill passed into law From 2020, adults in England will be considered potential donors unless they choose to opt out or are excluded.

Another great FREE opportunity for our members and for those that can't make it to the London RCGP conference on March 30th. The GP futures conference on the 13th of April in Birmingham covers the following

✅ sustainability
✅ technology
✅ innovation
✅ culture

Registration is open at: https://rcgpportal.force.com/s/lt-event…

GP soc are hosting their Annual ETA1 revision session. This has been oversubscribed every year and has resulted in success of many students! We aim to cover the topics that your cohort are struggling with the most, plus a couple of topics we find very common in examinations. Thank you to those who forwarded areas of weakness to Naireen, the committee has received them. You can still write to me directly with anything you want covered. If there are any specific questions, we will have opportunities available on the day to have 1-1 Q&A. This event will be FREE for all members, so if you haven’t paid for membership please do so before hand.

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As previously advertised. The university of Buckingham GP society would like to invite you to the Discover GP conference and workshop on the 30th of March from 9am to 5pm. Held at the RCGP in London, 30 Euston Square, NW1 2FB. Due to our affiliation with RCGP, this is free to all Buckingham Medical Students with transport included (and food 🍕🍰🥂🍷)! There are a range of workshops from clinical skills, dealing with difficult consultations, GP’s with special interest (including our very own Dr Tom Evans), lifestyle medicine, Suturing and minor surgeries plus many more! We know some of you may have had trouble signing up so we have put together step by step instructions for sign up — please see images attached

1. http://bit.ly/DGPLondon19 to register
2. http://bit.ly/DGPTravel19 for free transport

Welcome MED19!

GPsoc would like to welcome you to The University of Buckingham. Following an influx of interest and messages we thought it would be a good opportunity for us to introduce the society.

GP society is the only society to be in Affiliation with the RCGP (The Royal College of General Practitioners) thus we have many exciting collaborations with them in London, Buckingham and other cities.

Our aim is to improve understanding of General Practice and educate on the many options and possibilities a career as a GP has to offer.

We understand that it is too early for many people to decide and we also understand that through your Medical career, you will change your mind. For this reason, we hold many Educational Events with the aim of helping you pass exams, gain confidence in clinical skills and communication. We will be holding a revision session at the end of Term 1 before your first ETA1.

Like many of the students as part of the Committee and members, you don't have to want to be a GP to join us. A good understanding of primary care will be crucial regardless of what career you have your mind set to.

If you are interested in joining, there is an opportunity to do so at freshers fair. Alternatively, you can message us here or contact one of the committee members with your name/ student ID and we will follow it up.

We wish you all the best on your new journey as Medical Students and we hope to be able to help you academically in the near future.

Thank you to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year Medical students for making yesterday’s OSCE prep another success!

Thank you to the 4th year medical students for taking their time to help out with OSCE stations.

First week of our OSCE practice sessions. Hope the first group found it useful!