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Celebrating 15 Years of Medics Against Violence

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“The Journey” is a two day event celebrating 15 years of Medics Against Violence (MAV) and 10 years of Navigator, on 21st/22nd January at the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow. This event will feature:

  • Talks and interactive workshops led by the MAV team to learn more about Scotland’s and our own innovative journey in violence prevention.
  • Hear from experts about working with wicked problems programme development, evolution, challenges, evaluation and partnership working.
  • Keynote speakers – Father Greg Boyle and the Homeboys will talk about one of the world’s most forward thinking violence prevention programmes.

See the attached poster for more information.

Booking Link: The Journey

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Looking ahead 2024 – 2025

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Winter trainee meeting
GARC
Clinical skills day
Spring meeting

GWSSA has a number of events scheduled for the 2024-2025 calendar including:

  • Winter trainee meeting (Dec’ 24).
  • GARC (Dec ’24).
  • Spring meeting (Feb’ 25).
  • Clinical skills day (Mar’ 25).
  • Annual golf outing (2025).

Details of the above including speakers, prices and book lists can be found on our Upcoming events page.

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Improve Your Presentation Skills – Charity Lecture

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Dr Michael Murray will be hosting an online lecture with hints and tips on how to improve your presentation skills. The session should last approximately 60 minutes, with all attendees being provided with a 15-page booklet of tips to make presentations more engaging.

Cost: £25.00 (All proceeds are being donated to Motor Neurone Disease Scotland)

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/improving-presenting-skills-tickets-895494136067?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Committee Update

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GWSSA are delighted to welcome the following to the committee:

PRESIDENT – Dr. Jane Duffty, Consultant Anaesthetist (University Hospital Hairmyres).

GLASGOW ANAESTHETIC RESEARCH CLUB – Drs. Ben Shelley, and Phil McCall, Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Golden Jubilee National Hospital).

SAS REPRESENTATIVE – Dr. Pritam Mohanty, Specialty Doctor (University Hospital Ayr).

TRAINEE REPRESENTATIVE – Dr Holly Andrews.

We would like to extend our warmest thanks to the outgoing members of the committee: Dr. Craig Urquhart (Immediate past president), Dr. Robert Docking (GARC), and Dr. Sarah Meredith (Trainee representative) for all their hard work supporting Glasgow & West of Scotland society for the past year and beyond.

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GWSSA Membership Update

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Following the recent meeting of the GWSSA Committee we have decided to make the following changes:

GWSSA Membership

Membership of GWSSA is now FREE!!!

If you have any existing standing order or direct debits, please cancel these so that you will not continue being charged.

GWSSA Mailing List

The majority of the contact emails on our mailing list are now defunct due to the changeove from NHSnet.

In view of this and the recent changes to GDPR, we have decided we will discontinue the use of the mailing list moving forward.

We will continue to advertise via departmental secretary distribution, our facebook group, and shortly our new Twitter feed.

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