So I took a long look at my diary (I don't do that too often, it kinda scares you) and ruminated on what's been going on in the last month. In short, A LOT! Rather hilariously it seems things really picked up pace 1 month ago when a 'Dinner with Musty' was scheduled in and the ideas & intense pace for change really began...gotta love Medsin dinners :)
Medsin-wise
Since most of my year and Monday to Friday obviously seems to get spent on this, there's a good place to start.
- Great meeting with Elly on her fundraising plans, despite us having to cancel a fundraising meeting in London after she travelled through - what a trooper ;)
- BMA International Committee meeting - report at docs.medsin.org if you need it - covering international health & medicine issues - much came up, including how we can work together with them on issues including water/sanitation and refused asylum seekers' access to healthcare
- Nottingham Medsin National conference - PHWOAR! Such a busy weekend of awesome people, places, things and speakers. Really loved our first conference and have to thank them for hosting (again!) - not to Yonny for starting my speech video with a hilarious shouting JC. Check out some coverage at http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2009/11/03/medsin-nc09-vulnerability-in-health/!
- Spotlight on Health & Human Rights Conference @ Royal Society of Medicine - little bit of Medsin promo, met some Medsin folks who popped down to London for the weekend (some by surprise!) - the amazing Ben Warner from Dundee wrote up the event for The Lancet Student
Speakers and Joseph Fitchett (Royal Society of Medicine) at the Spotlight on Health and Human Rights conference - see http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2009/11/12/spotlight-on-health-and-human-rights/- Did a little networking at the Public Policy Exchange 'Briding the Gap' conference where I had a chance opportunity to lobby the Department of Health on their policies. Ask me for details!
- Interactions with student unions - didn't enjoy that. You know what I mean, and I'm going to follow up on this with some other people who have had some *interesting* experiences with these people.
- SKIP Conference! What a party of folk, brilliant times and really good to see how things work in other groups or organisations. May have *borrowed* some ideas for our NC meeting from Danny Hutley (SKIP Coordinator)!
- Climate Change, Pharma, NC Meeting, Meeting Mike Rowson, Rhona MacDonald, Entitlement Working Group meeting. Jeez, should I do a weekly blog instead?! This is a long list of boringness and work!
- The highlight of course was our 2nd NC meeting (just gone, and after the deadline we set for blog postings, whoops) where I have to admit I was stunned by the brilliance of the whole team in terms of moving forward with a structured agenda and strategy. Particularly, Darth Vader, running with Master Yonny Grek (Communications) and chill-axing on Saturday evening was a well worth it after some v. intense few weeks!
In the Life of JC
Nearly have a place to live in London, that's good right? Also been good to set aside some time to catch up with all the many disparate people spread across London (and Leeds, nice little 2 day jaunt up North!); I plucked up the courage to watch a musical last week which actually turned out to be quite entertaining. Oh, can't miss out Sadhia and my lunch date in Kensington, finally got a load of those crepes! Yummy.
I've run out of energy to complete this, so am just going to post some random photos since they
make people happy.
The Star Wars Start to our Weekend. Love it.
No idea why, this photo makes me smile :)
I think...I think I'm angry in this one. But it is before lunchtime, so it might be hunger.
Improving Sexpression-Medsin relations: Eva and Amena (Sexpression Coordinators) visit Medsin-UK HQ for a coffee by the canal :)
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