May the Evidence Base Be With You

1 May 2012

 Our GEMS sessions have come to an end for another academic year. All the sessions have been a great success and we hope everyone that attended our sessions enjoyed them  and got something from attending. We will be returning with more sessions next academic year, but until then there are a few more important events to share with you.

GEMS will be holding its AGM on Thursday, 10th May from 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm at the Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre C (507) to discuss how to take GEMS with its various activities into the new academic year and to appoint new committee members.

 

As you know, GEMS has been involved in a number of projects this year which included:

·         monthly journal club sessions facilitated by speakers from a wide range of specialities and research interests

·         monthly workshop sessions on research skills

·         organisation of our first academic conference at RCPSG which attracted over 100 delegates from the UK and beyond – plans for the second one in October 2012 are under way

·         research project mentor linking

and all of which require dedicated new people on the committee to take them further next year.

 

We are looking for new blood to join the committee and GEMS as a whole, and are hoping that many of you who are interested in research and/or academia will come along, bring fresh ideas and participate. And, it is a great way of boosting your CV too!

 

Thanks again for all your support, and we hope to see you then!

GEMS

Filed under General, Other Events

Workshop Session 6-Return of the Poster

28 February 2012

We finish up our workshop session for the academic year with a talk from Dr Terry Quinn on Poster Making Skills. Dr Quinn is a geriatric academic based at the Royal Infirmary who has had a lot of involvement with GEMS in the past. He spoke at our recent conference on Abstract Writing and Poster Presentation, and will now bring this topic to our workshop. Posters are an easy and fun way to present research, attend conference and above all boost your CV. This session will cover what makes a good poster and how to go about making one of conference standard.

The session will be split. We will initially have a short talk from Dr Quinn about designing posters, and then spend some time critiquing example posters. This will be a good opportunity to see and learn from posters which have been accepted at conference level. The session will be of benefit to everyone wanting to present some work in the future, and we hope may be of some benefit to Intercalting students before their big hand in!

The session will be held on Tuesday 6th March at 6:30 in Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical School.

Other dates for your diary:

-Wednesday 14th March-Paediatric Journal Club, Dr David Stone a paediatric epidemiologist will host this journal club. Details to follow

-Thursday 5th April-Academic Foundation Program Evening, GEMS in conjunction with the AFP will be holding an information evening on the application process and what is involved with AFP. This will include talks from students who have just applied to the AFP as well as current academic FY1′s. This evening should hopefully be of benefit to those considering applying.

Any questions on the above feel free to contact us on the usual address gems.student@googlemail.com

GEMS

Filed under Journal Club, Other Events, Workshop Sessions

GEMS Conference a Success!

20 November 2011

The first annual GEMS conference was held this weekend, and the day was a fantastic success! We would like to thank all delegates for attending and making the day hospital. All oral presenters were both professional and interesting, and similarly the posters present were of an exceptionally high standard! Also, congratulations to the oral and poster winners, they were all well deserved.

 

A big thank you to all of our invited speakers, who took time out of their busy Saturdays to come and speak for us. I think we would all agree that their presentations were thoroughly entertaining and informative!

 

We hope you all had a great time at the conference, till next year!

 

GEMS

Filed under Other Events

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