BMA Medical Students Committee

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BMA Medical Students Committee

• Ian Noble, Chair MSC
• Gerard Millen, Chair of Conference
• September 2007

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Outline

• Who?
• What?
• Relevance
• You
• Medsin
• Conference
• Contacts

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Who?

• Representatives each UK medical school
• MSC
• Local committees
• Intra-school Committee chairs
• Co-opted members
• Medsin, EMSA, RSM, JASME
• Internal and External organisations
• BMA committees, TMSC, GMC, UKFPO

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Who?

• BMA
• Trade Union
• Political and Representational activities
• Professional Association
• Medical Students Committee
• Branch of practice
• Represent students

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What?
Graduate top-up fees Ever increasing Medical
Student debt
Finance
Welfare
Education
International Medical Students Medical Schools
Charter Alcohol awareness campaign
Foundation Programmes MMC Feedback International
Health
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How?
Conference
Medical Schools Delegates
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Relevance?

• You!
• Representation
• All students accountable to YOU!!
• Voice, influence and impact
• Local MSC reps and ISC chairs
• Conference (April)

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Relevance?

• Medsin
• Permanently co-opted to MSC
• Education sub-committee
• Global Health
• International Committee
• Activities board
• Build on strengths
• Share good practice

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What is Conference?

• Forum to decide MSC policy for the next session
• All motions passed at conference become MSC
  policy
• MSC is mandated to work on this over the coming
  year
• Really useful way of bringing important issues to
  a wider arena

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Motions

• Pharmaceutical marketing, the arms trade, climate
  change etc are all motions that Medsin members
  generated that are now MSC policy
• Even better, motions passed at conference can be
  taken to the Annual Representatives Meeting if
  passed here, it has the support of the entire BMA

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Getting to Conference

• Find out who your MSC rep/ISC chair
• Go along to the meetings this year and try and
  contribute
• When they are writing motions, submit Medsin
  issues
• The deadline for submitting motions is Wednesday
  16th January at 12pm

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Debating Motions

• Approx 250 motions submitted every year so not
  all are debated
• Each medical school gets up to three priority
  motions, one will definitely be debated
• Try and convince your MSC rep to make a Medsin
  motion one of their priorities

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How to write a motion

• This conference..
• Always start a motion like this. It can be
  followed up with any number of things such as
  believes, calls on, acknowledges etc
• Break it up
• One long motion is harder to read, more confusing
  and has less chance of being passed
• Break the motion up into parts and it has more
  chance of passing

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How to write a motion 2

• Have an action
• Keep it short
• Shorter motions are easier to read
• Proof read it please

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Contact

• Local rep
• www.bma.org.uk/students
• 07785377635
• inoble_at_bma.org.uk
• Gerard.millen_at_gmail.com