SAFT is pleased to welcome you to our next speaker event:

Sir John Bell, FRS
President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford

Title: “A Clinical Academic Career:  Is It Worth It?”

When? Monday 14/7/2008, 18:30

Venue: UCL Cancer Institute, London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cancer/maps-and-directions/index.htm

This is a unique opportunity to meet one of the most eminent clinical
academics of the UK.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The SAFT committee

Please find below information on the last academic seminar of the year on Tuesday 8th July at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

Come along for two really useful sessions on:

7-7:45pm: Advanced literature searching

Hands on session in the Imperial computer labs covering all the key search engines and how to do effective searches.

7:45pm-8:15pm: Delicious hot supper provided by Lena’s Cafe.

8:15-9:00pm: What makes a good mentor and how to find one.

Professor Slaim Khakoo, consultant hepatologist at Imperial college, and Sally Lukins, head of the National Mentoring Scheme run by the Academy of Medical Sciences

The nearest tube is Paddington, and the venue is the Medical School Building - turn left from Praed St at the black gates into St Mary’s Hospital, and it’s the second entrance on the right. Tell the security guard you are here for the Academic Seminar and he will let you through.

We welcome any academic foundation fellows or academic clinical fellows, so please let your friends know.

Just send us a quick RSVP if you’re coming along  to: Kate.mandeville00 - hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Kate and Dami

Dr Kate Mandeville

MBBS BSc

St Mary’s Hospital

London

Mobile: 07879642360

Dear SAFT members
An article on academic medicine has been published recently in BMJ careers, which may be of interest to those of you wishing to pursue a career in this area.

BMJ careers article on academic medicine

Hope you find it useful

Yours sincerely,

Dr Gabriel Pollara
Academic FY2
Society of Academic Foundation Trainees

SAFT is currently conducting a questionnaire of academic foundation trainees, aiming to evaluate their experience during their academic foundation training. If this applies to you, we would be grateful if you could take no more than 5 minutes of your time to complete the questionnaire in the link below. All information you provide will be handled confidentially. If you are now an ACF or ST1 doctor, please answer these questions about your foundation years.

SAFT Academic Foundation Years Questionnaire Survey

Many thanks for your time

Yours sincerely,

Dr Gabriel Pollara
Academic FY2
Society of Academic Foundation Trainees

Dr. Mandeville and Dr. Onifade have organised another seminar for academic trainees:

Date: 25/03/2008

Time: 19:00 - 21:00 refreshment provided

Venue: Boardroom 1, 2nd Floor Postgraduate Centre (by the rear carpark, opposite Charing Cross Association Club), Charing Cross Hospital

Programme:

7-8pm: Dr. Stuart Rosen, Consultant Cardiology, St. Mary’s Hospital

“How to write the perfect paper”

8-8:15pm: Dinner

8:15-9pm: Alene Pointon, Ealing & West London Mental Health Trust Research Ethics Committee

“The Ethics Committee and you”

Please reply to Dr. Onifade for attendance.

An academic seminar was held on 30th January 2008, organised by Dr. Kate Mandeville and Dr. Dami Onifade.

Topics covered in the seminary included critical appraisal and statistics (Dr. Felicity Clemens, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) , and an introductory session on grant application (Dr. Justin Green, Dept Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Hammersmith Hospital).

Many thanks to the above speakers for their time and effort, and to Dr. Mandeville for organising the event.

Lecture slides and handout of the statistics session can be downloaded here.

The Society of Academic Foundation Doctors (SAFT)’s main role is to provide both grassroots representation of academic foundation doctors, but also to provide an engaging forum for doctors interested in a career in academic medicine. In order to address both these objectives, I am delighted to announce SAFT’s expansion to include doctors outside of our original base in London. This was a natural progression as demonstrated by the extensive nationwide interest in our latest event, the talk by Dr Mark Walport in August. In order to achieve this we would like to appoint regional representatives as well as members of a central committee. Continue reading ‘SAFT expansion’

Date: 23rd August, 7 pm
Venue: The Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

Dr Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, author of the ‘Walport Report’ and creator of the Academic clinical fellowship and Clinical Lectureship posts in the academic career pathway, will discuss his views on the future of academic medicine. More on this topic…

On 3 rd January 2007 Prof Geraint Rees spoke at the inaugural meeting of SAFT on “Academic ST Programs and Clinical Fellowships: The Future of Academic Medicine And How to Apply” More on this topic…

Many thanks to Prof Geraint Rees for giving us an insight into Academic ST Programs and Clinical Fellowships.

We are in the processing of organising further Speaker Events. So, watch this space!