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Clinical Tutorial Series

Tutor certificates

Student teachers and examiners - if you have participated in the Clinical Tutorial Series and would like to have a certificate of participation, please write to us with your full name and postal address.

AMSA International T-Shirt Competition

 

AMSA International is holding a T-Shirt Design Competition!

This is an international competition that any AMSA medical student member can participate in. (AMSA-UK Membership is £5)

Instructions are as follows:

1. Put those thinking caps on and design a T-Shirt

2. Create a jpg file of your design (<1 mb file size)

3. Sign up as a member on the AMSA International Website

4. Submit your design via the AMSA International Blog by March 1, 2010.

5. Designs will be voted on from April 2010.

6. The Winner will be announced shortly after!

Requirements for the T-shirt; it must have the:

1. •Official AMSA International logo
   

2. •Official AMSA International website address
   

3. •Any design that appropriate (not contains any inappropriate words and or pictures).
   

 Prize:

1. •There will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, with each receiving a mystery prize.
   

2. •The design of the 1st place will be printed out on 600 t-shirts and will be given to all delegates at AMSC 2010 for free!
   

 

Please email us at uk.amsa@googlemail.com before you submit your application so we can verify your membership status in order to be eligible for this competition.

 

Good Luck!

AMSA-UK Volunteering Opportunity

Every Sunday afternoon from 12pm, AMSA members are involved with volunteering activities at the London Chinese Community Centre (http://www.ccc.org.uk/).

Come join us if you have free time and make a real difference to the people we meet. Please contact amsa.uk@googlemail.com for more information.

International Medical Students

- allowed to stay!

Date: 10/12/2009

AMSA folks, we have some great news!

The Department of Health has changed the visa rulings for international medical graduates from the UK. It was announced today that non-UK / non-EEA doctors who are classed as UK graduates - i.e. are graduates of medical schools in the UK and are currently undertaking UK Foundation training - will be eligible to apply for UKBA Tier 1 Post-Study Work Visas.

Lin Homer, Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has confirmed that:

Non-UK/ EEA doctors who are graduates of UK medical schools and currently undertaking Foundation Programme training will now be able to apply to the Tier 1 Post-Study Work category in order to take up a specialty training post. These visas will last for a period of two years, after which individuals will be able to apply to switch into Tier 1 (General) for the remainder of their specialty training post.

As a result of this decision, the Department of Heallh has confirmed that non-EEA nationals who have graduated from a medical school in the UK are eligible to apply under Round One for specialty training posts. The MMC guidance should now state this.

The UKBA will be amending its Tier 1 Post-Study Work guidance in early 2010 to reflect this development.

Implications for existing international medical students:

As things currently stand (and we should always be mindful that the system does get changed) current international students will follow this path:

Undergraduate medical studies - Student visa if they began their studies before 2008 or Tier 4 visa if they began their studies after 2008

Foundation Programme - Tier 4 visa (two years)

Specialty training - Tier 1 Post Study Work visa (two years) and then switch to Tier 1 (General) after two years

This development will mean that international graduates of medical schools in the UK will be treated on a equal footing to their UK/EEA counterparts in their access to specialty training posts.

For more information on the post-study work visa, visit this page of the UK Borders Agency website: http://www.facebook.com/l/32341;www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/poststudy/

Information about this will be put on the BMA website.

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23rd East Asian Medical Students’ Conference (EAMSC) 2010 Kuala Lumpur: Invitation’s out!

Place : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Date : January 14th-18th, 2010

Theme : “Men’s Health: Defining the Past, Refining the Future”

Organizer : AMSA Malaysia

Website : http://eamsc.blogspot.com

The East Asian Medical Students' Conference (EAMSC) is one of the two annual conventions of AMSA which see the participation of about 300 medical students from more than 15 countries, with its attendance growing. Comprised of academic, cultural and social programmes, EAMSC provides an opportunity for medical students to meet and discuss about their research and current medical and health issues in medicine. It is also an avenue to learn and experience in the cultures and traditions of different countries.

This five-day conference will transform strangers into life-long friends, and thus establishes a strong network among the medical students in Asia and Oceania. More importantly, EAMSC is an important tool to encourage medical students to think out of their textbooks, to challenge them to be proactive and to speak out, to cultivate social awareness and to help them grow and become balanced doctors.

Application for this conference is now open.

All AMSA-UK members are eligible to apply.

If you are interested, please contact uk.amsa@googlemail.com with the subject heading ‘EAMSC 2010 application’.

For more information, please visit the website as listed above (or click on the EAMSC 2010 banner)

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AMSC Taiwan News!

To see Student Lancet article on AMSC Taiwan, click here.

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International students working after they graduate - the changes

Since 31st March 2009, there has been a few changes on the immigration status of international doctors who had qualified from UK medical schools and are undergoing their foundation training.  The changes will affect them (and potentially our international student body in the future) when they come to apply for the specialty training.  The specifics of the changes are still unclear as there is no clear-cut information specifically for doctors and we understand that this is going to cause great concern and confusion.

We will be sending out an email in due course with further updates on what is happening, once the information on immigration status can be better interpreted.  In the meantime, if you are aware of this change at all or if you know anyone who is affected by this and would like to voice out their experiences, please do not hesitate to email us.