Win money towards your Elective with the The Encephalitis Society

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Encephalitis Society Medical Student Essay Prize

The Encephalitis Society would like to invite UK medical school student’s undergraduate and postgraduate level interested in Encephalitis to participate in the Medical Student Essay Prize.

A prize of £500 will be awarded for the best medical student essay on a topic relevant to Encephalitis. You could use this money towards paying for your summer work placement or elective.

The winner will also be invited to give a presentation at one of the Society’s meetings.

Criteria: The applicant should be a medical student in a recognised UK Medical School on 1st October 2011. The essay must be on any aspect of Encephalitis. The essay should be around 3000 words excluding references.  Entries will be judged on style, impact of subject and originality. The applicants should also provide a current Curriculum Vita.

Deadline: Submissions are due in electronic Word format by 1st October 2011 for the attention of Ava Easton  ava@encephalitis.info . Hard copy will not be accepted.

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The Big Picture – winning photographs from your elective!

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Overall Winner – Graham Stevenson

Prize: £250

Overall Arusha Graham Stevenson 150x150 The Big Picture – winning photographs from your elective!

Graham's winning picture

Again we have had some amazing entries for this year’s competition, but we all agreed that the image that captured the spirit of living in another country was Graham Stevenson’s shot of the wildebeest migration at sunrise.

When we called Graham he had this to say “Corking stuff! I’m delighted people liked the shot. The equatorial sun rises so quickly there are only about 2 or 3 minutes to enjoy that kind of light in the Serengeti, though I feel a bit guilty to have spent it looking through a camera lens. The annual wildebeest migration is a staggering phenomenon and going on safari during my placement in Tanzania I was desperate to see the animals en masse. The picture was taken at about 06.20 in the morning. It was horribly cold. But there the beasts were: from a distance – hump-backed, anonymous creatures, lurching along the same path, at the same rate and rhythm they’d been travelling the evening before. And then we moved in closer….”

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Dental Outreach competition winner Fiona prepares to leave….

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Fiona, our dental outreach competition winner, is just two weeks away from her big prize – the chance to join the Kerala Dental Outreach team in India.

For those of you that need reminding, the video competition was launched last year and we had a huge response from people desperate to tell us why taking part in a project like this could benefit their dentistry studies, and why they should be the ones to win the prize. Fiona’s winning movie can be viewed on the facebook groups, or via this link to our youtube page.

With just two weeks to go, we asked Fiona to let us know how she was getting on with preparations for the trip of a lifetime…

Fiona’s blog…… Leaving on a jetplane!

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The winner of the dental outreach competition is announced!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Work the World dental outreach team 2009 found that 76% of children in rural Kerala need dental treatment.  As part of our commitement to providing excellent student placements that also benefit the local communities in which they are based, Work the World are planning two dental outreach projects in the summer of 2010.

We ran a competition at the end of last year to offer one lucky student the opportunity to come with us to a rural village in Kerala and join the dental outreach team. I am absolutely thrilled to let you all know that Fiona Corcoran was our winner – her video of why she would love to join the team was by far and away the most inspiring.

Omar commented “It was great to see so much enthusiasm and creativity in Fiona’s short film. She’s obviously passionate about dental care and is going to be the perfect person to join the other students in July.”

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Amanda Green wins the midwifery competition!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Amanda Green, studying midwifery in Leeds, is the winner of our midwifery competition. Amanda will win a four week placement in Ghana during 2010.

Thanks to everyone that entered – we had some great pieces sent in.  Amanda just pipped you to the post though. Here is her winning entry:

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Practising mifwifery in Ghana

“Midwifery has always been a dream of mine, and it is only now, at the age of 29; eight years after first applying, that I have reached the right time in my life to ‘live the dream!’   Since my initial application I have given birth, lost my mother and decided that life is for living.  What was the point in my supervisory job at the airport? I wanted a career! After going back to college to study an access course, I gained the recent study required to apply to university! I was a student again!

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Win a two week placement on the Dental Outreach team in Kerala!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Work the World Dental Outreach Programme 2009 found that 76% of children in rural Kerala need dental treatment, so are offering one student the chance to take part in the 2010 programme for free!

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Treating patients India 2009

The project continues in July 2010 and to boost awareness, Work the World are offering one fourth or fifth year dentistry student or professional the opportunity to win a two week placement in India with the Dental Outreach team.

The 2010 India dental outreach programme will send students to rural villages across Kerala to treat local children in makeshift dental clinics. Working under the supervision of qualified local dentists, phase one will see the team running oral hygiene workshops to educate the children in caring for their teeth as well as setting up an intensive screening process. All children with dental problems are then referred to the local hospital in which the project is based, with phase two dedicated to providing free dental treatment for each child. With students performing as much of the work as possible, this is a fantastic way for dentistry students to gain on-the-job experience as well as making a real contribution to the local community and having the experience of a lifetime.

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