1. Medical Students Committee BMA Medical Students Committee Ian Noble, Chair MSC Gerard Millen, Chair of Conference September 2007

2. Medical Students Committee Outline Who? What? Relevance –You –Medsin Conference Contacts

3. Medical Students Committee 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…

4. Medical Students Committee Who? BMA –Trade Union –Political and Representational activities –Professional Association Medical Students Committee –Branch of practice –Represent students

5. Medical Students Committee What? Finance WelfareEducation International Medical Students Medical Schools Charter Alcohol awareness campaign Graduate top-up fees Ever increasing Medical Student debt Foundation Programmes MMC Feedback International Health

6. Medical Students Committee How? Conference Medical Schools & Delegates Medical Students Committee WelfareEducation Finance

7. Medical Students Committee Relevance? You! –Representation –All students; accountable to YOU!! –Voice, influence and impact –Local MSC reps and ISC chairs –Conference (April)

8. Medical Students Committee Relevance? Medsin –Permanently co-opted to MSC Education sub-committee –Global Health International Committee –Activities board Build on strengths Share good practice

9. Medical Students Committee 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

10. Medical Students Committee 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

11. Medical Students Committee 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 16 th January at 12pm

12. Medical Students Committee 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

13. Medical Students Committee 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

14. Medical Students Committee How to write a motion 2 Have an action Keep it short –Shorter motions are easier to read Proof read it please

15. Medical Students Committee Contact Local rep www.bma.org.uk/students 07785377635 inoble@bma.org.uk Gerard.millen@gmail.com