November Issue
A round up of October's highlights and much more!
👋🏿 Welcome Back!
Hello, members of the BMP Network; I hope the past month was a productive and successful one for you! With October out of the way, we look forward to a new month!
🎞 October Highlights
October marked Black History Month, and as such, we reflected and remembered some of the important black figures within Medicine!
We adapted our popular Medic of the Week posts to commemorate James Russell, Africanus Horton, Monica Lewin and Harold Moody!
We reviewed and reflected on the cases of Dr David Sellu and Bawa Garba!
We empowered members of the network in our Medic of the Week posts! Shout out to Nana and Rosemary!
👀 Things to Look Out For!
Opportunities:
Become a Medical School Interviewer - Melanin Medics
We are recruiting interviewers for our mock interview scheme!
We seek doctors and medical students who will have at least 30 minutes of availability during our two cycles:
Cycle 1: 22nd November – 3rd December
Cycle 2: 7th January – 18th January
Volunteers will be provided with the necessary resources to help prepare for the interviews and a certificate of their contribution once the interviews are complete.
Please register your interest by filling the form!
Urology Teaching Series
A group of budding urologists alongside The Urology Foundation have prepared a series of 6 online teaching sessions covering:
Urology emergencies
Common urology presentations
Hints/tips to boost your portfolio
Events programme: see the poster!
Attendance certificates will be provided following feedback form submission.
More information is available from: https://www.theurologyfoundation.org/
💎 BMP Recommendations
Our favourite part of the newsletter! Here, we will be giving our monthly recommendations of content that would be of value to you!
Sharon
SmartCards+ is an app I’ve been using on my iPad recently to put my ‘spaced repetition’ resolution into practice. I know everyone uses Anki/Quizlet, but I quite like this app too.
Osas
I wanted to recommend this documentary that UCL suggested we watch as part of our Global Health iBsc. It’s called ‘Fire in the Blood’, and it provides an insight into the exploitation within large pharmaceutical companies—a very informative watch.
Join a growing network of black medical students who are enriching themselves with valuable content!