trauma conference, london, 6-8 nov 2009

We warmly invite you and your colleagues to submit abstract for presentation at our annual Trauma Conference, which is taking place on 6th-8th November 2009.

Trauma Conference website:

http://www.union. ic.ac.uk/ medic/surgicalso ciety/trauma/ international_ students. html

Trauma Conference is a national conference for medical students on trauma medicine, comprise of a programme of lectures, practicals, poster competition and presentation from international students. The 2-day programme is based on the Advanced Trauma Life Support course by the American College of Surgeons. It's a very popular event, with last year's tickets selling out within 14 days and we received very good feedback. We have some of the best trauma consultants in London giving us lectures, many specialist trainees giving practical demonstrations over a weekend. It has become a tradition of Surgical Society to invite medical students from abroad to give presentations before the conference, and they in turn will be invited to stay for the entire conference (no fees) and we will offer them certificates etc. So far, students from Germany, France, Romania, Australia and Malaysia have presented and attended the conference. Students from Taiwan and the Netherlands have also taken part in other Surgical Society events.

The titles for this year's international student presentations are:

1. An interesting case study in Trauma Medicine
2. What is the most important contribution to Trauma and Emergency Medicine from your country

It is hope that these titles will be suitable for both clinical and preclinical students to take part.
I really hope that you and some of your colleagues may be interested enough to submit an abstract for presentation at the conference. The dates of the conference are 7th-8th November 2009, and oral presentations which are shortlisted will take place in the evening of 6th November 2009. Further, I would be more than happy to keep you informed of ICSM Surgical Society's events, we always welcome guests from overseas!