Welcome scheme
Newly qualified doctors are starting their new jobs in the next week. CMF's Welcome Scheme puts junior doctors in touch with a more senior Christian doctor, helping juniors to settle in to new placements. Find out more here. Junior doctors - give us your new contact details here. To become a CMF Welcomer click here.
What church do you belong to?
Please take three minutes to update your personal data here and let us know if you are willing to be a CMF link for your church here.
Students and Juniors' Support Teams
Become part of a team of doctors supporting your local CMF medical student group or local junior doctors. Read the role description here and sign up here.
Intern opportunities
Last year CMF's International Medical Student Conference brought together 25 medical students and junior doctors from over 20 countries. Could you be the intern to organize the 2013 event? Find out more here.
First European Symposium: Euthanasia in Europe, Edinburgh, 7-8 September
A residential conference where academics, medics, campaigners and activists will be meeting for the First European Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Sign up here.
Development Fund update
Our three-year Development Fund currently stands at £350,000. We hope to raise £700,000, so we still have a long way to go. Please prayerfully consider how you could help us meet our target. Donate here.
Give Foundations as a gift to the newly qualified doctors in your area. Buy copies here.
Chariots of Fire – free resources from Damaris.
Although not a medic, Eric Liddell lived in the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society hostel alongside medical students. The digitally remastered Chariots of Fire is now showing in cinemas. Use the http:
Student leaders
Book here for UCCF student leaders' Forum
Trustees – new chairman and new trustees
Peter Phillips, a consultant stroke physician in Ipswich Hospital, is to chair the CMF Board of Trustees. See all the Trustees here.
Staff prayer and support
Our Staffworkers each send out regular prayer letters and are funded in part, by specific donations. Please donate to Graduate, Student and CNM Staffworkers. Please email the CMF office to request a prayer letter from your local Staffworker.
EVENTS
August
29-30 KLICE
September
15 Juniors MMC Day (Careers Day) London (accommodation available with London CMF members)
27 Nurses Refreshment Dinner, London
October
6 Board of Trustees, London
5-7 Northern Conference, Scarborough
13 Saline Solution, Nottingham
20 God Loves the NHS Conference, London
26-28 Junior Doctors' Conference, Hothorpe Hall, Leicestershire
November
2-4 Irish conference
3 London & SE Day Conference, London
9-11 Scottish Conference, Stirling
17 Oxford Day Conference
18-19 Parish Nursing Symposium, Hothorpe Hall, Leicestershire
24 Who is my Neighbour? Cardiff
29 Nurses' Refreshment Dinner, London
God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing…True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.
Psalm 23: 1-3 The Message
God bless you as you live and work for him
Catherine Butcher, CMF Head of Communications
Steven Fouch (CMF Head of Communications) 020 7234 9668
Alistair Thompson on 07970 162 225
Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) was founded in 1949 and is an interdenominational organisation with over 5,000 doctors, 900medical and nursing students and 300 nurses and midwives as members in all branches of medicine, nursing and midwifery. A registered charity, it is linked to over 100 similar bodies in other countries throughout the world.
CMF exists to unite Christian healthcare professionals to pursue the highest ethical standards in Christian and professional life and to increase faith in Christ and acceptance of his ethical teaching.