Turning Points
Bookings are pouring in for the CMF National Students' Conference to be held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire on the weekend of 7-9 February 2003 and all students should receive a further booking form with this mailing. Don Carson and John Patrick are the main speakers. Seminar topics include Surviving as a House Officer, Psychiatry, Nazi Doctors, Euthanasia and Cloning. Much more information about the conference and on individual seminar topics is available on the CMF Students' website at www.cmf.org.uk/students/natconf.htm. Around 400 delegates are expected and space is limited so book now to avoid disappointment.
Confident Christianity
The apostles shared their faith in words people understood, in an environment where their hearers felt comfortable, and with opportunity for discussion. So should we! Confident Christianityis a one-day evangelism training course with a difference that employs just these principles. A 16- centre tour started in Belfast on 26 October and finishes in Cardiff on 15 March 2003. Taught in an interactive style by CMF staff, the course aims to teach you to share your faith 'with gentleness and respect' (1 Peter 3:15) and to answer those difficult questions. Coming soon to a venue near you. More information is available on the CMF website at www.cmf.org.uk/evang/conf/intro.htm or from the CMF Office on students@cmf.org.uk.
Russian Conference
A conference for Russian speaking Christian medical students and junior doctors from all over the former Soviet Union is planned in Samara, Russia's fourth largest city on 15-20 July 2003. Please pray for this key event. If you would like to go contact the CMF Office for more details. Publications Students General Practice
Contacting Student Staff
Mark Pickering's email address is mark.pickering@cmf.org.uk We expect you can guess the rest!
Student Secretary. Mark Pickering.
North-East England Staffworker. Kerry Waterfield.
Midlands Staffworker. Ruth Selwood.
Irish Staffworker. Tim Lewis.
South England Staffworker. Chris Downing.
South-West Staffworker. Rebecca Brain.
Midlands Relay Worker. Becky Petherick.
All our staffworkers produce regular prayer letters so if you would like to support any one of them in prayer please let us know.
Electives Advice
The following two resources (just updated!) are still available FREE to members on request: Planning your Medical Elective Overseas - all you need to know Medical Elective Opportunities - with over 40 mission societies A new edition of Planning your Elective is also available at www.cmf.org.uk/mission/prepelec.htm. If you'd like specific advice on the where, why and how of your elective, or would like to be put in touch with other students who may have been to the same hospital (or country), contact Peter Armon (CMF Overseas Support Secretary) at the CMF Office. Email peter.armon@cmf.org.uk.
Elective Days 2003 - now arranged
Leeds - at South Parade Baptist Church on Saturday 8 March
London - at Partnership House, 157 Waterloo Road on Wednesday 19 March There will be no Elective Day organised for Scotland
Programmes with booking forms will soon be available. Contact the CMF Office. Plans are also in hand for a follow up/debriefing day for those who have been on electives recently that will be held on October 25th 2003 (probably in London).
CMF Summer Teams
We sent nine summer teams abroad in 2002 to help run conferences and camps for Christian medics; the most recent to Sudan. In 2003 camps are planned in the former USSR in Kursk, Tver, Chilyabinsk and Ukraine. More details from the CMF Office.
Elective Grants
Healthserve is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2003 and would like to give 125 elective grants to students studying in English or Welsh universities over the next two years! Contact HealthServe, First Floor, 106-110 Watney Street, London E1 2QE. Tel 020 7790 1336. Email info@healthserve.org.
The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society offers a similar service to students studying at Scottish or Northern Irish universities for their overseas electives. For more details contact EMMS, 7 Washington Lane, Edinburgh EH11 2HA. Tel 0131 313 3828. Email info@emms.org
