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Upcoming CMF events Seventeen CMF events take place from 24 September to 1 December including six weekend conferences, five Saline Solution training days and six day conferences. Please check the dates of upcoming conferences on this page, page 8 and on the CMF website at www.cmf.org.uk/events/ Care of the Soul ...
New Appointments Matthew Kehoe and Peter Friend have joined the CMF student staff team as relay workers. They graduated MBChB in 2003 in London and Nottingham respectively and will be working on a voluntary basis full-time for a year with students in London and Cardiff respectively. CMF’s relay programme offers training...
If, like me, you returned from a summer break to bulging in-trays, looming deadlines and a host of competing personal and professional pressures let me encourage you through what God is doing amongst Christian doctors worldwide. This summer our own family holiday was sandwiched between two ICMDA (International Christian Medical and...
John Wyatt writes: Our government is still pushing through legislation at a bewildering pace that will have profound implications for the way we live and practise medicine . The Select Committee reviewing Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill is now taking oral evidence and has heard already from the...
Kevin Vaughan writes: Saline Solution (integrating faith and practice) I recently heard Sarah Mullally, the Chief Nursing Officer, speak at a conference on ‘Spirituality, Faith and Health - an NHS Perspective’. Those attending included doctors, nurses, university lecturers, managers and chaplains, a few of whom were Hindus or Muslims. There was universal...
Normal service and the jovial smile should resume before Christmas! We continue to be plagued by the problems of specifying correctly the new membership database, but many members will have seen signs of recent progress when we were able to produce subscription requests for the 9 months between February and...
From Daryl Hackland, ICMDA General Secretary:During 2004, the year for ICMDA Regional Conferences, five will have been held. Our news covers the encouraging gatherings in Kampala, Uganda for the 2nd Eastern Africa Conference from 22-25 July with the theme Toward Excellence (Col 3:17,22,24) and the landmark event of the 1st...
Sarah Germain writes: Over 80 junior doctors attended CMF’s national junior doctors’ conference at Hothorpe Hall in Leicestershire on 8–10 October. The theme was ‘To live is Christ’ and Chris Lambert gave the main Bible readings on Paul’s letter to the Philippians and seminars tailored to juniors issues covered such subjects...
Congratulations On their awards and appointments Christine Edwards OBE Rodney Burnham has been appointed as Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians of London from January 2005 If you have recently received an award, a new appointment or postgraduate qualification please let us know for the next edition of CMF News. Movements Outgoing...
Peter Armon writes: Developing Health Course 2004 This year’s course was as popular as ever with some 38 participants, 28 of whom attended the whole course. They came from seventeen different nations and were or will be working in 21 different countries. There were 23 doctors and 15 nurse/midwives taking part. Twelve...
Allister Vale writes: 1,000 copies of Bernard Palmer’s book Cure for Life in Russian have arrived in the CMF Office and another 4,000 have already been distributed throughout the former USSR. Please pray that this challenging little book will continue to bring people to faith and help young Christians grow as...
Mark Pickering Writes: As the nights begin to draw in it’s back to the books for CMF’s student members for another year. Freshers’ events are going on up and down the country aimed at welcoming new Christians and communicating the gospel message to those who need it. Pray for many new...
