OGHG - Career Events

Our biggest event of the year with speakers including:
6.15pm Susan Wright (human rights lawyer and director of Doctors of the World)
6.45pm Dr Anita Makin (Medicins Sans Frontières mission in Sierra Leone)
7.30pm Lord Nigel Crisp ’Turning the World Upside Down- the search for Global health in the 21st century’
8.15pm Dr Juliet Bedford (medical Anthropologist) 'Global Health Initiatives: Why Patient Perspectives Matter'

Stalls from a wide range of organisations including representatives from:
MSF
Doctors of the World, ICRC
Africa health placements, MedicineAfrica
Medical Engineering
London School of Tropical medicine, UCL, KCL,
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene together with over 20 international NGOs, institutions and charities.

This section highlights contacts and opportunities for training and information on working in the developing world, applicable for both medics and non-medics

You can now download the handout from the Careers' Fair, with details of the organisations represented and contact information.

Here are details of our past 2 careers fairs: (click on the event title for more details; click again to hide!)

You can now download the handout from the Careers' Fair, with details of the organisations represented and contact information.

Organisations attending included:

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Voluntary Service Overseas

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Engineers Without Borders

Africa Health Placements

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

There were also experts on the following areas:

Conflict Medicine

Research Abroad

Neglected Tropical Diseases

Speakers included Tim Goodacre (Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital) and Philip Bejon (Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases).

Please look at the entry for the most recent Careers' Fair to see some of the organisations and activities represented.

Here is a training handout with some tips on Tropical First Aid and personal safety in the developing world:

This was a practical session run by two Oxford Graduate-Enry Medics. Andy and Joe told us about particular dangers to be aware of in the Developing World and gave us a structured aproach to first aid in exotic settings.