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Programme for Dundee Congress 2007

Part of the BSHM Web newsletter 2007

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West Park Centre, Perth Road, Dundee: September 5th-8th, 2007

Report of the congress

Wednesday September 5th (Afternoon)

1530-1700 Tea and Coffee and Scottish Honey Tasting
(Longforgan Room, Main Building)
1530-1800 Registration Desk Open
(Hallway of Main Building)
1700-1830 Officers and Representatives' Meeting
(Kinfauns Room)
1900-2030 Dinner for residents in Henderson's Restaurant, Main Building.
Cash Bar in Invergowrie/Longforgan rooms through the Evening

Thursday September 6th (Morning)

0900-0930 Registration (Outside Main Auditorium)
0930-1230 Session 1: Historical Aspects of Medical Education (Main Auditorium)
Chairman: Mr John Dent, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
This session is a joint one, being run in conjunction with a University of Dundee meeting to mark the 40th Anniversary of its Medical School.
0930-0940 Overview / Welcome: Dr John Blair
Sir Alan Langlands
0940-0950 BSHM Presidential Address: Dr John Ward
0950-1010 History of Undergraduate Medical Education: Evolution through co-ordinated courses to present day, systems based curricula. Prof Ronald Harden
1010-1030 Dundee: Birthplace of the "OSCE": How the objective structured clinical examination delivered objectivity. Prof Fergus Gleeson
1030-1100 Coffee Break
1100-1120 Making learning explicit: The development of 'Study Guides' and their use for learning, teaching and assessment.Prof Margery Davis
1120-1140 Harvey to Harvey: The teaching of cardiology from William Harvey to Harvey, the cardiology patient simulator.Prof Stuart Pringle
1140-1200 From theory to practice - a solid foundation: The continuum from undergraduate portfolio learning to assessment of fitness to practice & progress. Prof Philip Cachia
1200-1220 Modern history - 'IVIMEDS': The International Virtual Medical School on the world wide web. Prof Ronald Harden
1220-1230 General Questions & Discussion.
1230-1400 Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant

Thursday September 6th (Afternoon)

1400-1430 Session 2: Keynote Lecture (Main Auditorium) 'Cum Memoria Medicorum'
Chairman: Dr John Ward, President BSHM
Prof John Pearn
1435-1740 Session 3: Free Papers
There will be two parallel programmes, one in the Main Auditorium and the other in the Longforgan Room
1435-1740 Session 3A: Travelling and Travellers (Main Auditorium)
Chairman: Dr John Ward, President BSHM
1435-1455 Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907): A Forgotten Polymath. Henry Connor
1455-1515 An eminent Milanese Physician treats the Archbishop of St Andrews in Fife in the Sixteenth Century.John Forrester
1515-1535 Captain Scott, the South Pole and Scurvy. Aileen K Adams
1535-1600 Tea Break
1600-1620 A Peruvian Interlude: Some notes on the Elucidation of Oroya Fever. Stuart Menzies
1620-1640 Isabella Bird: An Unusual Victorian Lady Explorer and her medicine chest. Christine Alvin
1640-1700 An 18th Century Scots Surgeon and a Chinese Emperor. Nigel Allan
1700-1720 Medical influences on the lives of George Bass and Matthew Flinders, Lincolnshire explorers in Australia. Linda Shields & John Pearn
1720-1740 Dr Charles Goodall MD FRCP (1642-1712): An early advocate in England of the Leiden Model of Clinical Teaching.Denis Gibbs
 
1435-1740 Session 3B: Miscellany (Longforgan Room)
Chairman: Dr David Wright, Vice-President BSHM
1435-1455 Silvanus P Thompson and the Röntgen Society. Adrian Thomas
1455-1515 Oncology In Ancient India: Tumours and their Treatment in Susrutasamhita. Krishna Kunzru
1515-1535 From Beyond the Grave - Doctors' Wills Geraldine Goodman
1535-1600 Tea Break
1600-1620 Working can damage your health. Peter Homan
1620-1640 King George III and the Porphyria controversy. Edward Myers
1640-1700 Arabic influences on medical terminology. MAR Al Fallouji
1700-1720 Dr Refik Saydam and his Public Health Works. A D Erdemir
1720-1740 Inhalational anaesthesia in Arab medical history. N K S Al-Quisi
 
1830 Buses Leave for Civic Reception at City Chambers.
2000 Buses return for informal dinner at West Park at 2030 (Fiddlers at 2130)

Friday September 7th

0830-0900 Registration (Outside Main Auditorium)
 
0900-1045 Session 4A: Military Medicine (Main Auditorium) Chairman: Colonel John Blair
0900-0925 Typhus Major General G O Cowan
0925-0950 Stress and the Soldier Dr John Cule
0950-1015 Blood Letting and Blood Giving Colonel M Thomas
1015-1045 Coffee Break
 
1045-1200 Session 4B: Military Medicine Chairman: Major General G O Cowan
1045-1110 The Conscript Doctors Colonel John Blair
1110-1135 Casualty Air Evacuation at Suez, 1956 Mr Ken Mills
1135-1200 Arab Surgery/Medicine Dr M Al-Fallouji
 
1200-1330 Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant
1330 Buses depart for Verdant Works
 
1400-1430 Session 5: Keynote Lecture (Verdant Works) (Jute Museum) Chairman: Dr Graham Lowe, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee 'Photomedicine: past, present and future' Prof James Ferguson
1430-1630 Tours of Verdant Works (includes tour, film, social history gallery and tea)
1630 Buses depart for Discovery Point
1700-1830 Reception on, and tours of, RRS Discovery, (Captain RF Scott's polar exploration ship)
1830 Buses depart for West Park Centre
1900 Cash Bar open in Invergowrie/Longforgan rooms
2000 Conference Dinner in Henderson's Restaurant (Lounge Suits)

Saturday September 8th

0845-0915 Registration (Outside Main Auditorium),
(NB All delegates need to check out of rooms by 1000)
 
0915-1140 Session 7: Free Papers
There will be two parallel programmes, one in the Main Auditorium and the other in the Longforgan Room
 
0915-1140 Session 7A: Free Papers: Teaching and Teachers (Main Auditorium)
Chairman: Mr Roy Miller Vice-President SSHM
0915-0935 Argyll Robertsons, pupils and masters. Geoffrey Millar
0935-0955 Educating and Training the Diagnostic Radiographer: a Short History. Rosemary Dennett & Mary Lovegrove
0955-1015 Medical Schools at the Royal Free Hospital before 1874 Neil McIntyre
1015-1035 Midwives' views on the value of anatomical knowledge to midwifery practice and the problem of contracted pelvis (1671-1795).Janette C Allotey
1035-1100 Coffee Break
1100-1120 Educating 'Tomorrow's Doctors': Glasgow 1818-26 Marjorie E M Allison
1120-1140 Colin MacKenzie MD: A profile of an influential, eminent, yet historically neglected, London 18th-century teacher of midwiferyJosephine Lloyd
 
0915-1140 Session 7B: Free Papers: Practice & Professions (Longforgan Room) Chairman: Dr Robert Montgomery Chairman Ulster Soc. for the Hist of Med.
0915-0935 "To Observe well ....and thence to make himself Rules" John Locke's Principles and Practice of Child Health Care.Andrew Williams
0935-0955 "Paediatrics" - the origins of a specialty. John Pearn
0955-1015 The Apothecaries of Westminster Hospital, London, 1732-1826. Stuart Anderson
1015-1100 Coffee Break
1100-1120 Douglas Guthrie (1885-1975), first President of the SSHM and the BSHM David Wright
1120-1140 Puns and Physic Christopher Gardner-Thorpe & John Pearn
 
1145-1230 BSHM AGM and Closing Address (Main Auditorium)
1230 Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant & Depart

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