Speciality Careers Event

[abdulalim]

Salaam
This thread will be for discussion and planning for the speciality careers event which Sr Esra and Sr Ayeshah have taken charge of. Now these are the pointers that need to be sorted out for the event, so please do have a look and post up ur ideas and comments and also anything that you may be able to sort out from here please do post up:

• What Date and venue do you want the event to be, so that i can go an submit the room booking form, also if you can reply back to before next friday then that will be good cos i need to go to into uni as it is for ssc reasons so that will take away a chunk of our uncertainty regarding venues. the date and venue can be provisional as i can easily change it afterwards via phone with room bookings. You can have a look at the venues and availabilities via this link

• Get Dr’s and specialists to come in and talk about their journeys and to explain what speciality they chose and why, perhaps have a GP, and 3-4 other popular specialities this year, and next year we can rotate this so that we get other specialities to turn up and hence the event isn't same for both years

• Maybe get a female Dr to give a brief talk to explain how she can balance a career and family etc etc

• What ideas you all have of improving the event

• What the coordinators want people to help out with

• Also start thinking of names for the event and perhaps brief description so that we can get the promotion material sorted out for the events

So everyone start posting and putting up ur ideas and the progress with the above points and any more that may be required
Wassalaam
AbdulAlim

[Ayeshah]

Well.....obviously the event has to be at a time when Drs are free to come. I dnt personally know many Dr's so i think that date of the evnt shud be up to Esra as she has the majority of contacts. With regards to venue, i think LT2 in cruciform shud be fine inshallah.

I was thinking maybe sum1 cud do a short 5 minz reminder at the start of the event about the importance of studying medicine and the reward aswell......just to lift up spirits, but dnt know how much of a good idea this will be if we have non-muslims there aswell (but mite be good dawah)

Not too sure about a title for the event. How about 'What next?' or 'Where next?' or something like that. Or maybe that title of the event could be 'When i'm a Dr i want to be............' I quite like that - lol! But with this we need input from many people as possible. Has to be something catchy and good.

We need help with
1) Making posters - advertising
2) Calling Drs

But also i was thinking.....i think we need something else to make this event more attractive and appealing. Becasue quite alot of students come from a medicine backgrounds so may meet specialists, surgeons, GP's etc on a regular basis. And if we have this event in lik feb near intermod exams, will people really take the time out to come and listen. Maybe something else appealing to add to the event......any ideas?

Ayeshah