Academic events in 2010 will aim to inspire you and expand your horizons! UNSW Medsoc organizes a number of academic events every year that allows students to pursue interests that fall outside the scope of the curriculum. UNSW academics this year is suitable for all years and includes an emergency skills night, career info nights, medicine in the army night, financial planning nights and a live dissection night! 2010 is going to be a great year for academics – bigger and better, so be sure you don’t miss out!

Your academic representative for 2010 is Lokiny Gnanendran

Recognising the importance of student participation in academic conferences, seminars and other educational activities external to the University of New South Wales, the Faculty of Medicine each year provides funds to subsidise student attendance at such events. MedSoc is responsible for assessing student applications for these subsidies and provides a recommendation to the Faculty on which events should be supported.

Activities shall (at a minimum):

1. Be academic in nature;
2. Be of relevance to medical students;
3. Have a significant representative component for UNSW, with favour given to presentations and publications;
4. Have a precedent of previous sponsorship by the Faculty of Medicine.

The delegate(s) shall report to the Medsoc Council upon their return in the form of a short presentation.

If you are interested in applying for a conference subsidy, please forward documented evidence of the above and an itemised list of forecasted expenses (i.e. event registration, transport costs) to the President at

The application will be discussed amongst the Executive committee at the next Executive meeting, where the application and its merits will be discussed. The President will subsequently recommend any approved application to the Faculty. Evidently, due to the limited nature of funds available, it is possible that costs may not be fully subsidised.

For a printer-friendly version of these guidelines, please [click here].

Australian Indigenous Medical Electives Database (AIMED)

AIMED is an initiative by two UTAS medical students in an effort to encourage and enable medical students to undertake medical electives with Australian indigenous people – in urban, regional, rural and remote settings.

We are hoping for AIMED to be fully operational and launched nationally in April 2008. Check it out @ www.aimed.org.au.

The Australasian Integrative Medicine Association is hosting the 14th International Holistic Health Conference from Friday the 19th to Sunday the 21st of September 2008 at the Swiss-Grand Resort and Spa, Bondi Beach.

AIMA is offering 2 places for medical students; for more details, click here, or see www.aima.net.au. Entries close 31st July.

Whether you're fresh from the Phase 1 exam or have just finished up your ILP, moving onto the Phase 2 clinical courses can be a hard transition. Going from lazy afternoons hanging around MedLawn to searching for patients in your free time, most people find that life becomes a little more...stressful. To help make the most of your clinical year, we have tried to gather our collective experiences into a few tips that we hope you will find useful.

The Phase 2 Survival Guide (click here for PDF) has contributions from a heap of students who completed clinical courses in '06-'07, covering each of the 5 clinical schools. We hope these tips written by students, for students, will help you get the most out of the year to come.