Volunteer with Minds for Health in Kolkata, India
Minds for Health are a recently-affiliated Medsin Activity, which aims to tackle mental illness and poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries. Every year we assist 10-15 volunteers to live and work in a Psychiatric Establishment (Antara) in Kolkata, India, for placements of five weeks or more.
Volunteers are an integral part of our ongoing support and development as an organisation. We expect volunteers:
- To offer direct support by involvement in therapy and care (as skills allow), being alongside patients, introducing new skills or programmes, or conducting research for Antara.
- To assist Friends of Antara UK by gathering case-studies, writing reports or helping to develop proposals for funding priorities.
- To be involved in our general or local committees in the UK on their return.
See www.medsin.org to find out more information, and to download the application form. NB The deadline for Undergraduate (or summer placements) is 26th November, the year before the placement. (31st December for Medical Electives).
Call for submissions: Medical Students International, Vol 23 – submission deadline: 20th December 2010
The IFMSA’s Publications Team are looking for articles and photos for their latest edition of the IFMSA’s magazine, Medical Students International. Submission deadline: 20th December, 2010.
- What are we after? Articles, all other forms of written submissions, photos and even cartoons! (Provided that they have been made by you, of course)
- What is the theme? "Health Inequalities and Disparities", the same as the theme for the IFMSA’s March Meeting 2011.
- When are they due? Monday 20th December 2010
- Where should you send it to? All articles should be sent to msi@ifmsa.org
- Where and when will MSI 23 be published? MSI 23 will be distributed in print to all who are attending the March Meeting 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia next year. It will also be published online at roughly the same time.
