SCHOLARSHIPS RURAL MEDICINE IS REWARDING AND SO ARE THE SCHOLARSHIPS The NSW Rural Doctors Network provides support for a continuing and high quality rural medical workforce in New South Wales. This includes scholarships for medical students who are interested in rural medicine. Bush Bursaries & Country Women's & Association Scholarships BURSARIES USH CIATION 2014 B ’S ASSO WOMEN SCHOLARSHIPSION APPLICAT COUNTRY ION & 2014 COTTON INFORMAT 2015 NSW R ION UR ICAT AL RESIDE PPL MEDICAL NT INDUSTRYSCHOLARSHIPS MEDICALA OFFICER ION & CADETSHIP FOR IN S M DIGENOUS INFORMAT EDICAL STUDE INFORMAT NTS ION & A Cotton Industry Scholarship PPLICATION 20 15 NSW R UR MEDICALAL RE INFORMAT SIDE C OFF N ADET ICE T ION & R APPL SHIP ICAT S NSW Rural Resident Medical ION Officer Cadetships NSW Rural Resident Medical Officer Cadetships for Indigenous Students www.nswrdn.com.au For more information and an application form, visit the NSW RDN website at www.nswrdn.com.au or email [email protected] Published 2014 FEATURES 05 Dean’s Message Welcome to the School of Medicine, Sydney 06 Welcome from Mandus President Eugene D’Souza 07 Medcamp 2014 1st year perspective 09 Blessing of the Hands Welcome to MED1000 10 ROUNDS Rural at Notre Dame 17 Global Hands Global Health at Notre Dame REGULAR 04 News Upcoming events & news 11 Research at Notre Dame To Infinity & Beyond 13 Where are they now? Gordon Lau 15 Social Justice Phillipines ENTERTAINMENT 18 Cryptic Medical Crossword 19 Find a Word Front cover: Designed by Jayshil Vyas, 2nd year UNDS medical student Image: Johnson Tang & Hannah Beange, 2nd year UNDS medical students • kyphosis • 2 at Camp Collaroy 2014 taken by Gerard Williams FROM THE EDITORS Welcome to the first issue of Kyphosis 2014. Kyphosis is the student magazine of the Medical Assoication Notre Dame Univeristy Sydney (MANDUS) and School of Medicine, Univeristy of Notre Faye D’Souza, Publications Representative Dame Sydney Our names are Faye D’Souza and Jade-El Mohamed and we are your publication representatives responsible for the compilation and pub- lishing of kyphosis. This year we are launching a brand new look and feel of kyphosis the magazine for YOU, our wonderful readers. Kyphosis is here as a supplement to the MANDUS website (www.mandus.org.au), the university website and the blackboard portal which will still provide students with the latest information about opportunities and upcoming events at Notre Dame. Over the year we hope to publish quarterly issues housing the stories that interest and are most relevant to not only our pre-clinical students but those who are based all over Sydney and Melbourne in Jade El-Mohamed, Publications Representative their respective clinical schools and the medical student alumni of the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. Our very first issue has a range of feature articles including a message from the Dean, a message from MANDUS and the first years’ blessing of Editor the hands ceremony. It also includes what we hope to be, regular items Faye D’Souza from the students themselves with topics ranging from social justice and [email protected] placement experiences to research opportunities that are available for our students. Editor Jade El-Mohammed, We want to be very clear that kyphosis is for YOU and would love your [email protected] feedback on what has been published. We also would LOVE if anyone has any stories, ideas or reflections that they would like to share with the Publisher rest of the university to please contact us at [email protected] Australian Medical Association We hope you enjoy reading our first publication of kyphosis and the rest Advertising Enquiries of the year to come. [email protected] OR/ Faye and Jade [email protected] The support of all advertisers are welcome but does not imply endorsement by the University of the Notre Dame, Sydney 3 • kyphosis • --> UPCOMING EVENTS AMSA CONVENTION REGISTRATION PARTY NEWS 1st April 6pm onwards PBL rooms, Darlinghurst In Brief ... CELEBRATING 25YEARS - ALUMNI Wagga Wagga Rural Clinical School EVENT Nears Completion 4th April 5.30-7.30pm Museum of Contempory Art Australia Places still available - con- tact [email protected] CLOSE THE GAP WEEKEND ROUNDS event with ANU 5th – 6th April Canberra, ACT Registrations now closed PAEDIATRICS -ACADEMIC NIGHT 10th April The new rural clinical school at Wagga Wagga 6.00pm Level 2 Lecture Theatre, UNDS An exciting opportunity has been made available to the upcoming third Registration available through year medical students of Notre Dame University with the nearing MANDUS website completion of the new-state-of-the-art rural clinical school campus in Wagga Wagga. ND GIFT 11th April The Wagga Wagga Rural Clinical School has been developed in con- 5.00pm junction with Calvary Health Care Riverina (CHCR) a service of the Little Camperdown Oval, USYD Company of Mary Health Care. Calvary Health Care Riverina services Register your interest through include Calvary Hospital, a well-established 100 bed private hospital Fiona Tudehope proving acute surgical, medical and obstetric services in a fully renovated [email protected] modern facility. RURAL CONFERENCE Initially catering to final year students this number will increase next year 16th April to include not only fourth year medical students but for upcoming third 9am - 4.00pm year students to undertake their clinical year rurally as well. Level 2 Lecture Theatre, UNDS. Darlinghurst The facility, partly funded by the federal government, will feature a new Compulsory for MED1000 120 seat lecture theatre and cutting edge telecommunications infra- structure, allowing students in Wagga to conference with those at the RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM university’s other clinical schools. 17th April 9am - 4.00pm Current second year students are encouraged to apply for Wagga Wagga Level 2 Lecture Theatre, UNDS. Rural Clinical School for their clinical schools by making an expression Darlinghurst of interest to Associate Professor Joe McGirr via email at joseph.mcgirr@ Compulsory for MED2000 nd.edu.au • kyphosis • 4 A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SYDNEY elcome to an exciting any academic pressure this year, or are new year at the Notre being weighed down by personal issues Dame School of Medicine, which may be impacting your study or W Sydney. I am delighted to wellbeing, it is important that you talk introduce this new edition of Kyphosis, to your tutor, year coordinators or head the voice of Notre Dame’s medical student of your clinical school, so that we can body, assembled by a dedicated and hard- offer assistance. Head of Student Matters tion in Spain a month before the Winter working MANDUS team. Professor Duncanson and I are also always Paralympics. Pulling the team together, available to students with concerns. Toby displayed qualities and a strength of MANDUS plays a crucial role in bring- character that not only make him a great ing together the SoMS community, and Our year is off to a great start. The Blessing sportsperson, but will make him a great encouraging the academic, social and of the Hands event last month was a won- medical professional in the next stage of physical wellbeing of students. Take derful celebration for our new MED1000 his career. SoMS is very proud of Toby. advantage of the upcoming MANDUS students and their families. It was made events and programs to meet colleagues particularly special by the powerful and In other exciting news, we can boast and get to know each other, as well as to moving performance by our new student two more Interns of the Year: Dr Avalon help you with your studies, and hopefully, choir that I’ve dubbed the “SoMS Singers”. Mooney at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, to help you to relax and have fun occa- Thank you particularly to Samantha and Dr Lily Schneider at Prince of Wales sionally. Warhurst who sings like an angel! I have Hospital. This is the second year in suc- been given the challenge of finding a cession that two Notre Dame alumni have It has been a great pleasure meeting many piano for further rehearsals here at the received this honour. Tim Hewitt, who of you during orientation and the first School – so if anyone’s family is looking to graduated in 2013 as dux of the year, was weeks of the semester. We have such a sell a piano, please let me know! awarded a Notre Dame University Medal diverse and interesting community of for his performance across the medical students at SoMS. Our students come Congratulations to Toby Kane, a fourth course. He received his award at the recent from all over Australia and New Zealand, year SoMS student at the Melbourne Vice Chancellor’s awards night, which and about a quarter of you were born Clinical School, who recently competed in highlighted the achievements of many in another country. It is exciting to have multiple events at the Winter Paralympics. of our University’s talented students and students of rich and varied backgrounds. Along with a bronze medal in the men’s academics. Some have had training and experience in standing super-combined, Toby became health or science, while others have had the first Australian to win the top individ- To all of you, I wish you a safe and peaceful previous careers such as teaching, jour- ual award handed out during the Games – Easter, and I hope you are having an nalism, law, architecture, defence, music the Whang Youn Dai achievement award. enjoyable and productive semester. and sport. The award is for outstanding performanc- es and overcoming adversity, and Toby At SoMS, we want to get to know our was nominated for his leadership across Professor Christine Bennett students as people rather than a student his career, especially during a difficult peri- Dean, School of Medicine, Sydney number, which is shown by our commit- od for the Australian team with the death ment to pastoral care.