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Trans-millennial Medicine: reflecting on change and looking to the future
Our annual Medics’ Day will be held on Saturday 8th March 2025.
The theme of this year will be change. Using the example of the speciality of cardiology, our morning speakers will share their experiences of Medicine from different perspectives and career stages. In the afternoon, we will hear from students current and past, and then go much further back in time to hear about Medicine from history, but how it can inform our practice today.
A more detailed Programme will be published shortly:
- From 10.30am Coffee and registration in the Margaret Thatcher Centre
- 11.00 – 12.30pm Dame June Raine (1971), Chair of the Somerville Medics followed by guest speaker
presentations and Q&A:Dr David Sprigings (1974, University): British Cardiology since 1950
David is a locum consultant in the Cardiology Dept at John Radcliffe Hospital. He trained in Oxford and London, and was a cardiologist in Northampton from 1993 to 2016.Dr Aaron Henry (2015, Somerville): Heart Failure, Cardiometabolic Processes and Cardiac MRI
Aaron is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiology at OUH, an Honorary Research Fellow in Cardiology in Jersey and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville.Dr Clare Goyder (2002, St. Anne’s): Improving the detection of heart failure in primary care
Clare Clare trained in Oxford and is a GP and an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Fellowship. - 12.30pm Drinks Reception
- 1.00 Lunch in Hall
- 2.30 Dr Helen Ashdown, Janet Vaughan Tutor in Clinical Medicine: Somerville Medicine update followed by student presentations
- 3.15 Dr Jim Harris: Historical Objects and Contemporary Doctors: teaching medics at the Ashmolean Museum
Dr Jim Harris, Teaching Curator at the University’s Ashmolean Museum, is an art historian specialising in late-medieval and early-Renaissance sculpture and a Research Fellow at Somerville. Over the past 12 years he has been putting the museum’s collections to work in teaching medical students and in continuing professional development work for consultants and specialist trainees. - 4.00 Tea