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2013 News
- March 2013:
Women in Surgery vodcast launched on International Women's Day.
2012 News
- December 2012 Laurie Baxter; ENT Surgeon is announced as the new Chair of Women in Surgery.
- October 2012:
Women in Surgery and Exeter university have secured a grant from the ERSC to continue to support the 'Perceptions of Fit' research more information on this project can be found here
- September 2012:
Evening Standard are holding a debate on 'Women at the top table' .
New RCS Careers Literature launched - Download a copy
- August 2012:
Direct Red by Women in Surgery member Gabriel Weston is on the radio!
- July 2012:
New RCS website launched
RCS are proud to welcome Mrs Susan Hill to the RCS Council. Women now make up 19% of RCS Council.
- June 2012:
- May 2012:
Women in Surgery are recruiting a new committee open to all Women in Surgery members.
Women hold fewer than a third of top jobs BBC research finds - read full story.
- March 2012:
Horizon on BBC2 - Women in Surgery member Gabriel Weston investigating The Truth About Fat! See here for more info.
7th March is International Women's Day
- February 2012:
Miss Helen Fernandes and Mrs Scarlett McNally are on Radio 4 Women Hour.
RCS responds to the final report of the expert group on PIP breast implants.
2011 News
- November 2011:
100 years of Women in Surgery - WinS celebrates with and international event.
- October 2011:
Hospital Doctor have published an interesting article with top tips for part time working.
- September 2011:
The deadline for the WINS conference poster competition has been extended by one week. Visit the conference pages for more information. - August 2011:
Gabriel Weston, who spoke at a previous WinS conference, is currently writing for the Guardian's "Mapping the Body" series on anatomy - it's a really interesting series! - July 2011:
Booking is now open for the next WinS conference, which promises to be an excellent event. Visit our conference pages for details and bookings. - June 2011:
Save the date! the 2011 WinS conference - a celebration of a century of women in surgery will be held on 4th and 5th November. - May 2011:
Congratulations to Patricia Numann who has been named President Elect of the American College of Surgeons. Patricia also founded the American Association of Women Surgeons back in 1981. - April 2011:
Congratulations to Scarlett Mcnally, who has just been elected onto the College Council - April 2011:
A WinS Day for medical students at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (organised by Scalpel - The University of Manchester Surgical Society) is being held on 14th May - April 2011:
The BMJ has published an interesting article asking whether there are too many female medical students. - March 2011:
Miss Alex Cope has been featured on Jamie’s Dream School with Robert Winston
Newsletters
If you are a member of WinS, we will send you a copy of each edition of the newsletter. If you have not received your copy, or would like to re-read one of our editions, you can download them below.
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- Winter 2012
- Summer 2011
- Winter 2010
- Winter 2009
- Summer 2009, additional notice accompanying newsletter
- Winter 2008
- Summer 2008
- Winter 2007
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