*PLEASE NOTE - venue for AGM is now NHH LT2*

MEDSOC ELECTIONS 2012

There's a lovely list of candidates in the running for MedSoc 2012-13:

President: Oscar Barnick, Hannes Hagson, Dheeraj Khiatani (DK)
VP: Juliet Laycock 
Secretary: Katie Allan, Rashmi D'Souza 
Treasurer: Gregory Nussbaum, Sandeep Bayar
Publicity and Website: Adam Mayers, Beth Parnell 
Events: Elizabeth Chamberlain, Theo Willison-Parry 
Sports and societies: Fergus Catmer
Welfare and Alumni: Alex Brazier, Miranda Davies, Hassan Kadhim, Amar Karia, Daniel Sales (Bbz).
Sponsorship Officer: Harry Alcock, Ayush Kapila, Alice Nutbourne. 

Voting will run from from 10am on Thursday 26th April to 5pm on Friday 27th - a link to vote will be emailed to your King's account before voting opens and this is what you will use to vote.  

Voting/campaign rules: 

1) No laptop campaigning - voting must occur privately on personal or library computers without coercion
2) No usage of the KCL email system for campaigning
3) Postering should be reasonable in its delivery- no visual spamming of student areas, no large banners
4) Smear tactics are unacceptable

The winners of the election will be announced at the SMEC/MedSoc AGM on Friday at 6pm in the NEW HUNTS HOUSE Lecture Theatre 2 - please note this is a change from the venue on posters - which you are strongly advised to attend.  FInd out how SMEC/MedSoc run, what we've been doing behind the scenes, how we've spent the money we had and have made this year, and what will be going on with the SMEC/MedSoc merger for 2013/14.  

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN!

Join the committee of MedSoc 2012/13.

See the Nominations tab for more info.  

Be you celebrating the end of year 1/2 lectures, letting off steam pre-revision for your iBSc (or BSc!), or pre-emptively starting your next rotation as you mean to go on, this FREE event at Guy's Bar is the only place to be this Friday 13th April.  See you there...

UPDATE:

‎2665 votes cast
Abstentions 14
'No' votes 147
'Yes' votes 2504

SUCCESS!

VOTE YES!

Vote ‘YES’ in the referendum and save GKT/KCLMS sports teams from an uncertain future and the danger of forced mergers with King’s teams.  
Should KCLSU continue to support separate KCLMS and KCL sports clubs? 
YES!

A ‘YES’ vote, secures places in clubs and teams for more players and upholds a long tradition of friendly rivalry and healthy competition, respecting the roots of both the Medical and non-Medical schools at King’s.  

See both sides of the argument at: www.kclsu.org/sportvote

This week is SHAG (Sexual Health And Guidance) Week, and Sexpression are bringing you the Drag and Queens Sports Night, plus there'll be trillions of chances to vote YES in the sports referendum.  Click attending here:  http://www.facebook.com/events/312419428794853/

GKT Halfway Dinner Tickets ON SALE NOW from this site until 10th February only - so hurry!

See the Halfway Dinner link above for more details.

The National Orthopaedic Workshop

Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College, London

Saturday 28th January 2012, 9am - 5pm

It's not often we praise our friends at Imperial, but this looks pretty good, and us admitting that is news in itself!

Rush of Adrenaline now yours for the taking: ADRENALINE is here.

From the people who brought you 999, UH medgroup introduce "Adrenaline" - THE clubbing event to kick off the new year! Set in Tiger Tiger, one of the best clubbing experiences London has to offer, it promises to be an evening of epic proportions. So yet again, let the competition begin to see which London Medschool will sell the most tickets - who will be the best (or how do we show that GKT inevitably is)?

Tickets now available from: http://www.kclsutickets.com/eventinfo/1251/UH-Adrenaline

JINGLE RAG A ROARING SUCCESS

They've only gone and bloody well done it!

The first collection day (plus afterparty) in this academic year's RAG efforts have raised a phenomenal £16196.05.

This was due to brilliant efforts from 131 RAGgers, this years committee and everyone who turned up to celebrate into the night - so well done to you all.

The fantastic charities that RAG is supporting this year (Medicinema, The Evelina Children's Hospital, The Neonatal Unit at St Thomas' Hospital and selected charities represented by some incredibly worthy student activity groups) should be pretty happy with that and will no doubt be eagerly awaiting a similarly succesful RAG week, from Monday 6th February 2012 (be there, or be rubbish).

Well done RAG!

JOIN US!

THIRD YEAR MEDIC OR ABOVE?

PERSONABLE? PRACTICAL?

APPROACHABLE? KEEN?

PASSIONATE ABOUT ALL THINGS GUY'S, KING'S & ST THOMAS' AS WELL AS MEDICAL STUDENT WELFARE?

GKT NEEDS YOU!

TO BE MEDSOC’S

MEDICAL ALUMNI & WELFARE OFFICER

To nominate yourself please send your name, year of study, picture and a manifesto of no more than 300 words to:

GKTmedsoc.elections@gmail.com

NOMINATIONS OPEN:

9am MON 28TH NOV – 5pm FRI 2ND DEC

HELP CHOOSE YOUR NEW WELFARE OFFICER –

VOTE BY EMAIL

9am MON 5TH DEC – 5pm FRI 9TH DEC

Here's the Facebook event just to remind you!

URGENT Without separate teams, we;d have no Macadam Cup!

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE this Tuesday for the safety of GKT/KCLMS teams!

The KCLSU Members' Meeting (if you're a King's student, you're a member and therefore eligible to attend) is taking place on Tuesday 15th November, 2011 6pm-8pm in Lecture Theatre B5 at the Waterloo Campus. At this meeting, there will be a discussion and vote on whether to have a referendum about merging of GKT teams with the rest of King's. 

A referendum would allow a definitive decision, once and for all, as to whether merging of the teams happens or not. This is our chance to make it clear that we are NOT for merging and that GKT/KCLMS teams wish to remain independent from the Strand teams. 

A good turn out at this meeting means we can vote in favour of a referendum taking place (rather than the motion being ignored by those with no interest in GKT matters) in order for us to get some lasting safety from the lingering threat of merging. Merging means fewer places for medics, dentists and health sciences students on university sports teams and it also means NO MACADAM CUP!

So please, please make it down to Waterloo on Tuesday night and get this matter put to the vote so we can sort it out and save ourselves from merging once and for all. Democracy and all that.

The event page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276689295705916

NEED A DOLLAR?

MedSoc Sponsorship Request Forms may be the answer!

If you're involved in a sports club or society that you would like MedSoc to sponsor, then the time is upon you to get thinking about your application. Sponsorship Request Forms on Sponsorship tab.  Email or speak to a member of MedSoc for more details.

In other news, the MedSoc team are hard at work upping representation for the medical school and Guy's Campus students, more news to follow as we have answers for you.

Fear not, Freshers' Week was not the end...literally (well, nearly literally) trillions of fantastic events in the pipelines for you from the warm fuzzies at MedSoc...stay tuned!