Tag: poverty

Changing the world

The focus of today is Community Health. As I said yesterday, I made notes on the whole course in 2012 – you can read about this day here. Today I’m just going to write about things that impacted me.

Ted Lankaster spoke first. Chatting to him at breakfast made me realise that we need to talk to InterHealth about vaccinations, because we leave in about 6 weeks now, and we still haven’t organised ours!

CMF Logo CMF Developing Health Course

For years now, I’ve had a real passion about Africa, and, also for years, I’ve been in training as a doctor. They are passions that have grown together, and my excitement about them overlaps.

I’ve also been a fringe member of CMF – the Christian Medical Fellowship – since my first year in medical school, and recently I discovered that they run an annual course entitled “Developing Health“. It seemed too good to pass on, so this summer I managed to corral the required annual and study leave, and am attending.