JDN-NEWSLETTER-ISSUE02-2013

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Junior Doctors‟ Network
P1 / JDN MEETING, BALI
This year‟s annual WMA
Council took place in Bali,
Indonesia, April 4th
-6th
. JDN
members present met one
day prior to the council.
P2 / ENVIRONMENTAL CAUCUS
at World Medical Association
194th
Council Session, Bali,
Indonesia.
MEETING REPORT: IFMSA MM13
Baltimore,Maryland, United
States of America,
9-11 March 2013.
P3 / JDN MEETS AT WHO
GENERAL SECRETARIAT
prior to the annual World Health
Assembly
INSEAD LEADERSHIP COURSE
Singapore 2013, organized by
the World Medical Association.
P4,5 / JDN AUSTRALIA
The AMACDT is the primary
advocacy group for junior
doctors, a subdivision within
the larger Australian Medical
Association (AMA).
JDN WEBSITE UP!
Important JDN specific discussions where
a strategic plan to reach out to Junior
Doctors around the world to get them
more involved within our network. Jennifer
Meloche (Canada) kindly agreed to
coordinate this joint effort. Based upon the
previous Council meetings in Sydney and
Prague it is also obvious that many JDN
members lack the time and resources to
join to JDN meetings per year, it was
agreed to focus on the General Assembly
as the main annual meeting, however to
keep building the council as an important
working meeting. Various JDN members
reported on their activities since the last
meeting.
Current key JDN projects
1. A white paper on Physicians
Wellbeing
The current status of the project was
presented. Currently the steering
committee is finalizing the first draft that
will head out for review soon.
2. Global Survey on Postgraduate
Medical Education
Jean Marc Bourque (Canada) proposed a
project to do a global survey on
Postgraduate Medical Education. The draft
survey form and technical details were
extensively discussed during the meeting.
The working group aims to consult with
experts and will send out the final survey
shortly.
3. Global Health and it„s ethical
implications
A new policy paper on global Health and
it„s ethical implications was proposed.
JDN consulted with WMA and WMA-
members. It was decided that the most
practical approach will be to have a draft
paper ready by the WMA General
Assembly in Fortaleza Brazil and to table
it during the associate members meeting
to be submitted to the general assembly.
Further activities during the entire WMA
meeting were liaising with various WMA
officials and meeting attendants. We had
a very productive meeting with the WMA
president elect to talk about upcoming
plans for the next year.
Important JDN specific discussions where a strategic plan to
reach out to Junior Doctors around the world to get them more
involved within our network.
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Acknowledgements
Junior Doctors Network
Meeting, WMA Council
Session, Bali, Indonesia
This year‟s annual WMA Council took place in Bali,
Indonesia April 4th-6th. JDN members present met one day
prior to the council for a face to face meeting and
preparations of the meeting.
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Baltimore,
Maryland,
United States of America
9-11 March 2013
(IFMSA Alumni Meeting);
9-15 March 2013
(Full IFMSA Meeting)
Environmental Caucus at World Medical
Association 194th
Council Session, Bali,
Indonesia.
Background: In April 2012, the
Environmental Caucus was set up on the
initiative of the Korean, British Medical
Associations and Peter Orris. This caucus is
an informal coalition of medical associations
focusing on environmental and health issues.
The Environmental Caucus conducted a
survey during the WMA Conference in
Bangkok, Thailand to assess WMA‟s green
policies and its implementation within its
membership. The results will be used as
guidelines for further actions and WMA
activities.
Out of 103 organizations, 13 members
replied or 13.3% including 2 associate
members.
The four (4) policies included in the survey
are:
Myanmar Medical Association, Young
Doctor Society sent its two members
namely, Dr. Thandar Soe and Dr. Zin Min
Thet Lwin to attend INSEAD Leadership
Communication Course- Singapore 2013,
organized by World Medical Association at
INSEAD Asia Campus, 1 Ayer Rajah
Avenue, Singapore in January 2013. It was
5 day training course attended by total of 32
persons from 21 different countries. The
course also has been marked as 1st
international training for members of
Myanmar Medical Association, Young
Doctor Society since it has been founded
within 1 year duration. The opening speech
was given by Dr. Cecil B. Wilson; WMA
president at Welcome Dinner on January
13, 2013.
Some of the eminent speakers are Dr.
Otmar Kloiber, Leah Wapner, Dr. Yank D.
Coble and Michael Bonning. Throughout
the 5 days, speakers delivered the some of
the following topics; Ourselves, Our
Individual Organizations and Countries,
Leadership Communication for Physicians
& Media Training, Negotiation Skills for
Complex Situations, Social Media &
Physicians, The Long Walk to Quality &
Patient Safety and delegates were actively
participated.
IFMSA is the world‟s largest medical students‟ organization, representing nearly 1 million medical students in 95
countries around the world, represented through over 100 national member organizations (NMOs). The World Medical
Association Junior Doctors‟ Network (WMA JDN) remains closely connected to the work of the IFMSA, as many of the
WMA JDN members are alumni of the IFMSA, and JDN is recognized by the IFMSA as the “next step” following
graduation as a medical student in order to remain connected to global health policy work and forum provided through
international physicians‟ bodies. As a stepping stone between the IFMSA and the WMA it was important for JDN
members to attend the recent meeting.
Report on the
Environmental
Caucus
Meeting report – 2013 March Meeting
(MM 13) of the International
Federation of Medical Students‟
Associations (IFMSA) and IFMSA
Alumni
The results will be used as guidelines for
further actions and WMA activities.
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1. Role of Physicians in Environmental Issues – October
2006
2. Reducing the Global Burden on Mercury – October 2008
3. Delhi Declaration on Health and Climate Change –
October 2009
4. Environmental Degradation and Sound Management of
Chemicals – October 2010
Results of the survey showed that members are active in the Role
of Physician in environmental issues. The members are also
active and dynamic when it comes to its participation on issues of
climate change. When it comes to mercury and management of
chemicals, half of the association surveyed indicated that they are
not active in said issues.
Highlight of the Environmental Caucus:
1. To see future possibilities to collaborate with World
Health Organization (WHO) on funding to do research
on environmental issues.
2. To encourage World Medical Journal publications on
Environment topics and the use of green energy.
3. To study and consider writing resolutions to further the
cause of environmental protection in relation to climate
change and the use of green energy.
JDN-Meets at WHA General Secretariat prior to World Health Assembly
Topics discussed at the meeting where ongoing
JDN projects on Physicians Wellbeing –
especially working conditions related factors
around the globe – and the Global
Environmental Scan on Postgraduate Medical
Education. Furthermore participants learned
and discussed about WMA and WHO structures
in preparation for the General Assembly.
Following the meeting participants took part in
WHA as WMA observers. Besides the main
WHA meeting numerous side events focused on
various topics.
Notably a WMA side event lunching the new
WMA’s Influenza Immunization Campaign.
Junior Doctors from three
continents met at the WHA GS in
Ferney-Voltaire for two days prior
to participating in the annual World
Health Assembly, the annual WHO
meeting.
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Dr. Eugene Tordecilla
Macalinga
Occupational Medicine
The majority of the work undertaken by the JDN focused largely on the parallel IFMSA alumni meeting, held for currently practicing physicians who were
formerly heavily involved with IFMSA as members of the IFMSA‟s executive board or NMO executive committee members. Many of these members
remain involved in global health and have taken on academic positions. For the purposes of recruitment, therefore, participants at the alumni meeting
were heavily recruited.
Overall objectives in JDN‟s attendance at the meeting were therefore:
– Participation in the organization and planning of the IFMSA alumni meeting section, with specially prepared JDN sessions targeted to inform,
recruit, and raise the visibility of JDN and JDN‟s activities among this key population
– Meetings with high level current IFMSA executive board members to further solidify the linkages between IFMSA and WMA JDN and the
ongoing recognition of WMA JDN as the successor organization for interested IFMSA alumni
– Promotion of the WMA JDN‟s activities to other IFMSA GA participants / current medical students
– Liaison with Dr. Cecil Wilson, current president of the World Medical Association, as well as other key WMA partners to continue promoting the
JDN within the WMA
Dr. Lawrence Loh
Past-Deputy Chair, JDN
IFMS A ALU MN I ME ET IN G – P REPA RAT IO N
In preparation for the IFMSA alumni meeting, Dr. Lawrence Loh (deputy chair, WMA JDN, 2011-12)
was assigned to provide a voice for the JDN on the alumni meeting committee. This committee
consisted of the current IFMSA Alumni Support Division Director, two immediately past IFMSA Alumni
Support Division Directors, a representative from the MM13 organizing committee, various support staff,
and the representative from the Junior Doctors Network.
Planning for the meeting began approximately six months in advance, with a proposal written by the
committee for a program and schedule. Together with dedicated sessions to advance the discussions
about JDN, other proposals included discussions about the IFMSA alumni network structure, research
symposia, keynote speakers and addresses. Numerous social and informal networking opportunities
were built in to the meeting as well.
Specific to JDN sessions, JDN was given approximately two half-days with which to present work. Part
of the presentation would be a basic introduction to the JDN. There were plans to have wider discussion
groups on some of the work that the JDN has been involved with that had specific relevance to a wider
alumni meeting. Despite these intentions, approximately one week prior to the actual meeting, it was
identified that actual materials for the JDN sessions had not yet been sought from the current
committee. This was quickly rectified and some presentations as well as plans for focus group
discussions were quickly identified and put together.
Dr. Wilson was invited as a keynote speaker for the alumni meeting in view of his attendance and a
further attempt to bolster the visibility of the WMA JDN. Finally, plans were also made to engage the
current IFMSA student body by having Lawrence Loh speak at the opening ceremony and provide a bit
of background about the WMA JDN in his opening address.
Over the two day weekend session, approximately 25-30 IFMSA alumni from all over the world
attended the sessions put together by the IFMSA Alumni Committee. These included a mix of general
welcoming / IFMSA alumni network sessions, WMA JDN information sessions and discussion groups,
and talks both from alumni sharing their research and work as well as keynote speakers (Dr. Cecil
Wilson and Dr. Predrag Stocic.) Representatives of the WMA JDN who were in attendance included
Xaviour Walker, past-chair, JeanMarc Bourque, current deputy chair, Caline Mattar, membership
coordinator, Kostas Roditis, publications coordinator and Lawrence Loh, past-deputy chair. Due to
scheduling issues and delays WMA JDN sessions were truncated and ultimate discussion groups were
not held. That said, the sessions that were held were well received, as was Dr. Loh‟s opening address.
1. In the future, there should be a clear coordinator for the content working alongside the
coordinator for the logistics on the alumni meeting. This will ensure that any time that is
provided to the JDN will be well used to showcase the work of the JDN
2. Membership requirements need to be streamlined to make it easy for interested people to
quickly join and get involved; this would make it easier to recruit at future meetings of this
nature.
3. Attendance at future IFMSA meetings is critical for future JDN chair, deputy-chair etc. in order
to solidify the relationship between IFMSA, WMA JDN, and the wider WMA as the logical
succession path for interested IFMSA alumni
4. WMA JDN logistic personnel should advocate more strongly for less formal sessions and
more informal networking opportunities in IFMSA alumni meetings, while fairly recognizing
that IFMSA alumni meetings are very much the purview of IFMSA and their Alumni Director.
IFMS A ALU MN I ME ET IN G – O UTC O ME
REC O MMEN DAT IO NS
Dr. Thorsten Hornung
Chair, JDN
Dr. Wunna Tun
INSEAD
Leadership
Communication
Course
Singapore
2013
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G‟day from Australia! I would like to introduce
myself as Dr Sarah Gamboni, the new
Australian Medical Association Council of
Doctors in Training (AMACDT)
Representative for the World Medical
Association Junior Doctors‟ Network. I would
like to sincerely thank our outgoing
representative, Dr Ross Roberts-Thomson,
who recently stood down from this role.
The AMACDT is the primary advocacy group
for junior doctors in Australia and is a
subdivision within the larger Australian
Medical Association (AMA); the peak
representative group for doctors in Australia.
The AMA provides a strong voice in
influencing government health policy at a
state and national level, as well as liaising
with hospitals and medical schools to ensure
safe and fair working environments for
doctors and their patients in Australia.
From a junior doctor perspective, there are
currently a number of issues on the
AMACDT agenda. The most pertinent of
these is the workforce issue relating to the
medical training pathway. Approximately a
decade ago the Australian government
projected that insufficient doctors were being
trained in Australia to meet community
demand. Ashort-sighted decision was made
to found a number of new medical schools
and increase medical student enrolments. No
plan was put in place as to how these new
medical graduates would be trained or where
they would work in their obligatory intern year
or how they would undertake specialty
training.
As background, the current situation is that
after finishing medical school in Australia,
new graduates must undertake a one year
internship in an approved training post in
order to become a doctor with full
registration. Failure to complete an internship
results in a medical student being unable to
gain unrestricted registration and therefore
practice medicine.
As a result of rapidly increasing medical
graduate numbers we now have insufficient
internship places available to accommodate
the entire graduating cohort of medical
students. Subsequently, doctors who are
second and third year out of medical school
are also having difficulty finding jobs and
gaining entry into specialty training programs
as a result of this surplus in the junior doctor
workforce.
 29th International Congress of the
Medical Women’s International
Association (MWIA)
July 31th – August 3rd, 2013 in Seoul,
Korea
http://www.mwiaseoul2013.org/
 Junior Doctors Network Meeting
October 14th – 15th, 2013 in
Fortaleza, Brazil (pre-GA meeting)
WMA General Assembly October
16th
– 19th
, 2013 in Fortaleza, Brazil
 EJD Autumn Meeting 2013
November 8th
– 9th
, 2013 in Heidelberg,
Germany
 9th
World Conference on BIOETHICS,
MEDICAL ETHICS & HEALTH LAW
November 19th
– 21st
, 2013 in Naples,
Italy
http://www.isas.co.il/bioethics2013/
 EJD Spring Meeting 2014
May 9th
– 10th
, 2014 in Hajdúszoboszló,
Hungary
 Junior Doctors Network Meeting
April 23th
, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan
197th WMA Council Session April
2014 24th
– 26th
, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan
 World Health Assembly 2014
May 19th – 24th, 2014 in Genève,
Switzerland
Save the date! Upcoming
meetings in 2013 & 2014
Junior Doctors
Network – Report
from Australia
Failure to complete an internship results in a
medical student being unable to gain
unrestricted registration and therefore practice
medicine.
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”This myopic workforce planning has led to the development of the Health Workforce Australia
(HWA) 2025 report, http://www.hwa.gov.au/health-workforce-2025, which models medical
workforce supply and demand out to2025. Currently, a National Medical Training Advisory
Network (NMTAN)is being created by HWA to assist in coordinating a more effective medical
training pathway.
With the support of the AMA, the AMACDT is communicating with government and hospital
administration regarding the importance of making necessary changes in order to utilize this
growing workforce, create more jobs for junior medical staff and create the highly trained
workforce that Australia needs. Tasks include creating and funding appropriate clinical rotations
and improving and providing clinical supervision to ensure quality postgraduate specialist training.
In addition, the AMACDT is working tirelessly to halt the building of more medical schools and the
increased enrolment of medical students.
Other issues being addressed by AMACDT include promoting generalism in the medical workforce
rather than sub-specialization due to the fear of the loss of general medical and surgical skills,
involvement in developing funding models for teaching, training and research and discussion
regarding quality of postgraduate training and support for doctors working in rural and
underserviced environments.
I look forward to hearing any reports of similar situations around the globe and further discussions
in the future.
Dr Sarah Gamboni
Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors in Training (AMACDT) Representative for the
World Medical Association Junior Doctors‟ Network
JDN Website up!
With the support of WMA, the JDN website was opened on 26th of March.
There are seven sections which include the following: “about us”, “members”,
“policies/publications”, and etc. in English, French and Spanish versions.
All the activity materials and meeting information are being updated regularly by
Hyunyoung Deborah Shin, Communications Director of JDN.
>> YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE AT:
https://www.wma.net/en/80junior_doctors/10about_us/index.html
AND CHECK TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN JDN.
WELCOME TO JDN NEWEST MEMBERS!
JDN welcomes our new members from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
Croatia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, Malta, Palestine,
Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Uganda and United Arab
Emirates in 2013.
Join the group of
Junior Doctor Network of
World Medial Association
Contact:
chair.jdn@wma.net
jdn@wma.net