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Medical Students Committee annual report 2007

• Now and the future: MSC has worked to improve students’ educational experience and their welfare whilst at medical school, as well as influencing longer term policy development. This has included preparing for and inputting into Modernising Medical Careers and the Foundation Programme. The implementation of Modernising Medical Careers has heralded huge changes in post-graduate training. MSC has taken an active part in those groups and committees developing the Foundation Programmes. Our aim has been to ensure that transition into postgraduate training is as smooth as possible and that the views of medical students have been strongly represented.
• Improving our communication: This has been one of our main priorities for the 2006-07 Session. It is essential that students know what the MSC is doing for them and that we get feedback from students about their needs and concerns. We have worked to improve our communication with medical students. We have produced Focus on.. guidance notes to help give clear information about issues relevant to medical students, as well as producing our MSC Newsletter on a more regular basis. We have also worked to improve our communication within the committee and between the committee and our Intra School Committees (ISC), communicating more regularly. We have introduced a training programme for the committee and organised a one-day conference for ISCs and the BMA’s regional Employment Advisers to help share information and produce a ‘toolkit’ of information for their use in their work with medical schools. There is always room for improvement but I believe we have made a good start in reaching students and listening to their views.
• Removing barriers to equality: We have been looking at barriers to equality in all aspects of medical training and working on ways of tackling discrimination in all its guises.