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AMSA International is holding a T-Shirt Design Competition!

This is an international competition that any AMSA medical student member can join!

Challenge:

Instructions:

1. Put those thinking caps on and design a T-Shirt

2. Create a jpg file of your design (<1 mb file size)

3. Sign up as a member on the AMSA International Website

4. Submit your design via the AMSA International Blog by March 1, 2010.

5. Designs will be voted on from April 2010.

6. The Winner will be announced shortly after!

Requirements for the T-shirt; it must have the:

• Official AMSA International logo
• Official AMSA International website address
• Any design that appropriate (not contains any inappropriate words and or pictures).

Prize:

• There will be a 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place, with each receiving a mystery prize.
• The design of the 1^st place will be printed out on 600 t-shirts and will be given to all delegates at AMSC 2010 for free!

Liked the recent EAMSC 2010 in Malaysia?

Well here's a foretaste of what else AMSA Conferences have to offer!

View the promotional video of AMSC 2010 in Jakarta here!

Imperial College School of Medicine Surgical Society would like to invite you to the first Technology in Medicine & Surgery Conference (TiMS) on 13th February 2010 at Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London.  This national and pan-disciplinary event aims to inspire the next generation of medical thinkers and innovators, and expose you to the frontiers of medical technology and invention.

We aim to bring together students from various interdisciplinary fields to collaborate and discuss ideas to improve healthcare in the UK. Through a series of lectures and innovation competitions, we hope to encourage and inspire those of you who may become the medical innovators of the future.

Registration

The event is FREE to attend. Please register as a delegate at https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/surgical-257/surgical-technology-in-medicine-surgery-tims-1763/.

Prize

To win the TiMS prize, teams are invited to present their original solutions to any medically or surgically related problem. They will be judged on the day by our panel of judges in a Dragons’ Den style competition. Please see below for more information on the competition.

By attending, you will have the opportunity to:

· Attend inspirational, cutting-edge lectures in medical and surgical innovation.

· Network with like-minded innovative students and professionals.

· Learn how to develop your ideas into reality, from patenting advice to design concepts from our lectures.

· Enter a team competition to showcase their solution to a current clinical need.

· Enter an on-the-day competition.

· Meet the professionals and their products at our innovation exhibition.

· Refreshments provided!

Team Competition Details

Step 1: Form a Team.

2-4 members per team. We recommend you form as diverse a team as possible. Students from ALL faculties are eligible including non-science subjects such as business, design and humanities.

Step 2. Identify a clinical problem

Make a statement of clinical need i.e. a problem currently unsolved in either medicine or surgery.

Step 3. Solve the problem

Propose a solution to the problem, from pharmaceutical or biological to mechanical and electronic. Ideas can be proof-of-concept, addressing the following aspects:

• originality
• cost of production
• ease of use
• materials used
• feasibility and safety
• aesthetic appeal and design

Check on patent databases such as Google patents to ensure your originality.

Submit abstracts of maximum 300 words in length by the deadline – January 29, 2010

Step 4. Present your Idea

Shortlisted ideas can be presented your solution as a 15-minute presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint) and 10 minutes for questions and answer from an expert panel of judges.

Step 5. Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the winners and runners-up at the end of the conference.