Background

The idea for a public health 'mini-conference' in the Oxford area was first mooted in January 2008, and a proposal put to the local trainees' committee which can be downloaded below.

PH miniconference proposal (MS Word, 33.5kb)

In brief, it was proposed that every 4-6 months a small one-day conference is held in which all current public health trainees (Specialist/Specialty Registrars and Trainees) in the Oxford Deanery area present - either orally or as a poster - some of their recent work, with local public health consultants chairing themed sessions.

The potential benefits of this approach include:

• trainees regularly share their knowledge in public health specialities, and of local attachments, with each other
• scrutiny of presentations by colleagues, in preparation for other conferences, or submission as journal articles
• practising presenting skills, in preparation for MFPH exams, and professional presentations in the workplace
• amassing a collective 'memory' of work by local trainees, to be stored on a publicly-accessible website (here)

The first conference was organised by Dr Tom Porter, one of the Specialist Registrars on the scheme.

Read on for further details of the mini-conference date and venue, and programme.

 

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