past conferences - 2024
From the stage
A plethora of speakers took to the podium at the BIDA national conference, detailing everything from the organisation’s history to the intrinsic need to embed compassion into health. Female contraception breakthroughs, managing diabetes and cardio-metabolic disease, and injectable therapies that go beyond statins were also aired from the stage.
Panel beats the drum for international doctors
Why are there such inequalities in medical education and in particular, much poorer outcomes for non-white students?
That was just one of the areas a panel of medical directors took at the BIDA conference – as they debated diversity in leadership roles, the ethnicity pay gap and the differential treatment of international doctors.
A warmer welcome for our doctors
A warmer welcome for our doctors
Breakout sessions at the BIDA conference covered everything from using patient pronouns to a welcome to colleagues that amounts to more than a 15-minute hello! The addressing stigma session concluded that patients must be seen, heard and acknowledged regardless of their sexuality or gender.
Guest lecture
Women's health, not left on the shelf
Women's health, not left on the shelf
Professor Tjeerd Van Staa used new research to call on delegates to the BIDA annual conference to become sensible stewards in a bid to beat antimicrobial resistance.
Using data gathered pre, during and post COVID, the Manchester University academic claimed, “we dispense other medication where it is needed most – but not with antibiotics
Professor Tjeerd Van Staa used new research to call on delegates to the BIDA annual conference to become sensible stewards in a bid to beat antimicrobial resistance.
Using data gathered pre, during and post COVID, the Manchester University academic claimed, “we dispense other medication where it is needed most – but not with antibiotics.” Too often he said, they were given out to “frequent fliers” citing the case of a young child who was given twelve courses in the last two years, leading to a serious risk of resistance.
Women's health, not left on the shelf
Women's health, not left on the shelf
Women's health, not left on the shelf
Whilst women live longer than men, they do so in poorer health, particularly when they come from BAME backgrounds.
That was the point made by a series of speakers as statistics showed huge discrepancies between breast cancer screening – with white British women attending 67% of their appointments while just 43% of Bangladeshi females went
Whilst women live longer than men, they do so in poorer health, particularly when they come from BAME backgrounds.
That was the point made by a series of speakers as statistics showed huge discrepancies between breast cancer screening – with white British women attending 67% of their appointments while just 43% of Bangladeshi females went to theirs’.
Dr Anita Sharma also outlined her work with the new Endometriosis Awareness North campaign.