The goal of the BMFMS is to improve standards of pregnancy care and trainees have a vital role to play in achieving this. The two trainee representatives on the BMFMS committee endorse trainees’ views and promote ways in which the society can support their needs. The BMFMS can help provide support, training, mentorship, as well as funding for research and travel grants. The trainee representatives want to ensure trainees and medical students benefit from society membership, become fully involved in society activities and can contribute to its success.
The trainee representative play and active role in committee meetings and the organisation of the conference. They are also involved on an annual basis in the RCOG careers fair which provides junior doctors and medical students with the opportunity to explore the career opportunities afforded by obstetrics and gynaecology.
The trainee representatives are initially elected to a three year term of office. Any trainee who is a member of the BMFMS can stand for election in this position.
At present the trainee representatives are Dr Sarah Stock and Dr Kelly Cohen.
Sarah is currently working as a clinical lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests are laboratory and clinical studies to further the understanding of the role of infection and inflammation in preterm labour.
Kelly is in year 2 of a 3 year sub-speciality training post in feto-maternal medicine. Her research interest is prenatal diagnosis using array CGH and clonal sequencing and her clinical interests include fetal genetics and maternal HIV. IN a previous life she was a part time trainee but is now working full time.
If you wish to contact one of the trainee representatives directly about training issues then please email them on Sarah.stock@ed.ac.uk or K.E.Cohen@leeds.ac.uk