The login facility to enter the BASEM members’ area has been moved from the Education page to the Members Benefits page. You can follow this link http://www.basem.co.uk/index-login.html or click on Members Benefits on the top left of the home page.
If your membership subscription is due for renewal in January 2012, notifications are currently been processed and sent out to you.
Members who renew their subscriptions by credit/debit card are able to do so via the members area. Follow this link to renew online http://www.basem.co.uk/index-login.html. If you are unsure of your login details e-mail amandaharwood@basem.co.uk or telephone 01302 822300 for confirmation. Alternatively, you can call 01302 822300 and pay over the telephone. Please remember to have your membership number to hand.
Members who renew their subscriptions by Direct Debit will receive a letter approximately 10 days prior to the payment request being made from their bank accounts.
Please do not renew by joining as a new member, as this will create an additional record for you on the membership database.
At the Annual General Meeting on 24th November 2011, the BASEM Executive proposed a 3% increase in membership subscription rates, with the exception of the Undergraduate Medical Student online only membership, which will remain the same. The increase was agreed and accepted by the meeting.
Such an increase in subscription rates has not taken place for the last 3 years, however, due to increased operating costs and production costs of the British Journal of Sports and Exercise Medicine, with regret, it was deemed appropriate to facilitate this.
Individuals who pay their annual membership fee by direct debit will continue to receive a 3% discount as this method of payment involves less administrative time and cost once set up.
The membership subscription rates for 2012 can be found at http://www.basem.co.uk/membership-benefitrs.shtml
Apologies to all those who have been emailing and calling excited about the launch of the new BASEM Education Level One and Level Two courses. We have been working hard to look at accreditation of these courses to provide a meaningful curriculum with assessment which sits within revalidation both of the GMC but also our associate members and others who might wish to attend, and the Level One course with Skills Active accreditation will start in early 2012. The curriculum for the Level Two is being worked on now and the first three 1 day courses will run through 2012 .
The curriculum will be online in the next week or so, and we will update on venue and location very soon
BASEM Executive Nominations
Position: BASEM Treasurer
Term of Office: 3 years (to commence 25/11/2011)
Purpose: To maintain an overview of BASEM’s financial affairs, ensuring its financial viability and ensuring that proper financial records and procedures are maintained.
General Responsibilities:
To be a Director
To commit to attending Executive Meetings (held 4 times per year)
To ensure that BASEM complies with its governing document (including pursuing its objects as defined therein), charity law, company law, and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
To ensure that BASEM’s resources are applied exclusively in pursuance of its objectives.
To contribute actively to the Executive Board’s role in giving firm strategic direction to BASEM, including setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets, and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
To safeguard the reputation and values of BASEM.
To ensure the effective and efficient administration of BASEM.
To ensure the financial stability of BASEM.
To protect and manage the property of BASEM, and to ensure the proper investment of its funds.
To contribute to the appointment and monitoring of the performance of the senior staff.
To work closely with the BASEM Office Manager in all aspects of the role.
Additional Responsibilities:
To oversee the presentation and approval of budgets, accounts and financial statements to the BASEM AGM and to the Executive Board.
To require assurance that the financial resources of BASEM meet its present and future needs.
To ensure the development of an appropriate reserves policy.
To ensure the development of an appropriate investment policy.
To ensure that there is no conflict between investments held and BASEM’s aims and values.
To monitor BASEM’s investment activity and ensure its consistency both with policy and with legal responsibilities.
To ensure that appropriate accounting procedures and controls are in place with the BASEM Office Manager.
To liaise with the BASEM Office Manager regarding finance and payroll staff about financial matters, and other staff as appropriate.
To advise on the financial implications of BASEM’s strategic plans.
To ensure BASEM’s compliance with financial legislation.
To ensure that the equipment and assets are adequately maintained and ensured through the BASEM Office Manager.
To oversee the preparation and disclosure of accounts as required by statutory bodies and by BASEM constitution.
To have responsibility that accounts are audited as required, and that audit recommendations are implemented.
To inform the Executive Board about its financial duties and responsibilities.
To contribute to BASEM’s fundraising strategy.
To provide brief and comprehensible presentations of the accounts, either verbally or in writing – e.g. AGM/Annual Report, in conjunction with the BASEM Office Manager.
Person Specification: General:
Ideally knowledge and experience of the voluntary and community sector and some knowledge of BASEM itself
Ability to offer commitment to BASEM
Willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
Strategic vision
Independent judgment
Ability to think creatively
Willingness to speak out
Ability to listen
Understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of an executive role
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team
Ability to work according to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: – selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
Role of Treasurer:
Financial experience and/or ideally financial qualifications
Experience of managing finance and and financial accountability
Skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences
Skills to analyse and interpret fairly complex financial data
Experience in budget-setting and monitoring
Ability to present financial information and make it understandable for non-finance people
Willingness and approachability to deal with enquiries from Executives and staff
Ability to make recommendations to the Executive Board based purely on sound financial advice
Position: BASEM Membership Secretary
Term of Office: 3 years(to commence 25/11/2011).
To be a Director of the Association
To commit to attending Executive Meetings (held 4 times per year)
To attend BASEM Exec Meetings and to report the activities of the membership secretary to the meeting.
To review membership number, trends & recruitment activity to the Executive, using membership data provided by the BASEM Office Manager
To review and develop BASEM’s relationships with academic institutions/such providers of postgraduate SEM MSc/Diplomas
To review and develop BASEM’s relationships with sporting organisations such as the FA, RFU, ECB, LTA etc.
To develop ways of identifying the needs of BASEM’s members by enhanced communication (analysis of Congress/Spring Meeting feedback forms, questionnaires etc.
To liaise with BASEM Office Manager, BASEM Education Officer, BASEM Sponsorship & Marketing Officer, to raise BASEM’s profile.
To network at other events, along with membership post holder, to raise the profile of BASEM at relevant meetings & exhibitions.
Position: BASEM Professional Relations Officer
Term of Office: 3 years(to commence 25/11/2011).
To be a Director of the Association
To commit to attending Executive Meetings (held 4 times per year)
Link on behalf of BASEM members, building good relations and in regular communication with all organisations involved with delivering research & training in all aspects of SEM.
Including, but not linked to:-
The FSEM, including SAC, STC’s, ISM (research).
Sports bodies: – UK Sports, Olympic movement (BOA, BPA, LOCOG, NGB’s)
Linking with Professional Sports bodies
Medical Defence Organisations
Universities – especially MSc in SEM.
Department of Health, NHS & Trusts
Other professions, eg; BASES, ACPSM.
Leading on issues pertinent to employment issues of members (exclusive of BMA role).
Define terms of such issues as indemnity, job plans & training in SEM.
Leading on 2012 reporting updates to BASEM Executive and maintaining links with relevant associated bodies.
Please Note:
Each member of the BASEM Executive does not receive remuneration, but receives reimbursement of reasonable expenses for attending Executive Meetings, Congress & Spring Meetings and other related meetings when representing BASEM
Dr Dan Siegel, author of Mindsight is to speak at UKSEM. We have asked him to apply his concepts to both the performance of elite athletes from a Coaching perspective and also the use of his concepts to improve exercISe adherence and in rehabilitation. Sure to be a huge success, he will also deliver a pre bookable workshop – details on website soon www.uksem.org
Biography
Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.
Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of theMindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes.
Dr. Siegel’s book, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Bantam, 2010), offers the general reader an in-depth exploration of the power of the mind to integrate the brain and promote well-being. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (Tarcher/Penguin, 2003) applies the mindsightapproach to parenting.
Dr. Siegel’s unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy-makers, and clergy. He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TedEx. He lives in Southern California with his family.
Take a look at some of his resources below
The BASEM Education Committee have given much though to the revised restructuring of the Education programme following the EMG of the 30th June 2011.
We have expanded the programme and will run the 1st Elements of Sport and Exercise Medicine Course very soon at venues in Wales and Manchester, programme will be released in July 2011
Level Two will follow in 2012 and Level Three in 2013. The course content will have oversight by a parent university but will stand separate form any MSc or Diploma courses.
The courses are 1 day and will move around the country regularly allowing a gradual build up of knowledge by delegates with the highest quality lectures and supplementary materials.
The Level Four Course – The Diploma Revision course is open for bookings and will be on the website to book next week.
Watch this space for the exciting news of a BASEM Advanced Team Physician Course
In response to the growing development of Sports and Exercise Medicine, and the widening curriculum, particularly in Exercise medicine – training crossover and integration of Fitness professionals and Strength and Conditioning coaches alongside physiotherapists – See recent post by CSP http://www.csp.org.uk/news/2011/05/24/csp-fitness-instructors-clarify-roles
The BASEM Executive and Education Committee decided to radically revamp the BASEM Courses. The old material will be there in the new courses but rather than commit to a full week long course run centrally , we will replace this with regionally run single day modules. The old courses although highly regarded unfortunately did not break even, and we as a members organisation have a responsibility to all our members for financial accountability
This all takes time, and the new 1 day introductory module will be ready soon and we aim to run the first course in Manchester with a second in Swansea in 2011. The New Level Two courses will cover the full breadth of the SEM and appeal to all, whether a Medical Student, StR, Physician, Surgeon, Consultant in SEM, GP, Physiotherapist, Conditioning Coach or School nurse… the list is inclusive.
The new curriculum is being developed as we speak by experienced educationalists and we are likely to partner with one or two universities so these modules would give some credit towards Diploma and MSc Courses in the future. We will run the first wave of these in 2012 and details will be posted as soon as we have them available.
The excellent Diploma Revision course led by Dr Eleanor Tillett is due to run again this year in Manchester and for those sitting the Faculty exam it is an invaluable chance to push yourself, pick up some gems, and prepare. Dates are 3rd and 4th September and more information available form the office, full details will be on the website very shortly.
We will continue to focus on the UKSEM Conference as the big push and last years GP Masterclass is still there in the conference but appears as pre bookable workshops, integrated in the main event rather than a stand alone package – you can dip in and out as you wish. Take advantage of the £300 early bird pricing which canot go on for ever!
Andy Franklyn-Miller
Chair BASEM EMG
We are delighted to announce the 20
11 Conference programme on the ASICS UKSEM site www.uksem.org
As you will see the programme remains a dual stream programme but this year there will run additional third strand sessions in a 3rd 350 seater lecture theatre, by our partners so even more choice.
Much has been upgraded and more details will flood the site soon including monthly announcements of Keynote speakers but with Prof Steven Blair, the author Daniel Coyle, and Head Coach of UKA, Charles van Commenee already announced it is an exciting line up.
The workshop programme will soon be announced where pre booking will allow you to plan your conference experience with the GP Masterclass programme of 2010 as workshops along with athlete, coach, practical and sport specific workshops too.
A UK Conference first is the instalment payments 6 x £50 payments gets full 4 days of conference and workshop access along with an opening reception.Look out for the Conference Gala Dinner too in aid of Help for Heroes, booking soon.
The UKADIS Malcolm Read Scholarship in Sport and Exercise Medicine
Following the amalgamation of UKADIS with BASEM at the end of 2005, the former board and membership of UKADIS generously decided that left over UKADIS funds be invested in the form of an annual professional development scholarship.
In honour of Malcolm’s outstanding contribution to Sport and Exercise Medicine, an annual scholarship has been established in his name. The award will provide financial assistance to support a BASEM member who wishes to undertake professional development in overseas centres of excellence. The idea is to reward work by a clinician, who, in the tradition of Malcolm Read, contributes to the practice of Sport and Exercise medicine by using practical/clinical experience to shape thinking within the field. The award is intended to be accessible to relatively small projects and studies which would not otherwise attract funding or a large audience. For example, it may be used for funding international travel for further study at a Centre of Excellence, providing medical cover for touring with international sports teams, clinically based research projects within the UK, educational projects within the UK, and other projects which fall into the general category of Clinical Sport and Exercise medicine.
This award is open to all BASEM members including Registrars and particularly GPs who have a paper to present. The award may be used for retrieving statistical information/mentoring/research support, as well as the option to travel to an educational centre of choice.
Judging Panel for Submissions
BASEM have set up a sub-committee, who now invite applications for the 2011 award. It is proposed that the fund will support an annual award of £1,500, with emphasis being placed on prospective clinical work within the field of SEM.
Application Criteria
1. The applicant must be a member of BASEM.
2. The application should include:-
- An introductory letter explaining the purpose and nature of the applicant’s body of work and their intended use of the UKADIS/Malcolm Read award money.
- A brief up-to-date curriculum vitae, including all necessary contact details (postal address, telephone number and e-mail address).
- Documentation presenting and explaining the applicant’s body of work, sufficient that the committee do not require further verbal or written explanation in order to assess its merits.
3. The application must be sent by e-mail to the BASEM Central Office – amandaharwood@basem.co.uk by the following closing date:-
12.00 noon on Monday 31st October 2011
Results Notification Criteria
- The successful and unsuccessful applicants will be informed by e-mail and letter.
- The successful applicant will be asked to present the findings of their work at the 2012 UKSEM Conference and also to submit a final report and receipts on the subsequent use of their award money.
E-mail your application to:-
By 12.00 noon on Monday 31st October 2011