Another great talk for the second half of day 1! Ms Deepa Bose gave a fascinating insight into her experiences with practising and teaching medicine in less developed countries.

An incredibly helpful talk up next by Dr Frances Ledesma @francesjledesma - she shared her top tips for compiling a strong CST portfolio!

Our final session of day 1! Here we have our parenthood panel with Ms Nagina Subrati, Miss Whitburn, Ms Nina Mistry, Mr Ali Esmaeili Dr.Ali Esmaeili & Ms Tharsika Myuran - they discussed how to balance the workload of being a surgeon and a parent!

Day 2 of the conference has begun!! Check out our twitter page for all the exciting things that happened yesterday 🎉🎉

First talk of day 2! Dr Alex Ashman discussing how to deal with inequality in surgery - Alex currently runs the Women in ENT Surgery UK and the Pride in Surgery Forum! Alex Ashman

Next up is our speed mentoring circuit! Thank you so much to all our mentors who answered all our delegates questions and gave them a taste of what a surgeon life is like!!

Our 2nd talk of the day is a very important talk on innovation in surgery - Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram introduced the use of virtual reality in surgery (a very modern and exciting new area of surgical performance & training!) Proximie Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM

Part 2 of our Innovation in Surgery talk - Dr Theodora Papavasiliou showed us how 3D printing can be used within surgery & create patient precise equipment! Dr Theodora Papavasiliou Stelth

Here we have our exciting basic suturing workshop!! Our delegates (and some committee members) practising the simple interrupted suture - with help from the professionals!

Here we have our very exciting workshop by Gemma Batten Gemma who works on incorporating digital art in surgery 🤩🤩

Our final workshop of the day! Advanced suturing on pig trotters - this was definitely a highlight and allowed our delegates to put their surgery skills to the test!

Our final talk of the day! Rewards, mistakes and mortalities - Professor McNally explored the mistakes she’s made in her career and how she overcame them!

And that’s a wrap! Thank you so much to our amazing team and all the doctors who came to make this an amazing conference - and of course our delegates, we hope you enjoyed 🎉🎉

Proud to have been part of organising the UCL Women in Surgery Conference 2022💕! Thanks to all delegates for coming and doctors for their insights in the challenges, cultures and concepts in surgery. This wouldn’t have been possible without such an amazing team!! 🙌🥳UCL Women in Surgery

So honoured to have been the Conference Director for the 2022 National UCL Women in Surgery Conference 🎉 Couldn’t have done it without my incredible co-chair and our wonderful team UCL Women in Surgery 💖

So honoured to have been conference director of the UCL Women in Surgery conference 2022. A huge thank you to all the incredible surgeons who attended(Simon Fleming 🛠 Deborah Eastwood, Ollie Burton Melanin Medics to name a few) my wonderful co-chair and brilliant team!

A few weeks ago a couple UCL med students from their WinS committee approached The Suture Hub for a little help with the suturing workshop at their 2023 conference. I offered my help. Yesterday in the post I received this WinS course tote bag and pen. I ❤️ course merchandise!👍🏽👏🏽

We are excited to announce our mentorship scheme! The chance for you to be mentored by a surgeon and gain insight into surgery as a woman with opportunities for research and shadowing! Spaces are limited so sign up now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🌟‼️ Calling all Women in Surgery! ‼️🌟 We need you for our Speed Mentoring Event at the award-winning UCL Women in Surgery (WinS) Conference! 📍UCL campus, Sunday 26th November Sign up link: forms.gle/1TAAkzaRUVQgjE… Certificates will be provided!

🎉 Tickets for the Women in Surgery Conference are now out! 🎉🎟️ Details: Nov 25 - 26th 2023 @ UCL East Campus studentsunionucl.org/whats-on/event… Keep up to date with the conference on our UCL WINS social media pages. We can't wait to see you there!