SUPPORT

THE CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION MEDICAL SCHOOL

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We need your help!

The Crisis Rescue Foundation (CRF) Medical School U.K. Elective Programme, which delivers entirely free medical education and peer support for all students, was established in April 2022 and has since received over 22,000 overwhelmingly positive feedback responses from students. We have had over 2000 students located all over the world registered so far.

We have been supported by a range of key stakeholders, including leading medical institutions, the U.K. Medical Schools Council; the BMA; the GMC; the Ukrainian Medical Association of the United Kingdom; Bogomolets National Medical University (Kyiv, Ukraine); The National Brain Appeal; Sudan U.K. doctors’ group; the Alzaiera Alazhari Faculty of Medicine (AAU F of M) of Sudan and the Medical Defence Union.

Our students, who are both trainee doctors and experienced specialists, are located globally, and have been detrimentally impacted and displaced by conflict and crises in their countries, including Ukraine and Sudan. Crisis Rescue Foundation Medical School U.K. Elective Programme has been supporting colleagues who have struggled to access medical education and peer support during these difficult times with two days of online lectures each week during term time, covering medical education, including undergraduate topics, PLAB teaching sessions, conflict zone medicine, as well as peer support and wellbeing sessions. In addition, CRF ran a well-received face to face PLAB training day at BMA House in March 2023 to support refugee doctors planning to work in the U.K., an in-person CRF Symposium in December 2023, and a PLAB training day is planned to take place in London in April 2024.

Crisis Rescue Foundation has also so far helped to arrange about 60 clinical placements for colleagues now in the U.K. , who have been studying and trained in countries currently in the midst of war and local crises but we want to grow this offer. We are issuing a "call to clinical arms" to all U.K. based clinical services to support our internationally trained colleagues now displaced to the U.K. who are experiencing a time of great upheaval, and to invite them to join any type of clinical setting for brief, clinical attachments. The offer can be flexible depending on what you are able to accommodate.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO FUND AND SUPPORT THE WORK THAT WE DO SO THAT WE CAN KEEP GOING AND RUN OUR 6TH TERM OF LECTURES!

Kind regards,

Dr Sharon Raymond GP

DIRECTOR CRISIS RESCUE FOUNDATION MEDICAL SCHOOL