Hi! I am Maheen Siddiqui, a second year medical student! I would love to be your Secretary for Surgical Society in the year 2024 – 2025!

Goals:-

Communication: relevant and effective

• Ensure a suitable time interval between newsletters to ensure that information is sent out regularly (but also not spamming your inbox!)
• Keep members up to date with appropriate ongoing discussions in meetings
• Create a safe environment receptive to feedback, transparency, accountability and open communication
• Make documents/guides to easily navigate society aspects
• Create a calendar or equivalent to ensure all event details are summarised and easily accessible

Understand what YOU want

• Give students the opportunity, platform and safe environment to give feedback, raise concerns and suggest ideas, so that initiatives and events can be planned to suit your needs
• Make sure that feedback and suggestions are taken on, sent to relevant people and acted upon
• Keep students up to date with what is being done to act on the feedback and suggestions
• Suggest new events (a few ideas up my sleeve….)
• Improve existing events based on your feedback

Timely and relevant responses

• Ensure that emails are replied to in a timely manner
• Responding to all emails with adequate and relevant information
• Creating an environment where students are comfortable asking questions, clarifying queries, suggesting ideas

Overall, I hope to maintain effective and relevant communication with all members and committee, introduce new events and initiatives and improve existing ones, and make sure your voices are heard and acted upon!

My Experiences:-

• Experience on committees:- 
  • Sports and Societies Liaison Officer of MSA (2023)
  • Academic Officer of Anatomy Society (2023)
  • President of Make A Smile (2023)
• Management of emails and messages
  • Sent emails to and followed up with 50+ societies for MSA Fresher’s Fair (2023)
  • Responded to any queries societies had about MSA Fresher’s Fair (2023)
  • Helped out with some dms in Anatomy Society (2023)
  • Timely responses to emails to Make A Smile – point of contact for volunteers and organisations alike (2023)
  • Created summary documents with all event details and other similar documents, which proved to be popular amongst members and committee (2023)
• Feedback, communication:- 
  • Year 2 QEH/UHL Rep (2023)
  • Year 1 SSLC Rep (2022)
  • Year 1 Overall MA tutor rep (2022)
• Working with staff:- 
  • Faculty 50 (2022 and 2023)
  • SSLCs (2022 and 2023)
• Teamwork:- 
  • Part of society committees (2023)
  • Served as President in Model United Nations (MUN)
• Introducing new events:-
  • Coined the Socademic (social + academic) event series in Anatomy Society (2023)
  • Coined the Mega Revision Series in Anatomy Society (2023)
  • Introduced teddy bear making into communities week (2023)
  • Helped out with Anatomy Society’s first-ever MaxFax conference (2023)
  • Organised stage 1 MedxDent Charity games (2022)
• Event organisation and management:-
  • Led general and clinical academic revision sessions in Anatomy Society (2023)
  • Helped out with Anatomy Society’s first-ever MaxFax conference (2023)
  • Organised MSA Fresher’s Fair for 50+ societies (2023)
  • Planned and organised GKT communities week (2023)
  • Organised and led trainings and socials as part of Make A Smile (2023)
  • Organised stage 1 MedxDent Charity games (2022)