The Careers Close Up series gives you access to learn about different healthcare careers first hand, and an opportunity to ask all the questions you want to! This is a free webinar for anyone interested in that field.

Each month we’ll invite a professional from a different discipline to speak about the journey and give you advice.

For the month of March, Dr Rayma Risquet will discuss Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

The Careers Close Up series gives you access to learn about different healthcare careers first hand, and an opportunity to ask all the questions you want to! This is a free webinar for anyone interested in that field.

Each month we’ll invite a professional from a different discipline to speak about the journey and give you advice.

For the month of February, Dr Emma Amoafo-Mensah will discuss Dermatology.

Join us for our first Meet Up of the year!

We’ll be painting our own pottery whilst making new friends! We’ll have food and drinks too!

This is your opportunity to meet other like minded healthcare professionals whilst having fun and getting creative!

Your ticket includes all you need: different pottery, all you need to paint, food & drink.

This event is FREE for HoM Partners!

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We held a conference for year 9-13 students who are considering a career in healthcare. The morning consisted of lectures from renowned plastic surgeon, Ms Joy Odili, celebrity dentist Dr Kevin Dapaah and media GP Dr Veena Babu.

After lunch, the students had a choice of workshops lead by experts, including interview prep, mental health careers, midwifery & nursing and dentistry.

Girls Glow Ghana was our first female empowerment day, hosting over 200 female students at Comboni Technical Institute. We taught basic hygiene, hand hygiene, dental hygiene, menstrual hygiene and sexual health.

Most importantly, we opened a sanitary products bank so that the students can have access to products at school whilst menstruating. Many girls are unable to attend school during their monthly periods because they don’t have access to appropriate hygiene products. We hope to be able to change this through the bank.

The MedAdvance conference was a gathering of students, doctors, dentists, nurses, academics and other allied healthcare professionals who are passionate about improving the healthcare system in Africa. The focus was innovation, quality improvement and leveraging technology to improve health outcomes.

We were honoured to have two keynote speakers – Professor Alfred Yawson and Dr Yvette Appiah, who spoke on the importance of research and how to advocate for your patients, respectively. We also heard from Touch of Hope NGO Research Nexus and Dr DoGood.

Our founder, Dr Emma hosted a brunch for aspiring dermatologists to learn more about the journey to becoming a dermatologist, and how to maximise your chances of getting entry into this competitive specialty.

The brunch was held at the British Association of Dermatologists HQ and kindly sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb.

Soundminds x Strong Girl presents: Wellness in Action to celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month powered by House of Medic. This year, the theme was "Movement". We had some incredible speakers lined up who helped get our mindset right, we also had a Strong Girl session to get us all moving!

Line up for the day:

- Candid conversation with Jayde Edwards, mental health advocate & youth activist

- Live interview with Tereza Antunes, lululemon athlete & content creator

- Panel with mental health professionals

- Your choice of a Strong Girl workout or Breathwork class

- Smoothies & snacks from some of our favourite wellness brands

- A goodie bag to take away

We’re back with another Meet Up! Another opportunity to meet new people, network and become a part of the family!

We’ve got a private dining room in Soho Inamo Games Room where we’ll be eating gourmet pan-Asian tapas, whilst catching up over games and drinks. The games room has a PS5, retro games, Wii, Apple TV and karaoke for us to enjoy.

Your ticket includes game time, food and drinks! It’s FREE for HoM Partners.

We had a lot of fun at our first meet up of the year! It was so nice to meet new healthcare professionals, network and grow the family!

The House of Medics Skin of Colour Dermatology Conference was a day of learning from experts in dermatology. In honour of black history month, we gathered doctors, students, nurses, aestheticians, skin enthusiasts and more to learn more about dermatological conditions in skin of colour.

Lectures given included:

• More than Skin Deep: The value of cultural competence in medical consultations by Dr Chiedu Ufodiama

• Atopic Dermatitis in Skin of Colour by Dr Anastasia Petrova, PhD

• Cosmetic solutions for managing dermatological conditions in Skin of Colour by Emma Kamara-Sesay

• Colourism, and what every dermatologist should know by Dr Emma Amoafo-Mensah

• What you should know about Afro-textured hair and hair loss by Dr Yemi Bello

• Keynote Lecture by Dr Marisa Taylor, Consultant Dermatologist

This event was sponsored by Sanofi who have no input into the content or organisation of this event.

We are delighted to partner with Skin For All by Naabil Khan, third year medical student at the University of Exeter and activist for representation and diversity in healthcare and medical education. Skin For All is an online educational platform that represents the most commonly seen skin conditions on various skin tones.

This sickle cell awareness month, we came together to donate blood and raise awareness of sickle cell disease. We took some of our members to give blood and in partnership with Black Blood UK, produced a series of educational content on the importance of blood donation, particularly amongst the black community.

We also have a series of videos from the amazing Tito on our YouTube channel, who shared her experiences of living with Sickle Cell Disease.

The Productive Minds: Student Conference was a monumental event! We heard from so many amazing speakers and all left feeling refreshed and empowered to succeed in whatever we put our minds to.

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We went out for a fun night of ping pong, food, drinks and socialising! Our meet ups are a great opportunity to add more medics to the family and get to know each other better.

A vision board party with a twist, Sip & Start was a night filled with inspiration, goal-setting and encouragement. We heard from some amazing speakers and created our own vision boards while sipping HoM signature cocktails.

Did you know only 1.5% of blood donors in the UK are black, yet 300 babies are born with sickle cell each year in the UK and many of them need regular blood transfusions. We gathered the team to donate blood and increase awareness of the need for more black donors.

It was an honour to be invited to St Francis Xavier College to hold a workshop for their students interested in working in healthcare. We taught first aid and suturing skills, as well as gave students insight into what it’s like to work in the healthcare industry. We received awesome feedback and it was smiles all round!

We had the privilege of hosting pharmaceutical giant, Sanofi for an informative and engaging night discussing the world of pharmaceuticals. We all learnt so much and ended it off with an extremely valuable networking session.

We spent December 2021 in Ghana conducting outreach events which improved the lives of thousands of Ghanaians. The HOPE Mission documentary was created to record each part of the journey, so we held this private screening in Oxford street to show you all that we were able to achieve!

We had a fun day filled with laughter, dancing and of course lots of food at our first annual HoM BBQ! It was an awesome day welcoming new people into the family.