Visit the event website at imperialTiMS.org.

To register as a delegate, please click here.

Entry forms for the TiMS prize may be here.

Dear Student,

Imperial College School of Medicine Surgical Society would like to invite you to the first Technology in Medicine & Surgery Conference (TiMS) on 13^th February 2010 at Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ. This national and pan-disciplinary event aims to inspire the next generation of medical thinkers and innovators, and expose you to the frontiers of medical technology and invention.

We aim to bring together students from various interdisciplinary fields in order to make you think how you can all work in concert to improve healthcare in the UK. Through a series of lectures and innovation competitions, we hope to encourage and inspire those of you who may become the medical innovators of the future.

By attending, you will have the opportunity to:

• Attend inspirational, cutting-edge lectures in medical and surgical innovation.
• Network with like-minded innovative students and professionals.
• Learn how to develop your ideas into reality, from patenting advice to design concepts from our lectures.
• Enter a team competition to showcase their solution to a current clinical need.
• Enter an on-the-day competition.
• Meet the professionals and their products at our innovation exhibition.
• Refreshments provided!

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference”.

Nolan Bushnell (Electrical Engineer, Entrepreneur and Inventor of Atari)

Team Competition Details

Step 1: Form a Team.

2-4 members per team. We recommend you form as diverse a team as possible. Students from ALL faculties are eligible including non-science subjects such as business, design and humanities.

Step 2. Identify a clinical problem

Make a statement of clinical need i.e. a problem currently unsolved in either medicine or surgery.

Step 3. Solve the problem

Propose a solution to the problem, from pharmaceutical or biological to mechanical and electronic. Ideas can be proof-of-concept, addressing the following aspects:

1. originality
2. cost of production
3. ease of use
4. materials used
5. feasibility and safety
6. aesthetic appeal and design

Check on patent databases such as Google patents to ensure your originality.

Submit abstracts of maximum 300 words in length by the deadline – January 29, 2010

Step 4. Present your Idea

Present your solution as a 15-minute presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint) and 10 minutes for questions and answer from an expert panel of judges.

Step 5. Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the winners and runners-up at the end of the conference.

No matter how bizarre it is, if you have an idea, we want to hear it! Remember:

“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”

Albert Einstein.

Welcome to the Imperial College School of Medicine Surgical Society homepage. Below is a list of our events for the academic year 2009-10. Please click an event for more information about it.

Autumn Term (2009):

Tuesday 20th October —Tuesday 8th December

Anatomy Series: Part 1 Surgical Radiology

Tuesday 29th October

Inaugural Lecture, Glenister Lecture Theatre, CX

Friday 6th November -  Sunday 8th November

Trauma Conference 2009 - SAF Building

Minimally Invasive Surgery Day

December (date TBC)

Christmas Dinner

Spring Term (2010, dates TBC):

January

Anatomy Series: Part 2 Dissection Demonstrations

Undergraduate Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Conference (UPRAS)

Late February

Basic Surgical Skills Training Day

March

Major Incident Training Day

Thursday 25th March

National Medical Students Prize Night

Late March

AGM Dinner