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MOSA MEETING 10 January 2009

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MOSA is 125 years old in 2009 and the theme of the January meeting is to reflect on where MOSA is now and consider where MOSA will be in 25 years, or, at least, in five years.

To that end I am approaching some school doctors and nurses and inviting them to consider both their present day school medical service – its strengths and weaknesses - and to consider what the next few years might bring in the way of fresh challenges and what strategies they have already or will need to develop to meet them.

The idea is for school medical centres to produce a short paper as a basis for a 15-20 minute presentation by doctors and/or nurses before lunch on January 10 and from these papers themes will be selected for small group work in the afternoon.

“The aim of any residential setting must be to maintain and if possible improve the health and medical condition of each young person. Health refers to general well-being and comprises:
physical health covering the functions of the body;
mental health subsuming intellectual, psychological, emotional, spiritual and social health;
societal health which refers to the environment in which the young person lives.”

From Anderson, E W “Residential and Boarding Education and Care for Young People: A Model for Good Practice” Routledge London 2005 p96

The above is included here as a catalyst to discussion and formulation of strategy by medical teams though obviously the author is writing this for all the school departments. What role is the medical centre playing presently in the school with regard to the above and what role might it play?

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