STASHH
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The Student and Trainee Association for Sexual Health and HIV – STASHH was founded in March 2021. STASHH aims to:
Email us at stashh@bashh.org
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STASHH provide monthly sexual health and HIV focused educational events for students and pre-speciality doctors.
Educational events will include sessions covering hot topics in sexual health and HIV, highlights of recent conferences and exam preparation sessions. Keep up to date with our events by following our Medall page.
Browse our previous talks
Check out our podcast...
Sexy Health with STASHH is the podcast where we get down and dirty into the world of sexual health, genitourinary medicine, and HIV.
Brought to you by STASHH, an affiliate of BASHH.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
STASHH organise careers events, taster days and Continuing Professional Development events. You can watch our most recent careers event here.
Our next careers event takes place on the 29th April - sign up here
LoveGUM
LOVEGUM is a new campaign launched to raise awareness of GUM and highlight the specialty.
Their website is full of useful resources and information about a career in GUM - you can find out more here
Become a STASHH ambassador
Posts are advertised each June/July via social media and newsletters.
Unfilled ambassador roles will be advertised here and filled year-round.
Leadership Opportunities
At University
- Deliver teaching
- Join your sexual health committee or start one!
- Get involved in advocacy projects
At work:
- Start a journal club
- Teach medical students
- Organise a recruitment fair/lecture
Volunteering Opportunities
- Sexpression:UK - facilitate RSE workshops
- Pride events - help represent your local clinic
- SHAG - Sexual Health Awareness Group - does your uni have one?
- C-Card - condom distribution service - seeif your local provider needs support
- Conference volunteer - International AIDS Society hold the annual AIDS Conference and offer free admission to volunteers (flights not paid)
- Freedom 2 Be - Summer support camp for young people living with HIV - typically open applications in March
STASHH aims to have a local ambassador at every univeristy and within every deanery, to support medical students and pre-specialty doctors to find and get involved with projects, teaching, audits and networking opportunities local to them. If you would like us to put you in touch with your local ambassador, or to enquire about becoming one, please email us.
For monthly updates on conferences, projects, taster days and more, please sign up to our newsletter or visit our padlet.
Clinical Opportunities for Pre-Specialty Doctors
Foundation Programme:
Consider prioritising GUM/sexual health and associated specialties at foundation eg. Infectious disease, public health, microbiology, dermatology, O&G
Alternative foundation programmes:
LIFT: Longitudinal Integrated Foundation Training, a day a week in sexual health for a year (currently available in Cardiff)
Specialised Foundation Programme: Undertake research/teaching a day a week or for a full rotation
F3+
Clinical or Academic Fellow Job - Each year there are a handful of sexual health jobs across the UK typically advertised between November-July.
Clinical Opportunities for Medical Students
Organise an SSC
- Contact your undergraduate sexual health lead
- Contact your local clinic
- Is there a specific topic you're interested in? A simple google scholar search will identify research in this area. If you're interested in someone's work, contact the corresponding author
- Get involved in research as a medical student - read more here
Organise an Elective
Presenting Work
Local
- Ask your supervisor if you can present at your department MDT or hospital audit or guideline meeting.
- Present at your university
Regional
- BASHH run regional audit meetings. Ask your supervisor if they know when the local meeting is, or could put you in touch with the BASHH regional audit meeting.
National
International
- IAC - HIV, International
- EACS - HIV, Europe
- IUSTI - STIs, International
- CROI - Retroviruses and opportunistic infections
STASHH offers any postgraduates and undergraduates the chance to gain a Mentor (either a GUM registrar or consultant) to help guide them in their interest in Sexual health and HIV. For the time being we have paused applications to request a mentor due to high demand. Keep an eye on the page to see when we open this up again.
Our aim is to match Mentees and Mentors based on their locations, as well as depending on what Mentees hope to gain from a Mentor (e.g. help with training applications vs arranging tasters days).
If you’d like to act as a mentor please register your interest here
Thank you for taking the time to look into what we do at STASHH and how you can support us.
We would appreciate your help in any of the following ways:
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Talk about us and signpost people to this page!
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Print, use and advertise our poster at career fairs, events and teaching
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Show our poster on your slides when you are teaching students and foundation / IMT / clinical fellow doctors.
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Encourage medical students and pre-specialty doctors to consider being a local ambassador for STASHH.
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Find out who your local ambassadors are (you can email us!) and get in touch with them.
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Be a mentor/encourage your consultant and registrar colleagues to be a mentor
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Let us or your local ambassadors know of any projects/audits/research/teaching opportunities that are in your department- we can connect you to someone who wants to help and get involved!
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Consider featuring on our podcast, or teaching for one of our webinars or on one of our virtual career days.
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Encourage your colleagues to get involved with STASHH too!
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The STASHH Team
- Dr Liberty-Isabelle Todd - STASHH Chair
- Dr Toni Masters - Deputy Chair
- Dr Eleanor Cochrane - Co-founder and STASHH Projects Lead
- Cate Breheny - Secretary
- Dr Millie Richardson - Education and Recruitment Co-Lead
- Dr Lily Edwards - Mentorship Co-Lead
- Dr Ella Heath - Mentorship Co-Lead
- Nathan Dean - Podcast Co-Lead
- Maeve Mulchrone - Podcast Co-Lead
- Dr Emma Cartner - Operations Coordinator
- Dr Amy Lyons - Pre-Speciality Ambassador Coordinator
- Dr Catrin Thomas - Pre-Speciality Ambassador Coordinator
- Grace Currie - Medical Student Ambassador Coordinator
- Adhishree Sunilkumar - Medical Student Ambassador Coordinator
- Dr Lindsay Henderson - BASHH Doctors in Training Rep
- Dr Nicola Lomax - Specialty Advisory Committee Rep
- Dr Luke Cannon – Co-founder
- Dr Ellie Crook- Co-founder
Members
Hannah Church
Co-founder and STASHH Recruitment Lead
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Ellie Cochrane
Co-founder and STASHH Projects Lead
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Toni Masters
Education/Recruitment Co-lead | BASHH Education Committee Trainee Rep
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Lekshmy Syamala Pillai
Education/Recruitment Co-lead
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Millicent Richardson
Pre-specialty Ambassador Coordinator
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Cate Goldwater Breheny
Medical Student Ambassador Coordinator
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