{"id":1184,"date":"2014-02-11T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:36:21","slug":"40-years-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2014\/02\/11\/40-years-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2014\/02\/40-years-of-medicine-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1246 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2014\/02\/40-years-of-medicine-resized-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Paul Worley, Flinders School of Medicine Dean (left), with Professor Chris Baggoley AO, Australia&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer and the first Flinders BMBS graduate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Flinders University School of Medicine is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2014, with celebrations to be focussed around the week beginning Monday 21 July.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to put Thursday 24 July in your diary, when Professor Chris Baggoley AO will deliver the annual Chalmers Oration. \u00a0Professor Baggoley was the first Flinders student to graduate with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS), and has gone on to become Australia&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer. \u00a0He plays a key, strategic role in developing and administering major health reforms for all Australians.<\/p>\n<p>The Chalmers Oration honours Emeritus Professor John Chalmers AC who in 1975 took up the Foundation Chair of Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre and was a major and driving force in the development of the medical school at Flinders.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the 40th celebrations will be available in the coming months.\u00a0 Graduates and anyone interested in, or associated with the School, are encouraged to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/alumni\/membership\/update-your-details.cfm\">update<\/a> their details to be included in the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a fond, interesting or unique story to tell about your time as a student in the School of Medicine, please email <a href=\"mailto:kelly.meier@flinders.edu.au\">Kelly Meier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flinders University School of Medicine is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2014, with celebrations to be focussed around the week beginning Monday 21 July. Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-profiles","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}