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I feel honoured to have been elected to this post and look forward to representing the BGS over the next few years. I am currently completing my registrar training in the West Midlands, and will be taking up a consultant post at Selly Oak hospital early in the new year.

My name may already be familiar to many of the more junior members of the Society as I have spent the last two years as Chair of the Trainees Committee, a very interesting time to head this group, with constant changes to curricula, assessments and moving goal posts! Even though I have now moved on from this, I plan to continue to engage the Trainees by liaising closely with their new Committee, and encouraging their input to the Newsletter and to the workings of the Society.

These are exciting times for Geriatric Medicine, with the changing demographics accompanied by an increasing awareness of the speciality among the general public and policy makers. The demographics of our workforce are also changing, with women making up more than fifty per cent of current trainees. This will have consequences on consultant posts, with a likely increase in job sharing and part-time working; I hope to be able to reflect these issues in future Newsletter articles, and within my work in this role.

Zoe Wyrko

BGS Newsletter, November 2009
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