The Manchester Medical Society was formed in 1834
for the "cultivation and promotion of medicine and all related sciences". An
aim continued today through a series of scientific meetings and symposia
focused on Continual Professional Development (CPD)for medical professionals and for those
working in professions allied to medicine.
The Society consists of 10 Sections: Anaesthesia, Imaging,
Medicine, Odontology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Psychiatry, Public Health Forum, Primary Care,
and Surgery. Meetings are hosted by individual Sections and the Society allowing a range of
topics, spanning all medical disciplines to be addressed in our annual programme of
events.
SOCIETY MEETINGS
The Manchester Medical Society in its annual
programme events
also hosts meetings in addition to the lectures organised by
individual Sections. Highlights include the Telford Memorial Lecture given
in 2002 by Professor Susan Greenfield (Professor
of Pharmacology, University of Oxford and presenter of BBC2's "Brain
Story"), the
Honourable Dorothy Wedgwood OBE Annual Christmas Lecture for Young People, the joint meeting
with the Liverpool Medical
Institution and the John F Wilkinson Memorial
Lecture.
 
The
theme of this year's annual joint meeting with the Royal Society of Medicine
was "What every doctor needs to know about medically unexplained
symptoms" and the incoming President of the
Society, Professor Francis Creed gave his Presidential Address "Can we
now explain medically unexplained symptoms".
The Society meetings are usually followed by an informal dinner held at either
Chancellors Conference Centre, the University, the Christie Bistro
or restaurants throughout the region. The
Society has a long tradition of social functions and dinners and we
encourage our members to take advantage of the opportunity to relax with
colleagues and new found friends!
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MANCHESTER
MEDICAL SOCIETY