{"id":386,"date":"2016-11-25T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/?p=386"},"modified":"2017-02-18T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T00:55:06","slug":"agm-constitution-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/agm-constitution-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM – Constitution changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Change to Alumni Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

At the AGM, which preceded the Gala dinner, members voted unanimously to support two motions that involved minor changes to the Constitution. The criteria for membership had included the words:<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>\u201cMembers shall be medical and\/or dental graduates
\nwho have been members of the medical staff
\nof the Royal Children’s Hospital (including Resident Medical Officers and Registrars who have subsequently pursued a career in any branch of paediatrics or child health)
\nand have ceased to have an active medical or dental appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital,
\nor have reached the age of retirement (65),
\nprovided that members who have retired may continue to hold a sessional appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
\nMembers shall also be (a) Spouse\/partner of deceased members (b) Professional and Scientific former senior staff of the RCH who have made a significant contribution to the Hospital.\u201c<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as there is no longer an \u201cage of retirement\u201d and as the phrase \u201cwho have made a significant contribution to the Hospital\u201d was seen as being redundant in the current era – this will be amended to:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cMembership is open to:
\n(a) Medical or Dental graduates who have been members of the medical staff of the Royal Children’s\u00a0Hospital (including Resident Medical Officers and Registrars who have subsequently pursued a career in any branch of paediatrics or child health) and have ceased to have an active medical or dental appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital, or have reached the age of 65
\n(b) Former Professional and Scientific senior staff of the RCH
\n(c) The spouse or partner of a deceased member<\/p>\n

All who wish to join the Alumni should complete an application form\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In a second amendment, the reference to \u201cmedical staff of the Royal Children’s Hospital\u201d was changed to \u201cmedical staff at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital campus\u201d. <\/em>This was intended to ensure that those medical staff who worked on the RCH campus but were employed by the University, the MCRI or the Genetics service would also be eligible for membership, though not being employed directly by the hospital itself. The new wording was therefore:<\/p>\n

\u201cMembership is open to:
\n(a) Medical or Dental graduates who have been members of the medical staff at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital campus <\/em>
\n(including Resident Medical Officers and Registrars who have subsequently pursued a career in any branch of paediatrics or child health)
\nand have ceased to have an active medical or dental appointment at the RCH campus<\/em>, or have reached the age of 65
\n(b) Former Professional and Scientific senior staff at the RCH
\ncampus
\n<\/em>(c) The spouse or partner of a deceased member<\/p>\n

All who wish to join the Alumni should complete an application form\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AGM 2016. Kew Golf Club Nov 22nd (preceding Gala Dinner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}