British Islamic Medical Association
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Learn about our teams and apply below.
The Communications Team is the glue that holds BIMA together. From designing posters and videos, organising and maintaining the WhatsApp groups to managing our social media presence - the Communications team does it all.
The Communication Team is actively involved in curating an online presence for Team BIMA. This year the team will be working on building a new membership website as the very latest offering for our 4,500+ members.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
BIMA is a growing organisation that hopes to become financially sustainable. We are looking for keen volunteers with initiative to think outside the box and come up with innovative ways to achieve this.
The finance team has two broad roles. One is to work alongside all projects, advising them on the financial aspects involved and the second is to generate income. There is a degree of flexibility on how this is achieved and therefore if you have the expertise in finance, even if from a non-clinical background, we want to hear from you.
Our aim is to improve BIMA’s networking and develop business partnerships that will allow BIMA to grow and achieve our goals. This team values attention to detail and passion. Be prepared to increase your skill set and to make a difference. We look forward in welcoming our successful members to this team and to enjoy the special camaraderie within.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Our most precious resource at BIMA is our volunteers. We are privileged to have inspiring individuals of all grades and disciplines volunteering their time whilst balancing busy lives with family, faith and professional goals.
At BIMA we really appreciate this, and so BIMA People is a dedicated team that focuses on the volunteer journey, from induction to growth and development. We aim to demonstrate our gratitude by creating an approachable environment for our volunteers that is nurturing, positive and enjoyable, ultimately enabling volunteers to flourish and gain professional and personal satisfaction. Expression of gratitude towards volunteers and facilitating high quality development opportunities are high on the BIMA People priority list.
We would love to welcome individuals to our team who are dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic, with a passion for working with people.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
The Regional Events team is one of the sub teams of the BIMA people team and is responsible for organising social and professional networking events across the UK. There are 17 regions in BIMA and the Regional Events organises social events across all of them.
Furthermore, in the current world of virtual socials, the Regional Events team will also be organising online-based social events such as the BIMA Eid quiz. The BIMA social events are one of the best ways for Muslim healthcare professionals to meet, share ideas and build alliances with others.
This year, in addition to looking for people keen on organising social networking events, we are also aiming to recruit those creative minds out there with the next big idea to connect with other healthcare professionals in an increasingly virtual world!
For more information, please contact [email protected]
This team is responsible for our media and news requests. This team is tasked with curating a positive image of Muslims in the NHS, and to bring the work that BIMA does and the issues that affect Muslim patients to light. This involves developing relationships with the relevant external bodies that facilitate this.
Join us if you want to help us bring our work to the public and get the word out about what we do.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
The Covid Response Group (CRG) was formed during the pandemic to collate the research, advice and guidance and take it to the public with practical tips. This team has been advising on several issues including the closure/reopening of mosques, Covid vaccinations, and safe Ramadan practices.
We are recruiting for people to lead and be involved in local and regional efforts to work with mosques, commissioners, public health bodies, and community organisations to coordinate the Covid response and recovery across the UK. This will be complementary to the work that is taking place nationally.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Covid has shown the need for us to be proactive in collecting and analysing data about our communities. This team will become our in-house research team and will be doing the number crunching work so we can use evidenced based information first hand in our work, and to inform policy makers.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
The official journal of BIMA, this is a new endeavour now entering its 3rd year. We aim to become the quality source of peer-reviewed information on Muslim health issues in the world. Alhamdulillah, we have now received in excess of 100 article submissions for the journal and have published six editions. The committed team work diligently to organise, review, and publish a high-quality online journal.
JBIMA aims to capture the best of our community's work into the journal so that we can share that wisdom more widely and more efficiently with others and future generations. Areas of interest include a diverse range of topics such as Islamic bioethics, history of Islam and medicine, contemporary issues for Muslims in healthcare, and much more.
Opportunities for recruitment include joining the publishing team involved in sourcing, formatting and proof-reading articles. Additionally, JBIMA is looking to expand its social media and marketing efforts considerably in 2021.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
BIMA Lifesavers’ vision is to inspire mosque leaders & communities to proactively learn skills to save lives & serve humanity. We do this by uniting HCPs & students to engage our mosque communities & teach CPR skills in September.
For the 8th year of the project, we are looking for people with the ability to engage others, think outside the box & overcome obstacles through team working & problem solving. If you have these skills & share our vision, then regardless of your experience we would love to welcome you to Team Lifesavers.
Please note that recruitment for general volunteers will start in Summer 2021, In sha Allah, and this is only for core team members at present.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
This award-winning team received a 'Commendation for Reducing Health Inequalities` at Community Level by the Royal Society for Public Health in October 2019 as well as a `London Faith and Belief Forum Award for community services` in November 2019.
The Cancer Awareness Team has been working to coordinate and deliver educational campaigns to improve Muslim community`s awareness of NHS cancer screening campaigns, aiming to increase (historically low) participation rates. Using resources created in collaboration with Cancer Research UK, we have run events in mosques and community centres, via radio and TV stations and more recently using virtual conference platforms. This intervention model is currently being considered by the NIHR for focused evaluation and adoption at scale in the long term. A series of educational infographics and videos have been created and are being translated into several community languages for dissemination using social media, again to widen our educational impact.
The scope of the campaign is gradually being expanded beyond cancer screening to increase general cancer awareness, for example with our collaboration with the #BreadExam, a culturally sensitive way to teach breast self-examination. Our webinars with Macmillan Cancer Support are seeking to break the cultural taboo of cancer and raise awareness of the support services available to patients and families.
Cancer affects 1 in 2 people; join our team and make a real difference to the health of your community!
For more information, please contact [email protected]
The team works in collaboration with experts in the field (Islamic scholars, Bioethicists and Clinicians) with an aim to provide the unique combined perspective to enable the community to make an informed decision about Organ Donation. Our team has partnered with NHSBT as well other national and regional organisations. We delivered 12 virtual and face to face events in 2019/2020 receiving excellent feedback and results. This work has been presented in academic journals and at international conferences.
Whether you are a medical student or an experienced transplant surgeon, medic or non-medic, all are welcome to join this award-winning team. We welcome you to bring your knowledge, energy and creativity to the team.
In 2021, we plan to use creative online platforms and resources to deliver the most relevant and contemporary discussions by the leading experts in Organ and Blood Donation so that our community can make an informed choice. With your help we can make it happen!
For more information, please contact [email protected]
This team in BIMA conducts talks in mosques, Islamic centres, radio and TV stations in the days leading up to Ramadan to promote healthy lifestyle and safer fasting in the Muslim community. In addition to general tips, the team shares the latest evidence based guidelines for fasting individuals with certain medical conditions. Due to COVID-19 and lockdown restrictions, the team delivered these messages in the form of posters and recorded videos in 2020.
The next project for the team will be to deliver even higher quality, more engaging events in 2022. The team aims to trial pilot pop up health check clinics leading up to Ramadan in 2022, in addition to the high quality educational talks which are a hallmark of BIMA`s Health Promotion Team.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
This team in BIMA works extensively alongside key organisations such as NHS commissioners, public health bodies, and the MCB to raise awareness about the importance of vaccinations in the Muslim community. Our primary aim is to provide guidance that is clinically sound and religiously correct.
#OperationVacciNation was first launched in September 2020 and led a very successful influenza campaign in the Muslim community on the importance of getting a flu jab, particularly in the context of Covid-19.
Shortly after we worked on the launch of the Covid vaccine campaign and published several statements advising the community on who should vaccinate and why. We also led a successful myth debunking project across social media to fight the misinformation surrounding the Covid vaccine. Many of the team members hosted live discussions, webinars and produced useful social media content that has been distributed extensively across the community.
Our aim for the upcoming months is to educate the Muslim community on the importance of routine childhood vaccinations and continue to debunk common myths and combat misinformation.
If you are passionate about vaccination and want to get involved, please get in touch!
For more information, please contact [email protected]
In November 2020, BIMA launched it’s newest team: Student BIMA (sBIMA). This is an exciting student-led initiative, with a growing team of 43 volunteers representing over 21 universities. The department involves building a strong national student body for Muslim healthcare students, focusing on fostering positive values and virtues to tackle the challenges healthcare students face in their undergraduate careers and pioneer change for a better future for Tomorrow's leaders. Projects range from education and research to training and mentoring.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Please note the application window for sBIMA will open later in the year.
It is important that the Muslim community has Islamically grounded and proactive representatives at meetings with regulators, professional unions, NHS bodies etc. The Health Equity and Advocacy team has been involved in roundtable discussions with local government officials and submissions to the House of Lords Select Committees, as well as writing to NHS and public health bodies, collecting and publishing data on Islamophobia within the NHS. We aim to not only represent the Muslim community, but also to advocate on its behalf.
We also aim to champion greater health inclusion and equity for Muslim patients and have presented our Cancer Screening work to commissioners and public health bodies, and are working with academics to better understand how we can use faith-based solutions to address these inequalities. We had campaigned for all children to have access to a gelatine free flu vaccine and PHE as well, as the devolved bodies finally offered this in 2020. There are so many other areas such as mental health, maternal health, and dementia where Muslims experience poorer care and outcomes. We want to help fix this.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Modern clinical practice presents many bioethical questions which impact Muslim staff and patients.
From three-person babies, end of life decisions, burials in pandemic, disparity of health to vaccination ethics.
We need great minds working to discuss such questions & help to bring or suggest a narrative or solutions that comply with Islamic principles.
We aim to research and articulate our position on various bioethical issues, both modern and historical, and use this to inform policy making.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
This team has been working tirelessly to bring acceptable solutions to people of faith who may want to stick to certain dress codes. They are responsible for all the hard work put into the Theatre Hijab and Bare Below the Elbow campaign, with the subsequent introduction of the disposable hijab, now introduced in several operating theatres across the country. This year the team will continue to push for greater awareness and implementation of the new National Dresscode Policy we helped to create, and continue to advocate for Muslim women who are experiencing difficulty in the workplace.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
The Careers Induction Team organise events including induction webinars to help healthcare professionals orientate and prepare themselves in the next step of their careers. At present this includes the FY1 training for doctors, DFT for dentists, and the pre-registration year for pharmacists, thus giving a head start to those attending our events.
We have a team of recent medics, pharmacists, and dentists giving back the tips and tricks they wish they had received to become an efficient and effective healthcare professional. In 2020 we held webinars incorporating the change expected due to Covid and will be looking to do the same this year insha’Allah.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
The Webinar Team organises regular, high quality educational webinars for members, and occasionally for the wider Muslim community. We aim to cover topical issues relevant to healthcare professionals, while shedding light into Islamic perspectives. Our frontline healthcare workers benefited from a series of weekly spiritually uplifting webinars at the beginning of the pandemic, as well as an opportunity to ask questions live to a panel of experts during our “Covid question time” webinar. We recently delivered popular webinars on domestic violence in the Muslim community, institutional racism in the NHS and Ethics, Islam and Wealth, which attracted over 200 attendees.
We also organise the annual BIMA National Conference which has CPD accreditation. This is a unique, focal event for BIMA to highlight contemporary medical issues and provide professional and social networking opportunities for Muslim healthcare professionals in the UK.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
IMGs form an integral part of the NHS. The challenges faced by IMGs as they apply and settle in their new job roles in the UK are unique, ranging from issues related to visas to getting familiar with the NHS way of working.
BIMA IMG is the latest addition to the BIMA family that aims to help IMGs that are new to the UK through that process.
If you are an IMG who is currently working in the UK and passionate about helping other IMGs grow and progress through their journey, then this is the team for you.
It doesn’t matter if you are a trainee or a senior clinician! All that matters is that you believe in the vision of BIMA, which is to Unite, Inspire, Serve.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
