Edinburgh medical students and graduates alike will be able to reflect on time in the anatomy teaching lab learning from the ‘silent teacher’ – a community member who has donated their body for the purpose of medical teaching and research. …
Year 5 medical student, Kevin Kuan shares his experience as an active researcher within the Edinburgh Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Team (EXPPECT), presenting at a world congress and balancing his studies and other interests along the way. My name …
Year 6 medical student, Mallaika Viswanath provides an insight into her medical elective travelling to Egypt to work in hyperbaric medicine with experts in the field. This spring, I had the incredible honour of working at the Sharm-El-Sheikh Hyperbaric …
Dr Shona Main is MBChB class of 2015 and currently an emergency medicine registrar, an expedition doctor, plus Head of Operations at the award-winning magazine, The Adventure Medic. Tell us a bit about your time at university I never …
Dr Hannah Douglas is MBChB class of 2020 and currently working in Far North Queensland, Australia. What is your current role? Resident Medical Officer in Cairns Hospital, Far North Queensland, Australia doing a rotational job during which I will …
The Edinburgh University Palliative Care Society launched at the start of the 2022/23 academic year and we’ve been busy raising the profile of palliative care among the student body. All medical students will encounter patients with progressive, incurable conditions that …
Hello, I’m Heen, a Year 3 medical student. I’d like to share with you a few tips and suggestions on looking after your mental health and wellbeing at medical school and crucially – avoiding burnout. Medical school can be hard …
Hi I’m Marcus, a Y4 medical student, and part of the Edinburgh HealthTech and MedTech Society. We’re a multidisciplinary group of students, with representation from Medicine, Computer Science, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering, and Electrical Engineering courses at the University of Edinburgh. …
Year 5 medical student, Zari Bhatti shares an inspiring insight into her time as a medical volunteer during Birmingham Commonwealth Games. From interesting uniform colours and unfortunate sun cream injuries to watching gold medal winning athletics and working with inspiring …
Representing trauma and orthopaedics is Rosie Hackney. I studied medicine at The University of Nottingham and moved to Edinburgh as an academic foundation programme trainee. I developed my interest in surgery early on at medical school but was dissuaded by …
Representing Ophthalmology is Dr James Hazelwood. Dr James Hazelwood James is currently an ST2 at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion. He completed his MBChB at the University of Edinburgh, with an intercalated BSc. He undertook his foundation training at Chelsea and …
Representing psychiatry are Callum Cruickshank, Shashank Sivaji, Nicole Needham, Steven Birrell, Pujit Gandhi and Amy Mathews. Callum Cruickshank Callum is a Core Psychiatry trainee, currently in rehab psychiatry, and also works as a Clinical Fellow in Medicine of the …
Representing General Practice are Dr Rachel Wood, Dr Camilla Creagh-Barry, Dr Robert Duncan and Dr Andrew McClarey. Dr Rachel Wood I graduated from Liverpool in 1995 and enjoyed three years in hospital general medical posts, before entering general practice …
Representing Anaesthetics are Dr Linzi Peacock and Dr John Wilson. Dr Linzi Peacock I have been a Consultant Anaesthetist in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh since 2013 and have an interest in anaesthesia for emergency surgery. I am currently …
Representing Histopathology are Dr Alan Stockman, Dr Rebecca N. Young and Dr Yasin Dhonye. Dr Alan Stockman, Consultant Histopathologist I am the training programme director for cellular pathology in south east Scotland. I graduated in medicine from Queen’s University …
Representing Intensive care medicine is Dr Neil Young. I am a consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthetics at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. I am training programme director for intensive care medicine in South East Scotland. Feb 3, 2023
Representing Emergency medicine is Dr Emma Collier. Current ST4 Emergency Medicine in South East Scotland. A Glasgow graduate who has become a product of Scottish and Yorkshire based training having completed ACCS EM and a two-year education fellowship in Leeds. …
Edinburgh medical students share their insights and top tips for successful study. Alba Saenz de Villaverde (Y6) I wish my study technique could be a little less chaotic, and a little more organised. Every year it feels like I have …
Edinburgh medical students share their insights and top tips for successful study. Jen Ola (Year 2) I found the amount of content studying medicine quite scary at first. However – when I realised that I shouldn’t worry too much about …
Hi I’m William, a final year medical student at the University of Edinburgh with a keen interest in hepatopancreaticobiliary and transplant surgery. I am pleased to share an insight into my elective experience, completed at the end of the six-year …
