Rachael Forsythe graduated with her MBChB in 2008. She works as a consultant vascular surgeon. Tell us a bit about your time at university. Any particular memories? I initially struggled to adapt to being a very academically average student. …
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 …
Hi, I’m Vicki McCorkell. I think that there has always been a teacher in me somewhere. As the daughter of two teachers (one primary and one secondary maths) it was perhaps inevitable. Many a weekend as a 12 year old …
Hello! My name is Janet Skinner, I graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1994 (so probably before many of you were born…Argh!). I’m from Tranent in East Lothian and had it existed in the day, would probably have been a …
Hello, I’m Agata. I’m a clinical fellow in medical education and currently doing a MD in medical education. I can’t quite believe I am an early career academic. I was from a widening participation background, born in Poland and immigrated …
Dr Prakash Ramachandran graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 2003 and has been fascinated by the liver ever since a research project during his intercalated year. He is currently a Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist, based in the Centre …
MBChB graduate Callum Cruickshank on a busy professional life after medical school. What is your current role? I am a few things: A core trainee in Psychiatry (currently in Psychiatry of Older Age (Monday-Wednesday) A clinical fellow in Medicine …
Dr Adriel Chen is a University of Edinburgh MBChB Class of 2019 graduate, and current FY2 rotating through Medicine of the Elderly in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. What is your current role? I’m currently an FY2 rotating through Medicine …
Dr Rosie Baruah is from the MBChB class of 2000. She is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. What have you been up to since graduation? I spent a year doing house jobs …
Clark Russell hails from the MBChB Class of 2013. He’s a doctor training in infectious diseases and microbiology. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was undertaking scientific training through a PhD in immunology as part of the Edinburgh Clinical Academic …
Hannah Douglas and Theresa Peltz are two out of 221 of our final year medics who recently graduated early to support the NHS tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Along with many of their fellow new graduates, the pair volunteered to start …
Derek Smith is Radiology Registrar and Clinical Teaching Fellow with NHS Lothian. He tells us about the transition from medical school to career in radiology. When I started medical school in Edinburgh in 2007, I had no idea what a …
MBChB graduate Greig Torpey tells us about the next big step on his medical career. We are now over three months into Foundation Year 1 (FY1) and what a crazy time it has been. Around 50 Edinburgh graduates made the …
