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 everyone! My name is Calum: I’m an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP) and a year 2 HCP-Med student. I have found the HCP Med programme has been ideal for me to study medicine while continuing to work as a …
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 …
Hi everyone, my name is Hector Crosbie and I grew up in London before coming to Edinburgh to study. I love to take part in a sports, as well as the socials that come with them. The field of medicine …
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 …
Hello, I’m Sonia and I am a senior tutor for Years 1-3 for student wellbeing in the medical school. I am quite new to the team as I only started my role last year but have long had an invested …
Introducing Voice Box, the first in our new podcast series especially for University of Edinburgh medical students. In our first episode, Year 5 student, Jen Baker meets influential GP and researcher Professor Roy Robertson. Jen is a member of the …
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 …
Y5 medical student, Molly Steele speaks to HIHS to find out more about the society, its mission, how it goes about its outreach work and how you can get involved. Ever wondered how we, as medics, can better serve the …
Courtesy of Year 4 students, Krystal, Natasha and Zari, we have an insight into the clinical years based on their own experience, and some tips you might like to consider too. Making the most of clinical learning Starting clinical placements …
In November 2021, five medical students volunteered to undertake the Planetary Health Report Card, a tool designed for medical students to assess their school in the areas of planetary health and sustainable healthcare education. Y4 student, Zari Bhatti provides an …
Here’s Year 3 medical student, Beth Coiley sharing an insight into her downtime from medicine – upwards into the mountains. I absolutely love doing anything outdoors in the mountains, be it trail running, walking, scrambling, trad climbing or wild swimming. …
A sneak preview of the 2022 Medics Musical, Edinburgh’s Doc Talent! Hi there, my name is Aoife O’Neill and I’m the director of this year’s Medics Musical. Being a part of the musical is something that myself, all of the …
As part of our ‘Inspiring Doctors’ series, we speak to consultant psychiatrist, Dr Robby Steel about his route into psychiatry after almost leaving medicine for law instead. I am Robby Steel. My day job is as a consultant psychiatrist at …
I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa when I was 19 and in my second year of medical school in England. My difficulties with eating had started the year before when I first came to university – I was fresh out …
Delighted to introduce you to some of the committee members of the Edinburgh University LGBT+ Medics. Tobias (he/him) – Education Officer Where are you from? Dundee What made you join the society? To work together getting involved with LGBTQI+ education …
