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50 at 50: Care Leavers and Higher Education
September 24, 2021
In my three years as a medical student at the University of Nottingham, I have had the privilege of working across the University with one overriding focus. This focus is improving the visibility and accessibility of care leavers, in medicine, and in higher education (HE) more widely. In other words, widening participation in higher education. …
50 at 50: Reflections on a year of Covid-19 from a clinical academic perspective
September 3, 2021
A new disease…, a new patient group…, new clinic requirements … and of course new opportunities for clinical research…, there is nothing like a pandemic to jolt a clinical academic who had been focusing primarily on one long-term lung disease and thought she had the next few years worth of research mapped out. Whilst the onslaught of severely ill patients with Covid-19 admitted to …
50 at 50: Lincoln Medical School
August 6, 2021
Although the 50 at 50 blog is part of the 50:30 celebrations at the Nottingham Medical School, it could really be called 30/50/1. 2020 marked 30 years of nursing/ 50 years of the Nottingham Medical School/ and 1 year of the Lincoln Medical School (LMS), which is a partnership with the University of Lincoln. 2019 …
50 at 50: A message from the incoming MedSoc President
July 30, 2021
My name is Sanjana Mamidipalli and I will be your incoming MedSoc President for the year, recently taking over from the amazing Pascal Vogiaridis. This September I’ll be in my third year of medical school, and my third year living in the UK! I’m originally from Mumbai, India, and I moved to the UK in …
50 at 50: Tamra’s Notes
May 28, 2021
Starting Medical School I was nervous about the concept of full body dissection. I had shown preference for it across the board in my application, but without any real understanding of what it would mean to me to be in a room full of cadavers. In year one I struggled with the sheer volume of work and attention to detail that Anatomy demanded. …
50 at 50: Covid-19: Looking after your mental health
May 24, 2021
Modern medicine is growing exponentially and has consistently showcased how we are becoming capable of combating both mental and physical health. In a vocation where irregularities are persistent and intense challenges become the norm, I think I speak for us all when I say that no one could have predicted the devasting impact COVID-19 has had …
50 at 50: Developing as an Early Career Researcher
May 14, 2021
I took a relatively untraditional journey to the University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine. Starting with an undergraduate degree in Musicology, I shifted to Psychology for my PhD, and when the opportunity arose to move to Nottingham’s Hearing Sciences department a few years later, I jumped at the chance. My interests have always centred on …
Dissertation Difficulties
May 11, 2021
The large focus of third year is always the dissertation which takes up the majority of the second semester. You’ll be thinking about which supervisor you’re going to apply for from the summer going into the third year and constantly developing your research and writing skills as to be ready for the real deal. When …
50 at 50: The experience of undertaking CP1 during the Covid-19 pandemic
May 7, 2021
Clinical placement is a time for us medical students to put into practice all of the skills and academic knowledge we have learnt to date. Additionally, it is a time to realise that when you’re asked a question when you first start on the wards, no matter how simple it is, your mind will go …
50 at 50: The Dean’s Symposium: Transformative inclusion: The future of healthcare
April 30, 2021
Celebrations of 50 years of Medicine and 30 years of Nursing at Nottingham are in full swing. The Dean’s Symposium on Transformative Inclusion was held on the 28 April and it was a fitting part of these events. The programme included three speakers talking about three very different but thought–provoking subjects. The virtual event began with a warm welcome from Professor Brigitte Scammell, Dean of Medicine and Head of School to …
