50 at 50: The life and times of Professor David Walker
January 29, 2021
Professor David Walker, Professor of Paediatric Oncology, began his journey in medicine as part of one of our first few undergraduate medicine cohorts, graduating in 1977. His career has taken him across the globe, but he returned to the University of Nottingham as a senior lecturer in 1990 before becoming a professor in 2005. This …
Respiratory Medicine and Covid-19
January 26, 2021
Over the past ten months, the Nottingham University Hospital’s clinical response to the Covid-19 pandemic has taken up most of the available time and resources of the Medical School’s Division of Respiratory Medicine, and its associated clinicians. Professor Dominick Shaw had just started as Head of Respiratory Medicine for Nottingham University Hospitals when the first cases of Covid-19 coronavirus were …
50 at 50: Innovations in Medical Education Conference
January 22, 2021
Celebrations of 50 years of Medicine and 30 years of Nursing at Nottingham are in full swing and the conference on Innovations in Medical Education held on the 13 January was a fitting part of these events. The programme included speakers from a wide range of backgrounds and covered ground-breaking research, medical careers, entry into …
50 at 50: Raising the stakes in medical education
January 11, 2021
It has been quite a year, not least for healthcare professionals working at the front line of patient care. Counted among that group are scholars registered on one of the postgraduate Medical Education programmes at the University of Nottingham. As a course faculty, we are immensely proud of all of them, working hard to enhance …
50 at 50: How Dr Lindsey Davies is inspiring the next generation of doctors
December 14, 2020
I have just commenced my third year of studying medicine at the University of Nottingham, and since day one I have seized any exciting opportunities that I have become aware of. Being a clinic lead for societies, including Teddy Bear Hospital and HEARTSTART, has been very enlightening and rewarding, while my current role as President …
50 at 50: Reflections on directing the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme and being a Welsh sheepdog during the pandemic
November 27, 2020
On September 30th 2020, I stepped down as the Director of the NIHR HTA Programme after five very busy years. To set the scene, The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme sits within the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) – the UK’s largest funder of health and social care research funded by the UK Government. HTA is the largest NIHR Programme and in 2018/19, it supported 584 live projects …
50 at 50: The First Year of Graduate Entry Medicine
November 20, 2020
I was delighted to be asked to do this blog to reflect on my time as a student at the University of Nottingham and talk about coming back to the University as a member of staff. I started at Nottingham University back in 2003. I still find it hard to believe that this was 17 years ago! This was the first year of the Graduate Entry Medical (GEM) course, the first 18 …
50 at 50: Students responding to 999 calls in Nottingham
November 16, 2020
By your side I’ve dressed your bloody wounds Held your hands and kept you warm When we stepped in the prognosis looked poor Medicine is complicated but CPR is simple and that time you got a second chance We help triple immobilise, sometimes medicate, always dedicate ourselves to our patients Patience is our virtue, but we know when urgency …
50 at 50: Sir Peter Rubin: Overcoming challenges and embracing opportunities
November 6, 2020
Sir Peter Rubin was Professor of Therapeutics at Nottingham from 1987 – 2014 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences from 1997 – 2003. While at Nottingham, Sir Peter led a number of momentous developments within the Faculty, including the development of the Graduate Entry Medical School in Derby and the Nottingham …
50 at 50: Making the First Cut – Increasing diversity in surgical careers
October 16, 2020
Surgeons aren’t born. They’re made. A cliché statement, we know, but true in every sense of the word. As medical students we commit to spending a lifetime training to be effective doctors and providing quality care for our patients. We can all speak to a time where we did whatever it took to get into …
