An audience with Professor Sir Steve Jackson
March 27, 2024
On Friday 15 March 2024, staff and students across the medical faculty had the pleasure of attending ‘An audience with Professor Sir Steve Jackson’. Hailing from Sherwood, Nottingham, the university’s honorary graduate is a senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Institute and an acting Fredrick James Quick Professor of Biology at …
Medics Musical 2024 – 9 to 5: The Musical
February 7, 2024
A favourite event in the Medical School’s calendar is a musical theatre performance organised and cast by fourth year medics. This year, we’ve opted for the lovable music featured in ‘9 to 5’ by Dolly Parton; an uplifting story of three women and the overthrow of their self-absorbed boss. Last year’s musical – RENT – …
Reflections of an LGBTQ+ Medical Student for LGBTQ+ History Month
February 6, 2023
As a third-year medical student at Nottingham, over the past few months I have been working on my BMedSci project. My dissertation was a scoping review, looking at research that explored the experiences of LGBTQ+ students studying medicine around the world. Not only was this a brilliant opportunity to understand what research currently shows about …
Memories of the Nottingham Medical School Football Club
January 17, 2023
I began my studies at Nottingham Medical School in 1971 as one of the University’s second intake of medical students. Whilst none of the students in the first intake were interested in playing football (although several of them played rugby union), 8 or 9 of us in the second intake were keen to play. So, …
Disability Recognition Month: Studying Medicine with a chronic disability
November 18, 2022
My name is Dana, I am a 4th year medical student… This is the typical opening sentence for clinical skills sessions, whenever there are interactions with patients or other healthcare professionals during placements, and last but not least, during the feared OSCEs. I would like to add today to that opening sentence: My name is …
Fundraising for the Medic’s Musical 2022/23: RENT
October 17, 2022
As many of you will know, Nottingham Medical School has a long-standing beloved tradition of performing a musical of choice. My name is Ïa and I am the Producer of this year’s Medic’s Musical – to be performed by our penultimate year medical students in March 2023. Here’s our go-fund-me if you’d like to give …
50 at 50: Life Lessons From A Current Medical Student
October 8, 2021
As you approach your first day of medical school, many of you will be excitedly (or nervously) looking up videos on whether to use Anki or Quizlet, reading blog posts of people telling you you don’t need a colander, and trying to figure out whether those nightclub tickets you bought are a scam or not. Although the advice in this blog may not seem like the information you …
50 at 50: StreetDoctors
March 5, 2021
Youth violence is a serious problem in many cities across our nation. Between September 2019 and September 2020, there were 47,119 offences involving knives or sharp objects recorded by the police in England and Wales (1). These offences have been rising since 2014 and although in recent years the rate of increase has slowed, even …
50 at 50: Utilising your opportunities
February 16, 2021
Working with several societies over the past couple years in Medical School has not only given me a bunch of new skills but also helped me get acquainted with some great people in Nottingham and beyond! My main takeaway is irrespective of which stage year you are in, there is always something to get involved with! As …
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 …
