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: Black History Month and Diversifying Medicine
October 23, 2020
For Black History Month this year, Medsoc has been showcasing the contributions of twelve Black healthcare workers and will be hosting an Instagram takeover in collaboration with ACMN and BME medics. Medsoc itself, acts as a representation for all students in Nottingham’s School of Medicine and within Medsoc, there are a range of BME medical societies that represent a variety of ethnic …
Medicine, Nottingham and the Adventures beyond
June 15, 2020
One of our 2017 graduates got in touch to share his experiences studying medicine at Nottingham and what he got up to after graduating. This is Dr Arjunaa Wimalathasan’s story. Born and raised in the South of London, the son of refugees and the brother of an over achieving sister, a lot of my childhood …
Medical school: Education or Competition?
January 28, 2019
It is widely acknowledged that medical school is a competitive environment. It is worth thinking about, even as you consider applying, who exactly we should be in competition with – ourselves, our peers, the sibling your parents promise isn’t their favourite? Most people apply to medical school with the simple intention of improving other people’s …
Coping with anxiety at medical school
October 10, 2018
People often ask me what anxiety feels like and I normally respond with something like this: “You know that feeling in your stomach when you are going down stairs and miss a step? It’s that, all the time.” Then they tend to ask me: “But… you do medicine? Isn’t that a really stressful course?” Truth …
