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: Transforming healthcare: High explosive treatment for treatment of stroke
July 9, 2021
I have been in Nottingham since 1998 having previously been a Clinical Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in South-West then South-East London. My research and clinical interest in nitric oxide, a gas comprising a molecule of just one oxygen and nitrogen atom, started when working for my MD postgraduate research degree at the “University of Beckenham”, …
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 …
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 …
50 at 50: Transforming health care of older people
April 23, 2021
I’ve been in Nottingham for 30 years, and was in touching distance of those who were there at the start of Nottingham medical school. I find it astonishing to reflect on the transformation I witnessed or heard about first hand. I am told that one of the reason for the medical school was the awful …
