The Complete University guide (just published) for this year ranked the University overall as being 17th in the country. The data are all on https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings. The medical programme is ranked 10th, up 7 places since the last publication, and indeed, Prof Cahill can remember about 10 years ago when we were 31st out of 32. This… Read More »
Anna Taylor, Year 5 on elective, has published a paper based on her work in the year 2 Disability, Diversity and Disadvantage Unit which shows the benefit of formal teaching for undergraduates on interacting with patients from the LGBT community. The teaching programme she and Hannah Condry used (3D lead, GP and co-author) has been… Read More »
For the first time since the SJT process came in, there are no Bristol students still waiting to be placed at this stage of the year on the Foundation School Programme. Our students this year have scored on average higher than the national average of scores, which is partly why they have all done so… Read More »
The RMBF aims to support and protect the future of the medical profession, offering financial help in the form of grants for students facing critical and unexpected hardship while studying. Previously this support was offered in the form of loans, but by switching to grants the RMBF hopes to reach more students in need who… Read More »
Click here to read the recently published MB ChB Programme newsletter: MB ChB Programme Newsletter 5 2016-7v.1 If you would like to include something in the next edition please send it to Susan Pettinger-Moores susan.pettinger-moores@bristol.ac.uk
A £21 million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) in Bristol will launch this week [3 April]. The research centre, awarded to University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol) and the University of Bristol by the NIHR, will conduct cutting-edge research to develop new, ground-breaking treatments, diagnostics, prevention and care… Read More »
This essay prize is open to all undergraduate medical students across the UK. We are looking for original pieces of work focusing on one of three topics around the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Over 7,000 women a year are diagnosed with ovarian cancer across the UK and it is the deadliest of the gynaecological… Read More »
Unpaywall, a new Open Access tool got released today that makes finding Open Access articles really easy. There is a (different) blog post that contains more information: https://tinyurl.com/mv65t2g There is a more indepth article about Unpaywall here: https://tinyurl.com/mqoweur For more information please contact the Medical Subject Librarian Richard Kielb Richard.Kielb@bristol.ac.uk
The Royal Society of Medicine has a number of essay competitions for Medical Students and Trainees across of broad range of disciplines. You may want to consider making a submission based on one of your student selected components. You can access the current list at https://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/search?programme=232271#1490973972675
The Royal Society for Medicine invites applications for its patient safety students and trainees prize. This recognises abstracts that define a problem in the hospital or community setting related to patient safety and describe a solution for the problem stated. Submissions may be based on audits, quality improvement projects, prototypes of new devices or software… Read More »