Significant changes to the lending of library materials are due to take effect on Monday 23 January 2017. To ensure that you are fully informed of the changes, and what they will mean for you, please have a look at the following webpages: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/announcements/lending-changes/
Have you ever wondered about research in medicine – what it is like, and how you might get in to it? The Head of the Medical School whose research has been been non lab based and a final year medical student whose research has been non-lab based, Sarah Purdy and Anna Taylor, wrote an article… Read More »
Did you know you can apply for grants from the Alumni Foundation to cover travel costs for conferences? Follow this link for all the information and to apply: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/students/apply-for-funding/
Presently on the University’s website http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/january/high-fliers.html, you will see that Bristol is ranked 3rd by UK employers, including the NHS, last year. This is good news for the University and for the medical school, as it shows the attitude of your future employers to you, as a cohort.
On Friday 13th, at the National Foundation Doctors Presentation Day 2017, FY1s and FY2s from around the country presented topics on a range of subjects. In the cohort were some of last year’s graduates and Charlotte Mason-App won a prize with her co-authors for an oral presentation on “Improving the Quality of referrals received by Liaison Psychiatry… Read More »
For more info on grants and awards available now from the Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education (JASME) visit their website: http://www.asme.org.uk/grants-awards/jasme-grants-awards/ Applications are also invited for the 2017 RCEM Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Essay Prize (worth £1,500!). Click here for more information: http://www.rcem.ac.uk/
University Research Committee (URC) / Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship Scheme (IRIS) Undergraduate students are invited to apply to undertake interdisciplinary research projects in summer 2017. The interdisciplinary research project must be co-supervised by an academic member of staff in the school or department in which the student is registered for… Read More »
Jane Blazeby, 53, champions better understanding and use of evidence in surgery through randomised controlled trials, a course often advocated but seldom adopted because of methodological challenges and “eminence based” surgical practice. She is professor of surgery at Bristol University and an honorary consultant surgeon focusing on gastrointestinal cancer and emergency care. She directs an… Read More »
In collaboration with the INSPIRE initiative and Dr Barnaby Hole from the School of Clinical Sciences, 3rd year medic Joseph Salem has recently had a paper published in the BMJ Open titled ‘How long do patients with chronic disease expect to live?’ This is an open-source publication available to read on the BMJ website: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/12/e012248.full or download… Read More »
Bristol Futures While studying at Bristol, our students gain a wide range of knowledge and skills that are not only vital to getting the most out of their time at university, but also in preparing them for whatever comes next. What is Bristol Futures? Bristol Futures is being designed with input from academic schools, prospective… Read More »