Over the weekend the Medical School Colleges committee put on a wonderful event at St George’s Hall off Park Street. This was the first college activity of the year and certainly got things off to a great start! Live music was provided by second year medics, ably supported by a local musician who can often… Read More »
Click on the link to see the latest MB ChB Programme Newsletter 7 2017-18 Articles in this edition include: • Graduation – July 17th • ASME overpowered by Bristol • Useful conferences for students • Medical school movements
On Friday 23rd February we held another brilliant event to celebrate the success of our students and to inspire others to even greater heights! The Excellence in Medicine Conference was held in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building. We also had a record number (175!) of amazing poster presentations in the Reception Room.… Read More »
The University of Bristol has achieved some significant successes in the 2017 National Student Survey (NSS), scoring highly in many subject areas. The NSS is an annual national survey of final-year undergraduate students that runs across all publicly-funded higher education institutions across to UK. The results show some excellent performances within individual schools and departments,… Read More »
Last Tuesday morning, we woke to the terrible news from Manchester, with stories of lost children and lost parents, and the distress we felt across the country. We heard at the end of the week that two Bristol graduates, Arun Banerji and Manu Pillai (both MB ChB in 2016 and now working as FY1s in… Read More »
Click here to read the recently published MB ChB Programme newsletter: MB ChB Programme Newsletter 6 2016-7 If you would like to include something in the next edition please contact Programme Administrator Susan Pettinger-Moores (susan.pettinger-moores@bristol.ac.uk)
A huge thank you to all the 1st year medical students that attended the University of Bristol Oncology Society (UBONC) element 8 and 9 revision session on the 30th of April. We had a huge turnout with over 140 people attending the session. Our aim was to simplify the more complex topics of Immunology/Cancer Biology… Read More »
Is the Hippocratic oath still relevant to practising doctors today? [BMJ] Authors: Kathy Oxtoby | Publication date: 14 Dec 2016 | Read the full article on the BMJ website Doctors have so many different views about what professional oaths mean, says Kathy Oxtoby, that it could be time to consider what they should say or if they should… Read More »
The British Medical Association are putting together a webinar on preparing for the SJT, which might be useful to Year 5 and even all students. You do need to be a BMA member to get to it, and it will be on November 22nd, starting at 6pm. The web link for this page is: https://www.bma.org.uk/events/2016/november/preparing-for-sjt-webinar
Welcome The new academic year is now well underway and events that seemed distant are now nearly upon us. This is a very busy year for the programme with the GMC visit and all the activity around the curriculum review. In this newsletter: GMC visit What’s new, curriculum review Welcome to Andrew Blythe Academic… Read More »