Bristol-Cardiff medical schools inter-varsity sports competition 2016

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On Saturday 3rd December 2016, Bristol Medics will take on Cardiff Medics in a day of fierce sporting competition!  Medic sports teams from both universities will be competing for victory across 6 sports – netball, basketball, squash, football, hockey, and rugby.  So get yourselves down to COOMBE DINGLE to support your teams and Bristol Medics!!

THE SCHEDULE AS IT STANDS:

9.30am – 11am: Mens & Womens Squash (Bristol Grammar School)

10am – 11am: Netball

11am – 12.15am: Womens Hockey

12.30pm – 2:15pm: Mens Football

1:00pm – 2:45pm: Mens Rugby

For more info: MEDICS VARSITY 2016 @ Bristol SU

Mindfulness for medical students

Mindfulness wooden sign with a beach on background

In February-March 2017, Dr Alice Malpass and Sarah Millband will be offering two 8 week courses in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on Wednesday afternoons 2-4pm and Tuesday evenings 5-7pm.

These courses are free for medical students who feel they are struggling in some way with stress, low mood or mild anxiety-in relation to work and course or other life events.

Pre-requisites: To attend the 8 week course medical students need to attend a orientation
session, the first of which is on Wednesday December 7th at Canynge Hall,
in room LG.03 at 4.30-5.30pm (more orientations will run in late January).

Please click on this link to see poster/flyer for more information

Recent publications from Bristol students

There are two recent publications from Bristol students in broad areas of Women’s Health. Eliza Thomas, a Year 5 student, gave significant help in the publication of this paper of outcomes of fibroid surgery – assisting at weekends by collecting and assuring the data for the paper:

Should We Still Be Undertaking Open Myomectomies?

Emma Sidebotham, now an FY1, wrote this paper on the global impact of sexual violence while a student in Swindon:

Sexual Violence in Conflict: a Global Epidemic

What you said…What we did…2015/16

Every year we collect feedback from students on each unit and the programme in general.  It is hugely important to us that we respond appropriately to this feedback and that students know what changes they have influenced.

We then use this information to produce a document that aims to summarise “what you said” and “what we did” about some of the feedback we received.

Please click on the link below for the full 2015/16 report:

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St Andrews Psychiatry Scholarship 2017

St Andrew's Healthcare

St Andrew’s Healthcare

All undergraduate medical students enrolled at a UK based University are invited to apply for £2000 worth of funding towards their elective placement in Psychiatry either in the UK or overseas.

www.standrewshealthcare.co.uk/scholarships

The deadline for applications is Sunday 18th December 2016 and further information can be found in the attached pdf file.St-Andrews-Psychiatry-Scholarship-2017.pdf

Duke Elder Undergraduate Prize Examination 2017

Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Royal College of Ophthalmologists

An undergraduate prize examination will be sponsored again this year on a national basis by The Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This examination is intended for medical students who have completed their ophthalmology undergraduate teaching, but it is open to all medical undergraduates provided they have not graduated at the time of the examination.

Students may sit the examination on more than one occasion provided they have not yet graduated and have not previously won the prize. The candidate gaining the highest mark will be offered to chance to visit St John’s Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.

The winning candidate can alternatively choose a cash prize of £400.

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