Day in the life of a neurosurgeon SHO?
Sub-dural bleeds. Neonatal neurosurgery wards. Ventricular-peritoneal stents. These are just a few of the things a neurosurgeon can...
Breaking The Cycle: Opioid Crisis
"Opioid Epidemic" is the phrase which is being used to describe the era that the USA is currently in, with opioid addiction driving the...
First Inter-Professional Education Gathering At Welcome Week
At the University of Birmingham, during Welcome Week of 2017, The University hosted the First Inter-Professional Education Gathering for...
Sneak Peak Into Aseptic Manufacturing Unit (Cytotoxic Drug and TPN Production)
Licensed Medication. Unlicensed Medication. Specials. Each can be written on a prescription for a patient to take to their local...
An Alien’s Take of the NHS
We can all agree that being a medical student is hard enough as it is. Now, imagine having to go through it all while adjusting to a new...
My experience of Intercalating in Anatomy at King’s College London
To Intercalate or Not to intercalate? That is the question that almost every medical student is confronted with at least once in their...
The Clock Gene
This September, Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their addition to the work begun in...
Why don’t you just eat normally?
We have come a long way in understanding the processes behind mental health disorders, but the stigma of them is ever-present. Whilst...
