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09/06/2026

👨‍⚕️ Intercalating next year? Did you know you can take on some paid work as a Patient Instructor in our Clinical Skills department?

💰 It’s a great way to keep up your clinical skills and earn a bit of extra money. Seb did just that during his MRes this year. The work is flexible and fits easily around your schedule, plus you get to brush up on clinical content from previous years and support fellow students with their learning. Winner!

💬 “It's quite interesting to be on the other side of it and be the patient and think about stuff like examinations that I haven't thought about in my intercalation year. It's been useful to jog my memory, but also quite nice to help out the students as well.”

📧 Sound like something you’d like to take on? Let the Clinical Skills Team know at [email protected].

03/06/2026

🫶 Shivani is no stranger to a School Prize! She’s picked up awards in a number of categories throughout her time with us. Let’s just say, we have looked forward to catching up with her family at our annual prize evening.

🏆 Last year’s win was for the Shaun Jackson Prize for Clinical Anatomy for her presentation ‘Acute angle closure Glaucoma - Anatomy behind the emergency’, commended by judges for its excellent explanation of anatomical risk factors, the clear linkage between symptoms and their anatomical basis and a brilliant quiz to consolidate learning.

🗨️ “I was inspired by a Glaucoma clinic on clinical placement at Arrowe Park. I feel like my anatomy around the eye was pretty poor, but the consultant was really helpful and helped me understand me build an understanding, together with my own research, which I then put into this resource to help others learn about the condition.

💡 “You might think submitting to a prize takes up a lot of time and energy, but in my experience it’s a great way to revise and helps you prepare for your exams. I would say keep an eye out on placement, on your ward rounds and patient interactions for interesting cases or symptoms that you can then look into and ask the doctors about. Try to challenge yourself and go out the way for your own learning, and don’t forget to have fun with it!”

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in years 3-5 with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details and get to work on an entry that might get you on the School Prize Leaderboard!

02/06/2026

🏆 Pakhi wowed the judges with her presentation on Anaphylaxis. A clear presentation style and great quiz at the end bagged her the Physiology Tough Topics Made Easy Prize.

🗨️ “Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening emergency that I believe every healthcare student should feel confident understanding and managing. I took it as an opportunity to learn myself. I revised my physiological processes, took a look at the national guidelines and built some clear diagrams and concise explanations to put together in a presentation.”

💡 “I’ve always been interested in medical education throughout med school, I’ve focused a lot on teaching the younger years. The best way to learn is by clarifying a complex topics and making it a simplified concept, which is what I tried to do here. Whether it’s a topic you find interesting or challenging, give it a go. Start small. Clinical relevance and clarity matter most.”

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in years 3-5 with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details and give it a go – it’s a great opportunity to help yourself and others consolidate key concepts.

29/05/2026

🥺 Today is the day.

Many of you will know Justin as one of our Clinical Skills Team. Having joined the School in late 2009, he's spent the last 16 years teaching & assessing countless student doctors but today is his final day before he retirement.

💃🕺During those 16 years he's been incredibly active in student life, dedicating his time to attending productions, helping run quizzes & student events and serving as a judge for 's version of Strictly; of which he became a lifetime member earlier this year.

Not content just combining that with his teaching, he has also continued to work at his beloved Anfield in a variety of roles, including assisting current student doctors working there, as well as fundraising for several causes, particularly MacMillan Cancer Research, which you can read about elsewhere on this page.

♥️ Ahead of his final day, he agreed to sit down with the Engagement Team for a chat & we'll share that later in the term. For now, all we can say is thank you Justin, for everything 🫶

Feel free to share any stories/memories/well wishes you have below 👇 we'll make sure he gets them!

29/05/2026

🏆 Ammar won the General Practice Prize for his comprehensive South Asian Health Hub – a website offering tools and guidance geared specifically towards South Asian patients to tackle a current health gap and issue with obesity.

💻 The judges said this would be an incredibly useful tool for both patients and GPs, highlighting especially the use of AI to address questions and make helpful food swap suggestions.

🗨️ “The BMI ranges where you’re at risk for things like hypertension and heart disease are lower for South Asian patients as we’re more genetically predisposed to those conditions, so we require intervention a little earlier. While doctors are aware of it, they aren’t necessarily equipped with the right cultural knowledge to offer the best advice on diet and lifestyle.

🥙 “The Health Hub can be signposted by GPs to provide South Asians with guidance on all health aspects, allowing them to check their BMI, their calorie intake, offer culturally relevant food choices and substitutes, as well as being a useful reference point for healthcare professionals - how to go about consultations, what questions to ask, what prompts, just to help the doctors out.”

💡 What did Ammar get out of it? “I’ve got web development experience and it’s something I enjoy doing. I added the AI implementation to challenge myself so there it was all about mitigating errors and making sure any answers it provided would be verified. The process of making the resource and thinking of helping or improving a certain aspect of primary care gets you thinking in a different way - you can steer it in any direction and use your own skills.”

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in all years with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details.

27/05/2026

🏆 Danielle might be a familiar face to you as she gets involved in heaps of peer teaching. It was this passion for supporting others that won her the Pathology Prize for her targeted refresher - Understanding Portal Hypertension: Mechanism, Complications, and the role of TIPS – highly commended by prize judges for its high-quality visual slides, great flow and fantastic explanation of the interventional radiology procedure.

🗨️ “When I was in third year I really struggled with understanding portal hypertension and the knock-on effects on the body. I wondered, what is TIPS surgery? Why don’t we just do that directly and cut out all the middle man?! So I did a lot of research and wanted to share those findings with others as I’m really passionate about teaching and wanted to help out others on something I had particularly struggled with.”

👩‍⚕️ “It actually ended up being equally as beneficial for me as a clinical refresher – going all the way from base concept to how this can actually be applied to a human being, which is the foundation of pathophysiology. I’ve also been involved in things like BME Medics teaching and I really care about open education. Medicine is tough and if anything can make it easier it’s always good to share it.”

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in all years with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details.

22/05/2026

🏆 Sustainability is a key focus area for the School, University and the NHS, the first healthcare system in the world to commit to reaching Net Zero. The new Sustainable Health Impact Award went to Ruby for her engaging and impactful presentation applying the reduce, reuse, recycle framework to make routine endoscopies more sustainable.

🗨️ “I attended the Green Surgery Conference in Birmingham last year which really made me start thinking about how to make surgery and healthcare more generally more sustainable. I was particularly interested in GI from Years 1 and 2 and the carbon footprint that endoscopies are making, if you think about the running and cleaning of the machines, the amount of single-use instruments that are used, patient travel to and from hospital.

🌱 Sustainability is applicable to all aspects of healthcare so I would suggest picking an area of medicine you are interested in and think about how to make it more sustainable. If, like me, you’re an advocate for sustainability please give a follow and we hope to see you at one of our events soon!”

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in all years with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details and make your pitch in the name of sustainable healthcare.

21/05/2026

🥇 Student Doctor Sharvaree Tambe is thrilled she took on the role of Course Rep in her final year, with award-winning results!

💭 Fresh off her win at the Guild Awards for Course Rep of the Year, she shares what she has learnt from Repping this year – gaining new perspectives and collaborating with students, senior leadership and .

🏥 Sharvaree has launched a Placement Guide packed with tips and hacks from experienced student doctors, aimed at helping students settle into their clinical rotations quickly and easily with super useful info around travel, parking and the all-important food options!

📝 She’s gathering input to take the guide further, ensuring it covers the information you find useful, from a peer to peer perspective. Check out the guide and share your ideas on Support on Placement on the Student Intranet (link in Story).

🤩 Nice work Sharvaree on all you have achieved this year! Keen to follow in her footsteps? Look out for a fresh round of Course Rep nominations in the new academic year.

20/05/2026

🏆 Adit won the Prize for Public Health for his presentation on how to reduce hip fractures in older adults by preventing them in the first place.

🏋️ Adit wowed the judges with an engaging video submission he pulled off with a little help from a friend, which saw Adit demonstrating exercises for patients at the gym and stood outside Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, where he completed a work experience placement in orthopaedics, which switched him on to Medicine in the first place.

💬 “I’ve always been drawn to orthopaedics and thought why not look at it from a prevention angle to really reduce the burden on orthopaedic services. Hip fractures are really expensive, really common and can be prevented with the proper procedures in place.”

🗨️ “I was really shocked at just how much money could be saved. Hip fractures cost the NHS around £2 billion annually and implementing fracture liaison services consistently would require an investment of around £30 million so the savings would be significant, and this is something that is completely realistic and achievable.

🔗 This prize is open to student doctors in all years with entries closing on 5 June. See the link in our Stories for full details.

💡 Final word from Adit? “Go for it! It doesn’t need to be a massive project or a really complex idea. When I learn the most is when things are done in an engaging, approachable way, when there’s maybe a comedic element or visual impact so that’s what I tried to emulate with my entry – making something that viewers would like to see.”

20/05/2026

🥳 We're half way through the Cedar Hub takeovers by our new

🫶 Supported by the Kieran Brinn Fund, the Wellbeing Ambassadors are mental health first aided trained student doctors, who offer 1:1 peer support sessions for medical students.

🗣️ The team have been trained over several months, to offer informal drop ins every Wednesday between 1 & 5pm, they have also helped renovate a Wellbeing Room (Room 226) open to all students within Cedar House.

🍕 Alongside this, they have been running Cedar House takeovers for the 4 week exam period featuring free pizza, food & drink, arts, board games & crafts to allow students to relax whilst revising for exams. You'll find them in the Student Hub between 2 - 5pm this week and next week.

You can hear more from the team above and follow them at

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