Nith Inshore Rescue: A day of being rescued for ScotGEM
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Nith Inshore Rescue: A day of being rescued for ScotGEM
ScotGEM third year students in Dumfries and Galloway participate in a Nith Inshore Rescue training…
The Emergency Responders for the future
Training the emergency responders of the future! A 6 week block in urgent and immediate…
A Highland Day to Remember: Glen Affric
When thinking about what I wanted to write about for ScotGEM Stories, one day particularly…
ScotGEM: An Unexpected Journey
A journey of two ScotGEM students and two GCMs cycling from Belfast to Limerick for…
Ushering in a new era for ScotGEM stories
Hello from your new team of editors at ScotGEM stories! To start off the 2022/2023…
Graduation
Graduation! It’s hard to believe that it’ll be happening just a couple of weeks from…
Pass Me The Needle
Having travelled two and a half hours from my rural LIC (longitudinal integrated clerkship) GP…
A New Doctor in the Western Isles
The Western Isles hold some of the most beautiful and untouched scenery Scotland has to…
An Emergency in the Hills
I had never really given much thought to how my first experience of delivering CPR…
A Fantastic Fortnight in Skye
Majestic, magical, misty… these are all words that come to mind when describing the wonderful…
A Rural Journey
Looking back, it is hard to pinpoint exactly where my excitement and drive for rural…
Island Life
Moving further away from home to the Western Isles in the middle of a global…
One Newspaper Later…
Time flies when you are whizzing about every corner of Scotland for four years, but…
West is Best
If you don’t believe me, Princess Anne once said, “Sailing on a sunny day in…
A Year in the Highlands
As part of the ScotGEM course, a year is spent undertaking a longitudinal integrated clerkship….
Argyll
I think I can safely say I’ve found my favourite bit of Scotland. Argyll is…
Ben Nevis
My third year on placement in Fort William has so far been brilliant. The people…
Dr Roger Strasser and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine
In our latest interview, Callum speaks to Dr Roger Strasser, Professor of Rural Health at…
My Helicopter Ride
Hi, I’m Liepa and I am only an honorary member of ScotGEM. As I am…
Aberfeldy
This is the verbal picture of my living in rural Aberfeldy for the past four…
Simulation
Last week, the students of ScotGEM’s Year 3 currently based within NHS Highland got together…
Tiree
Unless you are a surfer, birdwatcher or have been around me for the last year…
Wick-ed: A Day in the Life of Joe
Hi, my name is Joe. I’m one of those pesky third year ScotGEM students currently…
Trauma Call
When the consultant in charge of a hospital’s Emergency Department puts out a trauma call,…
Rainbow over Caithness
Snapped while out on a run… perhaps there’s a medical degree at the end?
The Silver Dark Sea
I was never fond of the sea. As a young girl, I learnt to accept…
Working Through the Pandemic
Hello everyone! A quick introduction: my name is Ash and I am a third-year ScotGEM…
C-Section
The labour ward is the only place in the hospital where, if all goes to…
Remote & Rural Medical Education
In this second part of the interview, Robert discusses what things to weigh up if…
What Is It Like To Be A Rural Doctor?
Dr Robert Scully is the Lead Generalist Clinical Mentor on ScotGEM and has extensive experience…
Up a Creek Without a Paddle
I thrashed around in the water, trying to get my bearing as to where I…
Auchtermuchty – Wear The Fox Hat?
A few weeks after returning from the Christmas and New Year break in 1st year,…
Finding my Feet
As cliché as it may sound, time really does fly. I can still vividly remember…
Putting the Piper in Piperacillin
The roar of a thousand musicians making their final instrumental adjustments drifts by with the…
Is ScotGEM The Punk Rock of Medical Degrees?
The creators of ScotGEM Stories, Callum and Joe, are ex-students of my Kennoway group and…
What I Think About When I Think About Lockdown
I always tell people that I hate running. It’s not my sport, I’ve always been…
Virtual Sanity
From Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, “If you can keep your head when all about you…
Two-Metre Rule
Two months after the UK finally began to lock down, Year 2 ScotGEM students like…
Dr Tom Watchman, Creator of ‘Zero To Finals’
We recently had the pleasure of talking to Dr Tom Watchman, creator of the popular…
There’s No Wrong Way
Thank you, ScotGEM Stories team, for inviting me to write something for your blog! It…
Professor Chris Isles
ScotGEM Stories recently interviewed Professor Chris Isles, the Director of Undergraduate Education for NHS Dumfries…
Locked Down Together
As a ScotGEM student, I knew a relationship wasn’t going to be easy. Not because…
Motion is the Lotion
A bit of motivation for these unprecedented times…
Bothies, Beers and Bouldering – Exploring the Highlands
One of the best things about moving to the Highlands is being able to explore…
Remote Learning
Last Sunday evening’s emails came as a shock to many of us. Although aware of…
Professor Ian Parkin
Year 2 student Molly Jakes sat down with Professor Ian Parkin, one of our anatomy…
Learning in our Medical Families
One of the innovative aspects of ScotGEM – and I think many of the cohort…
Quitting Smoking at Medical School
Smoking was once a very large part of my life. It was there when I…
A Quick Break from Work
A little break from my Agents of Change healthcare quality improvement project (which current second…
Life Support
Joanne and Molly giving a lunchtime training session on paediatric basic life support.
Dr Rob Jarvis
We interviewed Dr Rob Jarvis, the co-lead for Student Support for the ScotGEM programme. We…
Exploration of the Inner Hebrides
2020 Vision
A very happy new year from everyone at ScotGEM Stories – we look forward to…
Intubation Guy
One quarter of the way to becoming a doctor, and 6 weeks into the 2nd…
Summer in the Highlands
Hello, my name is Jessica – I am one of the 2nd year ScotGEM students…
Welcome to ScotGEM Stories!
Welcome to ScotGEM Stories, a new multimedia blog designed to allow medical students of the…
Dr Graham Tydeman
Before the launch of ScotGEM Stories, we interviewed Dr Graham Tydeman, a consultant obstetrician who,…