ScotGEM Stories
Graduation
Graduation! It’s hard to believe that it’ll be happening just a couple of weeks from now. It feels like it was just the other day when fifty-five eager new ScotGEMs took a seat in one of the seminar rooms at the School of Medicine in St Andrews for our first induction session, getting over a different dose of disbelief that we’d been given a place in the inaugural cohort of the first ever graduate-entry, accelerated medical degree programme in Scotland.
Quitting Smoking at Medical School
Smoking was once a very large part of my life. It was there when I wanted a break, which was as often as humanly possible. My relationship with smoking was a strange one – I knew that it was bad for me in every way possible, but I was always able to put a time limit on it which somehow made it okay to keep going.