ScotGEM student on the pioneer 2018-2022 cohort, former transport manager and before that, researcher in the biomedical sciences.
I think I can safely say I’ve found my favourite bit of Scotland. Argyll is the sprawling, ancient and breathtakingly scenic south-west of the country, featuring two wild parts of the mainland, most of the islands of the Inner Hebrides, and, of course, my home for the past six months: the peninsula of Kintyre. I thought I’d share some of the photos I’ve taken over the past few months with you all.
Last week, the students of ScotGEM’s Year 3 currently based within NHS Highland got together (in an orderly, socially-distanced manner) for some in-person tutorials and clinical simulations at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness.
When the consultant in charge of a hospital’s Emergency Department puts out a trauma call, quite a few things happen almost immediately.
Two months after the UK finally began to lock down, Year 2 ScotGEM students like myself have come to the end of our abridged teaching for the academic year. For second years, the final six weeks of the session were originally planned to be a smorgasbord of exciting teaching and hands-on clinical experiences in emergency and pre-hospital medicine in our chosen health boards.
We recently had the pleasure of talking to Dr Tom Watchman, creator of the popular Zero To Finals series of books, podcasts and online resources for medical students.
ScotGEM Stories recently interviewed Professor Chris Isles, the Director of Undergraduate Education for NHS Dumfries & Galloway. Prof. Isles contributes to ScotGEM’s teaching in Dumfries and is also the Hospital Sub-Dean for University of Glasgow students at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.
A very happy new year from everyone at ScotGEM Stories – we look forward to sharing with you our journey over this coming year and beyond!
Welcome to ScotGEM Stories, a new multimedia blog designed to allow medical students of the new Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine programme to share our experiences of studying medicine in the unique, remote & rural context of our course.
Before the launch of ScotGEM Stories, we interviewed Dr Graham Tydeman, a consultant obstetrician who, while working in NHS Fife, contributed to our teaching on ScotGEM.
