Welcome to the ScotGEM stories editors of 2023/2024!
Welcome to the new additions of the editorial team for ScotGEM stories!
Student Stories
My South African Elective
I am a final year ScotGEM student and this year international electives are finally back…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Ben Nevis
My third year on placement in Fort William has so far been brilliant. The people…
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…
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,…
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…
Auchtermuchty – Wear The Fox Hat?
A few weeks after returning from the Christmas and New Year break in 1st year,…
Putting the Piper in Piperacillin
The roar of a thousand musicians making their final instrumental adjustments drifts by with the…
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…
Locked Down Together
As a ScotGEM student, I knew a relationship wasn’t going to be easy. Not because…
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…
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…
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…