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December Print Edition
Want to read the Medical Student in all its glory? You can pick up a free print issue from the student union buildings listed below. You can also find copies in doctors' messes in teaching hospitals around London.
The NHS Strikes Back
Written by Rhys Davies
On Wednesday November 30th, two million (according to their unions) public sector workers went on strike to protest the governments planned changes to their pensions. The changes include workers paying more into their...
Editorial
Written by John Hardie - Editor-in-Chief
As this is my final column as Editor-in-Chief and the final issue of the year, I hope youll allow me a little indulgence. I also have a few confessions to make, but well come to that later.
In December...
Presidents' Updates - December 2011
M Alexander Shimmings - GKT MedSoc President
Things at GKT have been very busy of late. November saw the return of the much-despised-byKCLSU event Beaujolais Nouveau. For those not in the know, this French event celebrates the bottling of the new...
Imperial, UCL and King's AIDS HIV with Pub Crawl
Written by Tobi Issac Obisanya
Medsin Imperial have just finished running Positively Red Week 2011: ZERO. There were events every day of the week to engage, involve and mobilise students in the fight against AIDS. Monday marked the...
Saved at the ICSM Trauma Conference
Written by Khizr Nawab
The weekend of November 19th and 20th saw the sixth annual Trauma Conference hosted by Imperial College Surgical Society at the Imperial College South Kensington campus. A large-scale conference, Trauma 2011 drew in...
ICSM battles Barts at MedSoc conference
Written by Seetha Muthalagappan and Ali Hosin
On November 26th and 27th the annual International MedSoc Committee Conference was held at the Birmingham Medical School. The weekend was packed with useful lectures, discussion groups and workshops,...
Diary of an FY1
Written by Junaid Fukuta
With my first night on call looming, this period of the day usually reserved for partying and sleeping takes on a whole new feel. Many of my colleagues have already done their set of nights and I had asked around to...
Civil Hospital
Written by Hafsa Hanif - Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi
In the first of a series of articles on perspectives of medical students around the world, Hafsa Hanif, a student at the Dow University of Health Sciences in Karachi,...
Research-in-Brief
BL: Researchers at Barts have discovered five new genetic variants associated with blood pressure. Analysing data taken from over 25,000 people, the group searched for DNA sequences that appeared to be associated with either particularly high or...