School of Medicine
The University of Nottingham retired its blog service in December 2025.
The following is a list of preserved posts from the School of Medicine blog.
- 5 Top Tips on how to ace your job application
- 50 at 50: A message from the incoming MedSoc President
- 50 at 50: A message from the MedSoc President
- 50 at 50: Alumni 40th Year Reunion Tour at the Medical School
- 50 at 50: As the School of Medicine reaches middle age, it’s time to think about ageing
- 50 at 50: Black History Month and Diversifying Medicine
- 50 at 50: Care Leavers and Higher Education
- 50 at 50: Celebrating Diversity
- 50 at 50: Coping with Illness in the Digital Era: The Role of Online Peer Support
- 50 at 50: Covid-19: Looking after your mental health
- 50 at 50: Dean’s Blog
- 50 at 50: Dean’s Closing Blog
- 50 at 50: The Dean’s Symposium: Transformative inclusion: The future of healthcare
- 50 at 50: Developing as an Early Career Researcher
- 50 at 50: How Dr Lindsey Davies is inspiring the next generation of doctors
- 50 at 50: Graduate Entry Medicine, A Different Kind of Freedom
- 50 at 50: Ian Hall: Reflections on 35 Years in Medicine
- 50 at 50: Inaugural FMed Conference, May 2021
- 50 at 50: Innovations in Medical Education Conference
- 50 at 50: Integrating clinical care, research and education in the management of older women with breast cancer
- 50 at 50: Introducing the new Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine
- 50 at 50: LGBT+ History Month
- 50 at 50: Life Lessons From A Current Medical Student
- 50 at 50: Lincoln Medical School
- 50 at 50: Making the First Cut – Increasing diversity in surgical careers
- 50 at 50: Mental Health and Medical Students
- 50 at 50: Modern medicine: Miraculous or monstrous?
- 50 at 50: Myth, Medicine and the Marginalised
- 50 at 50: No research about me without me! Welcoming the patient and public voice to research
- 50 at 50: Nottingham, a centre of excellence for stroke rehabilitation research
- 50 at 50: Optimising newborn care to achieve to better health for a better future
- 50 at 50: PINCER – transforming healthcare
- 50 at 50: PRIMIS – Transforming primary care data
- 50 at 50: Raising the stakes in medical education
- 50 at 50: Reflections on a year of Covid-19 from a clinical academic perspective
- 50 at 50: Reflections on directing the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme and being a Welsh sheepdog during the pandemic
- 50 at 50: Reflections on my time at Nottingham Medical School: Achieving excellence in primary care and applied health research
- 50 at 50: Sir Peter Rubin: Overcoming challenges and embracing opportunities
- 50 at 50: Standing on the shoulders of giants
- 50 at 50: StreetDoctors
- 50 at 50: Students for Global Health
- 50 at 50: Students responding to 999 calls in Nottingham
- 50 at 50: Tamra’s Notes
- 50 at 50: The experience of undertaking CP1 during the Covid-19 pandemic
- 50 at 50: The First Year of Graduate Entry Medicine
- 50 at 50: The life and times of Professor David Walker
- 50 at 50: Transforming health care of older people
- 50 at 50: Transforming healthcare: High explosive treatment for treatment of stroke
- 50 at 50: UoN First Responders Milestone Achievement
- 50 at 50: Utilising your opportunities
- 50 at 50: Women in Medicine – Pain Inequality: A Healthcare Bias
- A Day in Anaesthetics
- A day in paediatrics
- A day in the life of a medical student
- A day on the wards
- A foundation for life, not just a degree
- A new adventure: designing eczema research as a citizen scientist.
- A peek into 2nd year of medicine
- Addressing the Eczema PSP priorities with citizen science
- Adventurous extracurriculars!
- An audience with Professor Sir Steve Jackson
- An educational weekend away!
- An Ex-Student’s Guide to MPT
- Being a Rapid Eczema Trials Community Champion
- Bella: My experience studying medicine at Nottingham
- BMedSci project: “A vision for the future of gross anatomy teaching at medical school”
- Boosting study recruitment by engaging with Be Part of Research
- BSc project
- Callum: My experience studying medicine at Nottingham
- Career paths
- CIEL: The Student Committee for Me
- Clinical placement at Kings Mill Hospital
- Considerations when choosing a medical school
- Considering a Gap Year?
- Coping with anxiety at medical school
- Could how you wash be affecting your eczema?
- Disability Recognition Month: Studying Medicine with a chronic disability
- Dissertation Difficulties
- Echolalia!
- Eczema Care Online – one year on…
- Eczema is Different – Reflections on our first Community Q&A
- Elective in Thailand
- Exams exams exams…
- Exploring community beliefs around clinical research
- First in the family
- Fresher Fails!
- From MPT to Covid Vaccinator and Beyond
- Full body dissection
- Fundraising for the Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre
- Fundraising for the Medic’s Musical 2022/23: RENT
- Getting involved in volunteering
- Getting out and about with Rapid Eczema Trials
- Getting out there: My experiences at a Physiology Young Life Scientist’s Symposium
- Graduate entry medicine – realising a childhood dream
- Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM)
- Graduate Entry Medicine (Part 1)
- Graduate Entry Medicine (Part 2)
- Hannah: My experience with cancer sciences
- Hello from Australia!
- Home away from home
- Hosting the Student Wilderness Medicine Conference 2017
- How a student project transformed lives
- How to balance work and study
- How to utilize your summer holidays before Year 13
- I had a less than typical first year
- Interview experience
- Interview Tips!
- Interviews *Cue dramatic music*
- Intro to CP1
- Judging the Rapid Eczema Trials art competition
- Just one thing…
- Life as a pre-clinical student
- Life as a second year medical student
- Life as an international student
- Making the most of open days
- Making the move to university – Home or Away?
- Medical placements in the Dominican Republic
- Medical school admissions — Multi Mini Interviews (MMI)
- Medical school: Education or Competition?
- Medicine and the work-work balance
- Medicine, Nottingham and the Adventures beyond
- Medics’ Musical 2017 – West Side Story
- Medics Musical 2024 – 9 to 5: The Musical
- Memories of Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Memories of the Nottingham Medical School Football Club
- Mental health in a global pandemic
- Mission Zambia 2017
- Mission Zambia: Outreach Trip to Mwandi
- Money – student loans and how to stretch them!
- More tips for the wards!
- MPT and applying to GEM
- My BMedSci research experience: a peek into academia
- My Clinical Phase 1 Experience
- My journey into research as a person with eczema
- My tip about work experience: Just do it!
- Networking with other citizen science teams
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology – Gross or Great?
- Online eczema trials – reducing the carbon footprint of research
- Peer support at medical school
- Placement in psychiatry and running the London Marathon (Part 1)
- Poster Day for our 3rd year MPT students
- Pre-hospital emergency medicine
- Presenting my Final Year Project at Physiology2021 – The Rob Clarke Awards!
- Prize-winning eczema research
- Rapid Eczema Trials: Life of an intern
- Re-learning to revise (Part 1)
- Re-learning to revise (Part 2)
- Reflections of an LGBTQ+ Medical Student for LGBTQ+ History Month
- Reflections on the Rapid Eczema Trials community – your voice
- Regional GP work experience scheme
- Representing Medical Physiology and Therapeutics at the Education Network Awards
- Research projects and the BMedSci
- Respiratory Medicine and Covid-19
- Roei: My experiences with Cancer Sciences
- Rowan: My experience studying Cancer Sciences
- Running the London Marathon (Part 2)
- Scrub a dub dub, eczema in the tub – what does the research say?
- Shaking it up a bit — studying a semester of medicine abroad
- Some tips for the UKCAT
- Space Biology, Worms, and MPT
- Sporting opportunities
- Student life and Medicine
- Studying abroad
- Studying Medical Physiology and Therapeutics (MPT)
- Summer Days: How to spend your holiday before Results Day
- Summer school opportunities
- Susan Manoharan: MPT Alumni Profile
- Taking MPT to an MDT – Interprofessional Collaborative Workshop
- Talking eczema flare-ups
- The BMA: what is it and how can you get the most out of your membership?
- The burden of eczema patients in Kenya
- The Dragon In My Skin: book, animation, and resource pack for schools to raise awareness about life with eczema and encourage self-care
- The Elective
- The First Lincoln Medical Students’ Special Visits
- The Graduate Entry Medicine course
- The pros of living out
- The wait for university offers…
- Third year of medical school
- Tips for getting into medical school – Habeeb Muhammad-Kamal
- Tips for the wards
- Together We Will Overcome Addiction – My week at the Betty Ford Centre
- Top 10 Freshers’ Fails!
- Top 10 things to do in the First Year
- Transition to Higher Education (Tips from a mature medical student)
- Transitioning from high school to university
- Transitioning from pre-clinical to clinical phase
- Tropical Medicine and Beyond Module in Malaysia
- UCAS
- Understanding the evidence behind eczema treatments
- We all bathe differently
- Welcome to Med School Life!
- What an amazing year 2024 has been
- What happens after Medical School?
- What is the RAPID Eczema Trials project?
- What qualities make a good doctor?
- When the answers from health research are not what you want to hear
- When Things Don’t Go To Plan… A Levels Result Day
- Which med school: A local experience
- Welfare – who supports students?
- Widening participation in the news
- Work experience
- Work Experience in General Practice
- Work experience opportunity
- Writing the Personal Statement for medical school applications
- Writing your personal statement