Monday 3 rd February 2014 Registration

Sharmila Sothi Introduction

Hospital Tours

Life as a Junior Doctor with Dr James Morgan

Ethics Symposium Talk with Dr Andrew Short

Tuesday 4 th February Sharmila Sothi Medicine

Anatomy & Interview Practice

Hospital Tours

Clinical Talks

Wednesday 5 th February 2013 Talks

Surgical Session with Mr Chris Harmston, Gary Walton & Dr Manpreet Dillon Ethics Feedback with Dr Andrew Short

What about a Career in Psychiatry? with Dr Ayman Zaghloul Medical School Admission with Dr Barnes-Davies

Comments Registration: Friendly and well organised welcome. Introduction: Good start to the day and informed us of what to expect during the course. Sharmila was very enthusiastic and keen for us to give responses and get involved. Radiology: Interesting presentation and tour. Very well explained. Staff very helpful and friendly. Anaesthetics: Good answers to questions, they genuinely love their job. Mannequin models were amazing. Dialysis: The initial oral presentation was friendly and full of content, speaking to the patients and asking questions enabled us to gain a great insight. Really informative, lovely staff. Lots of information yet remained interesting. Paediatrics: Really enjoyed comprehensive visit to the ward and found it very informative. Endoscopy: Very nice nurse, knowledgeable – concise content. I feel as though I learnt a lot in the brief endoscopy visit about polyps, gastroscopy, colonoscopy and sphincters (muscular ring at the top of the oesophagus) Resus/CPR: Loved learning CPR and recovery position. Good demonstration and practical. Learnt a lot of practical skills which can be applied to real life situations. Very good useful life skills. Life as a Junior Doctor with Dr James Morgan: Very honest and gave some good ideas about ensuring we have back up options etc. James spoke clearly. I felt he covered a lot and it was interesting to hear how he used an alternative route to study the degree. Ethics Symposium Talk with Dr Andrew Short: Philosophical, intriguing. Enjoyable, participating was interesting and fun. A&E: Doctors were excellent, so inspiring. This has really confirmed my passion to be a doctor if I can end up like them! Dr Chris Turner - Very Inspirational! Incredibly engaging talk. Very good. My favourite visit so far, Chris Turner was a really good person to talk to, the lady that taught us to put the plaster on was also really fun. Anatomy: Highly interesting and very different. It was a great opportunity to be able to see the plastinated bodies. Best part of the course. Extremely interesting, best session yet, made it a lot easier to understand exactly what organs/bones/muscles look like, how they are connected and work. My favourite part of the course. Students were friendly and knowledgeable.

Comments cont... Interview Practice: Students were experienced and helpful, answered any queries, great interview tips. The most useful part of the course. Talking to a medical student was invaluable. Extremely helpful. Heather Stirling, Paediatrics Talk: Gave a clear run through what the paediatrics would include, was very interesting and informative. Very thorough and well thought out presentation. Dr Amy Chue, Microbiology: In depth knowledge, interesting to learn about other and more unusual medical specialities/medicine abroad. She was amazing. It was interesting to hear how their side of medicine mixed academics with patient care. Dr Sharmili Sothi, Oncology: Very interesting to hear about how to balance work and family life. It was fascinating to hear more in- depth knowledge as to how radiotherapy is so effective. An inspirational presentation, very interesting job. Ethics Workshop: Working with current junior doctors was invaluable and the topics covered were thought provoking. I was made to think through the points of an argument to which I didn’t agree which helped me to have a more open mind. Fun. Nice teamwork activities. Surgical Session: Inspirational people with very interesting jobs. Fantastic. I could not fault any of them. Great insight into surgery and the various specialties within surgery. Ethics Feedback: Very interesting points brought up. Again, thought provoking and intriguing presentation, useful Q&A at the end. Dr Ayman Zaghloul: Very good, interesting and valuable Mr Chris Harmston – Enjoyable and informative with friendly people. Nice to see they still had a good full university experience. Mention of finances appreciated. Interesting to hear about the lives of postgraduate junior doctors. Matthew Patterill, Work Experience & Anaesthetics – Helpful to see it can be a ‘family’ career too. Very informative. Learnt more options for family friendly specialities. Great opportunity. Sharmila Sothi, Oncology – Great personality and I was very grateful for the speech. Amazing information given, enjoyed it very much. Dr Sothi covered a painful subject in a sensitive way. Her presentation was brilliant. She had a great influence on me. General – Awesome. Very privileged to have this experience. Wonderful and extremely helpful. Excellent 3 days. THANK YOU!