Student Societies

All medical or dental student societies must be registered with the Division of Medical & Dental Education. To fulfill this requirement please complete the registration form and return to arlene.ray@abdn.ac.uk.

All registered groups are listed below.

Aberdeen Student Society for Academic Medicine (ASSAM)

A society to foster undergraduate interest in academic medicine

The Aberdeen Student Society for Academic Medicine aims to encourage and inspire undergraduate interest in medical research.  The society organises an annual summer conference to showcase the best of the student research projects from the academic year and also holds regular events with inspirational talks from leading academics.  The society is affiliated to the National Student Association for Medical Research and provides a friendly forum for networking within academic circles.

President - Mark Glaire mark.glaire.08@aberdeen.ac.uk

Secretary - Rebecca Ormondroyd r.ormondroyd.08@aberdeen.ac.uk

Acute, Critical and Emergency Care Society

An Aberdeen Medical School society for those interested in Acute, Critical and Emergency medicine. 

Ever wondered what actually happens in an A and E department on a Saturday night? Wondered it would be like to the person responsible for your patient's airway… If so then we're the society for you! ACES is one of Aberdeen's newest societies and definitely the biggest adrenaline rush! ACES will be bringing you a variety of talks and workshops allowing an insight into the world of Acute, Critical and Emergency Medicine. So if you have a burning desire to work in Critical care or Anaesthetics doesn't put you to sleep then come and join us!!!

British Medical Association

Aberdeen University Medical Students BMA Committee

The Aberdeen University Medical Students BMA Committee allows students to be involved with wider BMA activity,  The student branch of the BMA is mainly concerned with Student Education, Welfare and Finance and we seek to represent the views of Aberdeen Students within these areas.

Christian Medical Fellowship - Grampian

Interdenominational organisation to help Christian doctors and medical students integrate their medical career with their faith

Christian Medical Fellowship is an interdenominational organisation which exists to unite Christian doctors and students in the Grampian area and encourage them to apply their faith to their practice and study of medicine.  To pray for each other and build community.  To be encouraged in following, serving, living and speaking for Jesus Christ within medicine.

Christian Union

We're a group of Christian students at the University who all love Jesus and want to share His Good News with other students around us.

As a Christian Union we are committed to the evangelical basis of faith of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF). We stand for these truths and want to make them known on campus. We believe these truths, strive to live by them and therefore want everything we do to be consistent with them. 

If you'd like to find out more about what it means to be a Christian, then please email aucu@abdn.ac.uk 
or come along to some of our upcoming events

Dental Society

Social hub for students & staff of Aberdeen Dental School

We're here to get you through the "initial teething phase" of your time in Aberdeen, fill some of your spare time and keep you smiling. 

Friends of MSF

Raise awareness & funds for Medicine Sans Frontieres

Join FoMSF the student charity of Medicine Sans Frontieres (MSF).  MSF are doctors without borders whose belief is "all individuals should receive healthcare regardless of sex, race, religion or politics".  We welcome new members throughout the year to help raise awareness & funds for the MSF and the medical aid they give.  We do this through exciting and fun events from our annual Christmas Party to,  sponsored runs,  to Pimms on the Pitches!  Join us and help raise awareness for this independent humanitarian medical aid organisation, meet new people and hanve FUN!

GP Society

Aberdeen GP Soc is the only society dedicated to the exciting and diverse world of General Practice.

50% of medical students will choose General Practice as a career.Aberdeen GP Society aims to give you the best possible experience of what a career in General Practice will be like. From practical evenings exploring the likes of minor surgery and GP focussed consultation skills to talks from the biggest names in General Practice and lots in between, we offer a free insight into General Practice that will stand any student in great stead for a long and exciting career.

President - Ewan Thomson ewan.thomson.09@aberdeen.ac.uk

Secretary - Louise Cormie louise.cormie.10@aberdeen.ac.uk

Homed

We aim to tackle local homelessness in Aberdeenn as well as raising awareness of the health issues associated with this.

HoMed is a sub society for Medsin. We aim to promote awareness of Homelessness and its effect of health in the community. We help to run Street Alternatives every second Sunday morning by providing a full cooked breakfast for those that use the homeless shelter. We will also provide talks throughout the year to help to identify the problems with homelessness and how we as health professionals can address these.

IPE Society

Multi-disciplinary education with a hands-on practical approach.

The first medical interuniversity society in Scotland!  Aside from the fact that IPE events look great on the CV, our society looks to hold unique and interesting events.  We want to take a fun, practical approach to learning about IPE and run events where all health disciplines can get a chance to try practical skills from each other's courses.  Want to try suturing, taking blood or brush up on your first aid?  Think that there is something even more fun that you would want to try?  Then sign up and get involved in making it happen.

Marrow

The University of Aberdeen Student branch of Anthony Nolan.

We work alongside Anthony Nolan to help recruit people to the bone marrow register to link potential donors with people who desperately need a stem cell transplant. There are 40 Marrow's in universities throughout the UK. Marrow was initially founded in 1998 by a group of student doctors from the University of Nottingham following the death of a friend from leukaemia and has been present in the University of Aberdeen since 2004. Since then Marrow has gone from strength to strength and our work has been recognised by the World Health Organisation's Federation for Medical Students.

Medical Ethics Society

Keeps Medical Ethics in people's minds through topical discussions.

Hello! The Medical Ethics Society is a rather grand name for something which actually aims to be both fun and down to earth.  This is a joint medic-biomed collaboration.  It is NOT just a society for medics!  We would love to see anyone from any course come along to our discussions and events.  This society is all about keeping up to date with current issues within the field, exercising your own powers of reasoning and meeting people who are just as curious and interested as yourselves.

Medical Society

Providing support in education and social/cultural opportunities for medical students at all stages in their career

Join Aberdeen University's biggest society "MEDSOC" for our 100th year celebrations, bringing you bigger and better events than ever before. Welcoming a new batch of fresher's, we'll get you your very own medic family, support you in your studies and reveal the best that Aberdeen has to offer day and night. We have something to offer everyone, so don't miss legendary events like the Medsoc Ball, SNIMS, the Medsoc Revue and much, much more. Join us and help celebrate 100 years of MEDSOC!

Medics Netball

Group of Medics getting together and playing netball

Medics Netball is a great way to meet other medics, have fun & get fit at the same time!

Medsin

A medical charity that aims to raise awareness of global health issues through different projects and campaigns

Medsin is a network of students with an interest in health. Our activities aim to promote health as well as to act upon and educate students about health inequalities in our local and global communities. 

At Aberdeen we run health campaigns throughout the year and we have 4 main projects that we support:
Teddy Bear Hospital
Sexpression
Homed
StopAIDS

Ogston Surgical Society

Promoting & Career in surgery for medical undergraduates

The main aim of the Ogston Surgical Society is to promote surgery as a career to undergraduate medical students.  We also aim to give students experience and training in some of the practical skills required for surgery that they would not otherwise learn in their undergraduate curriculum.  Changes in surgical training mean that students are expected to specialise at an earlier stage.  The society offers an insight into the different specialities in order to enable students to make informed decisions concerning their professional careers.  The Ogston Society is inspired by the work of Sir Alexander Ogston and was created to promote surgery as a career.  The society has a largely academic background and is aimed at providing additional surgical experience to undergraduate medical students.

Sexpression

Empowering high school children to make informed decisions regarding sex through educational and open discussion groups lead by students.

The number of young people infected with STIs in the UK is rising, with many not sufficiently educated about the risks involved. By making information freely available, Sexpression hopes to increase the sexual awareness of high school children by educational games and informal discussion groups. As well as focusing on the physical side of sexual health, Sexpression also addresses the psychology of good sexual health by focusing on attitudes, relationships and confidence issues involved in both heterosexual and homosexual sex. By doing this, we hope to give kids an all-round sexual education that most school programmes don't give.

President - Jack Fletcher jack.fletcher.11@aberdeen.ac.uk

Secretary - Fiona Jagger f.jagger.10@aberdeen.ac.uk

SHRINK

Aberdeen University's Mental Health Awareness and Psychiatry Society

Did you know 1 in 4 students will encounter a mental health problem during their university career? We are SHRINK, Aberdeen University's Mental Health Awareness and Psychiatry Society. Our aims include promoting positive mental health, reducing stigma of mental illness, promoting psychiatry as a career and hopefully having a lot of fun socially and educationally along the way. So why not get involved :)

StopAIDS

Campaign society against the response of the world towards the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The Student Stop AIDS Campaign is made up young people who believe the world's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is insufficient and unacceptable. We work to ensure there are zero new infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS related deaths - get involved!! http://students.stopaidscampaign.org/

Teddy Bear Hospital

Teddy Bear Hospital makes at trip to the doctor seem less scary for children!

TBH is an international project which aims to educate children and introduce them to the healthcare setting in a fun and enjoyable way in order to try and reduce their fear and anxiety of healthcare environments, professionals and procedures. At Aberdeen we operate as a project under Medsin but we also work independently as a society. Medical students complain about how we don't get enough contact with children for attachments. But in TBH, our main activities involve children! Regardless if you love kids or just can't stand them! As clinicians we are required to have the skills of communicating with children. You will be given child protection training and will be trained mainly on how to conduct consultations with children and their teddy bears, perform a "teddy bear operation", playing the object game etc. So do look out for our training days and join us to have lots of fun and work done!

Wilderness Medical Society

Wilderness, pre-hospital and emergency medicine; outdoor skills; good messy fun.