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Cancelled: The Obesity Fight, Cut, Jab, or Diet?

Due to the adverse weather conditions, the MedChi lecture which was due to take place tomorrow night has been cancelled. It has been rescheduled for the 22nd of January at 7pm in room 402 of the Suttie Centre with Professor Duff Bruce.

However, if you are unable to make the…

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THE OBESITY FIGHT, CUT, JAB OR DIET?

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill. Thursday 8th Januray 2026 7pm

Professor Duff Bruce is a graduate of Robert Gordon's College and the University of Aberdeen and has 26 years experience in General Surgery, gained in Northern Scotland, Australia and the USA. In 2001, he completed a…

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Burns Night - Aberdeen Medico-Chirugical Society

23 January 2026, 19:00 

Douglas Hotel

NHS staff colleagues are invited to join with our students for our traditional Burns night celebrations. To book your places, please contact Marilene at medchi.admin@abdn.ac.uk with names and any dietary requirements. Dress code, preferably a "touch of tartan". Places to be booked by Tuesday…

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Robot Invasion, Friend or Foe?

Ms Justine Royle, Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHSG

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill

Justine qualified from Manchester in 1994. She has an MD in prostate cancer cellular biology from the same university. As well as being a fellow of the faculty of surgical trainers, she has chaired…

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Alcohol: Licensing, Pricing and Preventing harm

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Forresterhill

Professor Ewan Forrest, Consultant Physician and Hepatologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Honorary Professor University of Glasgow


Professort Forrest has a specialist interest in alcohol related liver disease and in particular the manamement of alcohol related hepatitis. Co-developer of the Glasgow Alcoholic…

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President's Medal Lecture: Medicine, the Med Chi and Me!

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill

Thursday 16th October 2025 7pm

 

Dr Ken McHardy was born in Aberdeen in May 1955, firstborn of a mixed marriage; his mother, a toonser, and father, a teuchter, had been denied opportunities to improve on the family’s scant educational heritage courtesy…

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Cultural Blind spots: a literature review of eating disorders in British South Asians, with a focus on Bangladeshi communities

Aberdeen Medico-Chiruigal Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre Foresterhill

Thursday 2nd October 2025 7pm

Dr Erica Cini is a clinical academic at University College London and at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. Clinically, she practices as a consultant psychiatrist at East London NHS Trust…

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Joint event with University of Aberdeen Medical Society

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Room 402 Suttie Centre, 7pm, 15th May 2025

The University of Aberdeen 2025 MBChB Graduates, who were awarded Elective Bursaries by the Society to facilitate their final year studies, will be invited to compete for the Adam Quaich by presenting their elective findings to the meeting with…

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Waking up to children's sleep problems

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

Room 402, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill 7pm

Dr Don Urquhart is a Consultant and Honorary Reader in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Medicine at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and University of Edinburgh. Don is a clinician and researcher whose main interests are exercise and…

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Why International Perspectives can help the NHS

Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

Thursday 27th March, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

Professor Amanda Howe was a practising GP for almost 40 years, as well as pursuing an academic career and holding various professional leadership roles. She is Emeritus Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia,…

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