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My Medical Humanities course was a journey to greater understanding, for the life-altering condition of cancer, music is the best way.
Why this topic?
Cancer affects everyone in some form, however, how can anyone truly understand if they have not experienced it themselves. In…
Thursday 30th January
So, how do we select the best students who will make the best doctors? Well, we at Aberdeen have decided that seven short interviews is one of the best and fairest ways to help achieve this. This process called Multiple Mini Interviews or MMIs. This is used…
Wednesday 29th January
My quest to do a different thing every day lead me to join Dr Dollery and Ms Millar again, accompanied by Ms Mahalingam and Dr Dinusha Kanatiwela Niriell, Head of Biomedical sciences at IIHS. This time on a quest to visit the local schools to provide a…
Tuesday 28th January
There are two sorts of people in the world, those that brush their teeth before breakfast and those who brush their teeth after breakfast. I prefer to get ready and brush my teeth, go to breakfast and then go. Therefore, I arrived later than my colleagues for…
Monday 27th January
As SLMP results in the same UK primary medical qualification, it is important that the students have equivalent clinical experience in Colombo to that of the UK. This morning we are visiting the government run National institute of Mental Health (NIMH). One thing that runs as a…
