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My first couple of days in Aberdeen were spent exploring this beautiful city. I took several hours walking and looking at the buildings though, in my experience, I wouldn’t recommend eating outside as the seagulls will mug you for a couple of carbs. However, my exploration took me to a…
G2M students share their experiences of settling in on the first few days of their course.
It’s the first day with the people we’re going to spend much of our future medical careers with!
Some of us are feeling nervous and some excited, we’ve came from all different backgrounds and…
A G2M student shares their thoughts on starting out on their pathway to a medical career.
Beginning at NESCOL (North East Scotland College)
As day one of the Gateway to Medicine course finally loomed, we were all apprehensive. Flatmates had been met and friendships had been made, but what…
A G2M student shares their thoughts on arriving in Aberdeen.
My first couple of days in Aberdeen were spent exploring this beautiful city. I took several hours walking and looking at the buildings though, in my experience, I wouldn’t recommend eating outside as the seagulls will mug you for a…
Last week, I gave the keynote talk at NHS Grampian’s Research and Development annual conference, which was held in the Suttie Centre on Tuesday, 4th December. The conference theme was public awareness of, engagement with and involvement in clinical research. My presentation was entitled ‘Public Engagement for Public Awareness: Sharing…
The following article appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of "Third Age Matters".
Patient-doctor role-play is an invaluable medical training process, extending the emotional range of everyone who takes part, says Dr Stuart Hannabuss, a writer, retired academic and lay chaplain at the University of Aberdeen.
"As we age and…
Over the course of three repeat days at the end of November, I ran a set of practical classes and gave a lecture aiming to provide Advanced Higher (otherwise known as S6) pupils with a snapshot of what it is like to be a student at the University of Aberdeen. …
I returned to the UK on Sunday, touching down at 5am to a cold and driech December morning in London.
The temperature was even lower by the time I reached Aberdeen, 10 - but at least the sun was out.
During my last day in Sydney I started thinking about…
I’m writing this 10 hours ahead in Townsville, where it’s 38oC and very humid. Townsville is in Northern Queensland in Australia and officially in the dry tropics. I’m attending as Keynote speaker at the joint meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists and Australasian Society for…
Following the recent announcement of Aberdeen University’s key role in the new £15m iCAIRD artificial intelligence (AI) health research centre for Scotland, it was timely that I contributed to three public engagement events in Aberdeen across the course of 10 days in November concerning AI and health related data. As…
