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Our research group has been working hard for over more than 10 years to explore how to make this technology work, and I am glad to say that we’ve had much success in the past few years. So much so, that we are now starting to build a new scanner…

Summer placements for undergraduate students studying medicine and medical sciences at the University of Aberdeen successfully ran again over the summer of 2021.

Students worked both on campus and remotely within research teams in the School, studying a wide range of topics and gaining first-hand experience of working in a…

Hi, my name is Andy Welch and I coordinate the MSc Medical Physics and MSc Medical Imaging programmes here at the University of Aberdeen. One of the questions that I often get asked by potential students is the difference between the two programmes. The term Medical Physics is fairly well…

Fourth year Sports & Exercise Science student, Matthew Callow, had a busy summer delivering strength and conditioning support to the Caledonian Highlanders (Regional Cricket development) U18 Girls’ side through Cricket Scotland. A lover of sports, although more used to football, squash and rugby as well as taking part in powerlifting…

Drinking orange juice increases the risk of skin cancer! This is a new headline that emerged across newspapers last month (April 2021), based on a new epidemiological study. Although I have been studying human nutrition for nearly ten years, I am aware that there are many questions to be answered…

Hi, I’m Daria, a fourth year Immunology student from Italy. I am currently in the sixth month of my Placement year at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. I am doing this experience to become familiar with working in a real lab and I really recommend it! Despite…

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…

This semester, Film and Visual Culture (FVC) Honours students were given the chance to study an interdisciplinary course taught by Dr Silvia Casini. Cinema and Science: Beyond Science Fiction invited students to consider the relationship between science and cinema through nine weekly themes and four guest speakers. Themes ranged from…

The ability of medical scanners to produce images of our bodies in exquisite detail provides a powerful tool for the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of diseases. While we may marvel at the images, we rarely consider the evidence that is required before these scanners can be used…

Welcome to PEGblogs - a series of blog posts about postgraduate teaching, work placements and educational research in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition!

Welcome to this, the first post in our new blog mini-series, PEGblogs, launched in November 2020 via our School Blog page. We will be…