Posts in "Medicine"

On the 12th of September 2024 I attended the annual British Association of Urological Surgeons Endourology Conference in Edinburgh, in order to present an audit I had worked on, alongside surgeons from the urology department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Our research considered the local rates of stoneless ureteroscopy (a procedure…

In July, Kate and I had the pleasure of attending the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) annual scholarship meeting, where we were honoured to present two talks.

Our first talk was based on work we did as student interns on a project led by Kathrine Gibson…

In a paper published in the British Journal of General Practice, former Highland GP and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Alistair Appleby is helping to re-shape the scientific foundations of medical practice. The paper entitled “Right idea, Wrong science – should critical realism be the new science of medical practice?” outlines…

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…

Sunday 26th January

Ms Mahalingam arrived early to pick us up. She and her colleague Ms Miriam Josiah, Deputy Head in Research and Development at IIHS, kindly offered to spend the day taking us out in and outside of Colombo.

Probably the most relevant place we visited today was the…

In the following series of blog posts, Dr Ching-wa Chung, our Sri Lanka Medical Pathway Year 1-3 Lead, documents his visit to Sri Lanka which took place earlier this year.

Flying out to Colombo, Sri Lanka today, but not before a teaching session with the Sri Lanka Medical Pathway (SLMP)…