I completed the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Aberdeen. This was inspired by my passion for health equity and social determinants of health. The program offered a diverse range of courses, with Health Policy and Systems Research, Evaluating Policy Effects in Practice, Health Informatics, and…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
Developing new and improved methods for engaging students with pharmacokinetics
I recall when I was a student how difficult the mathematical elements of pharmacokinetics were to understand. They were traditionally taught in a dry manner using blackboard and chalk making their relevance to pharmacology and clinical outcomes difficult to connect.…
3D printing to develop molecular understanding, drug design experience and public engagement skills
As the programme coordinator for the clinical pharmacology and drug discovery programmes, I am always looking for ways to enhance the teaching and learning experience we offer as part of our postgraduate programmes. Not only does this…
The first student was enrolled on our Medical Physics MSc programme in September 1968, making this the 50th anniversary of the programme. To celebrate this we will be hosting an event on the 2nd of November, which is open to all former staff and students from the Biomedical Physics suite…
Our new MSc in Reproductive and Developmental Biology focuses on the amazing journey from a fertilised egg to a fully formed organism, why this sometimes goes wrong and how using in vitro technologies we can help couples have healthy pregnancies.
The MSc also offers courses in genomics, genetics, toxicology, bioinformatics…
