The Fund Managers will award grants towards medical elective travel in 2022. Individual awards will be influenced by other grants and, in any case, are unlikely to exceed £250 each. Clinical medical students from any Cambridge College are eligible to apply. Applications for the support of electives in developing countries are particularly welcome. The application […]
Climate emergency declaration
The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine is joining many other healthcare organisations (Health Declares) in declaring that the global climate and ecological emergency is a major crisis for health and healthcare. We agree with recent statements from the WHO and in The Lancet that climate change is an urgent global health threat. Extreme […]
Clinical School Annual Distinguished Lecture 2021
Clinical School Annual Distinguished Lecture Recorded: 23 September 2021 Speaker: Wendy Bickmore, Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh. Talk Title: “Function and dysfunction in the non-coding genome” Professor Bickmore’s talk focused on non-coding genetic elements called “enhancers”, how they regulate our genes often over […]
Tackling Racism in Medical Education
Against the backdrop of the inequalities exposed by the coronavirus and international Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, Cambridge medical students rallied for social justice and change with an open letter to the Regius Professor Patrick Maxwell and then-Dean, Dr Diana Wood. The letter highlighted the impact of […]
Research News: Palliative Care
Palliative Care, led by Dr Stephen Barclay, has yielded various publications, including some derived from the reflective essays that final year students produce as a course assignment. For example, former PhD student Erica Borgstrom published two papers using the reflective essays as her starting point: ‘Medical Professionalism: Conflicting Values for Tomorrow’s Doctors’ and ‘Constructing denial as […]
Profile: From Genetic Pathologist to Covid Campaigner
Dr Ian M Frayling (Matriculated 1977, Trinity Hall) MA MB BChir PhD FRCPath Hon.FFPath(RCPI) FEBLM Ian qualified in Clinical Medicine at Cambridge in 1982 and during his career has served as the only Genetic Pathologist in NHS service in the UK. Though semi-retired after taking early release from NHS Wales a couple of years […]
Meet Dr Paul Wilkinson, Clinical Dean
Dr Paul Wilkinson (Matriculated 1991, Churchill) Clinical Dean, Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry MA MB BChir PGCertMedEd DCH MRCPsych MD Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge Starting a new job can be stressful in the best of times but what about during a once-in-a-generation global pandemic? Dr Paul Wilkinson started in his new role […]
New risk calculator to help save many more lives from heart attack and stroke
A new risk calculator will better predict people at high risk of heart and circulatory diseases years before they strike, and is ready for use across the UK and Europe, according to research published today in the journal European Heart Journal. This risk tool… will fit seamlessly into current prevention programmes with substantial real-world […]
Study shows brain differences in interpreting physical signals in mental health disorders
Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently. In spite of the diversity of psychological symptoms, there appears to be a common factor in how physical signals are processed differently by the brain in mental health disorders: it shows how intertwined physical and mental […]
Many of us could carry up to 17kg of fat due to a change in a single gene
New research has found that one in every 340 people might carry a mutation in a single gene that makes them more likely to have a greater weight from early childhood and, by 18 years of age, they could be up to 30 pounds heavier with the excess weight likely to be mostly fat. Our […]
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