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My Experience of a Medical Elective in a Developing Country vs a Developed Country

During medical school, we are in the privileged position to explore a specific medical speciality within any country in the world – known commonly as a medical elective. All universities schedule the elective at different […]


Reflections from the WSCMHUL Conference 2023

I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota with the Hand and Upper Limb team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) for the long-anticipated World Symposium on Congenital Malformations of the Hand and Upper […]


Highlights of the Yorkshire Imaging and Interventional Radiology Symposium 2023

On Saturday 11th of February 2023, I attended the Yorkshire Imaging and Interventional Radiology Symposium (YIIRS), held in the Worsley Building at the University of Leeds. The university’s radiology society, X-Posure, had a brilliant and […]


Our Research Experience at Yale University

During our three-month summer vacation between first and second year of medical school, we decided to try and get more research experience abroad, specifically in the US given that we were both interested in pursuing […]


My elective experience at Hialeah Hospital, USA

The elective is one of the things I looked forward to most before I started medical school. It is a program which allows medical students to experience healthcare settings anywhere around the world in whichever […]


Reflections on KUMA Health Awareness Day 2022

I had the privilege of attending this year’s Health Awareness Day (HAD) organised by the Korean UK Medical Association (KUMA). This is a renowned, annual community outreach day comprising of presentations on common health conditions […]


Reflections on the ISAR Congress 2022

The International Society for Auricular Reconstruction (ISAR) held its 3rd Congress virtually from the 25th to the 26th of March 2022. As I was also presenting at this conference, this was an event that I […]


Reflections from Facial aesthetic surgery: Face, eyes, nose, and ears conference

On Saturday, the 19th of March 2022, I had the privilege to attend the Facial Aesthetic Surgery: Face, eyes, nose and ears conference organised by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) which was made available […]


Highlights from the VaRICS meeting 2022

West Midlands Vascular Research and Innovation Consortium (VaRICS) Meeting was held at MacDonald Burlington Hotel on the 18th of March this year. Healthcare professionals including vascular surgeons, junior doctors, vascular specialist nurses and other allied […]


Changing the shape and culture in surgery at the core of ASiT 2022

After a long and hard pause due to COVID, the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) annual meeting finally returned to a physical venue, and the 2022 conference took place at the beginning of March […]