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  Medical Student Essay Competition – Get Published in BJMSU!

  Title: Medical Management of Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Enlargement Word limit: 1500 Medical Students are invited to submit a 1500 word essay on the medical management of Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Enlargement. The writer of the essay judged to be the most outstanding in each medical school will receive a prize of £100 and be entered into the national competition. The prize for the writers of the two best essays will be expenses paid attendance at the BAUS Annual Conference in ...

  Posted at February 7, 2012 | By : admin | Categories : Competitions,External Events | 0 Comment
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  FastForward – Win 40K to change healthcare!

  Calling all entrepreneurs! What is the NHS missing? Got any ideas? Fancy a CV Boost? Fastforward is the latest project from Fastbleep - a national student innovation competition culminating in a conference in March 2012! If you have an original idea of a product/software/service that would revolutionise the NHS and want this turned into reality with £40,000 investment look no further!   Step 1: Get a team & ...

  Posted at February 5, 2012 | By : admin | Categories : External Events | 0 Comment
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  Scalpel Welcomes New Committee for 2012

  Scalpel is delighted to announce the new committee for 2012! Once again, the application process for committee positions has been very competitive this year and we are confident that the new committee will show incredible leadership in the new year to continue our tradition of excellence in supporting medical students at the University of Manchester. We would also like to thank members of the previous committee for their hard work and amazing accomplishments in 2011 including ...

  Posted at January 1, 2012 | By : admin | Categories : Announcements | 0 Comment
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  Free Access to Orthopaedic Simulator Training

  Training in the UK has changed since the European Working Time Directive, resulting in less training time. This means less opportunity to develop surgical skills. We have looked at ways of developing these skills, and one way is through the use of simulators. The current simulators are expensive, and also not very accessible. How many of you have got regular access to a simulator? In fact, many surgical trainees don't have. This surgical simulator training project will ...

  Posted at December 13, 2011 | By : admin | Categories : Announcements | 0 Comment