Faculty of Medicine Summer School: Revolutions in Biomedicine

Dr Sophie Rutschmann, Faculty of Medicine Summer School Director

The Faculty's first international summer school will provide a research-centred, academic course for bioscience or medical undergraduates.

The Faculty of Medicine is now accepting applications for its first international summer school. With an overarching theme of “Revolutions in Biomedicine”, the School will provide a research-centred, academic course for bioscience or medical undergraduates (or recent graduates) from around the world.

The school will: (a) give insight into past, present and future revolutions in biomedicine through lectures, interactive group sessions and seminars, and (b) give experience of experimental design and the creativity of research by immersion in a laboratory research project.

Through this summer school, the Faculty aims to raise the international profile of the College as a provider of excellent biomedicine and healthcare-related postgraduate programmes, through advertising and word-of-mouth testimony from attendees.

The school will run from 29 June to 17 July 2015 for 50-80 students who will be awarded 7.5 ECTS if they achieve an overall pass mark. Thanks to teaching enthusiasm across all departments of the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Department of Surgery and Cancer and School of Public Health will each run a module. In addition, there will be a week-long research project on control of glioblastoma proliferation, which will give students experience of working in groups to design and execute their own experiments.

The Summer School is an initiative of the Faculty Postgraduate PGT team lead by Dr Jane Saffell. It is being set up and run by Dr Sophie Rutschmann (Summer School Academic Director), Dr Kiera Welman (Cultural Programme Coordinator) and Dr Jim Osborne (Summer School Administrator). The Business Summer School team, including Katie Leung and Tim Ruthven, have also kindly provided guidance and advice from the outset.

Please visit the school webpage for more information.

How can you help?

We will be looking for post-docs and PhD student volunteers for facilitating group sessions, we will be recruiting students buddies for the duration of the course and the social activities and finally, we will soon be asking members of the FoM to advertise, if they wish, the summer school to their professional network. If you are interested, please contact Dr Sophie Rutschmann for more information.