To celebrate Women’s History Month, Naomi Douglas and Chloe Poole (UBDSS), in collaboration with the ED&I Committee, asked some of our female staff to reflect on their careers, achievements, inspirations, and challenges they’ve overcome. This will be shared as a series of posts over the next few weeks, and represents just a small portion of … Read more
Applications are welcome for the intercalated programme in Genomic Medicine 2021-2022, open to medical, dentist and veterinary students, hosted by the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit and the Bristol Medical School. Applicants must have reached a point in their curriculum equivalent to the end of Year 2 of a UK professional degree course to be eligible. … Read more
Tis the Season is a campaign which signposts students, both those in Bristol and away, to everything that is available to them during the holidays, whether that’s something fun, to keep busy and meet people, or how to find support at a difficult time. Please check out What’s on in the holidays and Services and … Read more
COVID has brought distress and hardship to so many and our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones and have been ill themselves, as well as those whose livelihoods have been compromised. It can be hard to reflect on the positives amid so much gloom! However, hopefully you’ll agree that there have … Read more
A research study is being conducted by the Universities of Bristol, Bath and Southampton, called Germ Defence. It is to raise awareness of how to reduce risk of coronavirus in the home. This is being circulated by the NHS, so you may get it from your GP surgery or student health in due course, but … Read more
Current fourth year student Hana Rezaei Hadad recorded a terrific podcast with Dr Shaadi Manouchehri, a dentist in London, about her journey through Bristol Dental School. It covers how she got accepted, as well as how it’s going so far, particularly in these challenging times. Dr Manouchehri has a series of episodes called Teeth and … Read more
Here is a COVID Safe Salsa video from the University of Bristol Salsa Society! A bit of background about the Society: Veronica Barrientos Jimenez is the current President and Tayseer Abdulla is the current Vice President. They are also co-founders of the University of Bristol Salsa Society since 2017/2018. They are both in Year 4. … Read more
I am Rachel, a previous dental student who graduated from Bristol in 2019. Since then I completed my foundation year on the Bristol Scheme and this September, I started my DCT 1 role in Cardiff. My aim of this piece is to help the current 5th years and future students ask those important questions when … Read more
The School would like to congratulate Jamie Daly on his first professional article which was published in last week’s issue (11th September 2020 Volume 229 Issue 5). Jamie’s article was entitled ‘One soya latte, no sugar please…’ Many congratulations Jamie on a very well-deserved publication!
On Wednesday 24th June the Dental School teamed up with the UBDSS to put on our very first virtual careers afternoon for all our students. Our President (Amelia), Vice President (Precious) and Educational Rep (Gemma) hosted the event online, which encompassed a range of talks covering different careers within dentistry. The afternoon consisted of 17 … Read more