Medsoc

Medsoc

MedSocs are the students' unions for the 32 medical schools in the UK. It is their remit to look after the educational, pastoral, social and representational needs of the 7,000 medical students in the UK.

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History

Since the beginnings of teaching hospitals and their medical schools in the 18th century, there have always been organisations supporting the needs of their students. As hospitals began to merge with universities at the beginning of the 20th century, their student unions' merged as well. Nowadays most universities with a medical school have a student society as part of the students' union who's remit it is to look after the needs of the medical students.

In May 2011, all the advances and growth of The University of Birmingham's MedSoc was recognised, and hence won the national prize of being the best MedSoc in the whole of the UK (titled MDU Student Medical Society of the year Prize 2011).

Student Life

It is the job of the medsocs to organise the social aspects of student life at medical school. This includes the various student clubs and societies, entertainment and sporting events.

There are various organisations representing the medsocs. MedGroup represents the 5 medsocs of the United Hospitals in London, the BMA Medical Students Committee looks after representational matters, and the National Association of Medics' Sports organises the sporting fixtures between the medical schools.

Additionally, The Scottish and Northern Irish Medics' Sports (SNIMS) competition takes place annually between the medical societies of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, St Andrews and Queen's medical schools; the competition is hosted on a rota-basis between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee. SNIMS 2011 will be held in Edinburgh while SNIMS 2012 will be hosted by Glasgow.

Medsocs

Medical School MedSoc Website
Aberdeen Medical School Aberdeen MedSoc aberdeenmedsoc.com
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry BLSA qmsu.org/blsa
Birmingham Medical School uobmedsoc.com
Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSMS MedSoc bsmsmedsoc.com
Bristol Medical School Galenicals galenicals.org.uk
Bute Medical School Bute Medics butemedics.co.uk
Cambridge Medical School srcf.ucam.org/medsoc
Cardiff University School of Medicine cardiffmedsoc.com
Dundee Medical School Dundee University Medical Society (DUMS) DUMS
Durham www.dur.ac.uk/med.soc/
Edinburgh Medical School
Glasgow Medical School University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society (MedChir) http://medchir.co.uk/
Hull York Medical School hymsmedsoc.co.uk
Imperial College School of Medicine Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union* icsmsu.com
Keele University Medical School Keele Medical Society Keele Medical Society
King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry kclmedsoc.org
Leeds School of Medicine Leeds MedSoc medsocleeds.co.uk
Lancaster http://medsoc.lusu.co.uk
Leicester Medical School LUSUMA http://lusuma.com
Liverpool Medical School LMSS http://lmssonline.co.uk/
Manchester Medical School manchestermedics.com
Newcastle medical school
Nottingham medical school su.nottingham.ac.uk/medsoc
University of Oxford MedSoc (Pre-Clinical)

William Osler House (Clinical)

medsoc.co.uk

osler.co.uk

Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Plymouth Medsoc

Exeter Medsoc

plymouthmedsoc.co.uk

exetermedsoc.co.uk

Sheffield Medical School medsoc.net
Southampton Medical School medsoc.susu.org
St George's, University of London students.sgul.ac.uk
Swansea University School of Medicine
UEA
UCL Medical School RUMS uclunion.org/rums
Warwick Medical School The University of Warwick Medical Society warwickmedsoc.com
  • Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union (ICSMSU) is an actual student union and not a Medsoc. Imperial is the only UK university to have its own medical school union. Medical students at Imperial are members of both the Imperial College Union and ICSMSU.

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