Medical Society: Surgery Co-Lead

Throughout my time at UCL, I've always gravitated towards opportunities that involve teaching and enlightening students through tutorials and academic events. I take great pride in being of service to our community here at UCLMS in this way. 

Frequently, I taken part in many SurgSoc and ISOC tutorials where I go to great lengths to help students understand the more demanding subjects within the curriculum. Tutorials for me have always been most successful when students are able to relate and connect to the teacher in such a way that aids learning and comprehension. I hope to bring this to the educational roles within the medical society, as I believe that students will benefit greatly from more direct and lighthearted teaching.

For the past 3 years I have also been an active member of the non profit organisation SIMA. I have helped organise events aimed at aspiring medical and dental students, and also hosted events that bring doctors from all walks of life together to share their experiences in the health care industry with university students. The roles and actions I had taken within the society were always to do with bridging people at different stages of life together so as to allow for a healthy transfer of knowledge, advice, and inspiration from older generations to younger ones.

I hope to bring my years of teaching and insight into this area of medical school to the medical society, so students can not only learn more efficiently, but enjoy learning as well.

Surgery plays a critical role in many of our future careers. Despite this, it is left relatively unexplored, especially in pre-clinical years. I am passionate about surgery and resonate with the dilemma of scarce surgical learning opportunities. Attending presentations by surgeons, shadowing them in theatre and possibly the odd suturing course, is near the limit of what is available to most medical students. I would relish the opportunity to broaden these horizons to include a greater and more comprehensive variety of events, whilst facilitating easier access to the above opportunities.

I have a range of leadership and teaching experiences that involved organisational and time-management skills from conducting academic group tutorials and 500h+ private teaching, to chairing a student-led medical society. This involved advertising events and coordinating presentations after liaising with professionals. My background in teaching and management puts me in an ideal position to run and arrange insightful teaching events on a range of surgical disciplines. As Hindu Soc’s sales rep, I have experience working as part of a team to organise and advertise the biggest student-run variety show in London with an audience of 1000+. Exposure to surgical research and shadowing surgeons in theatre also serves me well for this role.

I will use my medical and surgical contacts to organise: shadowing and research opportunities, a surgical skills teaching series, and collaborations with SurgSoc.