What is covered?

Our Mini-Medical School runs every autumn and is open to anyone aged 15 and over.
 
The programme offers the public the chance to find out about exciting topics. This includes current research developments at the University.
 
Previous programmes have covered a range of exciting topics, including:

  • dermatology
  • emergency medicine
  • medical scanning technology
  • anaesthetics
  • sport and exercise science
  • psychology
  • pharmacy

Evening lectures will run on Thursdays 6-7pm, on 4,11, 18, 25 November and 2 December.

The Mini Medical School will be delivered virtually online via Zoom. 

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Watch our 2020 lectures

Below you can watch recordings of the 2020 Mini Medical School sessions. 

A Military Dentist’s Journey - David Edwards

David Edwards is an Academic Clinical Fellow and Honorary Speciality Trainee in Endodontics at Newcastle Dental Hospital. After graduating, he embarked on a 2-year programme with his time divided between primary and secondary care. He then embarked on a 12-year career in the Royal Army Dental Corps which saw him serve in Northern Ireland, Kenya and various locations around the UK. He also deployed twice to Afghanistan where he provided emergency dental care around Helmand province, Kandahar and Kabul.


 

Realistic Medicine - Dr Paul Paes

Dr Paul Paes has a joint post between Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation trust and Newcastle University. In the NHS he is a Palliative Medicine Consultant and Director of Community Services. At Newcastle University he leads the medical degree programme as Director of Medical Studies. He qualified as a doctor from Newcastle University before further degrees at Kings College London, Dundee University and Newcastle University

A Tail of Healing Hounds - Barbara-Anne Robertson

Barbara-Anne Robertson is a Lecturer and Admissions Tutor in the School of Psychology. Her background in behavioural neuroscience has focused on how contextual and emotional elements of events are bound into episodic memory in both rodents and humans. Barbara-Anne has a keen interest in welfare in both non-human and human animals, and in this talk will discuss how canine companions can impact and improve human well-being.

COVID-19: Containment, Treatment & Vaccines 

Dr Matthias Schmid is Head of the Infectious Diseases department at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He also leads the high consequence infectious diseases unit for airborne and contact diseases and is the director of elective studies at the Newcastle University.

Dr Christopher Duncan is a British Infection Association funded Clinical Fellow at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. His clinical interests are severe viral disease, primary immunodeficiencies and the infection problems of immunocompromised hosts.

Dr Ashley Price is a consultant in Infectious Diseases in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals. He chairs a vaccine research group for the NE of England and North Cumbria and has led a number of nationally run studies within Newcastle hospitals looking at the treatment, diagnosis and natural history of COVID-19.

 

Drug Misuse in the UK - Professor Simon Thomas

Simon Thomas is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, a consultant physician at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and clinical lead for the UK National Poisons Information Service. He has a longstanding clinical and research interest in recreational drug use and is a member of the Home Office Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs. He has a particular interest in new drugs of misuse, sometimes termed New Psychoactive Substances, and is chair of the ACMD New Psychoactive Substances Committee, which monitors use of these substances in the UK and provides advice to government on how any social and health harms associated with these compounds might be limited.

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