In July 2019, I took a taxi from Whitechapel to Heathrow. My driver Rizwan and I sat in bleary 5am-silence for a while, before he opened with the customary “Where you off to then?”…

If you’ve ever been a part of BLSA Help Squad, the group that helps the fresh-faced students move into their new student accommodation, chances are that you will have been asked at some point whether “it’s safe around here?”

Happening at BL is our round up of the great things our student community has been up to!

In a city as large and as busy as London, it’s easy to forget that everyone has an entire world within their head, filled with ideas and perspectives, people and passions.

With six Nobel Laureates attached to its name at one point or another, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College has a healthy track record when it comes to picking up Nobel Prizes. It should not come as a surprise. While we cannot boast the ruthless efficiency with which Oxbridge churns them out (nor LSE’s knack for collecting the misfit ‘Nobel’ Prize in Economic Sciences), we did get there first and have been winning them since day one. Or at least day two.

BL Men’s Football are featured in Do It With Thy Might this term!

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has been left in a state of what can only be described as mild crisis, as it was revealed that none other than Dean for Students, Professor Wanthony Arrens was at the centre of a massive anti-vaxxer network based here at Barts and The London.

If the question was posed, what do all six winners of the Nobel Prize associated with the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College have in common, what would one’s answer be?

Pain categorises itself into two general categories, physical and mental. Whether it is the pain you feel when you step on a lego, or if it’s pain you feel after a breakup, pain is something that is felt, and not usually measured.

It is well understood that music has intrinsic therapeutic benefits; most of you will have experiences of using music during difficult periods of your life, to soothe, reassure and remind you of happier times.

Educational Performance Measure, or EPM, is one of the ways applicants for the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO) are ranked on a combination of clinical and non-clinical skills, comprising the knowledge and performance of the the medical student.

Democracy is merely an ideal - an abstraction that the preferences of citizens should be translated into representative institutions. Electoral systems are designed to most accurately align with the ideals of democracy and dependent on the public perception that these systems are fair and fulfill expectations.

As the clocks struck 10:00 on the 12th December, student union bars across the country fell silent. The shouts of “ooohh Jeremy Corbyn!” dissipated as the exit poll was released and Huw Edwards uttered those three dreaded words: Conservative majority likely.

And so it is done! The British exit from the European Union. It’s only been half a decade and yet it seems that this debate, if it could even be reasonably called that with the insidious interests playing their petty plots of debaucherous deceit and deception, is finally over. We’ve left after all. There’s nothing more to it.

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return”

– Roy T. Bennett

This quote perfectly encapsulates the spirit of charity and giving back in an exceptional volunteering group at Barts and the London.

“Running call! Patient fallen off the top of a bus stop, take gases and get there quick!” Calls to patients with this particular mechanism of injury are, unsurprisingly, a bit of a rarity for everyone, but regardless of their injury, we are still expected to be the first medical response for members of the public and often get there far before the ambulance service.

On the seventh floor of the Royal London nestled in amongst the paediatric wards, there exists the Playspace, where four times a week a team of volunteers don their signature purple shirts and get together to put on a session of fun activities for the children and teenagers of the surrounding wards looking for a distraction from the unending boredom of a hospital bed.

Barts and The London is home to over 3,000 students studying the healthcare sciences in the heart of the East End. Although it is privilege to study in this unique and diverse community, the east end has gained a reputation of being one of the ‘rougher’ parts of London.