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26 July, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: Women are advancing in the workforce, yet unique challenges are faced by various communities. What are the challenges ...7 July, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: Women are advancing in the workforce, yet unique challenges are faced by various communities. What are the challenges ...21 June, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: Women are advancing in the workforce, yet unique challenges are faced by various communities. What are the challenges ...7 June, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: Women are advancing in the workforce, yet unique challenges are faced by various communities. What are the challenges ...18 May, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: COVID-19 has thrown a stark light on inequalities in healthcare. What are the challenges that we face and how can we ...4 May, 2022This year, the MWF Katherine Branson Essay Prize had an outstanding level of entries from medical students across the country. We have chosen to feature all entries on our website as they are all written to a very high standard. Here are some entries on the essay title: COVID-19 has thrown a stark light on inequalities in healthcare. What are the challenges that we face and how can we ...8 October, 2021Free, ongoing,1-1, listening support for people with Autoimmune Disease and Long Covid The Wren Project is a registered UK charity providing free, ongoing, 1-1 listening support for adults diagnosed with autoimmune disease. Responding to increasing evidence of the autoimmune component to long covid, The Wren Project now extends its support to people with Long Covid. Story of the Wren ...29 July, 2021Can the COVID Mask Unmask Our Identity? by Jeanne Maria Dsouza Jeanne Maria Dsouza is a medical student from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. She is an avid writer and has published poems and prose in Indian newspapers and magazines. She has a tremendous interest in quizzing, and has stood first in many national level medical quiz competitions. She is passionate about ...28 June, 2021FICTIONAL FOREMOTHERS BY WOMEN, 4 Fiona Subotsky (MWF President, 1999-2000) Annie Swan and Dr Elizabeth Glen Annie Shepherd Swan was another very popular Scottish author whose somewhat romantic and sentimental style suited the serial fiction for women she wrote and, indeed, edited. Other names she used were (1859-07-08)Annie S. Smith, David Lyall and Mrs Burnett-Smith. Annie S Swan (1859 ...22 March, 2021FICTIONAL FOREMOTHERS BY WOMEN, 3 Fiona Subotsky (MWF President, 1999-2000) Margaret Todd and Mona Maclean ‘Mona Maclean, Medical Student’, published in 1892 under the pseudonym Graham Travers, was the first novel of Margaret Todd, who was a medical student at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women when she wrote it. She did qualify, but did not stay in practice for long, and became the ...