About Glasgow Medical School (2025 Edition)
The University of Glasgow is innovative, lively and friendly. The campus is made up of beautiful Harry Potter-esque architecture as well as new state of the art buildings filled with the latest technology. The course involves lectures which complement PBL learning alongside placements for early practical exposure. The clinical aspect of the course is mainly based in surrounding hospitals including the Queen Elizabeth University hospital which is one of the largest hospitals in Europe.
Since the medical course is taught on the main campus, medical students have a great opportunity to join any university society of which there is over 300. There is always festivals or fairs on throughout the city of Glasgow, the university is based around 15 minutes away from the city centre. The University of Glasgow also has two student unions which have events going on all the time. Aswell as the main university societies, there are medical societies for every sport and speciality. There is also medical societies for racial and LGBTQ+ representation. The MedChir society at the University of Glasgow puts on events throughout the year for medics to mingle through balls, pub crawls and quizzes
The social life at the University of Glasgow is rife. Medical students benefit from being able to join medical and non-medical societies aswell as use all the facilities including the two student unions. There are also events throughout the year organised by the two unions, 300 societies and the medchir society. The University has its own nightclub, HIVE, which has themed nights every week. There is also many events available for the non- party goers. Medics can join the main university sport teams or the medical sport teams. The brand new James McCune Smith Learning hub is a massive space with restaurants, cafes and study spaces that has just been built across the road from the medical building.
The MedChir society hosts social events throughout the year. These include quizzes, pub crawls (scrub crawl), Christmas balls, year balls, the halfway ball and many other events. The society also allocates new first years to a medfamily to allow the first year to settle in. There is a year club for every year which is a subset of MedChir and organises specific social events for the year. They also organise book clubs, other media discussions and have their own podcast. MedChir also organise talks by clinicians to give us an insight into different medical career options aswell. There are many medical societies at the University covering a range of specialties, sports and other categories. There are medical societies present which aim to increase awareness for LGBTQ+ patients and racial inequalities.
To see what MedChir gets up to you can visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MedChirGlasgow/
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