Celebrating student success

ASME Conference

Ten students and staff from the Faculty of Medicine at Southampton stand in front of a large colourful banner with the words 'ASME Annual Scholarship Meeting 2023' printed on it. The group are all smiling at the camera.
A winning team! Chloe Langford’s picture won the ASME group photo award

The Faculty enjoyed fantastic representation at the national ASME (Association for the Study of Medical Education) conference in Birmingham this year with research from Staff, PhD, MMedSc and BMedSc projects being disseminated, and research from our graduates. Prof Sally Curtis was invited to deliver a keynote talk on class discrimination, presenting students’ experiences through their own words, as captured through the research of students at Southampton and nationally. Six students joined Sally to co-present, providing a unique and powerful presentation of the student voice on a national stage.

Prof Sally Curtis is speaking at the ASME conference, with six students standing on stage alongside her.
Prof Sally Curtis and students during the ASME conference keynote
Presentation titlePresenters
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the early years of medical school – an exploration of students’ experiencesTalha Niaz (student), Polly Hardy-Johnson and Anja Timm (staff)
A class apart?Anna Foster, Harry Chapman, Luke Dcaccia, Daniel Jackson, Sandal Butt, Christianah Obembe (students) and Sally Curtis (staff)
I am training students for a job I’ve never done: A qualitative study of the experiences of teaching biomedical science subjects to medical students in the UKAnna Foster (student) and Prof Kathy Kendall (staff)
An exploration of the impact of being a student reverse mentorHarry Chapman (student), Chloe Langford (PhD student) and Prof Sally Curtis (staff)
Negotiating uncertain NHS futures: Medical students career expectations, preparations and support requirementsLuke Dcaccia (student) and Dr Anja Timm (staff)
Representations of imposter syndrome through i-poems: ‘What am I doing here?’Chloe Langford (PhD student), Prof Sally Curtis (staff) and Sarah Rule
Evaluation of the impact of Medical Schools Council’s Summer Schools 2022 on the students that attendedDaniel Jackson (student), Chloe Langford (PhD student) and Prof Sally Curtis (staff)
Defining culture within the Faculty of Medicine: student and staff perceptions of and experiences with the Faculty’s cultureSandal Butt (student) and prof Kathy Kendall (staff)
Investigating the understanding and impact of the NHS Bursary on Gateway Medical studentsChristianah Obembe (student) and Prof Sally Curtis (staff)
Diversifying medicineDaniel Jackson (student) with Ceri Nursaw (Nursaw Associates), Dr Paul Garrud (University of Nottingham), Ms Clare Owen and Ms Yuxiu Wu (Medical Schools Council)
Ethnicity-related stereotypes: How to recognise and reduce their impacts on student health professionalsDr Soham Bandyopadhyay with Dr Aqua Asif (NHS Hampshire), Dr Conor Boylan, Dr Haroon Shah and Dr Sumaiyah Al -Aidarous (NHS Birmingham), Ellen Nelson Rowe (Cardiff), Dr Steven Gopaul (NHS London), Dr Yasmin Ackbarally, (Nottingham), Catherine Dominic and Prof Rakesh Patel (Barts)
A comparison of physician and surgeon opinions of undergraduate medical students’ anatomy knowledgeDr Alexandrina Roman (with Mr Paul Carter, University of St Georges)
Performance of ChatGPT on the situational judgement test (SJT): Can it be a useful resource in preparation for the SJT?Dr Abdi Malik Musa (graduate), Dr Abdiwahab Ibrahim (graduate), Dr Nadia Barakat (graduate) and Dr Danayan Luxmanan (University Hospital Southampton)
Empowering female health workers to minimise and eliminate the effects of Gender Based Violence (GBV) within workplace and in the communityDr Anna Zatorska (graduate)
Presentations from ASME 2023 featuring University of Southampton medical students, staff and graduates
Prof Sally Curtis presents a keynote speech at the ASME conference, accompanied on stage by six students

AMEE conference

Samantha Mills is standing at a lectern, talking to her title slide. A captivated audience look on.
Samantha Mills presents at the AMEE conference

Sam Mills had the exciting opportunity to present her MMedSc results at AMEE (the Association for Medical Education in Europe), sharing her insights into ‘Ethnicity and Race: experiences of working and learning in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton’. The authors were Samantha Mills, Dr Aude Campas, Dr Gary Hickey, Prof Kathleen Kendall, Alejandra Recio Saucedo, Prof Lucy Green.