In an attempt to broaden our events diary and open up new and exciting opportunities for our members, SCRUBS ran a ‘Women in Surgery’ event on 7th May 2009 in collaboration with the WinS organisation. The idea came about following Aarti and Koo’s visit to London in December to the actual Women in […]

WinS is a national organisation working to promote surgery as a career for women and to enable women who have chosen a career in surgery to realise their professional goals.

SCRUBS, in collaboration with WinS have organised an event at the Students’ Union at Queen’s University in Belfast on Thursday 7th May 2009 from 7.30pm. […]

Congratulations to our second group of members who completed their Basic First Aid certificate with Martin Frizzel of the British Red Cross on 16th March 2009.
Thanks again to the Red Cross for running the course and supplying the trainees with their training, handbook and certificate. Thanks also to our sponsors who’s money was put […]

The venue is booked, the speakers are sorted, all we need now is for you guys to apply!
Our 2009 conference takes place 26-27 March in Belfast.
Please see our conference page for further information on this year’s event… we’re hoping it will be bigger and better than ever!
If you’ve any questions, please contact us at qubscrubs@hotmail.co.uk […]

SCRUBS, in collaboration with the British Red Cross, ran their first First-Aid course for members over two nights in January (19th and 26th). The course was taught by Martin from the Belfast office of the Red Cross and encompassed basic first aid training including:
- CPR
- Shock
- Wound management
The members that successfully completed this first […]

On 15th January 2009 a founding member of SCRUBS, now F2 Dr Angela McGreevy, hosted a revision session on ECGs for members of the society at the MBC.
The talk involved an exploration of the basics of analysing ECGs including rate, rhythm and looking at the different parts of the traces (P-waves, QRS-complexes and the different […]

Many thanks to Jan from Wesleyan Medical and Rachel from MPS for the spread they put on and talks.
Unfortunately due to revision commitments and not being back in Belfast, a lot of members were unable to make this event! The craic was still great with pizza, buns, chocolate and drinks all round!
Please see the […]

Speaker: Dr Angela McGreevy (Mater Hospital, Belfast)
When: Thursday 15th January ‘09
Time: 7.30pm
Where: MBC Room 105
Only 30 places available for this session so please email us at qubscrubs@hotmail.co.uk to book a place!

Our sponsors Wesleyan Medical and MPS are putting on a ‘Welcome Back After Christmas’ Night for SCRUBS members and other medics.
Where? The SPACE in QUB Students’ Union
When? Thursday 8th January 2009
Time? 7pm until 8/8.30pm
All welcome! Free pizza, drinks, snacks and more. Prize raffle also!

On the 9th December, Dr Barry Kelly of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast gave a talk to our members on the ‘basics of analysing and presenting x-rays’ Over 60 members turned up from 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5th year to hear him give some useful hints and tips on presenting images on the […]