Scrubs has moved to a new website- for info on how to book the conference and for all other info about the society visit www.scrubs.society.qub.ac.uk

After the huge successes of last year which saw Scrubs awarded the title of QUB Society of the Year, we are excited about the year to come. The new committee will be meeting soon, and here is a flavour of the events we are preparing for 09/10; more advanced suturing workshops, a series of specialties […]

After a successful and exciting year for the society, it is time to draw things to a close for this current academic year. Thanks to all who participated and helped out at our events… without the enthusiasm we received for all that we organised, we couldn’t have acheived what we did.
SCRUBS was voted QUB […]

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 […]

Well our annual conference has come and gone. Thanks to everyone who spoke, demonstrated and sponsored the event, it was a great success and we could not have done it without your help and support!
The committee did an amazing job at keeping things running smoothly… despite a few minor hiccups over the few days […]

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 […]