Clinical Medical Education Society - CliMES

08/01/2023

Hello 3rd Years!

We hope the end of project is going well and your final drafts aren't giving you too much of a headache! Hopefully you're excited for starting placement and not too scared! To ease your journey into clinical medicine, we have written this survival guide to help make placement seem a little more comfortable!

We hope it helps!

Love,
The CliMES Team ###

The CliMES Survival Guide to 3rd Year Placement Contents General Tips & Tricks 4 The Basics 4 How to learn on Placement 4 Ward Round Survival Guide 6 Surviving your first grilling 8 Jobs 8 Clerking 101 8 History Taking Proforma 9 Differentials 10 Presenting 10 Wellbeing 11 Medicine & Elde...

07/09/2022

Hello everyone and welcome back!

We hope the first few days of fourth year have treated you well! We got such good feedback from you about our 3rd Year Survival guide, we wanted to get a 4th-year guide together for you!

Please get in touch with us via our page or instagram (.soton) if you have any further questions/queries - we want to keep this guide up to date so it is the most useful for you!

The CLIMES Team x

The CliMES Survival Guide to 4th Year Placement Contents Introduction What can I do to make the most of my time on placement in 4th year? Fourth Year Rotations: An Overview Psychiatry Top Tips for Psychiatry: What can you do on the wards? Additional Opportunities & Taster Days Exam...

07/02/2022

We would like to introduce you to one of our sponsors for this year; the MDU. We would like to say a big thank you for their funding, which really helps us continue to run sessions!

The MDU is a mutual, not-for-profit organisation that provides access to indemnity and medico-legal advice for members.

As medical students, our membership to the MDU is free! This includes:
A journal packed with advice news and views
Revision resources and events sponsorship
Confidential medico - legal advice
Assistance with medical school fitness to practice procedures
Indemnity for your elective and access to The Electives Network
Access to quick guides, student dilemmas, e-learning and more.

16/01/2022

Hello Everyone and a very happy new year! We hope you had some time off to rest over Christmas and are excited for this coming year!

We'd like to wish a massive GOOD LUCK to the third years who are starting placement tomorrow!! We know that starting placement can come as both a very daunting and exciting time with lots of unknowns.

We've put together a **"How to Ace Placement"** guide for you to help with some of those worries and questions you might have. This guide give you some top tips for each of your rotations in GP, MEC and Surgery, some tips practical skills like clerking and writing in the notes, some suggestions of how to learn on placement as well as some conditions it might be good to become familiar with over the course of your placement.

We are all very excited for you and if you have any questions about placement please don't hesitate to message this page and we'll do our best to pass down any nuggets we've gained over the years.

CLiMES Love xx

The CliMES Survival Guide to 3rd Year Placement Contents General Tips & Tricks 4 The Basics 4 How to learn on Placement 4 Ward Round Survival Guide 6 Surviving your first grilling 8 Jobs 8 Clerking 101 8 History Taking Proforma 9 Differentials 10 Presenting 10 Wellbeing 11 Medicine & Elde...

06/12/2021

Thank you to all our fantastic committee, all of the teachers who gave up their evenings to help out as well as all of you who came along to the sessions we've been holding over the last 6 weeks.

We really hope that you've found it a useful and are all looking forward to starting placement in January!

Our powerpoints are all available on the drive below for those of you who were asking for them.

Have a lovely Christmas holidays and good luck for January!
The Climes Team

17/09/2021

Return to Medicine: Cranial & Peripheral Nerves session (18th Sep) - CANCELLED

09/09/2021

Hello there one and all - welcome to Southampton University’s ** brand new ** Clinical Medical Education Society (or CLIMES for short). As our name suggests, we are a society focused on medical education - both delivering it and developing our abilities to deliver it! Teaching remains an important part of medicine with many of us likely to incorporate teaching into our future careers.

Our aims for CLIMES are to provide small-group learning opportunities to a range of students specifically focussed on the practical side of medicine e.g. history taking, examination and clinical skills! We also aim to help to develop the confidence and abilities of individuals in delivering these regular near-peer teaching sessions.

Throughout the year we hope to be able to run sessions on:
Examination Skill Refreshers for Retuning Intercalaters
Clinical Skill Practice Sessions
History Taking Practice Sessions
Placement prep & recap for 3rd years (semester 1)
Data Interpretation & Prescribing
Clinical Decision Making

Our committee consists of:
Alex and Jo: Co-Presidents
Olly and Nadia: Teaching Leads
Heather: Social and Secretary
Faye: Treasurer

Sponsors: Wesleyan (Instagram: )

Message us if you've got any questions or want to get involved!