D-Day approaching

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well an looking forward to the next few weeks!September's gonna be an important month for me! both personally and for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

The college's induction will be on Monday 12 September 2011,10 am, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/medical-school

From Medical School Quad: enter Doorway 3.

Here you'll be given a series of talks from key academic and administrative staff, as well as by one our student Ambassadors Vicky Young.  They'll also be a chance to meet your fellow students over tea and coffee. 

Myself an Lauren (Marketing an Communications Manager) will also be discussing the opportunity to become a student ambassador yourself, as well as enter a film competition where you could win £100. I'll also be handing out a survey to help us with our future recruitment, if you dont mind filling it in, that would be great!

At the end of the month I'll also be handing in my Mres Dissertation. I've been studying part time for my Mres for 2 years now so it'll be strange having it all finally completed. I'm looking forward to progressing onto the final stage of the PhD though. However, the Mres will be my third degree and a lot of my friends take the "mickey" out of me for always being a student. For those of you, who dont know "take the mickey" is english slang for making fun of someone. There's plenty of Edinburgh "slang" which the locals use, which i'm sure you will all be fluent in by the time you complete your studies. 

My team Liverpool FC have started the season really well (always makes me happy), but so have both Manchester teams! the Edinburgh derby was at the weekend and it was a fine victory for Hearts!

The Finge festival has now finished and its been another fantastic one, with some great comedians and shows. Edinburgh usually goes quiet for a few weeks until the new students arrive but then the whole city is really vibrant and buzzing!!

Dont forget to have a look at the ambassador blogs for their reflections on their induction last year! they're a brilliant read! very informative but fun and interesting as well!

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/medicine-vet-medicine/postgraduate/student-blogs

I'm really looking forward to meeting you all an remember if you have any last minute queries, please let me know.

Best wishes

Barry

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MED e-ZINE

Well its getting ever closer to enrolment and myself an my colleagues in postgraduate admissions have been working very hard to make sure everything is ready for the College's new cohort! We've been working on the student profile videos which can be seen at the College's youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CM​VMPostgraduate?feature=mhee

I've also been working on some new online magazines (e-Zines) for some of our programmes. I've branded them MED e-ZINES (hopefully the pun is noticeable) but at the minute they are course specific. Hopefully in the future I can start to produce more generic MED e-ZINES for the college. These will be emailed to students addresses but also published on the facebook pages. It would be great to hear any feedback on these ideas from anyone?????

My personal research is progressing nicely with my Mres dissertation due in at the end of September. I'm looking at online brand trust factors when purchasing from small company websites. My data analysis will be from online forum communities, coding responses using the analytical software nVIVO (Which I never realised was so expensive!!!) Anyway its going well so far though in all honesty i'm dreading the coding!

The weather here has been very wet for the past few weeks but this week it has been glorious sunshine! It will be great if it stays like this for a while, especially with the festival coming up! The festival is one of my favourite times of year! there's a great atmosphere around the city and there's so much to do!

Take it easy!!!!

Great day in the meadows Edinburgh!

Hi everyone,

Well its a lovely sunny day in Edinburgh and we had some great weather over the weekend. There's a park land area in the city centre called "The Meadows" where i went yesterday to play football with my friends. There's always lots of games going on so we just joined in with a group of international students to have a big game. It wasnt quite Barcelona standard but it was a really good game:)

Here's a picture of the meadows below:

Work is very busy at the moment. We hosted a focus group to try and improve our admissions processes which went very well and our student participants were brilliant. A few of them have now signed up to become student ambassadors for the college so stay tuned for more information on how you can follow their blogs!

We're also hosting an online drop in session on the 9th of June for any admissions queries! if anyone needs any further information on that please get in touch!

That's all for now, Best wishes! Barry

First Blog

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to read my first ever blog! Hard to believe seeing as it's the year 2011 but nevermind!

So I've been working for the College of Medicine/Veterinary Medicine (MVM) for just over a month now, and everything's going really well so far! I'm currently working on some new campaigns using social media and looking to get together some on programme students to conduct some focus groups!

Have just set up the new facebook pages for all offer holders so let me know what you think!

Cheers,
Barry