Stress Buster Bake Sale 2.0

Suttie Centre Atrium

Sunday, February 25, 2018

At our final event of this academic year, we raised a fantastic total of £138 in aid of Charlie House and the ARCHIE Foundation and hopefully our sweet treats provided some stress relief for our third year supporters who had upcoming exams. Thank you very much to everyone who bought cakes on the day and our incredible star bakers!

Clinical Skills Evening

Suttie Centre

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

We collaborated with the OBGYN Society and the Peer Assisted Learning Scheme (PALS) to run a clinical skills night aimed at third years. Thank you so much to the 63 students who participated as well as the 8 student parents, 2 event co-ordinators, 2 event assistants and our incredible 16 PALS tutors. The night was a great success and we received fantastic feedback!

RLSS UK Community Instructor Training

Suttie Centre

Saturday, January 27, 2018

​Well done to our brand new RLSS UK community instructors! Thank you to Helen and Murray at RLSS UK for providing training and our sponsors, The Unofficial Guide to Medicine and the MDU for funding the course! 

Street collection for Charlie House

Aberdeen City Centre, 10am-4pm

Saturday, December 02, 2017

Thank you very much to everyone who donated to our bucket collection to Charlie House ! We raised an incredible total of £366.40! This couldn’t have been achieved without the amazing hard work of all of our collectors: Alice, Rachael, Rohini, Gillian, Rebekah, Heather, Brendan and Laura! Thank you also to Donna and Sorcha at the charity for all their help in organising the collection. We collected exclusively for Charlie House on this occasion as we only had one event (a bake sale) for them last year!

RLSS UK Community Instructor Training

Suttie Centre

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Well done to our brand new RLSS UK community instructors! Thank you to Helen and Murray at RLSS UK for providing training and our sponsors, The Unofficial Guide to Medicine and the MDU for funding the course! 

DISCLAIMER: please DO NOT practise choking first aid at home unless someone is actually choking (participants in the pictures are wearing specialised vests for training purposes!). 

Christmas/Winter Holiday Meal

The Bobbin

Monday, November 27, 2017

We loved celebrating the end to another successful term with Teddy Bear Hospital Aberdeen. Thank you very much to our favourite pub, the Bobbin, for their fabulous food and service!

Exam Buster Bake Sale

Suttie Centre Atrium

Thursday, November 23, 2017

We were delighted to raise £127.66 for our nominated charities! Thank you to everyone who bought cakes and all our amazing helpers and bakers!

Disney Pub Quiz

The Bobbin, 7.30pm

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Brush off your tiara or look out that Buzz Lightyear toy as we're reliving your childhood fave Disney and Pixar movies with our charity pub quiz!

Pay on the night. £2 for members, £3 for non-members with ALL money being split between our nominated charities: the ARCHIE Foundation which makes hospital stays easier for children and families in the North East and Charlie House, which provides respite opportunties for children who have life-limiting illnesses!

Paediatric Careers Night

Suttie Centre, 5.30pm

Monday, October 23, 2017

AUPS joined Ogston, the Anaesthetics Society and ACES for an exciting insight into different routes into working with children!

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Thank you very much to the following clinicians for their excellent talks: 

Mr Chris Driver, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

Ms Leonora Mills, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Dr Gareth Patton, Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Zuzana Kusnirikova, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist

RLSS UK National Honours

The Guildhall, London

Friday, September 29, 2017

Alice, Gregor, James, Jeremie and Laura were delighted to receive the Brian Morrissey Trophy in recognition of the work of our Save a Life team in the community in the community at the RLSS UK National Honours at the Guildhall in London! Congratulations and thank you to all of our community Thank you very much to Helen Clark at RLSS UK for nominating the society and for her continued support! Thank you also to Dr Morse for his support with the project and the University of Aberdeen for funding our trip! 

BABY GOT BACK Bar Crawl

Bridge Street Social Club

Thursday, September 21, 2017

We had an amazing time raising money for our nominated charities along with Obs and Gynae Soc! A fantastic total of over £110 was raised for Charlie House, SANDS, the ARCHIE Foundation, GRACE and the Soapbox Collaborative! Thank you very much to everyone who took part and volunteered! 

Paeds Intro Night

Suttie Centre Lecture Theatre: 5.30-6.30pm

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Thank you to our clinical lead and consultant paediatrician, Dr Alistair Revolta who provided an insight into a career in paediatric medicine from! Our Save a Life team gave a hands-on taster session on child and baby CPR! Thank you so much to everyone who came along! 

Doors Open Day

Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare

Friday, September 08, 2017

As part of our Save a Life with AUPS project, Alice and Laura had a fab time teaching some child and baby CPR and choking first aid to members of the public at Doors Open Day!

Fresher's Fayre

Suttie Centre

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

We had a fabby time meeting medic and PA freshers at the Aberdeen Uni Medsoc Fresher's Fayre! We can't wait to see them at events this year!

TechFest Family Activity Weekend

RGU

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Our Save a Life team had an amazing time at TechFest doing taster sessions of child and baby CPR. it was fab to share a stand with Teddy Bear Hospital Aberdeen and the University of Aberdeen Clinical Skills team! Thank you so much to all the families who came along, as well at our fantastic volunteers who gave up their weekend to help out and RGU and TechFest for having us!

Stress Buster Bake Sale

Suttie Centre Atrium

Thursday, June 15, 2017

We held a stress busting bake sale for our Year 4 supporters! Our committee of star bakers made a fantastic range of sweet treats. We raised a fantastic £148.26 which will be split equally between the ARCHIE Foundation and Charlie House! Thank you very much to everyone who baked and donated!