'Community spirit' helps clean up after London riots
Jewish Chronicle
Medical student Richard Daniels had some free time and was one of more than 80 volunteers who turned out in Camden today, following the closure of the high street and Camden and Chalk Farm stations last night. He said that despite scenes of devastation …

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IS BRITAIN READY FOR SUPER-COP?
Express.co.uk
And the blustering outrage of the police union – “Just as one would not expect a medical student to act as a surgeon I am not sure the public would want people on work experience in command of high-risk situations” was the bizarre response of the …

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Just what the doctor ordered: Medical taster day at Sheffield University
The Star
Karl Boulton, aged 21, Medical Student Ambassador and a former SOAMS student, said: “I wanted to be involved in this summer school to help give something back to the scheme that helped me so much to get where I am today. …

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News in Brief:
Sheffield Telegraph
FIFTY Year 12 pupils from across South Yorkshire joined a residential summer school to experience life as a medical student at the University of Sheffield. Under the University's Outreach and Access to Medicine Scheme, they spent four days living and …

Teenager mauled to death by polar bear named as British tourist Horatio Chapple
Telegraph.co.uk
Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring medical student, was killed when the animal rampaged into the tent in which he and his friends were sleeping on a glacier in Svalbard, Norway. …

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Encouraging the next generation of doctors
BBC News
… age of twelve or thirteen, and then for those who have a natural aptitude, and who have what it takes to be a doctor, then we could make them much better prepared for the entrance exam, for the interview process, and for life as a medical student. …

Man on student road death charge
BBC News
A man has been charged over the death of a medical student who was found lying injured in a road after being hit by a vehicle in north London. Mingwei Tan, 20, was dragged for a mile under a vehicle that hit her near Belsize Park Tube station in …
Man charged over student's deathCambridge News

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Big response to search for life-saving donor
Jewish Chronicle
A Manchester medical student who is spearheading a life-saving search for a bone marrow match for her father has signed more than 250 people to a donor register in three weeks. Naomi Tomlinson, 23, from Cheadle, …

Rugby World Cup 2011: Jamie Roberts happy to live and learn as he seeks …
Telegraph.co.uk
As a high-flying medical student at Cardiff University, the Wales centre could appreciate the benefits of the “brutal” daily sessions at the Polish Olympic training facility in Spala, even if it could not dull the pain. …

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Plea from ex-volunteers' charity boss Dame Elisabeth Hoodless: 'Welcome a …
Islington Tribune newspaper website
“I learnt Latin in school and one of the refugees who was a medical student also spoke it. Local families turned out to be caring and generous. “They would visit the camp and invite refugees to their homes. A lot of people lived on farms. …