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7 Minute Medics!

19 November 2019

Hull Medical Society is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the fantastic medical podcast 7 Minute Medics which was created by HYMS graduate Dr Martha Nicholson! 
Here's what Martha has to say...


7 Minute Medics is a medical revision podcast aimed at UK medical students in their clinical years, which I began during my 5th year of medical school while revising for finals. While revising for my GCSEs I liked to listen to the BBC Bitesize podcasts – in bed, in the car, whenever I was doing anything that didn’t require much concentration. Although there were similar revision podcasts and videos aimed at medical students that I’d used at university, there was no podcast that offered exactly what I was looking for: they tended to be either non-UK oriented, or full lectures in podcast form which I’d lose track of if I was trying to listen while doing something else.

Making each episode seven minutes long was a bit of an arbitrary decision, based on the fact that five minutes didn’t seem long enough to cover a topic, and trying to keep it under ten minutes encouraged me to be succinct. I found it very helpful for my own revision to have to summarise revision topics in my own words for the podcast, and decided to get more people involved when I realised that it could be a good way for other medical students to not only revise themselves, but to also get some extra teaching experience and feedback on their work.

With the help of Hull Medical Society I have now been able to purchase a full set of portable recording equipment. As well as being a big upgrade from my smartphone, which I had been using to record since the inception of the podcast, this will allow me to record in more public places which had previously been too noisy to record using my phone, opening up the opportunity to try podcasting to more medical students and junior doctors."

Dr Martha Nicholson



To listen to Martha's podcast check it out here for Apple Podcasts, or click here for the link to her Spotify page. 

Happy listening!

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