The Medical Student
Medical Student is the University of London's official medical newspaper. MS was founded in 2004 by Johann Malawana of Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, to unite the 10,000+ medical students across London's five medical schools. The newspaper is available free at all of London's campuses and is published by the University of London Union (ULU).
Several months after its birth, Rohin Francis of St. George's Hospital Medical School took over as editor-in-chief and expanded the newspaper considerably. The key appeal of MS is that it remains the only large-scale medical publication in Britain written and edited entirely by full-time medical students, in contrast to other journals and magazines written by doctors and journalists. This factor has ensured MS's popularity at a grass-roots level amongst London's medics. It has been instrumental in publicising and helping student causes as well as exposing threats to medical student welfare.
Indeed, in its first full year of existence, Medical Student won the 2005 Daily Mirror and National Union of Students National Student Journalism Award for Best Small Budget Publication in the UK.
In September 2005, Ferras Alwan of Bart's and the London began his tenure as editor-in-chief.
