Newcastle University Medical School - The Medical Society (MedSoc)

The Medical Society (MedSoc)

Established in 1879, The Medical Society is the student society for all medical students at Newcastle. The main social event is a free bar in the Students' Union every Friday during term. They also organise events such as the Christmas Ball, MedSoc Olympics and Metroline, a pub crawl which takes place on a Wednesday afternoon during the Easter term and involves taking the Metro train service and travelling to the coast and back dressed as doctors and nurses. MedSoc is run by a committee of third year medical students, and tradition dictates you must be in this year to be elected. Campaigns for election to the committee last the whole of February and have various evenings such as "Take Over". They culminate in a hustings event where each campaign team shows a 20 minute video they have produced. Medsoc also helps provide a platform for fund-raising by the various charities in the Medical School as well as running its own fund-raising events. Members are heavily involved in the Medics Revue, a comedy sketch show produced by third years in the summer term, portraying the events of the Medical School during the last academic year.