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Throughout 2026, we plan to share and display alumni memories of Edinburgh Medical School and the places associated with student life over the years.

Selected memories will be shared through a digital EMS300 archive and featured in alumni communications, articles and event displays in 2026.

Your memories are part of our incredible legacy. From clinical placements and time in the lab, local hang outs and society events to long-lasting relationships, you can help us to showcase decades of unforgettable experiences at Edinburgh Medical School.

Are you a someone with some talent on the music front? Can you sing or play an instrument to a level that could make for a pleasant experience for a group of carers and some of those they care for?

If so, the ‘Note of Thanks’ activity would love to hear from you! We would like to bring together a current and past students and staff to provide some ‘light musical entertainment’ in various local community centres across Edinburgh during Carers Week – Monday 8th -  Sunday 14th June 2026.

If you enjoying singing, then please sign up. You are also welcome to join if you play an instrument as a soloist, a duet, a quartet or an ensemble of any genre.

Please email Ruthanne Baxter, Edinburgh Medical School 300 Community Connections Co-Lead, by 17th April for more information.

The Community Connections workstream are keen to reach out beyond the city limits of Edinburgh and connect with and support remote and rural communities. Some activities around this will include having EMS300 stands at some agricultural shows, livestock markets and cultural festivals localised to remote and rural areas across Scotland. There are also plans to support our current EMS students get a glimpse into the opportunities, rewards and challenges unique to working in remote and rural areas not just in Scotland but across the globe.

If you currently work in, or have experience of having worked in, remote and rural areas please get in touch with Ruthanne by 17th April more information.

Social Prescribing was developed in 1984 in Tower Hamlets, an area of multiple deprivation in London, where Dr Sam Everington and Andrew Mawson brought into being the first Healthy Living Centre, the Bromley-By-Bow Centre. Since then, social prescribing has been taken up in countries across the globe. 

The University of Edinburgh was one of the first universities in the world to offer social prescribing on campus and is the lead for SPOC Global, an international network of those wishing to explore, develop, improve or increase social prescribing for their campus community. Through EMS300 we are taking the opportunity to raise awareness and understanding of social prescribing to students, both for potential support of their own health and wellbeing and for their future work with patients.