About ClinSoc
Meet the Committee 2021
Alice Egerton & Katie Jones (she/her)
Presidents
Hi, we’re the 2021 ClinSoc Presidents and we’re here to represent your views to improve the Clinical School for all so please feel free to contact us with any problems you have or have identified and we will try to help you as best we can.
Alice Clarke (she/her)
VP
As Vice President, Alice makes sure there is tea and coffee for the Sherwood Room and helps to negotiate deals with our sponsors.
Diego Balassini (he/him)
Secretary
Diego's role involves administrative tasks that keep the society organised and running. He is also in charge of the Bulletin, and especially encourages quiz submissions!
Zhu Xuan Zhong (she/her)
Treasurer
Zhu Xuan manages ClinSoc's financial affairs, including where we get our funding and what it goes towards.
Jontie Honey (he/him)
Welfare
As the Welfare Officer, Jontie’s role is to support all medics in the Clinical School. He is here to signpost medics to help with health concerns, disabilities, and finances, as well as improve placement experience and run Welfare Events through the year. If you ever have any questions, or just need someone to talk to, please do contact him.
Moe Takenoshita (she/her)
Academic
Moe is responsible for giving our academic feedback to the Faculty and organising events such as the Electives' evening and Teaching Awards. If you have any questions, or would simply like a chat, do get in touch.
Natasha Abigail (she/her)
Access
As the Access Officer, Natasha aims to promote entrance to Medicine and to Cambridge from all backgrounds. She is the point of contact between prospective applicants and the Clinical School, so please do find out more on this page and get in contact!
Christopher Cheng (he/him)
Webmaster
Chris looks after this website, ClinSoc's branding and ensure the society has firm digital infrastructure. He will also take care of ClinSoc's new Insta! Write to him with questions, updates, or suggestions and he'll be happy to help!
Chris Cheng, Arka Banerjee & Nikhil Singh (he/him)
Sports, Culture & Societies
Hi! Nikhil, Arka & Chris are three Year 4 friendly faces, acting as a link between the ClinSoc committee and all the different Clinical School sports teams and societies! Get in touch with Sherwood room queries and keep updated for virtual events!
Lizzie Good (she/her) & Joy Hodkinson (she/her)
Grad reps
Joy & Lizzie represent all Graduate Students (CGCM, MBPhD and Affiliates) at the Clinical School. Contact them for support, advice, or to pass on any suggestions.
Requests & Submissions
Submit something to the Bulletin
The Bulletin is our regular newsletter to all Clinical Students. To add an item, go to the Events page and get submitting.
Submit a question for the Bulletin Picture Quiz
Diego is always keen to receive picture quiz submissions. Want to plug your cause, event, or society right at the top of the bulletin for your trouble? No problem – just email secretary@nullclinsoc.co.uk with your submission.
Add events to the ClinSoc Calendar
The ClinSoc calendar serves two purposes: keeping everyone updated about when and where events are happening around the Clinical School, and helping societies to avoid their events clashing. See the calendar page for details of how you can add events here.
Request changes to the Sports and Societies listings
Starting a new society? Has your contact information or President changed? Just want people to know where to find your website? Let webmaster@nullclinsoc.co.uk know and we can get that sorted for you.
Looking for something else? Browse the committee members above and decide who best matches up with your message.
Our Sponsors
The Medical Defence Union
Here to guide, support and defend you throughout your career.
Have you thought what it would be like if a complaint about you was made to the GMC? Or if a patient sued you for clinical negligence? What would you do if your career was at risk?
Run by doctors for doctors, the MDU have over 130 years’ experience of successfully defending our members’ professional reputations.
Check out the MDU membership benefits for medical students and foundation doctors: Join the MDU here.
The MDU also offers us excellent learning resources.
Synap is an intelligent revision platform, created by a new qualified doctor, which uses content from Oxford University Press and spaced repetition software to identify knowledge gaps and create a personalised study plan. The MDU have partnered with Synap to provide MDU student members access to this intuitive platform. Practice thousands of questions from the Oxford Assess and Progress series. Find out more about Synap here.
The MDU are also offering a number of e-learning courses for free to MDU members, which will help you mitigate risk in your professional life, assist you with furthering your career, and enhance patient safety.
The British Medical Association
The BMA represents, supports and negotiates on behalf of all UK doctors and medical students.
We are member-run and led, fighting for the best terms and conditions as well as lobbying and campaigning on the issues impacting the medical profession.
The MSC (Medical Students' Committee) represents medical students in the UK. We consider and address issues of importance to medical students and make sure your views are represented in wider BMA policy. Read more here.
Benefits for the profession
We tirelessly defend your terms and conditions and represent your needs, in the forms of national contract negotiations, campaigning, lobbying for change, and getting doctors' voices heard in Parliament.
Benefits for your career
We offer tools and advice to support you at every stage of your career. This includes a range of discounted and free events, the BMJ, BMJ Learning, CPD and training, webinars, masterclasses and access to the BMA library.
The Unofficial Guide to Medicine
The Unofficial Guide to Medicine is a unique student publishing group, producing high quality medical textbooks written and reviewed by students/junior doctors and checked for accuracy by experts.
The series follows a peer-led publishing model that has been written about in Res Medica: Journal of the Royal Medical Society, and has won awards from distinguished organisations like the BMA, the British Institute of Radiology and the Association for the Study of Medical Education.
We have a Facebook group of over 26,000 students who provide feedback at every stage of a book's development, ensuring all of our products are perfectly focused to student needs. The books are now sold in over 55 countries worldwide, and additionally over £8500 has been raised for worthwhile charitable causes, including many run by student volunteers.
Make sure to check out their website for excellent resources which provide easy to read relevant high yield material perfect for studying and structuring your revision.
Interested in sponsoring us?
If you think you'd be interested in sponsoring ClinSoc Cambridge, please get in touch with Alice below!