A project run by medical students at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry with the Green Ark Children’s Centre in Devonport, Plymouth, has helped parents and children towards a healthier diet.
Three groups of third year medical students carried out the project. In their research, the first group found that less than a quarter of adults in Devonport eat...
Researchers from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry are part of an international consortium which has received funding of almost €3 million from the EU Horizon 2020 programme, to investigate methods to prevent, diagnose and treat non-communicable lung disease (such as asthma and chronic pulmonary obstructive disorder – COPD) in low and middle income countries....
World-renowned dental researcher Dr. Bing Hu from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, is to be one of the key speakers at the third International Conference in Dental and Craniofacial Stem Cells to be held in Paris next May.
Dr. Hu, whose presentation will be entitled “Molecular control of tooth epithelial stem cell maintenance and transition”, will talk...
A medical student from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has received an award of £1,000 from the Peninsula Medical Foundation to pursue a research project investigating neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), as part of the INSPIRE scheme.
James Russell has just completed his second year studying medicine at Plymouth University.
A pioneering training programme for physician associates provided by Plymouth University has welcomed its first students.
Physician associates are a new healthcare workforce in the UK and much needed in a changing NHS. There are a number of factors that have increased the need for physician associates - for example, the harmonization of the Foundation Programme will take junior doctors...
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has boosted its dental research portfolio with the appointment of three new members to its research team.
Dr. Vehid Salih joins the Plymouth team from University College London. He has wide experience in studying biomaterials for tissue regeneration, mainly of musculoskeletal origin, for tissue engineering. His work covers...
Students studying medicine and dentistry at Plymouth University are experiencing the best courses of their kind in the west, according to a national university league table published this week.
The Guardian University League Table 2014 ranks the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry degrees fourth in England (sixth and eighth respectively in the UK).
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
The Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine & Dentistry offer specific open days for our BMBS Medicine and BDS Dentistry courses. The next open days for these courses will take place on:
Saturday 1 June 2013
Please visit www.plymouth.ac.uk/peninsula for more details, and to book your place online.
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has joined the international Cancer Prevention Network (CPN) Consortium, in recognition of the importance of the University’s cancer-related research programmes.
The CPN was founded in 2003 by pioneering physicians from across the United States and Canada, with the objective of finding new ways of improving quality of life...
Dental students from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have been working with residents from a local project providing housing and support for homeless Armed Forces Veterans.
Ten students visited residents at the veterans’ home run by South West charity Alabaré Christian Care & Support recently, to get their input on a pack they are producing aimed at...
