Our First Year Heard (OFYH)
This exhibition is a form of ‘natural experiment’ where students were invited to explore their experiences of the Pandemic – we invite you to submit your perspectives – and contribute to this unique creative research and dialogue
We hope this interactive process will illuminate and inform future medical education.
Initiator and curator of OFYH – Louis Davenport.
Louis was a Bristol First-Year medical student in 2020/1
2021 curation

Broken Bristol
Reverberations of a distorted introduction to your University location

‘The Current Situation’
The professional and personal impact of remote consultations on both healthcare staff and patients

Boxed-in
The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule

Snatched Expectations
Making meaning of remote education over turbulent times

Teddy Steps Up
Home-based improvisation in medical education immortalised

Our Shared Humanity
Universal, positive, responses surface within the bleak context of the Pandemic

Confusion
In-depth observation of patients in hospital during the Pandemic offers deep learning

Volunteering at a Vaccine Clinic
The role of medical humanities in cross-communities healthcare

The experience of being a first-year during co-vid
Questions around self-identity, community and educational expectations triggered by the Pandemic

Tension
Challenges to learning and wellbeing in the pandemic gives rise to an unexpected creative resource

A surprisingly memorable online consultation
A patient’s spontaneous response makes a student’s day

From a Distance
The tight-rope of students’ maintaining wellbeing and mental health across the Pandemic

Pillow Talk
Improvisation in remote medical education

Mental Health in Medical Students
Renewed respect for the capacity of the brain under pressure

One step at a time
Managing the steep hill of study in lockdown

Imposter Syndrome
Underlying student anxieties starkly surfaced by the Pandemic

What’s in front of you
Visceral encounters in the DR

Desk Day
Medical Education in lockdown

Virtual Fog
Reflections around the impact of Covid-19 on medical education reveals a surprising outcome.

Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations

Beneath the Dura Mater
The balancing act of self-care and caring for others viewed from both physiological and psychological perspectives.
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A wondefully put-together website with such diverse, thought-provoking pieces. And vital, in every sense of the word.