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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

Izzy Godfrey
Mixed-media

Reverberations of a distorted introduction to your University location

‘The Current Situation’

Athira Nandan
Poetry

The professional and personal impact of remote consultations on both healthcare staff and patients

Boxed-in

Emily Toms
Poetry

The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule

Snatched Expectations

Beck Iloghalum
Cartoon

Making meaning of remote education over turbulent times

Teddy Steps Up

Charlotte Brushfield
Sculpture

Home-based improvisation in medical education immortalised

Our Shared Humanity

Bibi Enki
Painting

Universal, positive, responses surface within the bleak context of the Pandemic

Confusion

Louise Carter
Drawing

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

Volunteering at a Vaccine Clinic

Katy Glenn
Collage

The role of medical humanities in cross-communities healthcare

The experience of being a first-year during co-vid

Clodagh Thorpe
Mixed-media

Questions around self-identity, community and educational expectations triggered by the Pandemic

Tension

Damisi Dare
Film

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

A surprisingly memorable online consultation 

Oliver Sinha
Poetry

A patient’s spontaneous response makes a student’s day

From a Distance

Ciaran Moreland
Poetry

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

Pillow Talk

Emmanuel Mbuthia
Drawing

Improvisation in remote medical education

Mental Health in Medical Students

Serena Manchip
Drawing

Renewed respect for the capacity of the brain under pressure

One step at a time

Tom Edwards
Mixed-media

Managing the steep hill of study in lockdown

Imposter Syndrome

Elise Moss
Drawing

Underlying student anxieties starkly surfaced by the Pandemic

What’s in front of you

Louis Davenport
Poem

Visceral encounters in the DR

Desk Day

Ellie Harrison
Cartoon

Medical Education in lockdown

Virtual Fog

Group 24
Drawing

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

Disconnected

Group 20
Film

The complexities of remote consultations

Broken Bristol

Broken Bristol

Izzy Godfrey
Mixed-media

Reverberations of a distorted introduction to your University location

‘The Current Situation’

‘The Current Situation’

Athira Nandan
Poetry

The professional and personal impact of remote consultations on both healthcare staff and patients

Boxed-in

Boxed-in

Emily Toms
Poetry

The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule

Snatched Expectations

Snatched Expectations

Beck Iloghalum
Cartoon

Making meaning of remote education over turbulent times

Teddy Steps Up

Teddy Steps Up

Charlotte Brushfield
Sculpture

Home-based improvisation in medical education immortalised

Our Shared Humanity

Our Shared Humanity

Bibi Enki
Painting

Universal, positive, responses surface within the bleak context of the Pandemic

Confusion

Confusion

Louise Carter
Drawing

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

Tension

Tension

Damisi Dare
Film

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

From a Distance

From a Distance

Ciaran Moreland
Poetry

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

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Emmanuel Mbuthia
Drawing

Improvisation in remote medical education

One step at a time

One step at a time

Tom Edwards
Mixed-media

Managing the steep hill of study in lockdown

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome

Elise Moss
Drawing

Underlying student anxieties starkly surfaced by the Pandemic

Desk Day

Desk Day

Ellie Harrison
Cartoon

Medical Education in lockdown

Virtual Fog

Virtual Fog

Group 24
Drawing

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

Disconnected

Disconnected

Group 20
Film

The complexities of remote consultations

Beneath the Dura Mater

Beneath the Dura Mater

Lizzie Wood
Visual

The balancing act of self-care and caring for others viewed from both physiological and psychological perspectives.

1 Comment

  1. Jordan

    A wondefully put-together website with such diverse, thought-provoking pieces. And vital, in every sense of the word.

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