RUMS Review: Vol. XI, Issue II
We are excited to share the Spring 2026 online edition of the RUMS Review magazine, now available to read here.
A note from our Editor-in-Chief, Anna Baker:
We’ve just returned from the Student Publication Awards National Conference where we were shortlisted for Best Science Publication and Harshitaa Sendhilkumar was shortlisted for Best Science or Tech Piece, which she won last year! Seven of us spent two days in Norwich for the conference and awards gala and attended some very interest-ing talks with journalists from the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, Bellingcat and others. Although we did not win this time around, we met other student journalists from across the UK, including some who had been inspired by the RUMS Review. We will try again next year!
Led by our Events and Social Secretary, Saarah Chowdhury, we hosted a doctor who many of us students have been inspired by, Dr Rohin Francis. He is a consultant interventional cardiologist and the creator behind the YouTube channel Medlife Crisis where he explores medical topics, including misinformation and medfluencers with an undertone of humour. He generously stayed for an extended Q&A on science communication, medical journalism and more. He said it was a trip down memory lane to his days as a student journalist and the reflections he sent us afterwards were very encouraging.
We also co-hosted a medical student debate panel on the UK’s End of Life Bill alongside UCL’s Healthcare Policy and Management Society. Read their Term Report, written by Theodore Spaliviero-Shaw, in this edition to learn more about what they have been up to.
Our Social Media lead and journalist Megan Kwok has also brought our podcast channel back to life with her new series ‘Humans of RUMS’. Go listen to her excellent interviews with UCLMS alumni about their unique career paths!
You are sure to find an article that interests you in this edition. In our Journalism section, our writers have explored medical history – such as the history of art in hospitals and the significance of the Mildmay Hospital from the 1980s to today – as well as social determinants of health, mental health from a non-Western perspective and much more. Read through our Medical School Reporting section for an exclusive interview with Dr Nimesh Patel about his exam restructuring, plus end of year society reviews and President interviews.
Thank you to our sponsors, the UCL Medical School, Elsevier and the Medical Defence Union, for providing us with the funding to continue creating quality medical journalism. And thank you to all the writers, editors, designers and committee members who have worked so well together to make this year such an exciting one for our society!
As I head into my final year of medical school, my time on committee comes to an end. The RUMS Review has been such a central part of my time in medical school, as well as many others’. I’m grateful to have had a space to explore aspects of medicine beyond the curriculum through writing, and to contribute to this physical record of the ideas and opinions of medical students of UCL. As such a determined group with so many unique viewpoints and topics to write about, I’m sure the RUMS Review will expand year upon year with new magazine editions, zines, podcast episodes and speaker events. I look forward to seeing where the next committee takes the publication!
Anna Bostrom Baker
Editor-in-Chief
2025-2026
