Medicine graduate student is Iowa-bound

Merton graduate student Nicholas Black will be off to the American midwest next year, having been awarded the 2016 Iowa elective scholarship. Nicholas will spend eight weeks in Iowa working as a subintern directly involved in patient care, whilst studying specialities of his choice.

The Iowa elective scholarship is an exchange programme between the University of Oxford and the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and covers the costs of tuition. Nicholas, who is considering neurology and intensive care medicine as his specialities, commented, "I am very excited at the prospect of learning medicine in a completely different health care setting."

Currently in his second year of graduate study, Nicholas took first class honours in preclinical medicine and to date has received merits in all his clinical specialities.