Mark Baillie speaks to Andrew Connell, Collections Manager for the College’s Museum, about the challenges of caring for one of the oldest medical collections in the UK 

A recent visitor to the RCSEd’s Museum stopped to view an anatomical display of a malignant neoplasm. The visitor, who had been treated for the same disease, commented to a nearby member of staff that despite all the modern clinical imaging they’d been shown during diagnosis and treatment, they’d never understood how the disease affected their body until that moment. “It was really quite touching and humbling,” says Andrew Connell, RCSEd’s Collections Manager for the past decade. “I think it really shows the power and value of the collections.”

The College’s Museum is set to celebrate culture, equality and diversity with a packed events programme, writes Emma Black

When walking through the Playfair building, one cannot help but be impressed by the visual history of the College and the selected portraiture of many great surgeons who formed and developed this institution and who also had a profound influence on modern European medicine.

Scotland and Medicine’s latest initiative, Human Race: inside the history of sports medicine touring exhibition will open in Stirling in March, exploring the history, culture and science of sport and exercise medicine

Scotland and Medicine Partnership was established in 2004 to improve access to, and promote the knowledge of, health and medical related collections held in Scotland and to increase public awareness of Scotland’s global impact on the history and development of medicine. The partnership consists of 23 organisations and The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is the lead partner.

In September, Donald Macleod faced rain and gales to complete a 12-day charity bike ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats

Having turned 70 earlier this year and being time-rich following the end of my term as President of Selkirk RFC, I decided it would be a good time to take on a lifetime’s ambition of cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats. I was encouraged by my family to raise funds for the medical charity Merlin – Medical Relief International, providing basic healthcare in areas of crisis.