Success for BM6 students past and present
The achievements of Southampton BM6 students past and present have been recognised.
Current BM6 student Rojbin, has been celebrated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, while Medicine alumni Jahangir (Jiggy) Alom was named in the King’s New Year Honours list.
Year 1 student Rojbin was named the winner of the 2023 Royal College of Psychiatrists Medical Student Prize for her essay entitled Motherhood and Social Media – What are the Benefits and Challenges?
In the essay, she explores how motherhood is portrayed on social media and how the space can help mothers but also how it can become harmful or unsafe. She also discusses how healthcare professionals can support mothers to access content that will help them.
Rojbin’s prize included £150 and free registration at the Faculty of Perinatal Psychiatry Annual Conference which took place in London at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
She said: “Both in BM6 Year 0 and Year 1, I've found that taking up opportunities adds variation to my studies whilst supports the notion of lifelong, self-directed learning which is so important for medical students. Researching the topic of mental health in pregnant women and dissecting how social media as an added factor in their wellbeing was something I found fascinating. Attending the conference and listening to new developments in perinatal psychiatry whilst meeting other healthcare professionals was a great opportunity. There were also many intersections between perinatal psychiatry and my other interests such as healthcare inequalities. Overall, I'm very grateful to have taken part and an interest in psychiatry has been sparked!”
Former BM6 student Jahangir (Jiggy) Alom was named in the King’s New Years Honours list and was awarded a BEM for services to tackling health inequalities, particularly during COVID-19. His efforts helped build public trust in the national vaccination programme and raise awareness of the experiences of ethnic minorities. He also works at Selfless UK, a charity which alleviates poverty in rural Bangladesh.
Jiggy graduated the BM6 course in 2018 with the Deans Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Faculty of Medicine. He is now an Emergency Medicine trainee at Barts Health NHS Trust in London. During his time as an undergraduate, Jingy was President of MedSoc and established WAMSoc (Widening Access to Medicine Society). WAMSoc is a student-led initiative aiming to empower students from a diverse range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds across the UK to follow a career in medicine.