Meet your 2023 Course Reps
Student voice is enormously important to us here at the School and Course Representatives play a huge part in helping share and implement student ideas and feedback. Here’s who will be stepping into these roles this academic year.
Each year, Course Reps actively work to improve the student experience, identifying and discussing issues and working on solutions together with Guild Officers as well as senior School staff through their participation in the Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC).
From Basingstoke to Bratislava – this year’s Reps have come to Liverpool from far and wide and are excited to take on these roles and represent their year groups this academic year. And now, over to your Reps!
Year 1 Course Reps
James Laurence
Home town: Basingstoke
Go-to feel good film: Harry Potter
Favourite Liverpool landmark: Anglican cathedral
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Being given a set of scrubs.
One thing I'm looking forward to this academic year: Making lifelong friends.
Reason I ran for course rep: I wanted to voice the concerns and ideas of my fellow students, to speak up about the topics on the mind of all of the cohort. Most importantly I wanted to be able to make changes that improve the year groups education.
One thing I'd like to achieve in the role this year: I would like to make a positive impact, changing something that has affected most of the students for the better.
Shahzain Tanveer
Home town: Birmingham
Go-to feel good TV show: Suits
Favourite Liverpool landmark: Docks
Biggest highlight on the course so far: I really enjoyed the brilliantly structured lecture on Clinical Genetics by Dr Ellis.
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: I am looking forward to our community placement this year as an invaluable opportunity to bridge theory and practice and gaining first hand experience in clinical settings.
Reason I ran for Course Rep: I pursued the role of course rep to enhance communication channels between faculty and students, fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration.
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: By holding this role, I aim to have a meaningful influence on processes that directly impact us, ensuring that our perspectives are considered in decision-making. My goal is to cultivate a sense of commitment, ensuring that the student body feels actively engaged in the academic journey.
Year 2 Course Rep
Francesca Theodoropoulou-Estacchini
Home town: St Albans
Feel good album: Mac Miller - The divine feminine
Favourite liverpool landmark: Liverpool One
One thing I'm looking forward to this academic year: Placement and putting what I have learnt into perspective.
Biggest highlight of the course so far: Endless study sessions with my friends in Cedar House.
Reason I ran for Course Rep: To have a chance at leadership and to voice my thoughts about the course.
One thing I'd like to achieve from the role this year: Getting to know the head of year and working together to achieve the best for my peers.
Year 3 Course Reps
Richard Schindler
Home town: Bratislava, Slovakia
Go-to feel good album/film/TV show: Friends & Sherlock Holmes
Favourite Liverpool landmark: The Royal Albert Dock
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Making a change in a patient's journey during the placement.
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: Being the voice of our cohort.
Reason I ran for Course Rep: To fight for our right and ideas.
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: Better conditions and environment for our studies.
Nikesh Someswaran
Home town: Liverpool
Go-to feel good album/film/TV show: West Wing
Favourite Liverpool landmark: St George's Hall
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Scrubbing in for surgeries and getting involved.
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: Paediatric placement
Reason I ran for Course Rep: To try get the best experience possible for students and streamline the year.
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: Help introduce changes to the way e-portfolio is assessed.
Year 4 Course Reps
Vicky Massie
Hometown: Cheshire
Go to feel good film: Princess and the frog
Favourite Liverpool landmark: The old Royal
Biggest highlight of the course so far: The people you meet.
One thing I'm looking forward to this academic year: My paeds placement at Alder Hey.
Reason I ran for year rep: I like finding solutions to problems.
One thing I'd like to achieve in the role this year: Implement a consultation period for changes that the med school make.
Lewis Trapasso
Home town: Liverpool
Go-to feel good album/film/TV show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Favourite Liverpool landmark: 1000% the Liver building
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Assisting with caesarian sections was a huge privilege and my best experience on the course to date.
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: New specialist placements sites I haven’t been too yet such as the Walton centre for Neurology.
Reason I ran for Course Rep: To be able to help action positive change on the course and effectively represent the views of the entire cohort.
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: To be able to improve the course even if only a little, so it makes our remaining time in university and others to come that much more enjoyable of an experience.
Year 5 Course Reps
Anna Davies
Home town: North Wales
Go-to feel good album/film/TV show: Grey's Anatomy
Favourite Liverpool landmark: Sefton Park
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Time spent in theatre on surgical rotations
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: Enjoying the final year of university
Reason I ran for Course Rep: To be able to take forward the views and concerns of the year group
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: Ensuring placement timetables are distributed with more notice
Andrew Bonsu
Home town: East London
Go-to feel good album/film/TV show: Album - Norman Brown Let's Get Away, Film - Dumb and Dumber and TV Show - Criminal Minds
Favourite Liverpool landmark: Albert Dock
Biggest highlight on the course so far: Tied between reaching 5th Year after a long 4th Year and Winning the Dr Barry Enoch Good Doctor Prize
One thing I’m looking forward to this academic year: I know the question said "one" but I would pick two things, firstly the PFA experience as a nice snapshot of life as a FY1 doctor and secondly, Graduation and the celebrations linked to that.
Reason I ran for Course Rep: I thought no better way to cap off my medical student journey than representing my cohort and being an effective liaison between students and staff.
One thing I’d like to achieve in the role this year: Be a positive impact across both sides (Students & Staff).
Good luck everyone for a successful year ahead! Alongside the opportunity to make a real difference to your year group, and future year groups, being a Course Rep is an excellent way of working on your personal development and boosting your communication and leadership skills. Learn more on the Course Representatives area of the student intranet (link).