Freshers! Welcome to the Medswim Birmingham page that is dedicated to you! Hopefully the rest of this website will have given you some idea of what we are about - but we have left some treats especially for you.

Firstly, may we congratulate you on getting into Birmingham Medical School - possibly the best life experience you will ever have. We look forward to meeting you all really soon, probably in Freshers week. So, what have Medswim got to offer you that other Birmingham Sports Teams don't have???

New Club -
We're just over a year old and are still growing rapidly, with all members getting to know each other really well. There are no "cliques" in our club and we love everyone getting involved. We welcome idea's about how to improve the club and would love to get you involved in the committee, coaching, lifeguarding etc. as well as the swimming!

Members from All Years -
We have over 40 dedicated members from the 4th and 5th years already, where as most clubs struggle to keep older years within the club. In total we have over 70 members and a really good crowd of people from all years - a great way to get to know other years (and get their books, notes etc that they don't need anymore!)
We welcome all Healthcare Science students (Medsoc or none Medsoc) including medics, physios, nurses, BMedSci's etc.

Dedicated Committee and Coaches
All our committee members are hard working and really want to give all members the best time they can at the club.
You can see details and photos of events/socials that we have had recently on the other pages.

And check out the kit too!

Some of the things going on at the moment are:




Intraclub and Inter Medical School Gala's - Helen Patten, Fixtures Sec
Helen is busy beavering away organising another intraclub gala. As you may have seen, all members are allocated to a "Family" (see family page), which you will also be allocated to. In the intraclub gala we have the familys competing against each other in serioud and fun races - with a night out to follow no doubt! Helen is also in contact with other UK Medical Schools trying to organise another great get together for galas over this year; both at home and away.




Coaching - Matt Govier
As always Matt is planning and creating new training regimmes to try and keep our swimmers excited and fit. We're always looking for new coaches to help us and would really appreciate anyone with a teaching qualification getting in contact.

If you would like to know anything else, please contact us on MRG476@bham.ac.uk and we would be more
than happy to help you! No matter what the question, about swimming, medicine, birmingham etc - just drop
us a line.

Come and find us at the Medics Freshers Sports fair - its at the Medical School on the Friday
of Freshers week (the day after "The Hop" - the best freshers event ever - make sure you get
your tickets!)