Letter from the Editor

Dear readers,

It’s so lovely to finally meet you ! My name is Angelica and I’m the 2024 Publications Officer and current editor of the Auricle magazine and host of the Ossicle Podcast.

I am so excited to present to you the Auricle’s first issue for 2024 !

In this issue, you’ll find an interview with Professor Rosemary Nixon for our Humans of Medicine panel. Dr Rosemary is a renowned dermatologist who has won membership of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to Occupational Dermatology, and is the only person in Australia to have qualifications in both Dermatology and Occupational Medicine—and she is also a Monash Medicine Alumna! It was an honour to be able to meet with her and learn from her many years of experience, and I hope you find her words of wisdom as inspiring and compelling as I do.

This issue also contains evocative creative and retrospective pieces from many talented members of our cohort. These pieces are often an outlet for our student body to express themselves through the medium of fiction, or to dissect deeper feelings about placements that have left long-lasting impressions.

Our magazine also explores and celebrates other aspects of Medicine, such as upcoming events (look out for MedRevue’s upcoming production!) and social gatherings that we’re so hyped for.

If there is ever anything that you wish to share with the student body, be it a memory from placement, an artwork, or recipe you can’t stop cooking, or even an anonymous essay exploring feelings after a particularly interesting or heavy placement, I implore you to reach out to our publications team at publications@mumus.org to share it in our next issue.

I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts about this issue, and hopefully meeting you at one of our many events this year!

Enjoy our first issue for 2024!

Happy reading,

Angelica Haskins

Auricle Editor in Chief and MUMUS Publications Officer