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01/03/2022

Glad Fettisdagen!

Today is Fettisdagen, also known as “Fat Tuesday” in Sweden! This holiday is synonymous with the delicious semla, which is a sweet pastry filled with whipped cream cardamom, and a sweet almond paste in the middle. The semla is a seasonal treat, and swedes usually consume at least one a day until the start of Lent, which is Fat Tuesday! Have you tried a semla yet? 🍽

14/02/2022

Anddddd that’s the end of our chilli competition! ⏰ There were a total of 7 chillis hidden all over our latest issue. Did you find them all? 🔍 Swipe right for the locations of each one of them! 🌶 Winners will be contacted shortly 🎁

We hope you guys enjoyed this little activity! If you’d like to give this competition a try or give our articles a read, find our issue in our bio or with the link below!

https://medicor.nu/magazine/

07/02/2022

In honour of the 2021 Nobel Prize, we have hidden little chillis throughout our latest magazine! 🌶 They can be in different colours, sizes and even opacity… who knows! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️

Send us a dm here on through Facebook and let us know how many chillis were hidden.

Competition closes this Friday, February 11th so don’t forget to send them in! ☺️

04/02/2022

Don’t forget to submit your applications if you want to be part of Medicor! It’s an awesome team and you’d really want to join us 😉

Application forms can be found in our bio and on our website! We look forward to receiving your applications! 🧡

02/02/2022

Only 2 DAYS left to send in your applications to be part of Medicor before our deadline on February 4th! 📣

Check out our latest posts to find out more about each of the open positions we are recruiting for. If you’d like to apply, fill out our application form that can be found in our bio or on our website! ✍️

We look forward to receiving your applications and welcoming new members to our team! 🧡

01/02/2022

Join Medicor as a Web Designer! 💻

Main responsibilities:
- Elevate Medicor’s website to make it feel modern and user friendly
- Navigate WordPress GDPR guidelines and various templates are great skills but not required to be a web designer.

Check out our website to get a feel for the type of design we do!

If you are interested in any of our open positions, fill out our application form, which can be found in our bio or on our website!

Applications close on February 4th! ⏰

We look forward to receiving your applications and welcoming new members to our team! 🧡🧡🧡

31/01/2022

Join Medicor as part of the new Marketing team! 🗂

Main responsibilities:
- Promote mission of Medicor
- Reach out and establish relationships with companies
- Create collaborations with prospects

If you are interested in any of our open positions, fill out our application form, which can be found in our bio or our website!

Applications close on February 4th! ⏰

We look forward to receiving your applications and welcoming new members to our team! 🧡🧡🧡

28/01/2022

Join Medicor as a Magazine Designer! ✍️💻

Main responsibilities:
- Maintain the look and feel of the magazine
- Pull images, graphic elements and text together into a cohesive yet unique product ready for printing
- Will mostly be using programmes like Adobe InDesign or Affinity Publisher

Check out our most recent issue to get a feel for the type of design we do!

If you are interested in any of our open positions, fill out our application form, which can be found in our bio or on our website!

Applications close on February 4th! ⏰

We look forward to receiving your applications and welcoming new members to our team! 🧡🧡🧡

27/01/2022

Join Medicor as an Editor! ✍️

Main responsibilities:
- Edit content for Medicor’s magazines
- Maintain weekly publishing schedule on Medicor’s website
- Attend meetings (which always comes with fika) with the rest of the team and brainstorm content

Key skills for this role includes an eye for detail and a good command of the English language.

There is always a fun-filled team of editors in Medicor so not only would you get lots of support in this role, but also make lots of great friends! 🧡 If you have any questions regarding this role, drop us a dm here! If not, what are you waiting for? Fill up our application form found in our bio, and submit by February 4th! ☺️

26/01/2022

📢 MEDICOR IS RECRUITING!!! 📢

Do you want to be part of an amazing team of individuals and get involved with Medicinska Foreningen’s (one and only) student magazine? Look no further! We are looking for anyone who wants to be part of the team! 🧡

Positions currently open are:
1) Editor
2) Magazine Designer
3) Marketing
4) Web Designer
Swipe right to find out more about the responsibilities of each role.

If you are interested in any of these positions, fill out our application form, which can be found in our bio or on our website!

Applications close on February 4th ⏰

We look forward to receiving your applications and inviting new members to our team! 🧡🧡🧡

24/01/2022

24/01/2022

Today, we consume more information on a daily basis than ever before. This is largely made possible by bite-sizing - but how might this shift in information uptake and processing be affecting us and our societies? 🤳📱 Give the article “Bite-sized media” a read in our latest magazine and find out more about how we get affecting 🧐

21/01/2022

Abortions play a central role in the current fight for gender equality. Historically however, this medical procedure has been used to pursue and promote eugenic ideas, which oppose equality. Should current feminism re-examine the role of abortions in reproductive health? 🌸

Understand more about the power of this medical procedure and how we can move towards reproductive justice in our latest magazine! 💪🏻

21/01/2022

Have you heard of the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD)? It is a disease that is most prevalent in East and Southeast Asia and is mainly caused by a highly contagious virus called the Coxsackievirus A16 🦠 Find out more about this disease in our Hand, Foot, and Mouth article in our latest issue! 🤓

20/01/2022

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2021 was jointly awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for “their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”.

Our spicy friend capsaicin from the chilli pepper played a big role in this discovery. In honour of the 2021 Nobel Prize, we have hidden little chillis throughout our latest magazine! 🌶 They can be in different colours, sizes and even opacity… who knows! 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you manage to find all of them, send us a DM here or in Facebook and let us know how many were hidden! Psssst… prizes are to be won! 🥳

18/01/2022

After almost a full year of distance learning and remote activities, we finally got back on campus in Autumn 2021! 🙌🏻 This meant the resumption of Medicinska Föreningen’s on-site activities. We’re stoked to be back on campus and made a little journal of events and initiatives from the semester.

More snapshots are found in our article in the magazine! So head on over to find out what other activities were held and organised this semester! Link is in our bio, or if you prefer a physical copy, grab them in campus! We hope you enjoy the issue ☺️

17/01/2022

The cover story of Medicor’s second issue of 2021 discusses a highly prevalent disease that is of global concern - Diabetes. This article touches on how precision medicine, commonly described as the new era of medicine, can help in the management of this disease.

Give this interesting article and many others in our magazine a read! Link in our bio! Happy reading! 🤓

14/01/2022

Medicor is beginning the year with a NEW ISSUE! 🥳 This is the second issue of this academic year and we’re so excited for everyone to have a read! There are loads of interesting articles in this issue, from scientific discussions to life in campus.

You’ll find this issue both online in our website and physically on campus! We’re still maintaining the vision of minimising carbon footprint, but we’d also like our readers to appreciate the classic look and feel of a classic magazine. It’s also a good way to take that much needed break from our screens!

We hope you’d enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together ☺️

14/01/2022

Jumping into the new year, the Medicor team has got big news to share! Stay tuned to find out! 😉

13/01/2022

It’s the start of the new year! Hope all of you managed to get a good rest during the holidays and are ready to tackle everything that’s to come in 2022! 💪🏻

Now back to our regular posts:

It’s January 13th today, which marks the end of the Christmas season in Sweden! This day js also known as Tjugondag Knut or Saint Knut’s Day, and is kind of like a ‘deadline’ for Christmas trees to be taken down and Christmas decorations to be stored for next Christmas 🎄

Now time to go on with life 😉

21/12/2021

Today is winter solstice, which is also the shortest day of the year in Sweden, and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere! 🌒 The sun sets at 14:48 in Stockholm today 😴 In some parts of Sweden which are above the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t rise over the horizon during the entire month of December! Winter solstice also marks the start of longer days with more sunlight ☀️

How do you celebrate winter solstice if any at all? Winter solstice is also celebrated in Chinese culture and is called 冬至 (pronounced dōng zhì). A common practice on this day for Northern Chinese would be to eat dumplings and for Southern Chinese, to have rice balls called 汤圆 (tāng yuán) 🥣

17/12/2021

In Sweden, an important part of Christmas festivities is the food! 🍽 Christmas food in Sweden is usually represented as a buffet of hot and cold dishes, sides and lots of sweets! 🍬 Swedish people usually gather together for a large meal called the Julbord, which translates to Christmas table.

Traditional foods are enjoyed in several rounds during this meal. The first ‘round’ at the Julbord is at the herring table 🐟 Then comes salmon prepared in different ways, eggs, caviar, shellfish and sometimes Skagen toast. Other must-haves at Julbord are meatballs, sausages, and potatoes. One of the most classic dishes is the Christmas ham, which is first booked, then painted and glazed with a mixture of egg, breadcrumbs and mustard before putting it in the oven. And the final ‘round’ would be the sweets! Most restaurants offering Julbord would have a ‘sweet table’ or ‘sweet room’ where you’d get to pick from a large variety of sweets to end this big meal! 🍾

13/12/2021

Each year on December 13th, a candlelit Lucia procession that is as integral to Swedish culture as midsummer takes place. Lucia celebrations can be traced back to the 4th century and and represents one of the foremost cultural traditions in Sweden, with their clear reference to life in the peasant communities of old: darkness and light, cold and warmth.

Lucia is an ancient mythical figure with an abiding role as a bearer of light in the dark Swedish winters. Swedes enjoy the candle processions, drink glögg (spices, warm mulled wine), and eat traditional lussekatter (saffron buns). The word lussekat means Lucia bun, and this pastry is commonly found in my shapes, with the one in S-shape being most common.

10/12/2021

Do you recognise this gold coin?

It is the Nobel coin, with Alfred Nobel, the Swede behind the Nobel Prize engraved on it. Today Dec 5, it is Nobel Day and here’s a little about the man himself.

Alfred Nobel was not only the man behind the Nobel Prize, but he is also the inventor of dynamite! 🧨 Blasting was popular during the industrial era for building tunnels and railroads. Nobel’s invention of dynamite was a more reliable explosive charge as compared to anything previous. As a results, the demand for dynamite was large and Nobel accumulated huge fortunes from it.

Alfred Nobel had no family of his own and had not one to inherit his fortune. Upon his death in 1896, Nobel’s will stated that his wish was to award money to those who had benefitted mankind. Therefore, a large part of his enormous fortune went into what we today call the Nobel Prize 🏆

08/12/2021

Nobel Week Lights 2021 has begun and the city of Stockholm is illuminated with many light installations celebrating the Nobel Prizes and laureates ✨

This photo of Stadshuset depicts a light installation inspired by a quote from William Bragg who received the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. “Light brings us the news of the Universe”

This is just one of 22 installations around the city. lasts until 12 Dec 2021, so do catch these installations whenever you take a stroll around the city!

07/12/2021

Last Sunday marks three weeks before Christmas and it’s when many people in Sweden light the second candle of the Advent candlestick, also called the adventsljusstake in Swedish 🕯

The word ‘advent’ is a Latin inspired word that is translated to ‘arrival’, referring to Jesus’s arrival, his birth that took place on Christmas Day according to Christianity.

28/11/2021

Today marks the Sunday that is four weeks before Christmas. It’s also when people light the first candle of the Advent candlestick, also called adventsljusstake in Sweden 🕯 Each Sunday until Christmas, a candle is lit and eventually, all four candles would be lit up to mark the start of Christmas! 🎄

How excited are you for Christmas? ✨

26/11/2021

For most Americans, every fourth Thursday of November is Thanksgiving day but it is also the National Day for Mourning for many Native Americans.

The annual observance aims to educate the public about Native Americans in the United States, notably the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States and raise awareness towards historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American tribes.

25/11/2021

Today in the United States of America, it is Thanksgiving day! It’s a national holiday marked on every fourth Thursday of November in the USA. Thanksgiving is most commonly known as the holiday of gratitude, celebrating the harvest where people come together with family and friends to express thanks for things that have happened through that year.

Thanksgiving is one of the busiest holidays as this day is usually celebrated with a hearty meal that typically includes turkey, bread stuffing, potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie 🥧

10/11/2021

Medicinska Foreningen’s Comunication Committee or KomU in short, has open positions! KomU is responsible for MF’s website, Instagram, Facebook, Info screens, newsletters and us, Medicor! KomU’s work is visible everywhere both online and offline on KI’s campuses!

KomU’s open positions include:
Chair
Vice chair
Secretary
Union photographer
Social media manager
Editor of website
MF-podding manager
MF-TV manager
Thalamus manager
Info-screen manager

Use the link below to apply! 🧡

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdc_3LHDTcahFuIpKk5ExxVfsmZ933IOeXdgoWnQSYD1qYa9g/viewform