An Student on the Leicester Warwick Medical Schools' fast-track degree course has won a prize in Rheumatology from the national philanthropy Arthritis Research Campaign.

Andrew Iceton, a last year understudy on the four-year MBChB course, won the honor with his paper regarding the matter: "Osteoporosis has been portrayed as the concealed pestilence. What measures can be taken to diminish the financial effect?"

His triumphant article earned him a prize of £250 in addition to a decoration and authentication from the Arthritis Research Campaign.

Andrew stated: "At the season of the article rivalry I was getting educating in orthopedics thus I suspected this would be an incredible chance to pick up a more prominent understanding into a therapeutic condition that is significant to this field of study.

The Leicester Warwick Medical Schools' most optimized plan of attack MBChB course is interested in moves on from the Biological Sciences disciplines. Andrew Iceton took his first degree at King's College, London, contemplating Biochemistry and Physiology, joint respects.

He at that point worked for a brief period with Roche Pharmaceuticals in the field of calming meds, before coming to Leicester.

He included: "In the wake of graduating I am planning to enter a profession in surgery, however it is excessively ahead of schedule to state which claim to fame right now as I have delighted in a few of my surgical instructing pieces. The features of my restorative degree have been those minutes when hypothesis and practice at last meet up and you can deal with a patient all the way.

Andrew Iceton will be one of 15 understudies to move on from the Leicester Warwick Medical Schools' four-year medicinal course in July 2003 – the primary partner of quick track restorative graduates in the nation.