EDITOR'S LETTER

Dear valued readers,

Welcome to The Auricle’s April-June Edition, our second instalment for 2023. We are absolutely delighted to share this publication with you and the creativity of the contributors featured in these pages. As mentioned previously, the MUMUS Publications team is publishing quarterly, so if you've missed our first publication (January-March) please do check it out!

To introduce myself again, I'm Yash, currently a 4C student completing my Psychiatry rotation. I've absolutely loved my time so far as editor of MUMUS' Publications arm, especially our work in producing 'The Ossicle' our very own Spotify Podcast series This edition, we had the pleasure of chatting to Katya Gvozdenko, who is a truly remarkable 'Human of Medicine'! In addition, we're delighted to announce that the annual Creative Writing and Visual Art Competition for 2023 has opened to submissions, find more information here: https://fb me/e/1hkaNgBFP

As always, we love student contributions, so if you want to contribute, please get in touch with us! Details about the kind of submission we are looking for can be found at https://theauricle.org/contributing/ or if you have any questions, email us at publications@mumus.org or ypat0008@student.monash.edu. We hope you enjoy reading this second edition of 2023 There’s a whole lot to get stuck into!

Happy reading :)

Yash

Patwardhan, MUMUS Publications