focus: Consciousness
2012 TO 2022 - 20 EDITIONS OF STORIES FROM OUR STUDIES How the swimsa Journal has evolved Text:
Benedikt Reuthebuch | Vice-President for Communication 21/22
This year's spring issue marks the 20th edition of the swimsa Journal. Many things have changed in the past years, countless articles have incited reading, laughing and reflection. But the basic idea has remained the same: to create a platform where the diverse activities of swimsa and its members can be presented and inspire readers. Before the Journal became what we know nowadays, there was the "MedCampus", a magazine for medical students, which unfortunately had to be discontinued again. The desire to make the activities of swimsa accessible to students from all over Switzerland and to bring swimsa members closer together, then led to the relaunch of a journal for Swiss medical students in 2012. The impetus for this was given by Anna Wang, the then Vice-President for External Affairs, who took on the task.
The first edition in 2012
The journal was intended to complement the world of medicine outside of medical school. The amount of work was considerable since the entire design of the journal had to be developed and the content had to be laboriously layouted - at that time the journal was still composed of Word documents. It quickly became very popular amongst students.
The fourth edition in 2013 with the layout being slightly modified 20
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