Gentlemen of the Medical Fraternity: Grow Your Mos!

This coming November, I’m asking you, our students, to help Movember and UCD change the face of men’s health.

In the midst of exams, deadlines, social lives and the countless activities that fill up our diaries, it is easy at times to lose sight of why we all study and work at a medical school: to improve the health of people and society.

That’s why, this November I want you, your friends, your lecturers, your family and everyone that is capable of sprouting even the most snigger-inducing mo to become walking, talking, moustachioed campaigners for men’s health and prostate cancer research.

I am deeply proud to work at the interface of medical research and men’s health. My role, as UCD principal investigator of the Prostate Cancer Research Consortium, has afforded me the opportunity to work in an area in which medical science is having a real and demonstrable impact on the lives of patients at home and internationally.

I’m asking for your help, your time, your humour and your commitment to grow your Mo this Movember.

Here’s what we want you to do:

• Decide that you’re in
• Recruit, cajole and convince your classmates to join you
• Go to the UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science Movember team channel and register
• Tap your classmates, parents, brothers, sisters and long lost cousins to support your campaign

What’s in it for you?

• Once you register, you qualify for awards and prizes as part of the Movember network
• To add to that, we’ll organise our own prize/award ceremony at the end of November, to say thanks to the best performing teams and pay homage to the most extraordinary Mos
• You’re helping me, the School, your family, classmates, future colleagues and friends raise the profile of a profoundly important cause
• Of course, I couldn’t ask you to grow your Mo and maintain a clean-shaven visage throughout the month, which is why I, for the duration of November, will sport an exquisite moustache myself.

Please do get involved.  This is an opportunity to have a lot of fun as a staff and student community, while also contributing our support and energy to a really critical cause.

Thanks for reading this far.

Sign up now. Go on. 

Professor Bill Watson