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Living with scars: how sharing mistakes can make us better doctors

July 16, 2021

Most doctors would agree that the mistakes they’ve made have gone on to shape their care for the better. So why are we so reluctant to share these missteps, asks […]

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Rosemary Clarke: Nursing as a junior doctor

March 24, 2021

Rosemary Clarke describes how time spent supporting a nursing team can make junior doctors more confident in their bedside skills […]

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Healthcare for prisoners—a missing part of UK medical training

March 15, 2021

The healthcare needs of people in prison are largely absent from UK medical education, despite prisoners being a high risk group of patients, writes Gautam Chadalavada […]

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The personal cost of postgraduate medical exams: Are we asking too much of trainees?

February 2, 2021

Postgraduate exams take a psychological, social, and financial toll on trainees. Ricky Ellis, Duncan Scrimgeour, and Peter A Brennan ask whether the personal sacrifice required is appropriate […]

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Imrun Nagra: Is undergraduate education on radiology failing doctors?

January 7, 2021

The fear and lack of confidence many junior doctors feel in interpreting and requesting scans is a problem that stems from medical school, writes Imrun Nagra […]

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Eleanor Stott: The fixed path of medical training—how 2020 proved me wrong

December 30, 2020

Eleanor Stott describes how she’s found solace in realising that the path of medicine isn’t so rigid after all […]

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Women in surgery: We should be asking how to make the specialty somewhere women want to work

December 9, 2020

It is not enough to encourage women to enter surgery if the workplace then discriminates against them, write Roisin Finn and colleagues […]

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Katherine Murdoch: Foundation interim doctors—a role beyond the pandemic? 

October 4, 2020

The internet is loading, families are gathering around computer screens and the medical school dean is preparing his speech. It is the twenty seventh of March and instead of being […]

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Martin Kaminski: Congrats on becoming a doctor! Sorry about the pandemic

June 29, 2020

To all our new doctors, first off, congratulations on surviving years of monotonous pre-clinical lectures, bewildering elective attachments, and dreaded finals. You made it! Second, yikes, I know that in […]

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Cian Wade: Silver linings of the covid-19 pandemic for junior doctors

June 18, 2020

We have faced numerous losses during this pandemic, but there have been some silver linings, says Cian Wade […]

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