Pat Lok considers what medical students can do to reduce the impact of healthcare on the climate “It is hot out there so please remember to keep hydrated for your […]
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We need to reform the UK’s archaic clinical work experience system
The unstructured nature of work experience for pre-med students is inefficient for students, medical personnel, and administrators alike, writes Finn Lavington […]
Encourage students with a humanities background to become doctors
Nikki Nabavi and Callum Phillips look at the value for aspiring medics of studying the humanities […]
“Mr X presents with central crushing chest pain”—Breaking the male norm in medical education
Marina Politis deconstructs the ways in which our knowledge of, and teaching about, health and illness predominantly focuses on men […]
Living with scars: how sharing mistakes can make us better doctors
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 […]
Infusing climate change and sustainability into the medical school curriculum
James Bevan and Paul Roderick share how the University of Southampton School of Medicine is preparing medical students to practise sustainably […]
“So, why medicine? Why do you want to be a doctor?”
“Why do you want to be a doctor?” It’s a question that many medical applicants are urged to have an answer for as they prepare to be interviewed for entry […]
Students with a mental illness should be welcomed into the ranks of medicine
Isobel Walker considers how we can dispel the notion that those with a mental illness aren’t “cut out” for the medical profession […]
“I felt I had no control”: how a spinal cord injury shaped the doctor I’ll become
Medical student Grace Spence Green describes what it was like to experience an injury that turned the hospital into a place of discomfort and dependence […]
Working hard or hardly working?
Striking the right work-life balance can be difficult for the best of us—and is a dilemma medical students and doctors alike are also constantly trying to figure out. Gone are […]