Anyone who has taught medical students in recent years will be familiar with the sight of students appearing more interested in the screens of their laptops, tablets, or mobile phones. […]
Students
Sanna W Khawaja: At a crossroads in medical training
I am in the recruitment stage between interviews and offers. At this moment in time, when I look to August I can see myself as both in training and not […]
Aditya J Nanavati: Are Indian medical students pessimistic about participating in research?
I recently completed my residency in general surgery. Towards the end of my residency, I was introduced to the world of research and publishing. Far from knowing it all, the […]
Samir Dawlatly: Would I make it through medical school these days?
I specialised at being a university student. I didn’t graduate from medical school until I was 30, for a variety of reasons, despite the fact that I first set foot […]
Sanna W Khawaja: An NHS full of secret agents
While I enjoy the occasional spy movie, I always find myself irritated at the protagonist, who very often spends the film focused on a mission with little or no knowledge of […]
Julie Browne: Why do some clinical supervisors become bullies?
The literature on bullying in the medical workplace makes disturbing reading. In the General Medical Council’s 2013 national training survey, 13.2% of respondents said that they had been victims of […]
Yvonne Obura: Female genital cutting—improving doctors’ awareness
Female genital cutting (FGC) or mutilation (FGM) is the removal or injury of the external female genitalia for non-medical purposes. It is estimated that 125 million women and girls worldwide […]
Vinitha Soundararajan and Alisha Patel: Sustainable Healthcare
Climate change, an ageing and growing global population, and depleting planetary resources are well established issues. There is a call for urgent action, especially in healthcare. The NHS has been […]
Julie Browne: A delicate power balance—teachers and learners in medical education
By the time I taught my first medical students, I was already an experienced schoolteacher and well used to frank, and occasionally uninhibited, feedback on my performance from my young […]
Desmond O’Neill: Elective Dreams
With every elective student that joins our unit, I get a vivid flashback of my own electives. No matter how much water has flowed under the bridge since then, something […]