25,000 doctors successfully reviewed in first year of checks
In its first year of operation the new system of checks for doctors practising in the UK has seen nearly 25,000 doctors have their...
Harm with goodwill
FY2 Dr Mikey Bryant is in Sierra Leone with healthcare charity Mercy Ships. He has been volunteering in a children’s clinic for a year...
Glossy buzzwords
FY2 Dr Mikey Bryant is in Sierra Leone with healthcare charity Mercy Ships. He has been volunteering in a children’s clinic for a year...
RSM Young Trainee 2013
Dr Sayan Sen has been named the 2013 winner of the Wesleyan RSM Young Trainee of the Year. Sayan, who works at Imperial and...
Top five medicolegal hazards
Good doctors apply clinical knowledge in a way that is legally and ethically correct – but all doctors can slip up. Here are survival...
Shortening medical education may affect healthcare, warns BMA leaders
Proposals to shorten the length of UK basic medical education could have an impact on patients and the medical profession, the BMA has warned.
Current...
New private medical school opens for applicants
A new self-funded undergraduate medical degree programme by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will take its first set of students in September 2014.
The...
27m patients will wait a week or more to see GP...
Around 27m patients in England will have to wait for a week or more to see their GP in 2014, as a result of...
End of life for the Liverpool Care Pathway?
After almost a year of negative publicity and little in the press to defend its good intentions, the Liverpool Care Pathway is now gradually...
The waiting
Was my dream of becoming a doctor over? Having finished all my interviews, I felt as though I hadn’t expressed my true self and...
