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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 licence revalidated, says the GMC. When it was introduced in December...

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 in a country where one in five children don’t live...

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 in a country where one in five children don’t live...

Dr Sayan Sen has been named the 2013 winner of the Wesleyan RSM Young Trainee of the Year. Sayan, who works at Imperial and specialises in Cardiology was the overall winner against 50 other...

Good doctors apply clinical knowledge in a way that is legally and ethically correct – but all doctors can slip up. Here are survival tips for the top five medicolegal risks for junior doctors. 1....

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 proposals from HEE, the organisation responsible for medical education and...

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 UCLan School of Medicine and Dentistry will offer the 5...

Around 27m patients in England will have to wait for a week or more to see their GP in 2014, as a result of a diversion of doctor posts from general practice to hospitals,...

After almost a year of negative publicity and little in the press to defend its good intentions, the Liverpool Care Pathway is now gradually being phased out. This model of care for patients in their...

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 had perhaps wasted a lot of my time. All I...