Our final year medical students are in the midst of exams. Exams are occurring later this year to give the students more time on clinical placement and more revision time before finals. All our students have been disadvantaged by Covid
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This is part of the Engaged Medicine āInspiring Storiesā blog series. In their blog, Carmel and Lynn reflect on the conversation and experiences that led to the Public Contributor Recognition Scheme being established.
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As I write this, itās International Womenās Day and I have been enjoying all the support on twitter and the media. Last month we also had Women and Girls in Science Day, championing full and equal access and participation for
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I invite my fellow researchers to reflect a bit on why they might consider someone with a lived experience of a health condition researching it more biased than someone without. I have researched maternal health and pregnancy for many years
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I was recently in conversation with my NHS colleagues and one of them questioned as to why do research. To a large extent this is related to curiosity about how things work and how we can make things better for
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On the train back from the fantastic RCGP conference, I felt inspired and more interested in GP as a career than I ever had before. The conference gave us students a real flavour of what issues are relevant today in
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While speaking with co-workers lately, I felt compelled to discuss “time.” I’ve noticed that everyone appears to be complaining about the absence of it. This pandemic has ushered in a new manner of working that has pushed us all online,
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Having access to modern equipment and precision instruments is key to a successful faculty which strives to be at the pinnacle of medical research and education. As part of the Faculty of Medicineās TRANSFoM programme, the Infrastructure workstream has been
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If someone had told me when I started as Associate Dean Education at the beginning of the first lockdown that I would still be spending so much time on the impact of Covid on the student experience in January 2022,
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I thoroughly enjoyed the RCGP Annual Conference and found that it gave me an excellent insight into what a career as a GP entails. My favourite sessions were those that addressed the wider social and planetary determinants of health and
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Recently, I posted a quote on Facebook: āYou canāt calm the stormā¦ so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.ā I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised this received a plethora of ālikesā.
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