Browsing by Subject "Medical Training"
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51 Doctor(noun, latin), to teach; transforming a working week into a teaching week
(2018)One of the prerequisites to successfully complete Core Medical Training in the UK is to acquire the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) title by passing the Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination ... -
Does the UK medical education provide doctors with sufficient skills and knowledge to manage patients with eating disorders safely?
(2018-06)Background: Eating disorders affect 1%–4% of the population and they are associated with an increased rate of mortality and multimorbidity. Following the avoidable deaths of three people the parliamentary ombudsman called ... -
Exploring the Barriers to Discussing Unconscious Racial Bias in Psychiatry Trainees
(2022-09)Racism is present in most aspects of our society, including healthcare. Differences in health outcomes, and in the quality of mental health treatment for people coming from ethnic minority groups have been demonstrated in ... -
My journey into mental healthcare as an international medical graduate (IMG)
(2021-06)Over half of doctors who joined the General Medical Council's (GMC) medical register in the UK in 2020 were from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background, and I am one of them. Having experienced clinical settings ... -
The psychiatry virtual-on-call experience: Can it improve confidence of foundation and GP trainees with out-of-hours work in psychiatry?
(2021-06)Out-of-hours (‘on-call’) work can be perceived by junior doctors to be a daunting experience, associated with feeling unprepared and less supported. Simulated on-call programmes have been used to great effect in medicine ... -
Simulated virtual on-call training programme for improving non-specialised junior doctors’ confidence in out-of-hours psychiatry: quantitative assessment
(2022-09)Aims and method To investigate whether a psychiatry-specific virtual on-call training programme improved confidence of junior trainees in key areas of psychiatry practice. The programme comprised one 90 min lecture and a ...