Briefings
What you should know about the 1500 increase in medical school places
Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for health, made an ambitious pledge to make the “biggest annual increase in medical student numbers in history,” in his speech at the Conservative Party conference in 2016.1 For the September 2018 entry, an additional 500 medical school places will be available in England, and a further 1000 places are schedu… Read this article >>
Lessons learnt about end of life care
“The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise,” Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, writes in his bestseller Being Mortal.1 How to talk about dea… Read this article >>
What you need to think about when choosing which medical school to apply to
The United Kingdom has 33 medical schools, and narrowing them down to four choices on your Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) form can be daunting.1 In this article I provide a guide to help you c… Read this article >>
Assessing a patient with alcohol intoxication
Box 1: Learning points At weekends, up to 70% of presentations to the emergency department may be alcohol related Acute alcohol intoxication presents a diagnostic challenge because it can… Read this article >>
What counts as cheating during medical school exams?
More than 270 medical students at the University of Glasgow had to resit their finals in spring 2017, after students in their year group were caught sharing information about an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) with peers who were yet to… Read this article >>