The age of austerity in the NHS has only just begun. The next few years will likely bring closed Casualty departments, downgraded district hospitals, longer waiting times, and rationed treatments. As Whitehall casts around for more targets for efficiency savings, will it look at the £5 billion spent each year on healthcare professionals’ education? Will […]
Tag: medical education
Kieran Walsh: Free medical education would deliver savings in the long term
“Even in comparatively poor countries we find scientific knowledge and trained intellects regarded as sound public investments, and the popular voice applauding a liberal application of public money to secure them.” Isambard Owen, 1904 […]
Richard Smith: Teaching is stand-up comedy
Teaching, it seems to me, is much the same as stand-up comedy. One is much scarier than the other, but which is the scariest depends on who you are. I was left thinking about the connection after a recent bad experience of teaching. I do a lot of teaching these days, most of it unpaid and […]
Tiago Villanueva: An overview of medical employment in Europe
Does the name Grzegorz Chodkowski ring a bell with you? It didn’t with me until recently. Chodkowski is a Polish doctor who has worked in the UK, and who created an organisation called Medpharm Careers, which claims to be “Europe’s largest international medical jobs fair.” He and his staff came to Lisbon on 31 March, […]
Andrew Burd on the globalisation of medical education
I have just returned from Shantou in Southern China where I was attending an international conference on medical education. The conference was hosted by Shantou University and was attended by delegates from 10 of the world’s leading medical schools, all of whom have benefited from the wonderful philanthropy of Sir Li Ka-Shing. Shantou University Medical […]
Research highlights 4 March 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. Are men at higher risk than women of developing recurrence of venous thromboembolism? Do active and passive smoking increase the risk […]