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At @BMAstudents we have just closed our national survey of student experiences with professionalism standards in medical school.
Excited to explore the results.
"Professionalism should empower students to speak up, not silence them. And when students do speak up, we should listen."
@Elgan_MR looks at how we can improve the culture of speaking up in the NHS and among medical students @BMJStudent
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Why is the NHS so stubbornly slow to improve with tackling whistleblowing and helping staff speak up?
My take on the undergraduate contribution to this, in the BMJ:
Improving the culture of speaking up is a priority for the NHS, but often the problem doesn’t start in the health service—but at medical school.
@Elgan_MR looks at how we can encourage students to speak up @BMJStudent
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Elgan Manton-Roseblade retweeted
“I certainly think medicine is harder than being a full time athlete, by a long shot" - says Olympic gold medalist & doctor @imogendaisyg
A great piece by @Elgan_MR for @bmj_latest
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The leng review isn’t a whitewash.
It lays bare a colossal failure of medical leadership.
But there’s also no national scope of practice, nothing about PA’s not performing surgery, about PA’s not teaching or assessing medical students…
Grey wash maybe?
Only 59% of newly qualified doctors feel adequately prepared for their first NHS foundation job.
It’s a core aim of undergraduate medical education… and it was 70% a decade ago. We’re going backwards?
GMC’s national training survey of 50k doctors published today
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Nearly a quarter of NHS resident doctors feel apprehensive about escalating a patient’s care to a senior clinician.
That’s based on data from 50,000 doctors, published today in the GMC’s national training survey.
It’s worse in Surgery, Emergency med and Obs and Gynae
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These questions are new this year, so we don’t know whether this issue is getting better or worse.
The GMC is calling it “deeply troubling”
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Elgan Manton-Roseblade retweeted
"Every day, we hear more colleagues are planning their exit from the NHS. If the government is serious about fixing our health service and retaining doctors, it must urgently reform these systems that treat doctors so badly."
@Elgan_MR @cmwilliams99
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"With a monopoly employer, when its recruitment bodies make errors or break contractual deadlines, they too should face financial consequences. "
@Elgan_MR @cmwilliams99 on why postgraduate medical recruitment needs accountability
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I’m biased (because I wrote it) but I think this article is the best and clearest available summary of the root issue with recruitment of new doctors in the foundation programme
@bmj_latest
The foundation programme exemplifies the significant failings in UK postgraduate medical recruitment and the lack of accountability for the constant errors.
Read more in mine and @Elgan_MR OpEd in the @bmj_latest.
@BMAstudents @TheBMA
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Calling all incoming FY1 doctors who'll be working in England.
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Register: forms.office.com/e/NPrrD63zt…
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Want a three minute summary of why the foundation programme recruitment doesn’t work well? My speech at @TheBMA’s annual meeting ⬇️
Elgan Manton-Roseblade retweeted
.@TheBMA will investigate the exclusion of 'placeholder doctors' from participating in on-call rotas.
Doctors and medical students at #BMAARM25 said the practice could be ‘unsafe’ and ‘unfair’ and urged action.
Full story:
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/article…
Elgan Manton-Roseblade retweeted
We’ve made it clear that the foundation programme needs to change – and fast.
@Elgan_MR spoke to the @TheEconomist about the impact this is having on the next generation of doctors.
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The perennial question.
Students have a balance too: “Hi I’m Elgan. I’m a 5th year…”
“medical student” or “student doctor?”
What’s clearer?
Doctors - how do you introduce yourself to patients?
Turns out, it can be a little tricky. @a_c_harvey_b, @doctimcook, and @WisniackiFiona share their advice @bmj_latest 👇
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“One frustration is particularly intense: the sense of being treated as expendable by the system they’re meant to serve.”
Glad to have been interviewed by @TheEconomist for this.
“The BMA is pushing for changes”. Yes, we are - with urgency.
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Elgan Manton-Roseblade retweeted
Bottlenecks in postgraduate medical training are an abject failure of medical leadership, writes @mancunianmedic
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An example of why research methodology is as important as the conclusion.
My piece in The BMJ.
On 1 June it became illegal in the UK to sell or supply single use vapes. The ban was marked by press reports warning that the move would lead to 200 000 people taking up smoking.
@Elgan_MR investigates if this figure stands up to scrutiny
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