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There's still time to register for the symposium Challenging Norms: Uplifting Anti-Racist Work to Transform the Landscape of Medical Education. I will be presenting an ePoster entitled  "Feeling 'non-existent': What patient lived experiences teach us about medical gaslighting." #edi #antiracism #medicaleducation https://lnkd.in/eJV9Tkbp

On this World Health Day, Our article in ‘The News’ on the importance of Family Medicine as a career choice for medical students. The medical education system, consisting of health departments, degree awarding institutions, universities, medical colleges, regulatory bodies, medical educationists and various organisations, needs to work in partnership with family physicians and its academia. Active engagement of all stakeholders is crucial to achieve the desired target of a robust primary care system. https://lnkd.in/etg9Zb5V

Here is the White Paper we wrote on the key learnings from our Equity in Measurement and Assessment conference. If you get a chance to read our paper, please let me know what you think!

Tomorrow’s doctors need to appreciate that health is beyond just diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions. An ageing population is more likely to have multiple morbidities (long-term conditions).  The challenges of #multimorbidity are that patients present with complex self-care needs; care is provided by several teams often in isolation, resulting in fragmented care and an increased use of resources- including emergency healthcare. Socioeconomic deprivation can add a further layer of complexity while providing health and well-being care for someone with multi-morbidity. Doctors need to consider the role of #socialdeterminantsofhealth while providing care for their patients.   Advances in healthcare have helped in the management of individual long-term conditions, thereby adding years to our lives. However, to improve the quality of life in later years, doctors need #Generalism skills to deal with multiple long-term conditions. We need to change the way we train future doctors.  Medical education has traditionally been designed around individual specialities (such as medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology, and ophthalmology). It focuses on training future doctors on the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of individual health conditions. We need to move away from the current model towards developing an #inclusive practitioner for all types of patients and problems. We need to integrate #Generalism into all specialities, not just a few. #IntegratedCareSystems need a workforce with population health management skills to tackle health inequalities and embed prevention into healthcare. It will be great to collaborate with #IntegratedCareSystems to co-design a curriculum which is #sociallyaccountable.  

Click the link below to download our new white paper titled "Purposefully Creating Space for Difficult Conversations in Medical Education Assessment: The Inaugural Equity in Measurement and Assessment Conference (EMAC)." This report elaborates on key learnings from 2023 EMAC, which brought together #measurement, #assessment, #medicaleducation, and #DEI experts to discuss and advance approaches that promote equity and alleviate bias in medical education assessment. https://lnkd.in/eZyVCX2m

When medical students progress into their third year and start clinical rotations, they begin the crucial transition into evidence-based practice. To deepen our understanding of this transition and how Read by QxMD can better assist students, we conducted extensive research with over 400 medical students. In our latest blog post, we share some of the most interesting findings: https://lnkd.in/gEzZQSzH #medicalstudents #juniordoctor #ReadbyQxMD

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Meta-Emotion in Medicine. When emotions are experienced in medical workplaces, medical professionals can be unsure of how to deal with these feelings. There may be blind spots in medical education with regards to how to prepare learners for this. The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of how medical students, junior and senior doctors understand, interpret and respond to emotional experiences in medical workplaces. Further information about this study and the survey is available here: https://lnkd.in/gkBdJsUD