50 at 50: Women in Medicine – Pain Inequality: A Healthcare Bias
March 12, 2021
Although we are fortunate in the UK to be protected by the NHS, we unfortunately still are plagued with implicit biases which can be detrimental to the beneficence of patients. Healthcare inequality is a broad term used to call attention to the way medicine is unjustly researched, practised, taught and highlighted to the public. The term ‘bias’ is used to refer implicit stereotypes, prejudices and raises …
MPT and applying to GEM
March 11, 2021
I’m Jonny, a third-year MPT student and more importantly for the purpose of this blog, someone trying to get onto a graduate entry medicine (GEM) scheme. I’ll run you through my decision to study medicine, what I’ve done to prove to medical schools that I want to be a doctor and what stage my application …
50 at 50: StreetDoctors
March 5, 2021
Youth violence is a serious problem in many cities across our nation. Between September 2019 and September 2020, there were 47,119 offences involving knives or sharp objects recorded by the police in England and Wales (1). These offences have been rising since 2014 and although in recent years the rate of increase has slowed, even …
50 at 50: No research about me without me! Welcoming the patient and public voice to research
February 26, 2021
A lot has happened in healthcare and research over the last 50 years since the University of Nottingham Medical School was born. Not just in breakthrough treatments and diagnostics, blockbuster drug development and in tackling our first pandemic since 1918; but also in opening up medicine and healthcare to include the views and experiences of …
50 at 50: PINCER – transforming healthcare
February 19, 2021
Medication errors in general practice are an important and expensive preventable cause of patient safety incidents associated with morbidity, hospitalisations and deaths. PINCER is a pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention to reduce clinically important medication errors in primary care and was developed and tested by researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, led by Prof Tony Avery and Dr …
50 at 50: Utilising your opportunities
February 16, 2021
Working with several societies over the past couple years in Medical School has not only given me a bunch of new skills but also helped me get acquainted with some great people in Nottingham and beyond! My main takeaway is irrespective of which stage year you are in, there is always something to get involved with! As …
50 at 50: LGBT+ History Month
February 5, 2021
This latest instalment in a series of blogs to mark the 50/30 celebrations of medicine and nursing at Nottingham coincides with LGBT+ History month, serendipity of which I will take full advantage. The Medical School was opened just three years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK. In the intervening decades, there is no …
50 at 50: The life and times of Professor David Walker
January 29, 2021
Professor David Walker, Professor of Paediatric Oncology, began his journey in medicine as part of one of our first few undergraduate medicine cohorts, graduating in 1977. His career has taken him across the globe, but he returned to the University of Nottingham as a senior lecturer in 1990 before becoming a professor in 2005. This …
Taking MPT to an MDT – Interprofessional Collaborative Workshop
January 27, 2021
In the current Covid-19 climate it is hard to remember how 2020 started off, however like any year, there are memorable moments of Uni life worth reminiscing over. One such event was participating in the Interprofessional Learning Event last February where, as a second year (Part I) MPT Student, I had the opportunity to collaborate …
Respiratory Medicine and Covid-19
January 26, 2021
Over the past ten months, the Nottingham University Hospital’s clinical response to the Covid-19 pandemic has taken up most of the available time and resources of the Medical School’s Division of Respiratory Medicine, and its associated clinicians. Professor Dominick Shaw had just started as Head of Respiratory Medicine for Nottingham University Hospitals when the first cases of Covid-19 coronavirus were …
