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June 30, 2004
Channel 4 screen documentary on Brighton practice
Channel 4 are showing a threepart documentary, The Practice, starting on Monday 5th July at 8pm. The series shows the practice wrestling with the reforms over a year. I'm not sure if BSMS is mentioned, but it has local interest in any case.
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June 29, 2004
BSMS Research Conference
BSMS is holding its second Research Conference: see http://www.bsms.ac.uk/green/news/pop/research_conference04.htm
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June 25, 2004
BMJ on widening participation
The latest BMJ has articles on the mattter of widening participation, as well as a news item on the launch of the report The Demography of Medical Schools: A Discussion Paper previously mentioned in this current awareness service.
"Not a university type": focus group study of social class, ethnic, and sex differences in school pupils' perceptions about medical school
Trisha Greenhalgh, Kieran Seyan, Petra Boynton
BMJ 2004;328:1541 (26 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1541
The standardised admission ratio for measuring widening participation in medical schools: analysis of UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex
Kieran Seyan, Trisha Greenhalgh, Danny Dorling
BMJ 2004;328:15451546 (26 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1545
There's also the latest What the educators are saying column.
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June 24, 2004
Evaluation of National Expansion of Medical Schools
Thanks to LTSN01 News for this
Evaluation of the National Expansion of Medical Schools (NEMS)The Health Impact Assessment Research Unit (HIARU), a leading research team in the evaluation of the expansion of medical school places, is about to issue its first survey of UK medical schools. Over the last five years there has been a massive expansion of medical school placements, to the extent where intake in 2005 will have risen by 57% against baseline.
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June 22, 2004
Times on medical education
Today's Times runs three stories:
on the BMA report the Demography of Medical Schools: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,27371153825,00.html
on the Kings College London's Access to Medicine project : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,1711153833,00.html and a profile of a woman mature student at Newcastle: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,27371153823,00.html
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June 18, 2004
BMJ on clinical databases
BMJ 2004;328:1478 (19 June) , doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1478
Information in practice
Cross sectional survey of multicentre clinical databases in the United Kingdom
Nick Black, Marian Barker, Mary Payne
The database itself can be found at:
http://www.docdat.org/
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BMJ reports campaign for medical education conference
BMJ 2004;328:1454 (19 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1454a
Campaign to revitalise academic medicine calls for radical thinking
See their web page at: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/academicmedicine/
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BMJ on Scottish medical education
A news item in the BMJ mentions the Calman and PoulsonEllis report on basic medical education in Scotland, covered in this blog earlier in the week, but also another one that passed me by: Securing Future Practice: Shaping the New Medical Workforce for Scotland , a report from the Short Life Working Group commissioned to review medical career structures in Scotland.
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June 16, 2004
DoH consulation on equality and diversity
From the LTSN01 news feed:
DH consultation on equality and diversity of the medical workforce The Department of Health (DH) workforce directorate has issued a consultation document entitled 'Sharing the challenge, sharing the benefits: Equality and diversity in the medical workforce'. The document includes a significant section on improving access to medical education. The 29 page document can be downloaded in PDF format from the website. Responses are invited from medical/dental schools and are required by 17 September 2004.
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June 14, 2004
Review of basic medical education in Scotland
Reference:
Review of basic medical education in Scotland
Report and conclusions available in both PDF and HTML formats for this awaited report commissioned by the Scottish Executive, written by Sir Kenneth Calman and Michael PaulsonEllis.
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June 11, 2004
Presentation on BSMS service to Annual Meeting of Medical School
Secretaries Here's a pdf of my presentation (large file: 7.1 MB) and the resource list (small, only 10K) I prepared for a talk to the Annual Meeting of Medical School Secretaries today at BSMS
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June 07, 2004
CHMS report on clinical academics
The CHMS report on clinical academic staffing levels in now on their website
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New standards for US CME accreditation
The BMJ reports on new standards for US CME accreditation covering conflicts of interest
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BMJ on campaign to revitalise academic medicine
There's a series of letters in the BMJ on the campaign to revitalise academic medicine
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