Dr John Glen reflects on the success of a widening participation scheme in north Wales that supports local state school children to apply to medical school.
Nobody really saw it coming. A pandemic on this scale caused huge challenges for those of us involved in medical education; we’re still seeing the impact of redeployment on our junior colleagues, in terms of training progression, fatigue and so forth.
Dr Orod Osanlou, a consultant in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics and general internal medicine, is director of the North Wales Clinical Research Facility. In this blog, he discusses how colleagues in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board became involved in COVID-19 vaccine trials.
This month’s guest blog comes from Dr Jamie Duckers, a consultant in cystic fibrosis and respiratory medicine at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Here, he discusses recent Welsh government investment in ‘syndrome without a name’ (SWAN) clinics.
Ym mlog y mis yma, mae Dr Olwen Williams, is-lywydd RCP Cymru yn trafod arweinyddiaeth dosturiol ac yn annog cymrodyr ac aelodau i gwblhau cyfrifiad RCP 2022, cyn myfyrio ar gyfraniad enfawr meddygon SAS i weithlu’r GIG.
In this month’s blog, Dr Olwen Williams, RCP vice president for Wales discusses compassionate leadership and urges fellows and members to complete the 2022 RCP census, before reflecting on the huge contribution of SAS doctors to the NHS workforce.
RCP’s academic vice president Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam writes about a new position statement on ‘Making research everybody’s business’ which has been published today and the importance of embedding research in clinical practice.
Jen Flatman, medicines safety and governance pharmacist and former RCP medicines safety clinical fellow, discusses a resource to support people to continue to use their medicines safely once they leave hospital.
Patient and Carer Network member, Rebecca Harrison, talks about her experience of improving medicine safety through working with different stakeholders at the RCP.
