About Medical School
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Doctor of Medicine, or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
Overseas doctors will remain 'crucial' despite recruitment drive - regulator
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... 4bn on additional training places for healthcare workers, with the number of Medical School places for student doctors set to double to 15,000 a year...
Brain power dropped among over-50s during Covid-19 pandemic, study shows
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... " Dr Dorina Cadar, a dementia expert from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, said the effect of the pandemic on the general population had been " catastrophic"...
Menstrual blood tests could aid women's healthcare
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... While still in Medical School, Dr Naseri could find only one study on menstrual blood, a 2012 paper that described its composition and structure and found 385 proteins that are unique to menstrual blood...
'Sexist' Amazon Alexa can't answer Lionesses question
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... Dr Rodda, a senior lecturer in psychiatry at Kent and Medway Medical School - with an interest in artificial intelligence (AI), said she had only been able to get an answer from Alexa when she specified it was women s football she was interested in,...
How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?
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... The government described that as misleading and said the average junior doctor In reality, that term - junior doctor - covers someone fresh out of Medical School right up to those with a decade or more of experience...
Why talk of a UK doctor exodus is premature
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... They make up almost half the hospital doctors in England and include anyone who has finished Medical School but has not yet completed their postgraduate training to become a GP, speciality doctor or consultant...
'Historic' 15-year plan to boost NHS workforce
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Hot weather adds to NHS pressure as doctors strike
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... Grossly unfair In his second year after Medical School, Dr Tom Corkery-Bennett, works an average of 48 hours a week, in the A& E at Royal Berkshire Hospital, but can put in up to 60 and regularly receives messages asking if he can take on extra shifts...