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BJGP Long Read/Clinical/Undergraduate

To what extent is a total diet replacement programme effective in sustained weight loss and remission in people with Type 2 diabetes?

TDR programmes consist of a low calorie (around 800 kcal/day) formula diet alongside a stepped food reintroduction as well as regular behavioural support. Yusuf Ben-Tarifite examines the evidence for TDR in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

8 July 2022
20 mins read
Opinion/Undergraduate

Tackling the GP recruitment crisis using student selected components

Paul McNamara 'never wanted to be a GP' but now argues that undergraduate self selected components in general practice could help with recruitment and retention.

12 May 2022
9 mins read
Opinion/Stories/Undergraduate

Finding primary care in the surgical ICU

Aldis H. Petriceks finds a sense of primary care at an unsuccessful resuscitation in the surgical ICU

17 April 2022
6 mins read
Opinion/Undergraduate

Equity in Medicine; A student perspective

Jack Monahan reflects on an elective in homeless medicine and reminds us that general practice can help address the cumulative disadvantages that put a person on the street.

22 January 2022
6 mins read
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Undergraduate

Improving hand hygiene in general practice

Although the necessity of hand hygiene is well known, regular monitoring of technique compliance is required. Darshana Jeyaruban reflects on the result of her audit.

9 August 2021
6 mins read
Undergraduate

A Case of Grief | SAPC Prize winner.

Andrew MacFarlane is the winner of the 2021 medical student essay prize of the Society of Academic Primary Care. This is his winning essay.

29 July 2021
10 mins read
Undergraduate

OSCEs and racism: reflections from two medical students

Two final year medical students share their experience of OSCEs, where they and their BME peers experienced differences in patient feedback and in general OSCE marks between themselves and their white counterparts. They make a plea for structural changes that will ensure

2 July 2021
7 mins read
Undergraduate

Student experiences in Homelessness and Inclusion Health

Socially excluded populations have some of the worst health outcomes relating to mortality, morbidity, service use and, more recently, COVID-19. A group of 5th year Medical Students at the University of Edinburgh tell us what they are doing about it.

13 May 2021
8 mins read
Undergraduate

The Julian Tudor Hart general practice prize for undergraduate students at St George’s University of London

2021 is the 50th anniversary of the publication in the Lancet of Julian Tudor Hart’s seminal article; 'The inverse care law’. Melvyn Jones tells us about the general practice prize for undergraduate students at St George’s University of London named in Tudor

2 March 2021
7 mins read
Undergraduate

How to close the gap of undergraduate GP teaching

7000 extra GPs are needed within the next five years to avoid a UK medical workforce crisis, but only a minority of medical students are willing to take on the general practitioner role. Philipp Schorscher examines why, and what we can do

20 November 2020
7 mins read
Undergraduate

Counting myself in: A consultation in primary care that changed my practice

A medical student reflects on their own anxieties, a patient that changed their practice, and mental illness in the medical profession.

18 October 2020
10 mins read
Undergraduate

SAPC Essay Prize: A consultation in primary care that changed my practice

Aiman Aslam won the SAPC medical student essay prize for her piece reflecting on a consultation that changed her practice. She considers an elderly patient with dementia and the impact of her culture alongside the evidence base.

4 October 2020
11 mins read
Undergraduate

When Sparks Fly: Choosing General Practice

Chloe Webster is a 4th year medical student, a yogaholic, creative writing enthusiast, and an aspiring future GP. He was so different from the rest. Often, the only patients I remember clearly in my mind are unfortunately those who make me sad

18 February 2018
4 mins read
2
Undergraduate

The man in sideroom 2

Chloe Webster is a 4th year medical student, a yogaholic, creative writing enthusiast, and an aspiring future GP. Through the zig-zag maze of the ward, he was in the first room on the left. An odd-shaped room, tucked in tight, just after

9 January 2018
7 mins read
1
Undergraduate

Destination GP: How to help medical students become GPs

Written by Fisher D, Bull C, Blackadder-Weinstein J, Nicholls G, Hawthorne K. Becoming a GP should be a highly sought-after medical speciality destination. As a career, general practice can be both flexible and diverse – with new models of care developing both

13 December 2017
6 mins read
2
Undergraduate

The Bravest Decision

Chloe Webster is a 4th year medical student, a yogaholic, creative writing enthusiast, and an aspiring future GP. I was just absentmindedly skimming through some patient notes, pushing paperwork for a research study, and there it was. In black and white –

6 December 2017
3 mins read
1
Clinical/Opinion/Undergraduate

Casting down the pseudo-religion of clinical examination

The glass bounced off my back and smashed into the drinks gantry shattering a whisky bottle. All I remember is the glass, the blood and that terrible screaming. Glass fights are dangerous, especially as barman, and for $1.80 an hour I often

10 June 2016
4 mins read
1
Undergraduate

Bristol and Exeter Student GP societies: working hard to promote general practice

Alice James is a 4th year medical student at Bristol University. She is passionate about promoting general practice to other students in her role as Chair of the University GP Society (Bristol GPSoc) and student representative for the Severn Faculty RCGP. Nilakshini

26 November 2015
7 mins read
2
Opinion/Undergraduate

Going back to the start – influencing prospective medical students

James Pearson is an ST3 trainee in Bath and the education scholar for the year. Suddenly you are sitting there alongside all these very intelligent people and the familiar world of sixth form seems so far away. I still remember my first

27 August 2015
6 mins read
Opinion/Undergraduate

BJGP Student Writing Competition – the winner

Lydia Yarlott is in her final year at Oxford Medical School. She is the winner of the 2015 BJGP Student Writing Competition themed ‘The GP in the Digital Age’ with her original article A Digital Ache. Her tale of one GP versus

20 July 2015
1 min read
1
Opinion/Undergraduate

RATs: Quality not Quantity

Joe Anthony is a history graduate currently in his fourth year studying medicine at the University of Manchester. He was joint second in the BJGP Student Writing Competition which had the theme The GP in the Digital Age. Joe’s article took us straight into

9 July 2015
6 mins read
Opinion/Undergraduate

The Technophobe’s Guide to the Digital Age

Rebecca Varley trained at Lancaster Medical School and is on the brink of being an FY1 based at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was joint second place in the BJGP Student Writing Competition which had the theme ‘The GP in the Digital Age’. We liked her

7 July 2015
5 mins read
Opinion/Undergraduate

Improving GP recruitment: a medical student perspective

Nabila Rehnnuma is a first year graduate-entry medical student at Cambridge University. A funding crisis, increasing workload, falling real income and continuing negative media press, these are just a few of the reasons why general practice is decreasing in its level of

1 July 2015
6 mins read
Opinion/Research/Undergraduate

Seismic changes in GP teaching – where will the new GPs come from?

Alex Harding is a GP and academic based in Exeter. UK General Practitioners are the largest part of the medical workforce, deliver the most care and deliver this care highly effectively. Most people who have ventured abroad and talked about health are surprised

3 June 2015
5 mins read
1
Undergraduate

The BJGP Student Writing Competition

A huge thanks to everyone that submitted entries to this year’s competition themed ‘The GP in the Digital Age’. We have received many wonderful entries and we are just in the final stages of judging. The people on the shortlist have now

14 April 2015
1 min read
2
Clinical/Opinion/Undergraduate

Anorexia nervosa: how I’m inspired to be a GP

Claire Morgan is a final year medical student and shares her experience in managing her anorexia nervosa. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week runs from the 22nd to 28th February 2015. I am a final year medical student and in recovery from anorexia

24 February 2015
6 mins read
BJGP/Undergraduate

Student Writing Competition

.@BJGPjournal running a Student Writing Competition – you can win opportunity to have work published & an internship http://t.co/yudpM4VZMV — RCGP (@rcgp) November 7, 2014 We have a competition for students to write an article suitable for the ‘Out of Hours’ section

16 January 2015
1 min read
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