In this guest blog, Laragh Harvey-Kelly, a final-year medical student at the University of Cambridge, explains her recently published work on public attitudes to kidney cancer screening. She undertook this research as part of a Student Selected Component supervised by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith. Kidney cancer is on the rise and is projected to increase over […]
SAPC award for Cambridge medical student, Rachel Fox
Rachel Fox, who is studying medicine at the University of Cambridge, won the Novice Presenters prize at the Society for Academic Primary Care’s Madingley Hall conference on 24th January 2019. She explained that the presentation, titled “The views of women with gestational diabetes on post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes: the role of concern about […]
A medical student’s journey through academic primary care
Rachel Fox, medical student in her fourth year at the University of Cambridge Clinical School, describes her experiences exploring academic primary care and explains how medical students can get involved. Rachel was awarded the Novice Presenters prize at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference in January 2019. “Hi, my name is Rachel Fox and […]
‘Please Make Comfortable’: prescribing and communicating opioids in the wake of Gosport
The latest crisis concerning UK end-of-life care arose in June 2018, with the publication of the Jones inquiry into hundreds of premature deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the 1990s. The inquiry concluded that misuse of diamorphine and syringe drivers, often following the clinical instruction ‘please make comfortable’, led to the excess deaths: a […]
How my six week primary care SSC project led to my first-author paper in Cancer Epidemiology
Blog by Tessa Stewart, final year medical student, University of Cambridge It’s a common feeling amongst medical students that we cannot meaningfully contribute to patient care, due to our lack of knowledge and expertise. On 4 February, World Cancer Day, I felt that I contributed by publishing my first first-author paper in Cancer Epidemiology. This […]
Improving timely diagnosis of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
Fiona Walter is co-PI on a SAMRC-NEWTON funded study to improve timely diagnosis of breast and cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. The second Investigator’s meeting was recently hosted by co-PI Dr Jennifer Moodley at the University of Cape Town, with Dr Amos Mwaka and colleagues from Uganda and South Africa also attending. We will host […]