Great to be part of the day in Newcastle and the opportunity to judge all the posters which were of a very high standard - Congratulations to the winners.

Just published. Shows how UK lags behind most European countries in undergraduate teaching of forensic & legal medicine @fflmul Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Surgeons of England Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of General Practitioners GMC AoMRC JRCPTB link.springer.com/10.1007/s00414…

Thank you also to The Association of Clinical Pathologists for recognising this project with their 2024 Incentive Prize for Junior Doctors - if you're a doctor pre-specialty training and interested in pathology then I'd really recommend this: pathologists.org.uk/awards/acp-inc…

▶️ Attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards medicolegal view and grant examinations ▶️Discover how these perspectives influence decision-making in forensic pathology and the implications for future policies Jacob Foster Sam Taylor bit.ly/3VslUil

The SHAPES study is open to any UK medical student or foundation doctor and measures their perceptions of medical specialists' personality traits using a 5-minute online survey. The survey can be accessed via this link: bit.ly/shapes-study.

▶️ Attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards medicolegal view and grant examinations ▶️Discover how these perspectives influence decision-making in forensic pathology and the implications for future policies Jacob Foster Sam Taylor bit.ly/3VslUil

Would highly recommend the #PathToSuccess event for anyone interested in laboratory specialties! Here's a sneaky peek at what went on last year, from ACP news #P2S24 RC of Pathologists The Association of Clinical Pathologists

Please click on the link below to view the FFLM Position Statement on Physician Associates ow.ly/Z7xB50TABuE

Issue one - competition ratios When my cohort started medical school, the average competition ratio was 1.8/1, last year it was 4.7/1. We do not know the full scale of the damage this year. However, these are the specialties we have number of applications data for. 2/16.

This new research is a sad indictment of NHS bodies and the Government, who collaborated in a headlong rush to expand the roles of physician and anaesthesia associates without first amassing the evidence that the role was safe. Our press response: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…