🩺📰 Are you a medical student interested in learning how a medical journal is run? If so, apply to be The BMJs next editorial scholar.
Find out more including how to apply: https://bit.ly/4cGEM4y For more information you can also email Zaynah at zaynah.khan@bmj.com.
Race STILL isn’t taught well at medical school... 📖
Is it the job of minority students to teach others? If not, then who? 🤔
🔗 Listen to this episode of Sharp Scratch on Spotify (https://bit.ly/41JKwWk or Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3OfnDad
Meet Ella 🌟 One of the 2026 Clegg Scholars here at the BMJ!
Meet Rojbin🌟 One of the 2026 Clegg Scholars here at the BMJ!
Meet Anna 🌟 One of the 2026 Clegg Scholars at the BMJ!
Meet Nilay 🌟 One of the 2026 Clegg Scholars here at the BMJ!
Meet the 2026 Clegg Scholars joining us at the BMJ!
Stay tuned to find out more about each Scholar 🌟
🩺 Are you a "medic-ey medic," or do you feel like a bit of an outsider?
🎧 Listen to the newest Sharp Scratch episode - “I’m Not Like Other Medics”: Deconstructing the medical student stereotype on Spotify (https://bit.ly/4c4yYS8 or Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/4c84iPP !
Wes Streeting threatens to withdraw extra training places if resident doctors walk out.
Read the full article 🔗 https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s608
This isn’t what I signed up for - on moral injury in medicine
Listen to the latest episode of Sharp Scratch on Spotify (🎧 https://bit.ly/4rSoZVL or Apple Podcasts (🍎 https://apple.co/4uKmAiH
"Plans to force doctors in Scotland to complete mandatory NHS service are as illogical as they are insulting" say medical students Elgan Manton-Roseblade & Joseph Payne.
Read the full BMJ opinion piece here: https://bit.ly/4tajOSv
Bringing back joy and whimsy in medical school - Medics Comedy Revues 🎭🍿
Listen to the latest episode of Sharp Scratch on Spotify (🎧https://tinyurl.com/rf7ketkt or Apple Podcasts (🍎 https://apple.co/4cxtscD (🔗 in bio)
Is the spectre of the GMC silencing the next generation of medics? 🎙️
Listen to the Sharp Scratch episode on...
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3ZRQweq
🎧 Spotify: https://bit.ly/4chbhrx
The £100k Question: Is Medical School Still Worth It? 💸
🎧 Listen to the latest Sharp Scratch on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3OScBY3 or Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/46PHPFr !
Experiential learning for medical students would help to tackle homeless health inequalities
🔗 Read the full article here: https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s318
Experiential learning for medical students would help to tackle homeless health inequalities.
🔗 Read the full piece here: https://bit.ly/4aIQJ91
'Is it the responsibility of medical colleges and societies to speak up about political and global issues?' 📢
Listen to the latest Sharp Scratch episode, wherever you listen to your podcasts! 🎙️
Is the spectre of the GMC silencing the next generation of medics?
Listen to Sharp Scratch on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen 🎧
Recent pieces from the Editor !
📰 News: https://bit.ly/4asZALT
🎙️ 150th Episode: https://bit.ly/4aoyiWY (Spotify) / https://apple.co/3ZRQweq (Apple Podcasts)
~ Zaynah :)
Recent pieces from the Editor !
📰 News: https://bit.ly/3NZALQh
🎙️ 150th Episode: https://bit.ly/4kt0Z9S (Spotify) / https://apple.co/4jQUVre (Apple Podcasts)
~ Zaynah :)
Former BMJ Editor-in-Chief Fiona Godlee joins Sharp Scratch to discuss her intentional arrest at a Defend Our Juries protest, and how medical students can navigate activism without risking their future careers
🎧 Listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/4rEP8bg or Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3ZRQweq
Resident doctors in England vote for six months more industrial action 🪧
🔗 Read the full news article here: https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s218
A note from our Editor, Zaynah Khan, as the Clegg Scholarship results approach. ✍️
To everyone who applied: thank you for your hard work and incredible applications. We know the anticipation is high, so please keep Elgan’s words in mind as results go out.
Good luck to everyone! ✨
'Like the NHS itself, postgraduate medical education in England seems to be in a perpetual state of crisis.' - says Louella Vaughan, consultant physician. 🏥
🔗 Read the full piece: https://bit.ly/3Z4xIIO
Another year, another change to the UKFPO recruitment... 🏥
'The UK's recruitment for foundation medicine requires radical reform' - Éabha Lynn
🔗 Read the full piece: https://bit.ly/3NBzkqP
📢 The BMJ Medics’ Revue is back 📢
Got a sketch, song, poem, or skit about medicine? Submit your entry by 28 February 2026.
Email jburrell@bmj.com with your script, recording, or idea.
🎭 🎤🕺Perform in London’s West End on 15 May 2026
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2619
Is there a universal medical school experience? 👩⚕️
🎙️ The 150th (yay!!) episode of Sharp Scratch is now live - exploring what medical school was like (20, 15, 5) years ago and is now!
🎧 Listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/49SJGtV and Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/4jQUVre !
Have your medical school's placement cancellations due to strike action been last minute and disorganised?
🔗 Read Michelle's, a final year medic, reflections on placements during prolonged industrial action: https://bit.ly/4pF0AlG
Do you take medicine home with you? 🏥
In this episode, Zaynah, Nikki Nabavi, and Matt Morgan explore how medicine seeps into their personal lives, through the example of language. 🎙️ (Part 2/2)
🎧 Listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/4ju7sAG & Apple Music (https://apple.co/4juxFza
✒️ ‘The BMJ don’t want or need you to be a perfect applicant, but they want to see that you’d learn from the scholarship. Show them what you’d want to get out of it.’ - Elgan Manton-Roseblade, 2025 Clegg Scholar 🌟
🔗 Apply by 11:59pm on 14/01/26 (https://bit.ly/4j15CHx
