Hospital level interventions to improve outcomes after injury in India, a LMIC.

Background & objectives Trauma is one of the leading causes of disability and death, worldwide. Ninety per cent of trauma related mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this, there is paucity of literature emanating from LMICs with studies that present and/or evaluate feasible interventions that can have a measurable impact on outcomes after injury, primarily mortality.

Equity with equality? Contextualising everyone can widen participation in medical school admissions.

Widening participation outcomes in admissions to UK medical schools have not changed 2007-2018, partly due to inequity in selection. This study models the effects of changing selection, using a novel method of contextualising applicants, on widening participation. We studied 1084 English school leaver applicants to a single medical school over two years, using data from their public exams taken 2 years pre-application (GCSE) and recent admissions test (UCAT).