The medical doctor (degree) apprenticeship.

In this article we explore the United Kingdom context of apprenticeships and the history of development of the use of the term apprentice in medicine. We describe the development of the Medical Doctor Degree Apprenticeship (MDDA) in England and how Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has approached the development of the MDDA. We explore the rationale for developing the MDDA in Essex, the structure of the apprenticeship at ARU (which comprises 20% of employed time in NHS work and 80% in education undertaking the medical degree), the challenges and issues we encountered and mitigations we put in place.

COVID-19 Pandemic-Medical Education Adaptations: the Power of Students, Staff and Technology.

The coronavirus pandemic has profoundly changed the way medical education is delivered globally. Our group reports an insight into the adaptations and innovations made by the School of Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University.

A pilot study to evaluate the application of a generic protein standard panel for quality control of biomarker detection technologies.

Background: Protein biomarker studies are currently hampered by a lack of measurement standards to demonstrate quality, reliability and comparability across multiple assay platforms. This is especially pertinent for immunoassays where multiple formats for detecting target analytes are commonly used.

Findings: In this pilot study a generic panel of six non-human protein standards (50 - 10^7 pg/mL) of varying abundance was prepared as a quality control (QC) material.

Improved detection of cell surface proteins using an electrochemiluminescent cell-binding assay.

Cell surface protein profiling is a generic tool to determine the quality of cultured mammalian cell lines. Flow cytometry is commonly employed as the screening technique of choice, but it consumes a large quantity of cells. We have evaluated an electrochemiluminescent (ECL)-based platform, the Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) Sector 6000 Imager, for cell surface protein detection with fewer than 100 cells per well.