Factors influencing the inclusion of diverse volunteer patients within medical student primary care placements.

Introduction: Research shows that medical students are graduating with inadequate teaching on diverse patients and insufficient experience of working with diverse patient groups. The inclusion of patients from diverse groups is necessary in healthcare teaching to ensure medical students are adequately prepared for practice. In this study, we explored the perspectives of General Practitioner (GP) tutors on the recruitment of diverse volunteer patients for medical student primary clinical care placements.

Mentoring medical students as a means to increase healthcare assistant status: A qualitative study.

Aim: To offer a practical way in which the status of healthcare assistants (HCAs) can be increased by drawing on their experience, knowledge and skillset, whilst mentoring medical students during an HCA project.

Design: Qualitative, reflexive thematic analysis.

Methods: One-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted between April and June 2019, with 13 participants.

Tackling discrimination in medicine head on: The impact of bystander intervention training.

Purpose: A mixed-methods study to evaluate (BiT), a simulation-based small-group training programme designed to teach skills to tackle discrimination.

Materials And Methods: Norwich Medical School delivered the intervention online between January 2020 and June 2023 to medical students, physician associate trainees, and qualified doctors. A sample of 569 participants was used in the main analysis.

"I will try anything" the experience of working age stroke survivors living with chronic post-stroke pain: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Purpose: To investigate the experience of working age adults living with chronic post-stroke pain in the United Kingdom (UK).

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight working age (46-64 years) UK-based stroke survivors who experience chronic post-stroke pain (≥3 months). The interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of mutual aid groups were established on social media and operated as platforms through which people could offer or request social support. Considering the importance of Facebook mutual aid groups during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom but also the lack of empirical research regarding the trajectories and types of social support rendered available through the groups, our aims in this paper are threefold; first, to examine the trajectory of social support-related activity during the period between March-December 2020; second, to compare offers and requests of support during the peaks of the first and second waves; third to provide a rich analysis of the types of social support that were offered or requested through the online mutual aid groups. Quantitative findings suggest that online social support activity declined soon after the peak of the first pandemic wave and, at least in Facebook mutual aid groups, did not reach the levels observed during the first wave.