Unveiling healthcare insights for patients and practitioners: a pilot study.

Background: Doctors in the UK experience significant heterogeneity in training. Whilst core curricula underpin specialty training, diversity in clinical attachments results in a heterogeneous knowledge base and variation in local practice. Some insights or practices, which have the potential to improve patient care, but which only exist anecdotally or in local rather than national guidance, remain undiscovered and underutilised.

Development of hidden curriculum skills in a COVID-19 vaccination centre.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many medical students were deployed as vaccinators. This study set out to capture the lived experience of students at a London-based mass vaccination site, understand what they learned, how this learning compared to their experience of usual medical education and how any identified benefits might be leveraged in a post-pandemic context.

Methods: Student vaccinators (n = 8) were recruited from the vaccine clinic workforce and invited to complete semi-structured interviews about their experiences.