Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork.

Decolonising the curriculum is a complex endeavour, with the potential to cause harm as well as benefit. People doing the work might find themselves questioning their personal and political identities and motives, it is common for people to get disillusioned. While surveys and toolkits are important to help us start the work, we are interested in finding out how decolonising practices can be sustained.

An intersectional participatory action research approach to explore and address class elitism in medical education.

Purpose: Widening participation has increasingly been implemented to address the inaccessibility of medicine as a profession. However, 'less privileged' students who do 'get in' often struggle to 'get on'. This participatory action research project (PAR) gives space to medical students, who identify as 'less privileged' to express and explore their experiences.

What is meant by "frailty" in undergraduate medical education? A national survey of UK medical schools.

Purpose: All UK medical schools are required to include frailty in their curriculum. The term is open to interpretation and associated with negative perceptions. Understanding and recognising frailty is a prerequisite for consideration of frailty in the treatment decision-making process across clinical specialities.

Learning to communicate with people with dementia: Exploring the impact of a simulation session for medical students (Innovative practice).

There is a recognised need to improve undergraduate education within dementia care. UK medical schools provide dementia-specific teaching, but this has previously been found to focus more on student knowledge and skills rather than behaviours and attitudes and does not often involve the wider multidisciplinary team. A simulation day was established, based on communicating with a person with dementia in a number of scenarios.

Exploring gendered leadership stereotypes in a shared leadership model in healthcare: a case study.

The existing literature on leadership often describes it within fairly rigid gender roles. Entire models of leadership have been ascribed gendered labels. Shared leadership is, in traditional leadership theory, a feminine model.

Comics are Research: Graphic Narratives as a New Way of Seeing Clinical Practice.

As a doctor and practitioner researcher, I use comics as a research method. This graphic article is an attempt to convince you, the academy and perhaps myself, that comics are research.

Falls assessment and prevention: a multidisciplinary teaching intervention.

Background: Falls are a common and important clinical problem, and with ageing populations worldwide it is important for health care professionals to learn about falls management. The multidisciplinary nature of falls teams also provides an ideal opportunity for interprofessional collaboration in teaching.

Context: In this article, we describe a pilot multidisciplinary falls assessment and prevention workshop for second-year medical students at a London medical school.

Prevalence, characteristics and outcomes of people aged 65 years and over with an incidental rise in cardiac troponin I. An observational prospective cohort study.

Background: Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a sensitive and specific marker of acute cardiac damage. We examined the prevalence, characteristics and outcome of incidental cTnI rises in older patients.

Methods: One hundred and eighty-seven consecutive patients aged 65 years or over with a raised cTnI on admission at least 8 h after symptom onset were categorised into: (1) ST-elevation myocardial infarction, (2) other acute coronary syndromes (ACS), (3) other recognised non-ACS causes of cTnI rise and (4) non-ACS with no other identifiable cause (an incidental finding).