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What’s ‘UMAP’ anyway? A guide to UMAP from Medical Educator

UMAP is the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership and is relevant to many medical students from the UK. It’s essentially the organisation which is writing/ collecting a bank of medical student exam questions for use in ‘high stakes’ examinations, such as medical finals. UMAP’s description of their activities can be found on their website: On the [...]

Politicisation of Healthcare:Medical student training may become the 8th point?

Nice to read what’s going on at the Whitehouse after President Barack Obama was sworn in earlier today: they have some sensible thoughts about helthcare in the US the complete transcript of which you can read here. The 7 key reforms listed on the site are as follows: “Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions [...]