Intended for healthcare professionals

Sharp Scratch: a podcast for med students and new docs

Every fortnight, we get together medical students, junior doctors and expert guests to discuss all the things you need to know to be a good doctor, but that medical school doesn’t teach you.

We delve into the ‘culture’ of being a medical student, and the anecdotal stuff you might pick up from corridor conversations with your coursemates; the things that you might feel inhibited about discussing in teaching.

You can listen to all of our episodes for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, Podbean, or wherever you get your podcasts:

The Team

Gallery of the sharp scratch gang

  • Nikki Nabavi, final year medical student, University of Manchester, and past editorial scholar, The BMJ. Twitter: @nikkixnabavi 
  • Anna Harvey, Academic Foundation Doctor at North East and North Cumbria ICS, and past editorial scholar, The BMJ. Twitter: @a_c_harvey 
  • Laura Nunez-Mulder, Foundation doctor at Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust, and past editorial scholar, The BMJ. Twitter: @lnm_rugby 
  • Pat Lok, fourth year medical student, Anglia Ruskin University, and past editorial scholar, The BMJ. Twitter: @lok_pat 
  • Chidera Ota, core surgical trainee, London. Twitter: @chidera_ota 
  • Declan Murphy, Academic Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology in North East England. Twitter: @1994_declan 
  • Olukayode Oki, Foundation doctor in London. Twitter: @teekayoki 
  • Andrew MacFarlane, Foundation doctor in Scotland. Twitter: @andrew_mac94 
  • Isobel Walker, Foundation doctor in Nottingham. Twitter: @issywalker 
  • Lily Copping, Foundation doctor in the Severn deanery. Twitter: @lilycopping 
  • Anisha Banerjee, Foundation doctor in the South Thames Deanery.
  • Natasha Binnie, final year medical student, King's College London. Twitter: @tash_binnie 
  • Ryhan Hussain, junior doctor.
  • Maz Sadler, final year medical student, Anglia Ruskin University.
  • Stanimir Stoilov, graduate-entry medical student, University of Warwick. Twitter:@StanimirrS 
  • Charlotte Rose, Editorial Scholar, the BMJ, and final year medical student, University of Oxford.
  • Sarah Fabyan, fourth year medical student, University of Buckingham.
  • Judith Ugwuja, fourth year medical student, Medical University of Silesia.
  • Patrick Flanagan, final year medical student, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  • Ramneet Gill, second year graduate-entry medical student, University of Birmingham.

Produced and edited by

Dom Byrne & Duncan Jarvies

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