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; which is perhaps even more important this year with reduced face-to-face contact.

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