Recruitment and Retention
In 2016/17 the College hosted two medical trainees as part of the Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellowship programme co-ordinated by NHS Education for Scotland. Their research assessed trainee recruitment and retention, specifically in higher specialty training; considering how factors such as rotas, the European Working Time Directive, support and engagement are affecting trainees and how to help support them better in the future. You can read their findings in the Journal here.
Acute Medicine
Acute Medicine (or Acute Internal Medicine – AIM) is concerned with the assessment, diagnosis and management of adults presenting to secondary care with acute medical illness. Through various research, the College has explored the different approaches to supporting acute medical admissions and the activity and the resources applied.
- The acute medical unit: A characterisation based upon the National Health Service in Scotland. PLOS One; October 2018.
- The provision of seven day multidisciplinary staffing in Scottish acute medical units: a cross-sectional study. QJM, May 2018.
- How is it best to deliver care in acute medical units? A systematic review QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, August 2017.
- Patient Flow in Acute Medical Units. A design approach to flow improvement Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, December 2016.
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The effectiveness and variation of acute medical units: a systematic review International Journal for Quality in Health Care, September 2016.
Medical Research Symposium
As undergraduates and foundation doctors carry out a wide range of research, this dedicated research symposium offers an opportunity to present findings; have early career research published; build networks and hear from established research leaders about their own experience in developing research careers. This year the symposium will take place on Wednesday 20 November in Edinburgh and abstracts for medical research and quality improvement projects are being accepted until 4 October.
This symposium has been co-hosted with NHS Education for Scotland (NES), NHS Health Education England (HEE) and the Medical Schools Council. Presenters are awarded a certificate, the best oral and poster presentations are awarded a Council medal, commended posters are given a certificate and abstracts are published in the College Journal. The abstracts from previous years are available on the College's Journal Archive.
2018 Undergraduate Prizes