Oral examinations are widely used in undergraduate and postgraduate medical
examinations, including those for membership of royal colleges. In recent years the validity …

Objective To assess the relation between a range of measures and the likelihood of
applicants to medical schools in the United Kingdom being offered a place overall and at …

The sinking of the Titanic, during which women in first class cabins were more likely to
survive than those booked into cheaper decks, has been used to illustrate the effects of …

Race and ethnicity are commonly used variables in medical research. Each year about 2500
papers are indexed under the headings “ethnic groups” or “racial stocks” on Medline 1; …

Brexit marked a watershed moment in the nation's history. Anti-immigrant sentiment was
found to be a key predictor of the leave vote, 1 with ethnic minorities facing rising and …

In many aspects of human endeavour great achiev-ers enter their chosen field with an
innate ability that enables them to outperform their peers who have a similar education or …

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Health inequality between ethnic groups in the United Kingdom is widening. 1 Death rates
from coronary heart disease in South Asians (immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh …

In common with other developed countries, the United Kingdom relies on international
medical graduates to make up the shortfall between the number of doctors it trains and the …

A doctor has been fired from her “dream job” as a small group facilitator at a medical school
in California after she shared personal and historical incidents of racism during a talk with …