NHS England's long term workforce plan supports the development of four year, rather than
five year, undergraduate medical degrees. A “substantial proportion” of medical students …

This paper draws attention to empirical work on widening access to understand the silence
on race matters in English higher education. This work repurposes a critical race theoretical …

Purpose Widening participation in medicine refers to the recruitment policy of encouraging
those who are traditionally under-represented in medical school. Whilst research in the UK …

Background Medical schools are reported to be less accessible to students with non-
traditional backgrounds. These students face barriers when applying for and transitioning to …

Background Widening participation (WP) for underrepresented students through six-year
gateway courses helps to widen the demographic representation of doctors in the UK.'Most …

Studies of cost and value can inform educational decision making, yet our understanding of
the barriers to such research is incomplete. To address this gap, our aim was to explore the …

In the last half century, social justice has become an increasingly important endeavour
within medical and health professions education. Despite calls for action in social justice …

When compared to their peers, medical students from widening participation (WP)
backgrounds are less likely to apply for a medical degree or be offered a place, and those …

An ambition within medical education is that the medical workforce reflects the diversity
within the patient groups they serve (Garlick and Brown, 2008). Despite the efforts made …

Many UK medical schools support students from underrepresented groups to access and
gain medical degrees through widening participation strategies like Gateway programmes …