Mapping Doctors: the Future of the Medical Workforce roundtable
Yesterday, Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone, with Cliff, Liz, Michael and Rebecca from the team, were delighted to welcome key stakeholders from the General Medical Council, Royal Colleges, Trainee Associations, and postgraduate deaneries to our roundtable event, where we discussed the future of the medical workforce. Discussion centred around three key questions, with a focus on sharing […]
Mapping Doctors – supporting the Medical Schools Council: Gateway and Foundation leads
Liz and Michael from the Mapping Doctors team were delighted to present at a recent Medical Schools Council Gateway and Foundation leads meeting. Our findings showed that widening access to medicine makes a significant contribution to improving the representativeness of the profession, so it was great to be able to share our learning with people […]
New paper on working in underdoctored areas
Our latest paper from the research has been published! Medical training pathways and underdoctored areas: a qualitative study of doctors working in areas that struggle to recruit and retain represents a real cross-disciplinary insight into how medical training pathways led doctors to work in underdoctored areas. We highlight how medical workforce recruitment is an ongoing […]
Come and see the Mapping Doctors team at DEMEC!
Cliff and Liz from the team will be at DEMEC, the 6th Developing Excellence in Medical Education Conference in December, presenting a workshop “Medical training in the edgelands – what can we learn from experiences in underdoctored areas?” and a short paper on “Future Medical Education & Workforce Strategy: The impact of medical training pathways […]
Mapping Doctors at AMEE in Barcelona
The Mapping Doctors team were delighted to join one of the biggest annual conferences in medical and health education, the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) 2025 in Barcelona. The conference was a packed programme of workshops, plenaries, seminars and sessions showcasing innovative e-posters, a format used to share more than just a traditional […]
Sharing our findings: The 2030 workforce
We were delighted to be able to contribute a plenary session to the multidisciplinary HSR UK 2025 conference this week. The programme was packed with great sessions on workforce research, and Dr Liz Brewster, with Dr Laura Jefferson and Professor Gill Vance spent a good hour discussing “The 2030 workforce: how will innovative research deliver […]
New paper on retention in medicine
Our latest paper in BMJ Open has just been published! Focused on why doctors stay in their roles, it explores key themes influencing retention from our interview data. Participants discussed feeling valued by the organisation, both in terms of material circumstances and in relationships with colleagues. They also discussed the role of autonomy and opportunity, […]
Mapping Doctors at Campus in the City
The MapDoc team had a wonderful time at the Campus in the City event earlier this month. Engaging over 300 children, young people and their grown-ups in fantastic interactive activities. Our aim was to help people to think about the challenges of medical training, the importance of understanding doctors’ stories and the role of medical […]
Public involvement in Mapping Doctors
The Mapping Doctors research project is supported by our wonderful patient and public involvement (PPI) group, led by our PPI co-ordinator Rebecca Knagg. The group have challenged our thinking, asked pertinent questions and shared what is important to them about accessing medical care through a series of six online meetings. They meet for the last […]
Join the MapDoc team at Campus in the City!
We’re delighted to be joining Lancaster University’s annual Campus in the City festival in April! We’ll be bringing our exhibition of cartographical narratives, along with some fun activities for all ages, thinking about how doctors get to be specialists in different types of medicine. If you are based locally, please come and visit our stall: […]