All Episodes
Sharp Scratch — 163 episodes
Where did the £400m go? Are medical schools funding teaching properly?
"The AI will see you now" - Will AI replace our jobs as doctors?
Is medicine a career worth staying in?
The F Word - Failure in Medical School
Mentoring in medicine - Is it really "who you know" that shapes your career?
"Is it my job to teach you?" - Race education in medicine
“I’m Not Like Other Medics” - Deconstructing the medical student stereotype
This isn't what I signed up for - Moral injury in medicine
Bringing back joy and whimsy in medical school - Medics Comedy Revues
The £100k Question: Is Medical School Still Worth It?
Is the spectre of the GMC silencing the next generation of medics?
Is there a universal medical school experience? - 150th Episode!
Does medical jargon follow you home?
How do we describe medical experiences to others? - Christmas Episode
Navigating medicine when you're deaf or hard of hearing
How to avoid the 'Surgical Scaries'
Dissection Horror Stories - Halloween Episode
Practicing creative writing to be a better doctor
Re-release: Reasons to be hopeful
Re-release: Anxiety
Re-release: Is there room for creativity in medicine?
How to get into medical school
Implicit and explicit bias in medical school
How do doctors cope with death? Part 2
How do doctors cope with death? Part 1
PassMed or perish
From scrubs to the stage: indie rock and medicine - with GULZ
Yes, medical school is still racist and misogynistic - with Annabel Sowemimo
Medical school and widening participation
Let's talk about sex: how to take a good sexual history - with Naomi Sutton
The cult of medicine - with Sam Jahara
What they won't teach you at medical - with Maddy Lucy Dann
What is professionalism?
We all make mistakes
Doctors' dating dilemmas
”It’s giving...CAP”
How do we cope when a family member is unwell?
The OSCE Horror Show
Taking time out of medicine
If you can see it, you can be it
Religion at Medical School
Re-release: The dating life of new doctors
Can we debrief?
Inbound medical students
Spark trans joy, not discomfort
Agency and autonomy at medical school
Is there room for creativity in medicine?
Navigating grief
Rewind: Behind the scenes at The BMJ
Reasons to be hopeful
Perfectionism
The lonely medics club
Meet the multidisciplinary team
Why I (still) love medicine
Christmas on the wards
How to study for medical school exams
The social life of medics (with Christina Aaliyah)
The medical school scaries
Replay: How not to bomb your OSCEs
Replay: The first generation medical students
Replay: Academic first times
Replay: Starting University
The 100th episode
A problem shared is a problem halved
Medical milestones
The first generation medical students
How good is a good enough doctor?
Is the grass greener elsewhere?
How do I choose a specialty?
Baptism of fire: starting in the NHS
Behind the scenes at The BMJ
Sharing is caring
What’s in a name?
Nothing like Grey’s Anatomy
It’s not just you, medicine is weird
I’m a (Phobic) Medical Student… Get Me Out of Here!
Everyone has an accent
Compassionate medical schools
Students, sex work, and stigma
Being out of your depth
Starting university
Concerns about a colleague
Prescribed personalities
Understanding your payslip (special segment)
What med school didn’t teach you about money w/ Medics Money
Do doctors do what they preach
Too much medicine
Funding medical school
See it, say it, sorted?
The role of medical students in activism
Patient Confidential - is it okay to recount patients’ stories
The clinical guideline will see you now
Can you learn empathy?
What you weren’t told about working as a junior doctor
Publish or perish?
Lost in translation
All I want for Christmas is...
Medical jargon 101
Planet Earth on Red Alert
Superstitions in medicine
Mind the gender health gap
What is the hidden curriculum?
Do you have a mentor?
Tips for clinical years
Should I intercalate?
Imposter Syndrome
Will my hobbies make me a better doctor?
I tried to do everything and I had one or two breakdowns a term..
Inclusive Practice
Queer Allyship
Queerness in Medicine
Why do you want to be a doctor?
Working hard or hardly working
The F word
Tackling the hospital tech
Naps & night shifts
Being at a birth
Festive ’Agony Aunt’ (part 2)
Festive ’Agony Aunt’ (part 1)
Too girly to be a doctor
”Apparently one of the students has already fainted..”
Specialty Stereotypes
Being a patient as a medical student
Medical student syndrome
Fresher’s firsts: Socialising
Freshers’ firsts : Academic first times
How not to bomb your OSCEs
How to smash your med school exams
Fighting shame by talking about it
Learning online
Should you give that casual consultation?
How competitive are you?
Sharp Scratch, talking evidence
Leaving medicine
What med students can learn from a Saturday job
Should a doctor have a tattoo?
You’re suddenly a doctor - what does interim FY1 mean
Covid-19
What to wear on the wards
Anxiety
Racism in medicine
Working with patients
Working with the multidisciplinary team
New year resolutions
Doctor’s first Christmas
Gallows humour
Making ends meet
What you can do on social media
Documenting death
Coping with death
Being a sick doctor
How sick, is sick enough, to call in sick?
The dating life of new doctors
Keeping your relationship alive when you become a doctor
Tips for new doctors
Making your first mistake
How to treat someone who’s racist or sexist
Working with arsehole doctors
Why CPR isn’t like on TV
How to start a project that could actually change something
How to refer a patient without p*ssing off the med reg
Sharp Scratch episode 1: Surviving the night shift
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