Developing future medical educators Dr Sean Zhou Can you remember an influential peer or near-peer teaching experience which helped you prepare for an exam or clinical work? Many students and foundation doctors play a key role in educating other students or peers, and the Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education (JASME) aims to build and connect these junior medical educators. It has been my pleasure to co-chair JASME, a special interest group of the Association

7 lessons learned: from clinician to global entrepreneur by  Dr Aalok Y Shukla We live in an unprecedented time of change. Exponential technologies are revolutionising industries and democratising access to goods and services like never before, making them faster, cheaper and available 24/7. Healthcare is no exception but creating change in healthcare is not just a technological matter. It involves managing a complex web of organisations, professionals, patients, lobbies and

Why do so many technology projects in healthcare fail? by Professor Trisha Greenhalgh Who remembers a failed technology project in healthcare? I’m guessing all hands went up, since an estimated (though not formally verified) 80 percent of such projects fail. Why? Until recently, the answer was “we don’t know” since research on new technologies was limited to randomised controlled trials which compared a technology-on arm with a technology-off arm. Such studies could answer on

‘Innovation across the public, private and third sectors’: Reflections from Christiana Boules and Hugh Harvey Part 1: Reflections on ‘What can the healthcare service learn from student-led initiatives?’ “I remember when I couldn’t recall the small bones of the ear and my ENT consultant thought that my knowledge of Latin should make this sort of thing easy. When I told him that I never studied Latin at school, and no, I’ve never been horse-riding, he mocked me for it.” One of