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: […]
Coming up soon! MapDoc team speaking at national events
As we come to the end of the MapDoc project, we’re working hard to share our findings with relevant audiences. In April, we’ll be at the Society for Education in Anaesthesia (SEAUK) annual scientific meeting in Manchester, talking about How do we ‘level up’ our underdoctored areas? In May, we’re contributing to an online event […]
Reviewing postgraduate medical training
NHS National Medical Director Professor Sir Steven Powis and Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty are to lead a review to make postgraduate medical training the ‘best in the world’ – and the Mapping Doctors team are ready and willing to support this aim. Since 2022, we’ve been working with resident doctors, SAS and […]
Mapping Doctors: the podcast
Want to know more about our key findings? Join us for the first mini-series of our Mapping Doctors podcast. Each episode takes on one of the key questions of the research, unpicking some of the issues around workforce distribution, and thinking about what key messages we’ve found that are relevant for doctors, NHS organisations, the […]
Breaking boundaries in the history of medicine
The Mapping Doctors team takes an interdisciplinary approach to the issues around medical training, and recently our chief historian and co-I Michael Lambert was invited to share our findings and approach as part of a prestigious Royal Society of Medicine event. In the January 2025 Online Symposium, Potpourri of breaking boundaries in the history of […]