A new 6-minute animated video provides insight into the experiences of people living with ME/CFS. The video is part of the Discover ME Experience, a two-part (CPD accredited) educational 3D virtual reality or 2D short film, with accompanying information pack, available free to healthcare providers and medical students in Northern Ireland. For more information, contact… Continue reading Discover M.E. – animated video for healthcare professionals
Category: medical schools
Learn About ME essay competition for medical students studying in Scotland
Medical students studying in Scotland are invited to take part in the Learn About ME essay competition! The winner will receive £250, and the winning essay may be published in The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. To enter, students must: • Complete the free one-hour CPD course on ME/CFS by Dr.… Continue reading Learn About ME essay competition for medical students studying in Scotland
Please sign our open letter to the UK medical schools
Photo: Pixabay / Pexels. Shockingly, most doctors receive no training at all on ME/CFS. As a result, many continue to believe (wrongly) that the condition is minor, self-resolving, psychological in nature, or simply made up. Acting on these beliefs, they dismiss their patients' very real and very serious symptoms; mistakenly assume the symptoms are due… Continue reading Please sign our open letter to the UK medical schools
Integrating ME/CFS into an undergraduate curriculum: experience from a US medical school
In what might be a world first, the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine in the US has fully integrated ME/CFS into its curriculum. Dr Howard Andrew Selinger, MD. Photo: Quinnipiac University. The training program was developed by Dr Howard Andrew Selinger, a family physician and Chair of Family Medicine at the school. When asked… Continue reading Integrating ME/CFS into an undergraduate curriculum: experience from a US medical school
Update on our campaign
The ME/CFS Medical Education Campaign started up in December of last year, with the goal of ensuring that all UK doctors and medical students receive high-quality, up-to-date, evidence-based training on ME/CFS. The problems we face are very familiar to the ME community, but they might be unfamiliar to clinicians and medical educators: ME/CFS is a… Continue reading Update on our campaign
To which area of medicine does ME/CFS belong, and who should teach it?
With the Medical Licensing Assessment coming into effect in 2024-2025, medical schools across the UK will be preparing to teach ME/CFS for the first time, and they will find themselves facing a conundrum: which class or subject area does the condition fit into, and which educators are best-qualified to teach it? Cropped image from the… Continue reading To which area of medicine does ME/CFS belong, and who should teach it?
Letter to the Medical Schools’ Council on teaching ME/CFS to undergraduates
The Medical Schools' Council coordinates medical schools' teaching across the UK. We reached out to them to ask them to speak to medical schools about providing high-quality teaching on ME/CFS, to give a bit of background information about the condition, and to recommend some learning resources. The letter is posted below. Recommended ME/CFS resources for… Continue reading Letter to the Medical Schools’ Council on teaching ME/CFS to undergraduates
ME/CFS will be taught to all medical students starting in 2024/2025 – but will the teaching be of a high standard?
Cropped image from the cover of the General Medical Council's MLA content map. We were very pleased to learn that ME/CFS is included on the MLA content map, and will therefore be taught to all undergraduate medical students in the UK, starting in the 2024/2025 academic year. However, we have concerns. We know that currently… Continue reading ME/CFS will be taught to all medical students starting in 2024/2025 – but will the teaching be of a high standard?
Letter to medical students from the ME/CFS Medical Education Campaign
We've begun sending this letter out to medical students' societies across the UK. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating, incurable disease which affects at least four people in a thousand. Yet medical education on ME/CFS in the UK is shockingly poor. There have been great strides in research and clinical practice in recent… Continue reading Letter to medical students from the ME/CFS Medical Education Campaign
Research paints a bleak picture of ME/CFS medical education in the UK
Image credit: Rodnae Productions/Pexels. Studies show that ME/CFS represents a huge gap in medical education. A survey of medical students conducted in 2022 found that the students were generally unaware of ME/CFS, and had received little or no training related to the condition. However the students were very much interested in learning about it, and… Continue reading Research paints a bleak picture of ME/CFS medical education in the UK
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