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Cassandra Baiano is a medical student in the first cohort of the innovative Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) MBChB at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. ScotGEM is “designed to develop doctors interested in a career as a generalist practitioner within NHS Scotland….(and) offers a unique and innovative four-year graduate entry medical programme…and focuses on rural medicine and healthcare improvement” . In this podcast Cassandra describes the course and explains how the programme is different to traditional medical training.
Show Notes
Cassandra describes the new graduate entry medicine programme (1:04)
Preparing to be a generalist (2:31)
The first cohort (3:06)
The elements that make the programme novel – case based (3:18)
Generalist clinical mentors (4:03)
Scary but amazing! (4:44)
Hard and soft skills learnt in parallel (5:15)
Developing “agents of change” (5:48)
Changing general practice from the inside (6:29)
Examples of agents of change learning – placement within the voluntary sector (6:55)
Encouraged to make changes (8:10)
Cassandra’s route to the programme (8:54)
Applying for ScotGEM (10:46)
Describing the cohort (11:19)
The attractions of being a generalist (12:10)
How unique is the programme? (13:40)
The attractions of this programme (14:44)
Hopes for the future (15:32)
Contacting Cassandra (16:31)
Cassandra’s email address is cassie.baiano@gmail.com
She is also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandrabaiano/
The ScotGEM website is available here.
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