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Love Of Painting

My blog focuses on all that I find interesting as an artist, mother, doctor and as a woman. I love to share tips about painting, my views on life and how I create my art with step by step demonstration and videos.

Posts in Medical Education
Does Appraiser Diversity Reflect Those They Serve

This is research addressing questions about protected characteristics with honesty and transparency. The aim was to produce an equality and diversity factsheet that would help to inform Wessex Appraisal Services. We know that the healthcare profession tends to attract diversity and the findings from this research show doctors in Dorset and Hampshire are more ethnically diverse (23%) compared to the population (4.4%) as well as Nationally (13%). We hope that through these results doctors would be able to recognise they have shared characteristics thus they are not alone.

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Black Men and Prostate Cancer

According to Prostate Cancer UK, 1 in 4 black men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. This is double the 1 in 8 risks faced by all men. Awareness of cancer signs is lower in those who are male, younger, and from BAME or low socioeconomic groups. 4 in 5 people (85%) are affected financially by a cancer diagnosis.

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Cancer Series for the Igbo Community in Dorset

As a member of a small but thriving Igbo community in Dorset, I have volunteered my time to hopefully make a valuable contribution towards tackling the issues highlighted in these studies which found awareness and help-seeking behaviour to be low across all minority ethnic groups, with the lowest awareness in the Black African group.

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Wessex International Medical Graduate Fellowship

I completed my time as an International Medical Graduate Fellow in September 2019. It was a great year and I had learned a lot from working with these wonderful people. I was tasked with creating the 1st newsletter which documented the various projects we were did and the courses we were able to set up including an Exam up-skilling course, Induction Programme for doctors new to the NHS and many more.

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