medical education

29th September 2021

Not your usual heart attack

Jo McPherson daretothinkrare, disease, interview, medicalstudent, patient, raredisease, Uncategorised diagnosis, Heart, medical education, patient voice, rare disease, SCAD, Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

Heart attacks may not be rare but SCAD is! Today is World Heart Day and although heart attacks may not be rare, there are other causes of heart attacks that […]

15th September 2021

The impact of living with Myotonic Dystrophy

Jo McPherson disease, Genetics, interview, patient, raredisease diagnosis, dystrophy, genetic, MD, medical education, muscular, myotonic, Myotonic Dystrophy, patient voice, rare disease

Doctors are patients too Genevieve Allum is a 34 year old GP who specialises in Dementia and lives on South Coast with her partner. Genevieve was diagnosed with Myotonic Dystrophy […]

20th August 2021

The Unusual Suspects: rare disease in everyday medicine

Jo McPherson equity, M4RD2022, medical education, medical genetics, rare disease, royal society of medicine, rsm, sumposium 0

The Unusual Suspects: Rare disease in everyday medicine is returning to The Royal Society of Medicine on 9th February! The M4RD Annual Symposium has been a popular event in the rare disease […]

20th May 2021

The Unusual Suspects: rare disease in everyday medicine

Jo McPherson conference, daretothinkrare, event, M4RD Events, Video collaboration, dare to think rare, emotive, M4RD, medical education, rare disease, royal society of medicine, the unusual suspects

emotive Reviews ‘The Unusual Suspects’ M4RD has continued to work closely with emotive – an independent, award winning global healthcare communications agency. Emotive were greatly involved in helping us bring […]

14th May 2021

Mystery Disease Monday is back #MDM

Jo McPherson daretothinkrare, Mystery Disease Monday, raredisease daretothinkrare, MDM, medical education, Mystery Disease Monday, patient advocacy, raising awarness, rare disease

You spoke and we listened!! We are pleased to announce that Mystery Disease Monday will be back from Monday 17th May and to mark the start of National Eosinophilic Awareness […]

11th May 2021

Rare Disease 101 fills the gap in medical education

Jo McPherson Ambassador, daretothinkrare, doctor, medicalstudent, Rare Disease 101 daretothinkrare, doctors in training, interactive tool, medical education, online education, Rare Disease 101, rare disease basics, RD101, tom dunne

Written by Dr Thomas Dunne, Trust Grade SHO in Paediatrics & M4RD Clinical Ambassador When reflecting on your experiences of undergraduate medical education on rare diseases, what comes to mind? […]

29th February 2020

Rare Disease Day 2020

Jo McPherson raredisease, Uncategorised awareness, diagnosis, doctor, doctors in training, foundation doctors, medical education, medical school, medical student, rare disease, rare disease day

On this rare day take time to listen to a patient story and decide what you will do to make a difference to 300 million people living worldwide with a […]

25th June 2019

Medics4RareDiseases becomes a UK Registered Charity

Lucy McKay Uncategorised Charity, Charity Commission, Diagnostic odyssey, funding, fundraising, health, healthcare, medical education, medical school, rare disease, sickness, sponsorship

Medics4RareDiseases registered as a UK charity who’s object is the relief of sickness and preservation of health of those suffering from rare diseases.

6th June 2019

RAREsummit19

Jo McPherson Cambridge, medical education, patient, rare disease 0

RAREsummit19 is a 1 day summit focusing on patient centricity in rare disease – mastery, opportunities and trends in the drug development process, healthcare and assistive technologies.

1st November 2018

Are you Aware of Acromegaly?

Lucy McKay Endocrinology, Research acromegaly, Dan Jeffries, endocrine, medical education, medical school, medicine, rare disease

Today is Acromegaly Awareness Day 2018 so take this opportunity to brush up on signs, symptoms and management of this rare disease with a video from Dan Jeffries