The challenges of widening access to the medical profession: how to facilitate medical careers for those at a genuine disadvantage [Version 2]
Widening Participation (WP) for medical school entry has been politically encouraged to ensure access and participation for underrepresented groups that are rarely able to gain access to this high demand profession.Those who reside in the 20% most deprived postcodes in Scotland (SIMD20, Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation) are much less likely t