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Jane Dacre

Jane Dacre

Professor and former president of the Royal College of Physicians

Sep 21, 2026

0:56
Why did you agree to take it on? Because there's something that must resonate with you, why you think this is important.
1:02
Yeah, well, I've been involved in education and training at school.
1:08
some level throughout the whole of my career actually since I started working on clinical skills when I was a registrar and it just baffled me why people weren't trained to do the things they needed to do as doctors and I thought we've got to sort this out and I've actually spent most of my career either in undergraduate or postgraduate medicine doing that alongside my day job as a physician and rheumatologist and I actually had just had become emeritus, retired from UCL, was picking up a portfolio of things to do to keep me from getting bored and senile.
1:50
And and I was sort of tapped up by Chris Whitty, who said, if this happened, this was when phase one of the medical education and training was going on.
2:03
If we needed someone to lead the implementation, would I be prepared to be put forward as part of a group? And actually, I didn't hesitate.
2:14
And the reason is, for goodness sake, it needs fixing.
2:17
And it needs fixing by doctors for doctors.

5 MINS LATER

7:35
I wonder if it's worth just summarizing, really, what did we learn from, how was phase one conducted and what did we learn?

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