The school opened in 2021 after several delays and concerns over sustainable funding.<\/p>\n
It was hoped the school’s opening in the city would eventually help to address a relative shortage of doctors in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Bazira said recruiting local people into medical careers was one of his main objectives in the role and a big attraction for him taking the job.<\/p>\n
“Derry is very like Yorkshire. It was an area of health inequality, under-served by doctors and there was an opportunity to build capacity and I saw that happen in my time there.<\/p>\n
“I also saw at Hull York medical school that you tend to get students not necessarily from the local area.<\/p>\n
“My passion would be to encourage people from the north west towards careers in medicine and healthcare.<\/p>\n
“That’s where you get the longevity.”<\/p>\n
Bazira said he wanted people know that medicine can be for everyone.<\/p>\n
“There is a misconception out there that to become a doctor you have to be especially academic or high-flying.<\/p>\n
“I believe anyone can be a doctor.”<\/p>\n
He said that a lot of what student doctors need to learn, they can teach.<\/p>\n
“It is the softer side of medicine that is crucial,~” he said.<\/p>\n
“Empathy, bedside manner and communication skills – a lot of people have those.<\/p>\n
“Having been a patient myself, those are the skills that endeared me towards my doctors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school opened in 2021 after several delays and concerns over sustainable funding. It was hoped the school’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-366212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}