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09/08/2026

You don’t need a leadership title to lead.

I think we sometimes overcomplicate leadership in medicine.

We wait to become the GP partner.
The clinical lead.
The programme director.
The person with the title that apparently gives us permission to make things better.

But some of the best examples of leadership I’ve seen are much simpler:

See a problem. Take ownership. Make something better. Document what changed.

The GP in this reel didn’t have a fancy title.

He was a locum.

But he spotted something he could improve, took responsibility for it and increased his value to the practice in the process.

That’s the bit I want more clinicians to recognise.

You don’t always need another qualification, promotion or permission.

Sometimes you just need to pick something and improve it.

And those small acts of ownership can open doors you didn’t even know were there.

Leadership is a behaviour before it is a title.

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08/08/2026

A medical career was never meant to be one straight line.

But that’s often how we’re taught to think about it:

More exams.
More qualifications.
More letters after your name.
Keep climbing.

There’s nothing wrong with progression.

But there is a problem if that becomes the only shape of career you can imagine.

Over the last few years, I’ve seen doctors build careers across education, leadership, innovation, enterprise, specialist environments, media and public impact — often while keeping clinical medicine at the centre.

They haven’t necessarily climbed higher.

They’ve built wider.

And sometimes that shift changes everything.

If there’s one idea I’d want more doctors to internalise, it’s this:

There are more options than you realise.

Your career doesn’t just have to be a ladder.

It can become an ecosystem.

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05/08/2026

A letter to every new doctor.

03/08/2026

Medicine gives you far more than clinical knowledge.

It develops leadership. Communication. Decision-making under pressure. Systems thinking. Teaching. Resilience. Trust.

The mistake many of us make is believing those skills only belong inside a hospital or GP practice.

I don’t see my clinical role as a boundary.

I see it as the anchor.

Everything else I’ve been able to build - education, specialist environments, entrepreneurship, innovation and mentoring has grown from that foundation, not in spite of it.

Some of the most impactful clinicians I know haven’t stepped away from medicine.

They’ve simply allowed their clinical experience to open doors into places they never thought possible.

Your medical degree isn’t just a qualification.

It’s a platform.

The question is: what are you going to build from it?

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02/08/2026

Season 2 | Scrubs to Success

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Medicinal cannabis has been legal in the UK for years.

Yet most medical students and doctors were barely taught anything about it.

In the new episode of Scrubs to Success, breaks down what medicinal cannabis actually is, how it differs from street cannabis, who may be considered for treatment, and why stigma and poor access still remain.

We also explore the side most clinicians rarely hear about:

- how doctors can enter the field
- what a fully remote medical cannabis career looks like - why more trained clinicians are needed - whether this could become a credible portfolio pathway - the legal, driving and professional questions doctors need to understand

This is one of those areas of medicine that is growing faster than the curriculum.

Featuring Dr Sameen Jalil Hosted by .surya Supported by the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society

25/06/2026

Most students think work experience is about collecting as many placements as possible.

It isn’t.

UCAS wants to see what you learned, how you reflected and whether the experience genuinely helped you understand medicine.

That’s exactly why we created the Medic Launch work experience series:

🩺 Doctor for a Day 1.0
🩺 Doctor for a Day 2.0
🧵 Surgeon for a Day

Each experience is designed to help you explore real clinical scenarios, understand the realities of medicine and build meaningful reflections you can use in your application and interviews.

Don’t just say you want to study medicine.

Show that you understand what the career actually involves.

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07/06/2026

Behind every diagnosis is a person.

Meet Richard.

A long-time friend of the team. A motorsport marshal. A man with stories, humour, perspective, and a life lived with remarkable detail.

Richard is living with pancreatic cancer.

He has been told he may only have around two months left to live.

When we spoke to him, we didn’t just ask about the illness. We asked about the person behind it.

He spoke about the journey he has been through. The moments that stayed with him. The conversations that helped. The ones that didn’t. The small details that made the experience feel more human.

And when we asked what advice he would give to medical students and doctors, we captured what he had to say (swipe through to watch).

At Medic Launch, we are building more than a study platform.

We want to help medical students and doctors become safer, kinder, more thoughtful clinicians.

That means learning from guidelines and textbooks.

But it also means learning from patients.

From their stories.

01/06/2026

Ran 10K for Alzheimer’s Society, so I thought I’d share 5 things every medical student should know about Alzheimer’s disease.

It’s one of those conditions we learn about in textbooks, but in real life it affects so much more than memory. It affects independence, identity, families, carers, safety, planning, and dignity.

As future doctors, it’s not enough to simply recognise the diagnosis. We need to understand the person behind it, the family around them, and the support they’ll need as things change over time.

The run was for the people living with dementia, the families supporting them, the carers doing the unseen work, and the research that still needs to happen.

Let’s keep learning. And let’s keep showing up.

31/05/2026

Today I ran the Manchester 10K with the .club in support of and in honour of the patients and families I’ve had the privilege of caring for over the years - alhamdulillah.

As doctors, we often meet people at some of the most vulnerable points in their lives. Alzheimer’s is one of those conditions that doesn’t just affect memory. It affects identity, independence, relationships, and the whole family around the person.

Small acts of effort, done together, can remind us of something important:

Medicine is not just about knowledge.
It is about service.
It is about people.
It is about showing up even when the cause is bigger than us.

Grateful to run alongside brothers, friends, and a community trying to do something meaningful.

And grateful for every patient who has taught me that behind every diagnosis is a person, a story, and a family carrying far more than we often see.

23/05/2026

10 years since I left medical school.

I didn't know any of this was coming - the travel, the pandemic, founding Medic Launch, the portfolio career, the app now serving medical students and IMGs globally alhamdulillah.

What I knew was that medicine had to mean something beyond exams.

The last decade has been about figuring out what.

Still practicing, still building. With His Permission.

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