I skipped lectures and now I'm under investigation

One student’s medical school training hangs in the balance as concerns about his poor attendance trigger a fitness to practise investigation.

Dr Samantha Bell

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Dr Samantha Bell
Medico-legal adviser BSc MBBS MRCP MRCGP LLM

BSc MBBS MRCP MRCGP LLM Dr Samantha Bell studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, where she was awarded degrees in physiology and medicine. After gaining MRCP she then went on to train as a GP, gaining MRCGP (distinction) in 2003. She was awarded an LLM in Health Care Ethics and Law in 2015. Sam worked as a GP principal in Hertfordshire before joining the MDU as a Medico-legal adviser in 2015.

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