Professor Andrew Goddard is President of the Royal College of Physicians and a consultant gastroenterologist in Derby. His main clinical and research interests are bowel cancer screening, H. Pylori, iron deficiency anaemia and inflammatory bowel disease. He has extensive experience in the RCP, having been director of the RCP Medical Workforce Unit, Registrar then becoming the youngest President to be elected for 400 years and first from the East Midlands. He created a document "keeping medicine brilliant". In this episode we ask him about:

• His career
• Medicine
• Priorities as President
• Leadership
• Advice for medical students and doctors

Keeping medicine brilliant: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/guidelines-policy/keeping-medicine-brilliant

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