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As set out in the 2024 BMA report Principles for artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in healthcare, AI can support medical research and learning for doctors. The ability to use...
The 2026 Annual Representative Meeting highlights something that many doctors are already experiencing in day-to-day practice: artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon—it is here, evolving rapidly, and beginning to...
Preparing for the Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR)? Our refreshed e‑book collection is here to help. We’ve brought together practical revision guides, question-based resources and specialist radiology titles...
To mark the 194th anniversary of the British Medical Association, the Library and Archive team is pleased to share the results of a recent digitisation and cataloguing project. In 2025, the...
LGBTQ+ history is closely tied to the history of healthcare; in the past the BMA has highlighted the importance of that history for doctors today. In February 2026 to mark LGBT+...
To mark mental health awareness week (11-17 May), BMA library and archive have explored mental health in the late 19th and early 20th century. What we have uncovered includes committees, members...
(Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman member of the BMA, in 1873) International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated each year on 8 March, has its roots in early 20th-century labour organising and...
Doody’s Core Titles are widely recognised as the benchmark in authoritative medical literature, meticulously curated to ensure practitioners and students alike have access to the very best in clinical knowledge. The...
