Phil Smith
@PhilSmithIsBack
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Views entirely my own and do not represent anyone else. RT does not mean agree. Apologies for typos.
Joined March 2024
Really important for any patient presenting with GI symptoms do take a sexual history @FronGastro_BMJ for those in primary & secondary care
🔈 Thanks Prof Richardson and team for this article on everything a gastroenterologist/ hepatologist needs to know about STIs 🦠 🧫 🔑 Take-home messages: 1️⃣ Sexual history is crucial for patients with hepatitis, enteritis, proctocolitis and anal-rectal symptoms ⚠️ 2️⃣ If you
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For more on mentoring and academia, see my article in @FrontGastro_BMJ published yesterday: Reflecting on a career as a clinical academic in gastroenterology | Frontline Gastroenterology
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THE most rewarding thing in academia is furnishing your mentees with opportunities and seeing them eclipse your own achievements. @DrCJBlack not only a @my_ueg rising star in 2026, like me, but also won @BritSocGastro Francis Avery Jones award in 2024, which I never did...!
Well done @DrCJBlack and Nuru Noor @Y_ECCO_IBD - both great people and, in my eyes, stars already. Very proud that both are excellent @FrontGastro_BMJ Associate Editors too! @BritSocGastro @Gut_BMJ #UEGRisingStars
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Well done @DrCJBlack and Nuru Noor @Y_ECCO_IBD - both great people and, in my eyes, stars already. Very proud that both are excellent @FrontGastro_BMJ Associate Editors too! @BritSocGastro @Gut_BMJ #UEGRisingStars
We're excited to announce our UEG Rising Star Awardees 2026! ⭐ The award recognises the most promising emerging GI scientists and provides a platform to further their careers, including a special Rising Star presentation at #UEGWeek 2026. 👏 ➡️ https://t.co/AMkSIuy0BN
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We're excited to announce our UEG Rising Star Awardees 2026! ⭐ The award recognises the most promising emerging GI scientists and provides a platform to further their careers, including a special Rising Star presentation at #UEGWeek 2026. 👏 ➡️ https://t.co/AMkSIuy0BN
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This is one of the best articles I’ve read all year. Certainly the most enjoyable! A must read for anyone considering a career in academia! @FrontGastro_BMJ
Delighted to have been asked to write this article by @PhilSmithIsBack for @FrontGastro_BMJ Hopefully useful for residents and some familiar themes for career academics. Reflecting on a career as a clinical academic in gastroenterology
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@alex_ford12399 @PhilSmithIsBack @FrontGastro_BMJ Also congratulations on your career to date. I personally love the way you did it your way. I resonate with that. You didn’t ever seem on to worry what others thought of you and did what was right for you and family. Huge respects Alex. You inspire many of us.
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@PhilSmithIsBack @alex_ford12399 @BritSocGastro @BSGTrainees One of our finest and globally recognised for his work on DGBIs and SRs-MAs. I too wish I had such advice 27 years ago when I started my career in 🇬🇧
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Exactly what @nolanjimradial says! He and his colleagues are spot on and UK gastroenterologists are in this same position (as it the whole of UK medicine)
Thank you for this important commentary on our study The practice of medicine in the UK is facing an existential crisis Deregulation and replacement of doctors is being driven by politicians and compliant professionals Patients and resident doctors will pay a high price
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Thank you for this important commentary on our study The practice of medicine in the UK is facing an existential crisis Deregulation and replacement of doctors is being driven by politicians and compliant professionals Patients and resident doctors will pay a high price
Our editorial with @MoledinaSM published today on @OllyBrown and @nolanjimradial paper around PAs in Cardiology- a UK Survey where PAs are illegally prescribing, undertaking invasive cardiology procedures and working beyond their scope. This places patients at tisk. "A little
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Our editorial with @MoledinaSM published today on @OllyBrown and @nolanjimradial paper around PAs in Cardiology- a UK Survey where PAs are illegally prescribing, undertaking invasive cardiology procedures and working beyond their scope. This places patients at tisk. "A little
Our analysis of the impact of physician assistants on cardiology training in the UK
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Thanks so much to Prof @alex_ford12399 - as everyone knows, he's a massive name in academic GI medicine. This is an excellent paper that provides so many pieces of advice, guidance, do's and don'ts! I wish I had had this advice! A MUST READ for @BritSocGastro @BSGTrainees & all!
Delighted to have been asked to write this article by @PhilSmithIsBack for @FrontGastro_BMJ Hopefully useful for residents and some familiar themes for career academics. Reflecting on a career as a clinical academic in gastroenterology
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Delighted to have been asked to write this article by @PhilSmithIsBack for @FrontGastro_BMJ Hopefully useful for residents and some familiar themes for career academics. Reflecting on a career as a clinical academic in gastroenterology
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At the end of 2026, I will have been a clinical academic in gastroenterology for 25 years. I have enjoyed my time, so far, thoroughly, but it has been hard work, and I have had to make some sacrifi...
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🎄 ❄️ #FGGlobal Christmas Webinar🎄 ❄️ LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY🎈 🙌 🎉 It's never too late to register ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ https://t.co/sH44KNqPI0
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Another fantastic endoscopy video here at Frontline Gastroenterology by the President of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Endoscopy Committee. In the UK, cancer arising from Barrett's is one of the most frequently missed in the PEUGIC data. Assessment is critical
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Correction & apology : Yesterday the chair of @TheBMA @thomasdolphin was on @BBCr4today to defend the decision to call another round of resident doctor strikes. He was asked to respond to the criticism of the timing of the strike in the run up to Christmas after @NHSProvider
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“It’s arrogant for doctors to say there are many aspects of their job no one else can do” No, it’s arrogant for those with lesser training to think they can do the job of doctors- based on their personal hubris & ego. It is awareness of doctors that stops them from being
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New UK audit challenges the 'ERCP-first' approach for malignant distal biliary obstruction (MDBO). ERCP fails in 1 in 3 patients with malignant biliary obstruction. Many then need a second intervention. EUS-CDS is proving faster, safer, and more effective. The data suggest: 🔹
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