Bridging the gap: supporting international doctors in UK care with BMJ Best Practice
When Dr Anish John Kuriakose moved to the UK to practise medicine, he faced a challenge common to many international clinicians—navigating a new healthcare system with different guidelines and expectations. For him, BMJ Best Practice became a crucial bridge.
BMJ Best Practice helped me transition to UK care-based guidelines quite quickly. I would have struggled using any other resource,” Dr Kuriakose says.
Now a BMJ Best Practice clinical champion, Dr Kuriakose uses his own experience to advocate for the power of evidence-based decision support tools. His commitment stems from what he sees every day on the front line: when doctors have instant access to reliable, current clinical guidance, patient care improves.
One powerful example came during a medical on-call shift when he encountered a patient in thyroid storm—a rare and potentially life-threatening emergency well outside his gastroenterology specialty.
The clinical decision support tool’s clear, structured algorithms gave him the clarity and speed needed to act decisively and safely. He’s had this experience time and again, and it’s changed the way he works.
BMJ Best Practice has significantly improved the quality of care I provide. It reduces the time I spend looking for reliable information and increases my confidence in clinical decisions. That translates into better outcomes—and more patients I can help during my shift.”
Dr Anish John Kuriakose
Registrar (Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine) and RCP Chief Registrar, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Could you be our next BMJ Best Practice clinical champion?
Are you an NHS health professional interested in how digital health tools can support patient care and decision-making at the bedside?
Are you looking to demonstrate your leadership skills and capabilities?
We have created the BMJ clinical champion programme for aspiring NHS healthcare professionals passionate about bringing actionable knowledge to their peers at a local, regional, and/or national level.
BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool selected by NHS England and NICE. It is freely available to all healthcare professionals in NHS England and provides continuously updated, reliable information on diagnosing, treating, and managing medical conditions.
Who can take part?
You must be a doctor, nurse, midwife, GP, pharmacist, paramedic, medical student (on clinical rotation), and AHPs and in good standing with your medical profession. This programme is exclusively for NHS staff in England.
As part of being a BMJ Best Practice clinical champion, you will receive:
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A BMJ certificate after 6 months, which could be used to demonstrate leadership/CPD
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Six-months free access to BMJ Learning and 4 months free access to an examination of your choice from BMJ On Examination
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An exclusive invite to insightful webinars on how to get published, tips for running quality improvement projects, digital health, and more
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Support carrying out a quality improvement project involving BMJ Best Practice
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The opportunity to collaborate and raise your profile with your library and digital health teams
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Invites to be included in user testing and BMJ product development
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An opportunity to be one of the few selected champions to present at international events with BMJ Group (expenses paid)
