Author: Stuart Maitland, MB, BS, MSc

Stuart Maitland, MB, BS, MSc Stuart Maitland, MB, BS, MSc (1 Posts)

Physician Guest Writer

Newcastle University


Academic Foundation Doctor in Newcastle, UK. Research into self-learning networks, and networks of self-learners. Founder of Mediwikis, a medical revision community.




Entrepreneurship in Medical School, by Stuart Maitland, MBBS, MSc

How do you define an entrepreneur? You might have visions of bleary-eyed university students hunched over laptops in the dark, coding the next Facebook or of businesspeople starting a new chain of restaurants. As an entrepreneur, the only definition I’ve been able to relate to comes from Eric Ries, writer of Lean Startup: “someone who creates a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

Stuart Maitland, MB, BS, MSc Stuart Maitland, MB, BS, MSc (1 Posts)

Physician Guest Writer

Newcastle University


Academic Foundation Doctor in Newcastle, UK. Research into self-learning networks, and networks of self-learners. Founder of Mediwikis, a medical revision community.