Metabolic medicine is a subspecialty that can be defined as a group of overlapping areas of clinical practice with common dependence on detailed understanding of basic biochemistry and metabolism, which fall within the expertise of both the physician and biochemist.
Dr Kirsten Donnelly, ST4 trainee in palliative medicine at The Christies NHS Foundation Trust, shares her experience of training and working in palliative medicine, and what influenced her in choosing the specialty.
