Educational Performance Measure, or EPM, is one of the ways applicants for the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO) are ranked on a combination of clinical and non-clinical skills, comprising the knowledge and performance of the the medical student.
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10 million: the number of new cases of active tuberculosis (TB) in 2017. TB is one of the top ten leading causes of death from a singular infectious agent worldwide. With 1,600,000 TB-related deaths in 2017, it ranks above HIV/AIDS. South-East Asia, Africa and the Western Pacific are the most severely affected, but there is an annual incidence of over 1,326,000 cases throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, the Americas and Europe. These statistics clearly illustrate the need for effective – and immediate – global intervention.