Dr Alice Rutter is an ST5 Resident Doctor working in Occupational Medicine, based in NHS Lanarkshire. She is currently on maternity leave after welcoming her son, Miles, on New Year’s Day 2025, following a hectic 2024 getting through the MFOM Part 2.
Alice moved to Edinburgh in 2014 after leaving medical school, and has since worked professionally in both Scotland and Minnesota, USA. Alongside her medical career Alice completed a Masters’ in Public Health and, more recently, completed a two-year Masters’ in Public Policy as part of the UK-US Fulbright Programme. This focused on Global Health Security and Human Rights.
Through her career, Alice has worked across multiple organisations including as a member of the BMA’s Board of Science, co-authoring the GMC’s Good Conversations, Fairer Feedback (2020) report, and working with the CMO Scotland’s Team as part of the pandemic response. She is skilled in working across complex systems with diverse stakeholders, and supporting the co-design, implementation and evaluation of policy as a tool to support positive, effective, change.
In 2024, Alice completed a review – commissioned by the FOM – into strengthening the recruitment and retention of Occupational Medicine Trainees in the devolved nations, after flagging rapidly declining trainee numbers.
