Remedy UK, the organisation behind the MTAS protest marches in London and Glasgow, is to launch a legal challenge to the single interview process planned for junior doctors in England. […]
Month: March 2007
Scotland and Wales go it alone
In the latest move over medical training applications, England remains isolated in its decision to offer applicants just one interview for a post. Wales and Scotland have decided they will each […]
MMC head resigns
The national director of Modernising Medical Careers, Professor Alan Crockard, has resigned over the MTAS debacle. He sent a letter last night to the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, saying […]
Attend your interviews, applicants told
Applicants under MTAS who have already been offered interviews in round one have been asked to carry on and attend these — even if they have more than one interview […]
JAMA 21 Mar 2007
Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) could be a description of what we spend half our time doing in primary care, but it is also the name of a […]
NEJM 22 Mar 2007
In England they used to be known as firemen, even when this invited confusion with the stokers of steam locomotives, but now they are usually called by the more heroic […]
BMJ 24 Mar 2007
Warning: this meta-analysis is only for single LADs. […]
Lancet 24 Mar 2007
In this proof-of-concept study, cervical vertebral discs were removed from cadavers and transplanted into matched patients with degenerative disease of the cervical spine. […]
Ann Intern Med 20 Mar 2007
This Dutch hospital-based study derives a clinical prediction rule called CHIP for the use of computed tomography in patients with minor head injury, […]
Fungus of the Week: Pleurotus eryngii
This is a fungus of climates warmer than the British, and has long been collected in southern Europe, where it is found in association with the sea-hollies or Eryngium species […]