The pressures upon medical academia mean that our medical education and research is under great threat. This is down to the new Health and Social Care Bill, changes to university […]
Month: June 2011
Tiago Villanueva: Critical appraisal of medical schools around the world
Apart from universities as a whole, the recently released QS World University Rankings also include a list of their selection of the top 200 medical and life sciences schools in […]
Andrew Burd on the globalisation of medical education
I have just returned from Shantou in Southern China where I was attending an international conference on medical education. The conference was hosted by Shantou University and was attended by […]
Richard Smith: A thousand year old village in China
My first inkling that this wasn’t going to be a routine village visit was when I noticed that our coach had a police escort. Then when we arrived at the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 June 2011
JAMA 1 June 2011 Vol 305 2184 Diabetes is a state of increased risk for many things, including fractures. The most striking thing I learnt from this study is that […]
Domhnall MacAuley: From the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting (Denver)
The next big thing in physical activity research: sitting doing nothing. Steve Blair (University of South Carolina), a major player in the physical activity research world, suggests that the pattern […]
Martin McShane: Toffee popcorn
I went to see a film with my son. He bought a packet of toffee popcorn. I love toffee popcorn but it has little nutritional value and in excess would […]
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood: Poetry, humanity and the prize
Why do some doctors write poems? I asked this once in a BMJ book review of poetry by doctors. 12 years on, gamekeeper-turned-poacher, it’s still Miroslav Holub’s answer I like […]
Research highlights – 3 June 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Cheryl Rofer: Increased cancer risks from radiation for workers and children in Japan
I’ve finally gotten to where I’ve wanted to be in working through Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation (BEIR) VII: capable of evaluating radiation doses at Fukushima in terms of health […]