A recent post on WAME forum about authorship criteria shows that it is still a challenge, even though standard guidelines were released a few years ago by the International Committee of Medical […]
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Domhnall MacAuley: Public health summer school
Does your research really matter? Most VIP introductions are bland and unchallenging. Not this time. When (Professor Sir) Peter Gregson, vice chancellor at Queen’s University Belfast, introduced the joint summer […]
Domhnall MacAuley: 11th Brazilian congress of family and community medicine
Quaternary prevention – ever heard of it? We know about primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, but this is different. It means protecting healthy patients from unnecessary investigations, tests, or treatments. […]
Oliver Ellis: Health records in the cloud
On my first ever hospital placement the thing that most struck me was just how antiquated the records system was. Junior staff were writing with pen and paper; the grander […]
Kirsten Patrick on the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP)
On 29 June 2011 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) collected a group of journal editors to introduce to us to, and get our views on, their fairly recently launched European […]
Tessa Richards: Prioritising patient’s views reaps rich rewards
What will it take to persuade monolithic health systems to put patient’s priorities at the heart of what they do? As researchers, health professionals, and patients debated this question at […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Awardholders responsibility
Daffodils, ribbons, sponsored runs, and elegant balls. Peer pressure appeals to a higher nature and a little tugging at the heartstrings. But, its not all innocent fun, youth, and glamour. […]
Richard Hurley: The two cultures collide – medicine meets the arts in Dublin
Last week I met artists, musicians, poets, doctors, academics, therapists, nurses, and others with an interest in how the arts can help doctors hone their practice and improve patients’ experiences […]
David Payne: Nostalgia for closed hospitals
We have too many metropolitan acute hospitals and failing ones should be closed, said UK nursing leader Peter Carter in a front page story in Friday’s Times newspaper. He is […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant
Not anterior cruciate ligaments, metatarsals, or dodgy ankles – the sports medicine story of the week is Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant. Brave guy. Can you imagine the potential for abuse. Not […]