Proper preparation and planning…

There is a basic assumption that medical schools prepare medical students to become doctors. One might expect that medical schools prepare medical students to broadly similar standards, and that by extension, their students would be broadly prepared for practice when they emerge blinking onto the wards each August. In a fascinating paper, Goldacre, Lambert and […]

Read More…

Burnout – its not just the hours.

  Burnout is a condition which is all too common amongst junior doctors. The accepted research definition is: ’emotional exhaustion and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment associated with prolonged occupations stress.’ This is probably a familiar state of mind to many junior doctors out there, and many senior doctors – either from their current […]

Read More…

Welcome

Hi there, my name is Toby Hillman, welcome to the PMJ blog. I’m a Respiratory Physician with a range of interests, and have blogged a bit in the past on a range of issues which interest me, and which I have encountered during my working life as a respiratory trainee in London. Recently I was […]

Read More…