Keeping your finances healthy for 2013 and beyond
After the excesses of Christmas, millions of people resolve to live a more healthy lifestyle in the New Year. As well as your physical...
Write your way to the top
Filling in applications for training posts requires careful consideration. You will face fierce competition from other trainees, so make a difference, stand out and...
Digital docs – the pitfalls of using social networking sites
The saying goes "what happens on tour stays on tour", but when posting online bear in mind that what happens on Twitter stays on...
Making The Best Of It In Sierra Leone
FY2 Dr Mikey Bryant is in Sierra Leone with healthcare charity Mercy Ships. He has been volunteering in a children’s clinic for a year...
Kick Start Your Savings Habit
As a junior doctor, your finances may not be in the best of health with loans, overdrafts and credit cards to pay back. While...
Don’t Miss The Signs
All doctors have a responsibility to protect children and young people from abuse or neglect. Charlotte Hudson explores guidance surrounding child protection.
Child abuse hit...
Wanna Bet? Gambling With Addiction
A quarter of a million new gamblers are expected as the UK gambling laws relax to allow more casinos and the first supercasinos. It...
A Personal View
Angela Jenkins, ST6 Anaesthetics, Glasgow
Thirdly, it allowed a risk assessment to be undertaken which could identify any potential workplace risks to me or the...
Coping With Pregnancy As A Junior Doctor
For my husband and I, making that all-important decision of when we should start our family was something of a balanc- ing act. On...
Revalidation To Start In December Gmc Confirms
The GMC has confirmed that it will recommend to the Secretary of State that revalidation for doctors should begin in December this year.
Between December...
News In Brief
NO SEX PLEASE WE’RE MEDICAL STUDENTS
Medical students have fewer sexual partners at university than most other students, according to a poll by website studentbeans.com....
Trainee Surgeons Safe In Theatres
Surgical procedures in theatre involving junior doctors in training are as safe as operations performed in which trainees have no operative role, according to...
Extension Of GP Training Gains Support Of MEE
Medical Education England, the body responsible for medical education, training and workforce planning in England, has given its support to a proposal to extend...
GP Incomes Down By £6K In Last Five Years
The average salary for a UK contract holding GP fell last year to £104,100 bringing the total decrease since its peak in 2005/06 to...
Acute Hospital Care On The Brink Of Collapse, Warns RCP
The demand on clinical services is increasing to the point where acute care cannot keep pace in its current form, says the RCP in...
Doctors Not Taught Benefits Of Exercise
Doctors have ‘sparse or non-existent’ knowledge to enable them to promote physical activity to patients, says a report published in the British Journal of...
Complaints Against Doctors Reach Record High
More patients complained about their treatment by UK doctors last year than ever before, according to the latest numbers from the GMC.
The number of...
Bridge of Death – Suicides at the Golden Gate
San Franciso's Golden Gate Bridge is not only known as the most photographed structure in the USA but also for it's more intriguing title...
Kick start your savings habit
As a junior doctor, your finances may not be in the best of health with loans, overdrafts and credit cards to pay back. While...
Having a baby as a junior doctor
Experiencing the pitter patter of tiny feet is a life changing, challenging and wonderful experience but how do you manage it if you are...