Keeping your finances healthy for 2013 and beyond

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Experiencing the pitter patter of tiny feet is a life changing, challenging and wonderful experience but how do you manage it if you are...