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Having a baby as a junior doctor

Extreme Medicine – The Antarctic Doctor

Welcome to my A&E Department. Local population: 10 to 100 (dependent on the season). Staff: 1. Nearest referral hospital: 2800 miles (but no referral,...

Juniors don’t have time to deliver quality care

More than one in four junior doctors feel they do not have the time to deliver the high quality care patients deserve, according to...

1 in 3 registrars say workload is ‘unmanageable’

More than one in three (37%) medical registrars have described their workload as “unmanageable” in the largest survey of UK hospital doctors published in...

New Zealand

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

What do maxillofacial surgeons actually do? It may sound like a cliché, but think of the face and ask what a maxillofacial surgeon can't do! It...

The interviews

Yes! I’ve made it to my first medical interview!” As I walked through the doors of the medical school, it felt like my dreams...

Hospital doctors least likely to take sick leave of all NHS staff

NHS workers in England took an estimated 9.5 working days off sick last year according to a Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)...

148 new doctors affected by “unacceptable” failures of UKFPO

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...

Beginner’s guide to writing case reports

For most junior doctors their first experience of publication will be writing a case report. BMJ Case Reports Editor-in-Chief, Seema Biswas, offers some advice...

An inconvenient truth

MPS is often contacted by doctors who are surprised that their attitude and behaviour outside the clinical environment has called their fitness to practise...