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 wellbeing, this is also a good time to look at...
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 sell yourself, says Charlotte Hudson.
Medical jobs are becoming increasingly competitive...
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 Google forever. Doctors should exercise caution when making entries 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 in a country where one in five children don’t live...
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 saving may not be a priority at the moment, as...
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 the headlines almost 40 years ago when the death of...
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 has led to fears that the UK’s relatively low prevalence...
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 baby, which could then be modified. Such risks included exposure...
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 the one hand, now that we were both in our...
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 2012 and March 2013 it is expected that responsible officers...
