Review of ophthalmology undergraduate teaching curriculum by Sivanthi Kanagasundaram

Subjects: Get full text

Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy Strangles Research and Do-Gooder Intentions Ablaze by Shauna M. Haley

“…Nature starts the news week by chronicling epidemiological researchers’ wrath over how Britain’s General Medical Council (GMC) has implemented the nation’s 1998 Data Protection Act. …”
Get full text

‘It would not be tolerated in any other profession except medicine’: survey reporting on undergraduates’ exposure to bullying and harassment in their first placement year by Anja Timm

“…Objectives To determine the extent to which undergraduate medical students experience (and/or witness) bullying and harassment during their first year on full-time placements and to compare with new General Medical Council (GMC) evidence on bullying and harassment of doctors in training.Setting A UK university offering medical and nursing undergraduate programmes.Participants 309 medical and nursing undergraduate students with 30–33 weeks’ placement experience (123 medical students and 186 nursing students); overall response rate: 47%.Primary and secondary outcome measures (A) students’ experience of bullying and harassment; (B) witnessing bullying and harassment; (C) actions taken by students; (D) comparison of medical and nursing students’ data.Results Within 8 months of starting clinical placements, a fifth of medical and a quarter of nursing students reported experiencing bullying and harassment. …”
Get full text