Student BMJ August 1995


CONTENTS

Soundings: Pyelonephritis Student fundholding An ethical debate - Female genital
mutilation

Editorials

  • 264 NHS-wide networking and patient confidentiality
  • 265 New directions in information for patients
  • 266 Hepatitis C and haemophilia
  • 267 Vitamin C and vascular disease

    • News and Student Politics

    268 BMA annual conference * Review of continuing medical education * Curriculum change * More British doctors * Labour's health reforms * Amnesty reports on doctors' struggles

    Education

  • 271 Infectious causes of rashes
  • 274 Picture Quiz
  • 275 Essentials of oncology: cytotoxic and other systemic treatments
  • 278 ABC of Asthma: Chronic asthma - general management
  • 280 Population screening for genetic susceptibility to disease
  • 283 Ethical Debate: Doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients
  • 287 Female genital mutilation in Britain
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    Papers

  • 290 "Abnormal" illness behaviour in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis
  • 293 Macular degeneration and early menopause: a case-control study
  • 294 Hospital investigation of men and women treated for angina
  • 295 Pregnant teenagers' knowledge and use of emergency contraception
  • 296 Mechanisms behind hypocholesterolaemia in hairy cell leukaemia
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    Student Life

  • 297 Student fundholding
  • 298 Studying medicine in Leiden, the Netherlands
  • 299 My career: general medicine, diabetes, and endocrinology

    • Letters

    301 Failing Asian students * Aiming for wealth * House officers * Continuous assessment * Genetic testing * Better use of nurses * Careers advice * Cheating

    Soundings

  • 303 Learning the hard way
  • 303 Pyelonephritis

    • Medicine and Books

  • 304 Hello, Pravda the Media
  • 304 New Pathways to Medical Education

    • Personal View

  • 305 Cerebral palsy: our moment of truth

    • Minerva 306