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Editors Choice
Happy Birthday
studentBMJ
Anna Ellis and Richard Smith reflect on the beginnings of the studentBMJ and look ahead to the
next ten years
Being an adviser to the
studentBMJ
Rhona MacDonald explains why the studentBMJ needs you and how you can get involved in
shaping it
Patients views of the good doctor
Angela Coulter explains why doctors have to earn patients trust
Selling a kidney fails to rescue Indians from poverty
WHO highlights impact of violence on health
Genomes of the malaria mosquito and parasite are sequenced
Bits & pieces
Television company wants terminally ill patient to plastinate
Contact lenses increase pulling power
Graduate students are more challenging, demanding, and questioning
Good communication skills can mask deficiencies
Students' heads are so full of lists they have forgotten how to listen
Students need to resist personality conformity
Mastering EMQs
Most of us will take an exam at some point that involves EMQs. Ian Bickle takes us through this new
style of exam and gives advice on how best to tackle them
How to write a good essay and win prizes
Sabina Dosani explains how and why medical students should write essays
The evidence based clinician: part 3--applying evidence to your patient
In the third part of his series, Christopher Ball looks at how to apply evidence to patients, by focusing
on treatment decisions
Ophthalmology: loss of vision
In the second part of our series, Sophia Pathai and Andrew McNaught explain how to approach a
patient who has a loss of vision
Estimating with samples
In the fifth part of our series on medical statistics, Wai-Ching Leung takes us through sampling
Break a leg: performing arts medicine
Helen Barratt takes a look at this undervalued emerging specialty
Profile: Frances Carter
Helen Barratt talks to Frances Carter, a general practitioner with a special interest in performing arts
medicine
Trust him, he's a doctor
Phil Hammond juggles many career hats--comedian, campaigner, and lecturer--as well as doctor.
Finola Lynch talks to the media doctor who argues the NHS might just be saved if more medical
students were to follow his lead
Profile: Heather Clark
Remember hearing about the doctor who saved a patient's life by performing a thoracotomy on a
pub floor? Clare Hughes finds out that there is much more to this former professional ballroom
dancer than a one off act of heroism
Doctors' perceptions of drinking alcohol while on call: questionnaire survey
Commentary: Mona Okasha takes you through this paper and explains what it means
India: sights, sounds, and smells
Amlan Basu spent four weeks at the Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India, discovering
an ethos of medicine that was totally different to anything that he had ever come across before
Planning your elective--India
Mark Wilson gives you some tips on arranging an elective in India
Once in a lifetime
George Dafoulas looks at volunteer culture and explains how medical students can get involved in
the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
Everything I have I take with me
Mirza Muminovic, a third year medical student at the University of Sarajevo, talks to Deborah Cohen
about his life and the civil war in Bosnia in the 1990s
Student editors: what happened next?
Life in 1992
What was life like for medical students when the studentBMJ began in 1992? Mark Scoote,
Rachel Hooke, and Sabina Dosani reminisce
The Clegg Scholarship: an alternative elective
Ruth Little gives the lowdown on her time working at the BMJ in London, far from her native city of
Melbourne, learning about medical journalism
Being a student adviser on the
studentBMJ
Helen Barratt, one of our experienced advisers, gives her personal perspective
Between aspiration and reality
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee gives her opinion on the training of doctors
Healthcare assistants should call themselves nurses
Curricula are "unbalanced" for many reasons
The longest way round is the shortest way home
We should focus on unwanted pregnancies
Book review:
Saints of Humanity: Selections from Sir William Osler's Recommended Bedside Library
Book review:
Life at Extremes: The science of Survival
Play review:
Mum's the word
Personal review:
89 Minutes to Save the NHS
Personal review:
Doctors and patients dance together
Soundings:
Time flies
Minerva:
November 2002
