Editors Choice
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Editorials
Editorials

The ongoing HIV epidemic:
Arthur Amman talks about two distinct but related issues—the stigma that still surrounds HIV and the orphans left behind by the disease [Full text] [PDF]

Careers in medicine no longer attract bright school leavers:
Elaine Griffiths looks at the downturn in applications to medical school, and the particular problem of the shifting gender balance [Full text] [PDF]

News
News

Warning of NHS recruitment disaster as universities consider top up fees [Full text] [PDF]
Lifestyles of medical students in Jerusalem are "shocking" [Full text] [PDF]
End doctors exemption from jury service, white paper recommends [Full text] [PDF]
Beer increases bone strength [Full text] [PDF]
Computerised admission test used in London [Full text] [PDF]
EU clamps down on trade in cheap drugs meant for Africa [Full text] [PDF]
Consultants vote against contract [Full text] [PDF]
BSc in international health starts at Leeds [Full text] [PDF]
The students' perspective [Full text] [PDF]
studentBMJ wins Student Magazine of the Year [Full text] [PDF]

Education
Education

Fighting AIDS today:
Liz Hart explains HIV and AIDS, and looks at the treatment available, and the implications of this epidemic [Full text] [PDF]

Ophthalmology - The painful red eye:
In the third part of the series, Sophia Pathai and Andrew McNaught explain how to evaluate the painful red eye [Full text] [PDF]

Acute confusional state [Full text] [PDF]

The evidence based clinician: part 4 - applying evidence to your patient:
Christopher Ball looks at how to apply the evidence to your patient, focusing on diagnosing conditions [Full text] [PDF]


Careers
Careers

Come to the fair:
Rhona MacDonald highlights some of the topics relevant to medical students at this year's BMJ Careers fair [Full text] [PDF]

Cognitive intelligence:
In the first article in our series about intelligence and medicine, Brian McMullen explores how doctors and medical students think and if this can affect their careers [Full text] [PDF]

Profile - Leela Kapila:
Sripurna Basu talks to this inspirational recently retired paediatric surgeon [Full text] [PDF]

Papers
Papers

Protection from HIV on electives: questionnaire survey of UK medical schools [Full text] [PDF]
Student commentary: fear of AIDS affected my elective [Full text] [PDF]
Student commentary: planning, planning, planning [Full text] [PDF]
A funny coincidence [Full text] [PDF]

Life
Life

The flying doctor:
Mark Lister spent his elective with a flying medical team in Tanzania and tells us what it was like [Full text] [PDF]

Planning your elective - Tanzania:
Mark Wilson gives you some tips on arranging an elective in Tanzania [Full text] [PDF]

Opening doors of hope to children with AIDS:
It's not only people with HIV that are affected by the AIDS epidemic. Kate Taylor tells us about the work of the Door of Hope in South Africa which helps give children who've lost their parents a chance [Full text] [PDF]

AIDS in Singapore:
Richard Bellamy reflects on the 16 months he spent in Singapore working as a registrar in infectious diseases and HIV medicine [Full text] [PDF]

Alternatives for AIDS in Nigeria:
Chibuzo Odigwe gives his perspective on alternative options for management and "cure" open to people with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria [Full text] [PDF]

Live and let live:
Bryony Whipp looks at HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom and challenges the stigma that surrounds the disease [Full text] [PDF]

Live and let live:
Mirza Muminovic looks at the staggering rise in the number of children orphaned in the wake of the AIDS epidemic in Africa [Full text] [PDF]

The Commonwealth Games:
Alex Ward spent a month volunteering as a medical assistant at Manchester's Commonwealth Games this year. He tells us what he got up to [Full text] [PDF]

When medical students go off the rails:
Peter Rubin says student support is essential but so is protecting the public [Full text] [PDF]
A selection of rapid responses to this article after it was published in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]


Letters
Letters

The clinical teaching lottery [Full text] [PDF]
Patient contact in preclinical years makes good doctors [Full text] [PDF]
Undergraduates are equally capable as graduates [Full text] [PDF]
Concerted effort is needed to overcomechild labour [Full text] [PDF]
Doctors should be more positive about applying for medicine [Full text] [PDF]
Consultants' rejection of a new contract is disturbing [Full text] [PDF]
Intercalating in a moment of madness [Full text] [PDF]
Graduate medical course is a success in Australia [Full text] [PDF]


Reviews
Reviews

NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America [Full text] [PDF]
War, Art & Medicine [Full text] [PDF]
Link between MS and sex puts neurologist in the hot seat [Full text] [PDF]
Book review: The House of God [Full text] [PDF]
Book review: Tell no one [Full text] [PDF]
Personal review: Unfinished Business: what do you know about it? [Full text] [PDF]
Personal review: Prescribing hope [Full text] [PDF]
Soundings: Operation myopia [Full text] [PDF]
Minerva: December 2002 [Full text] [PDF]