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Contents: December 2000

Editorials

Globalising medical education

Value judgments

Universal ethics

Medical software's free future


News

Applications to medical schools are falling

UK helps refugee doctors to practise in NHS

Automated defibrillators save gamblers

Celebrity illnesses raise awareness but can give wrong messag

Suicides rise after Diana's death

Firm tried to block report on failure of AIDS vaccine

Early brain screening may predict schizophrenia

Israel's military condemned over cigarettes handout

Education

Chest x rays made easy

Broadening access to undergraduate medical education

What do I do now?

You should know, you're a medic: Why can't you tickle yourself?

ABC of colorectal cancer: Epidemiology

Career focus: Working in Barbados

Radiology Quiz


Papers

Review: Long term effectiveness of non-drug treatments for sleep problems in young children is more evident

Vitamin E did not reduce myocardial infarction, death, or stroke in adults at high risk for cardiovascular events


Life

Planning your elective - Kennedy Space Center

Recipe for revision

A to Z of medical school

Student soapbox: keeping clean

At a loose end

A guide to medical etiquette: coping with loss

"Fancy going to Mongolia?"


Letters

What about bovine products consent

Integrated assesments and feedback do exist in UK medical schools

Special study modules must be more diverse

Medical school rankings are counterproductive

Meeting the challenge of HIV and AIDS in South Africa

Junior Doctors "Out negotiated"

Doctors have been offered a raw deal

The myth of shared understanding

District general hospitals are a good alternative

Wilderness medicine

Reviews

Book review: Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics: a short introduction

Book review: Medical Ethics and the Future of Healthcare

Book review: Vivisection or science? An investigation into testing drugs and safeguarding health

Book review: Surgical Ethics

Film review: American Psycho

Film review: A clockwork orange

Personal View: One way to reduce the overdraft

Soundings: The "mum test"

Minerva: December 2000