May 2008

Editor's choice

Newsbites
Aboriginal health, euthanasia, and shortage of UK doctors

Can I stay or should I go?
Medical students who study abroad might not get a job

Problem based learning
Forget the process: what about the outcomes?

Head to head
Should UK medical students sit a national qualifying exam?

The specials
Studying medicine with dyslexia

Becoming a doctor in Baghdad
Studying medicine in war torn Iraq

Genetically modified foods
The long term risks are unknown

The unwelcome sex
Female feticide in India

Wallet or web?
Patients' access to their medical records

HIV and your elective
Remember the risk but value the experience

Cabin fever
Is there a doctor on board?

Tricky exam questions
What to do if someone tells you the answers

Finding the time
Work smarter not harder

A transplant director
Chris Rudge talks about paired kidney transplant

Abdominal stomas
Understanding this common procedure

Tissue engineering
Science fiction becoming science fact

Managing nosebleeds
How to deal with epistaxis in the acute setting

Penicillin and meningococcal disease
A case-control study in children discussed

The month in research
Antibiotics for sinusitis, fragile X syndrome, and keeping off weight