The good, the bad and the ugly of mobile phone use in clinical practice
By Chrisovalantis Tsimiklis | Volume 2, Issue 1 2011
Act 1 Scene: at the bedside Enter stage: registrar, intern, medical student, Mrs. Thompson Registrar: “Hi Mrs. Thompson, how are you travelling?” Mrs. Thompson: “Not too well dear, I’ve had a pounding headache since last night.” Registrar: “Really? Well you are recovering from a stroke, but I wonder if we have overlooked something. Maybe we [...]
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Better preparing Australian medical graduates: Learning from the New Zealand model of trainee interns
By Malcolm Forbes & Dani Bersin | Volume 2, Issue 1 2011
The New Zealand experience of preparation In New Zealand, the trainee intern (TI) year is a clinical apprenticeship year undertaken in a hospital under the aegis of a medical school. It is undertaken in the final year of medical school and comprises eight clinical attachments (Table 1). The year aims to provide learning in the [...]
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Approach to the acute abdomen during pregnancy
By Dr. Tao Shen | Volume 2, Issue 1 2011
Abstract Many physiological changes in pregnancy may affect the presentation of abdominal pain in the pregnant patient. Rapid diagnosis and management is required to prevent dire complications for both mother and fetus. Most radiological investigations are not harmful to the developing fetus and can avoid unnecessary and potentially detrimental explorative surgery. The role of laparoscopy [...]
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The significance of aphasia in neurological cancers
By Dr. Elizabeth Paratz | Volume 2, Issue 1 2011
Abstract Aphasia associated with brain tumours has previously been regarded as essentially equivalent to the aphasia of stroke, and as a deficit unlikely to affect a patient’s prognosis. Recent research challenges such hypotheses. Tumour-related aphasias are commonly anomic aphasias, and hence pathologically distinct from classic post-stroke aphasias. Accordingly, many rules from the world of stroke [...]
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National standards in medical education
By Matt Schiller, Ania Lucewicz & Timothy Yang | Volume 2, Issue 1 2011
Since 1999, the number of Australian medical schools has doubled. While this has brought about diversity, it has arguably also created a worrying lack of standardisation in the skills of graduates. National curricula are currently a hot topic, with the development of a standardised Australian curriculum for Kindergarten to Year 12 well underway. Is it [...]
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