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Series: Volume 2, Issue 1 2011

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Book Reviews

Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law

Breen KJ, Cordner SM, Thomson CJH, Plueckhahn VD. Good Medical Practice: Professionalism, Ethics and Law. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press; 2010. RRP: $75.00 Anyone brave enough to write a textbook …

Book Reviews

Apley’s Concise System of Orthopaedics and Fractures

Solomon L, Warwick D, Nayagam S. Apley’s Concise System of Orthopaedics and Fractures. 3rd ed. London (UK): Hodder Arnold; 2005. RRP AU$52.65 The 2006-2007 Australian Hospital Statistics demonstrated that fractures …

Feature Articles

Delays in adoption of statins on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: Reflections of a John Snow Scholar

This article is sponsored by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians The evidence for using statins in diabetic patients with normal cholesterol levels to prevent myocardial infarction or stroke was …

Feature Articles

Contemporary rural health workforce policy in Australia: Evidence-based or ease-based?

Introduction Australia has a history of a rural health workforce shortage. This shortage was originally perceived to be within the context of an overall oversupply of health practitioners throughout Australia, …

Feature Articles

Better preparing Australian medical graduates: Learning from the New Zealand model of trainee interns

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. …

Feature Articles

Up the creek without a paddle: An Australian take on disaster medicine

Disaster medicine is a subject category that invokes thoughts of emergency medicine on a much grander scale; one that involves all levels of healthcare governance. But in reality, it is …

Feature Articles

The good, the bad and the ugly of mobile phone use in clinical practice

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 …

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A trauma elective in Sydney: How does it compare to London?

“Will you see shark bites?” was a question I was asked a few times by other medical students when I told them I was doing an elective in trauma at …

Feature Articles

Why medical school is depressing and what we should be doing about it

Introduction In recent years, there has been quite some attention given to supporting the health and well-being of doctors but less to that of medical students, particularly their mental health …

Medical Careers

Martin Van Der Weyden: A Career Sustained by Scholarships

Martin Van Der Weyden has been the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) for the past fifteen years. Over this time, he has earned a reputation as a …

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