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Series: Volume 4, Issue 2 2014

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Articles / Guest Articles

A new paradigm for assessment of learning outcomes among Australian medical students: in the best interest of all medical students?

Truism: a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device. Assertion: a proposition that …

Articles / Original Research Articles

Melioidosis in the Torres Strait Islands: an 11 year audit 2001-2012

Melioidosis is an infection of concern to global health. It is caused by the intracellular gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found in the soil and fresh waters of endemic …

Articles / Letters

Lessons learned from internship

Many medical students this year have asked me about what it is like to become an intern. The truth is, nothing you learn at medical school can fully prepare you …

Articles / Case Reports

Adult Onset Still’s Disease – a diagnostic dilemma

Introduction ASOD is characterised by fever, an evanescent skin rash, polyarthralgia, hepatosplenomegaly, leucocytosis, liver enzyme elevation and a high serum ferritin level. [1,2,3] It is a difficult diagnosis to make, …

Articles / Original Research Articles

Social phobia in children – risk and resilience factors

Introduction: Anxiety disorders account for one third of psychiatric complaints that young people present to their general practitioners with. Social phobia (SP) is one of the most prevalent of these …

Articles / Letters

International medical electives: time for a rethink?

International medical electives (IMEs) are rapidly growing in popularity. A recent study by Law and colleagues [1] conducted across Australia reported that 53% of graduate entry program students and 35% …

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Mobile segment of the hamulus causing dynamic compression of the motor ulnar nerve branch in the hand

This paper is the first to document the mechanism of how a mobile segment of the hook of hamate can dynamically compress the motor branch of the ulnar nerve. Presented …

Articles / Letters

What comes next after #interncrisis?

Will last year be a turning point or just another chapter in the saga of medical workforce planning in Australia? The story, so ably publicised by the high profile grassroots …

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National Leadership Development Seminar: developing the health care leaders of the future

The vast field of medicine transcends the mere finding of cures for ailments, seeking approaches to prolonging life, and undertaking research in the pursuit of wellbeing, important as these duties …

Articles / Case Reports

Acute viral bronchiolitis in the setting of extensive family history of asthma

This case report describes a previously healthy eleven-month old ex-preterm female with a severe presentation of acute viral bronchiolitis with an extensive family history of asthma. The link between viral …

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