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• Posted Associate Professor Steve Trumble case study to My Medical Career Community
  A case study of Associate Professor Steve Trumble has been added to the My Medical Career case studies section.It’s always interesting when you go back to your 10/20 year reunions and talk to your colleagues - friends from medical school who are doing other disciplines. A lot of them are...
• Posted Dr. Lydia Nunes case study to My Medical Career Community
  A great case study of Dr. Lydia Nunes has been added to the My Medical Career case studies section.I came to Australia in 1994 after I completed my training in anaesthetics. I was offered a job in the hospital emergency department because of my anaesthetic training. I loved emergency department...
• Posted Dr. Katriona Ross case study to My Medical Career Community
  A fantastic case study of Dr. Katriona Ross has been added to the My Medical Career case studies section.I got into medicine later in life. I had a career in a pathology laboratory prior to medicine. I did a science degree and was a rower at national level and trained...
• Posted Dr. Cosmin Florescu case study to My Medical Career Community
  A great case study of Dr. Cosmin Florescu with a wonderful photograph has been added to the My Medical Career case studies section. Make sure you consider everything you’re interested in before fully commiting to and one specialty. It’s important to consider what radiology actually involves before deciding that’s the...
• Posted High costs, retirement just a few reasons for dwindling number of area physicians to My Medical Career Community
  Very interesting article in the Daily Times about Medical Specialties in the United States.Some key points include:150 neurosurgeons finish training each yearSome candidates request $500,000 salaries with a $50,000 signing bonusThe Eastern Shore is undersupplied in 60 percent of medical specialties today, and the gap is expected to grow to...
• Posted Job-Hunting Physicians Are Driven by Lifestyle Concerns, According to 20-year Updated Survey Produced by Jackson & Coker to My Medical Career Community
  Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) February 5, 2008 -- Physicians who contemplate making a career move involving relocation are likely to consider lifestyle issues more important than potential or immediate income when selecting an opportunity, according to a newly released " Willing to Relocate Survey " issued by Jackson & Coker. The...
• Posted Report shows medical students are choosing higher-paid specialties because of heavy postgraduation debt to My Medical Career Community
  Article from the University of California San Diego Guardian about medical students choosing higher-paid specialties because of heavy postgraduation debt.Some key points include:Students’ medical school experiences come at a price­­ — almost $130,000 in educational bills, according to a report by the Association of American Medical CollegesThe cost of tuition...
• Posted Radiologists should use Google for medical information to My Medical Career Community
  Dr. Elliot Fishman, director of diagnostic radiology and body CT, and colleagues designed a test to determine which web resources best delivered accurate information to medical students most efficiently. Efficiency was based on the number of links one had to view. Students were randomized to complete the exam by...
• Posted Modernising medical careers in India to My Medical Career Community
  More suggestions about modernising medical careers, this time focussed on India.Key suggestions:ALL – INDIA PREMEDICAL SCREENING TEST - MANDATORY to get admission into Government or Private Medical Colleges –need to PASS [60%]. Results are notified as PASS or FAIL onlyExam conducted by CENTRAL BOARD – NEW DELHIADMISSION TO MEDICAL COLLEGES...
• Posted UK modernising medical careers: The Health Select Committee to My Medical Career Community
  Post about the UK The Health Select Committee and the medical careers crisis in the UK http://chezsams.blogspot.com/2008/01/health-select-committee-meeting-4.html...
• Posted Interns: planning the future to My Medical Career Community
  Blog post from paging dr jess about planning for the futurehttp://pagingdrjess.blogspot.com/2008/01/planning-future.html As an intern, I take days one at a time. Once in a while, I'll actually look a few days ahead and plan to do something fun on my day off. However, I rarely look much further in the future....
• Posted When should I "give up" on applying to medical school? to My Medical Career Community
  Blog post about applying to medical school. IntroductionI was speaking with a group of undergraduate pre-med students who asked me when I thought someone should “give up” on seeking admission into medical school. My first inclination was to say that if medical school and medicine is your “dream” you should...
• Posted Med students to spend orientation week in Kalgoorlie to My Medical Career Community
  About 70 medical students appointed to regional hospitals around Western Australia over the coming year will be arriving tonight in Kalgoorlie, in the south-east, for their orientation week. The Rural Clinical School is made up of fifth year medical students from the University of Western Australia, as well as Notre...
• Posted Midlife career moves to My Medical Career Community
  At times, 57-year-old Christianne Bishop is keenly aware of the three decades separating her and fellow residents at Erlanger hospital. They are mostly a batch of ambitious, energetic twenty-somethings. “Remember high school and the little cliques? It’s kind of like that,” she said. “I’m outside that since I’m married and...
• Posted There's been an awakening in the medical community to how important good sleep is to our bodies. to My Medical Career Community
  There's been an awakening in the medical community to how important good sleep is to our bodies. Here's some of the latest pillow talk.By CATHY FRISINGERSpecial to the Star-Telegramhttp://www.star-telegram.com/health/story/422447.html Know somebody who likes to brag that he can get by on six hours of sleep a night?Tell him that men...
• Posted Emmi solutions of Chicago is a company that provides an online patient education program for a wide variety of medical and surgical procedures to My Medical Career Community
  Dr. Barry Eppley serves as Medical Advisor in Plastic Surgery for EMMI Solutions Emmi solutions of Chicago is a company that provides an online patient education program for a wide variety of medical and surgical procedures. Through this program, Emmi helps increase patient satisfaction, helps physicians manage patient expectations,...
• Posted The Physician Career Network to My Medical Career Community
  Physicians contact us from around the country—indeed from around the world—to serve as a sounding board for their careers. Here are some of their remarks, disguised to protect confidentiality. These are not complaints, per se, but pleas for help and guidance toward a new future. The comments come from...
• Posted Tooke Report - Final Recommendations to My Medical Career Community
  Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical CareersThe Royal College of Anaesthetists warmly welcomes the publication today of the Final Recommendations of Sir John Tooke’s panel. We are delighted that the overall support given to the original recommendations, strongly supported by this College, was so substantial.Over the next days we will consider...
• Posted Do you need to have good vision to become an optometrist? to My Medical Career Community
  Interesting post on medical blogspot.Open Question: Do you need to have good vision to become an optometrist? I was reading a book on medical careers and its says one of the things you should have to be an optometrist is to have good vision. What does that have to do...
• Posted Questions about postgraduate medical training to My Medical Career Community
  BMJ rapid response: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletter-submit/336/7635/DC1The BMJ would like to hear from you. Do you want to know what’s in store for junior doctors’ training?Or are you wondering why MTAS seemed to go horribly wrong? In the first broadcast between theBMJ and both the BMA and Remedy UK, we put your questions...
• Posted BMA Investigating Problems With Junior Doctor Recruitment, UK to My Medical Career Community
  Problems with the 2008 junior doctor recruitment process in England have already started to emerge, the BMA said. Last week it alerted the Department of Health to the fact that many NHS trusts block external emails, preventing junior doctors from being notified of job offers. Today it is investigating reports...
• Posted Review backs GP training extension to My Medical Career Community
  The RCGP has welcomed extending GP training in the UK from three to five years, as recommended by the Tooke Report. Professor Sir John Tooke's review of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) called for GP training to be as thorough as specialty training in other disciplines.RCGP chairman Professor Steve Field said...
• Posted Indigenous Health Education: Fostering A Fresh Approach, Australia to My Medical Career Community
  The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) released a report urging stakeholders in medical education to recognize the importance of Indigenous Health in medical school curricula. The report, based on the proceedings of the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) conference in late 2007, outlines areas of key importance in...
• Posted Institutions urged to run NHS medic training to My Medical Career Community
  Universities should take over the work co-ordinating postgraduate medical training in England, a report on modernising medical careers has recommended.Sir John Tooke's paper says that new graduate schools could be set up to take over the work currently done by National Health Service deaneries. It says they should be trialled...

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• Commented on Careers Evening: Monash University
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• Commented on Radiopaedia - an amazing new radiology resource!
  I agree Cosmin. Thank you Jono an excellent resource....
• Commented on BMA Investigating Problems With Junior Doctor Recruitment, UK
  This is a very serious issue....

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• Alexandra Stanislavsky commented on Radiopaedia - an amazing new radiology resource!
  Thanks Jono, looks very interesting.  I searched the site for a couple of fairly commong topics.  Couldn't easily find them in the alphabetical listings, but they came up through the search engine and looked good.Any other online radiology resources to suggest?...