Medical students are practising invasive techniques on themselves and fellow students, a new study shows. But aside from obvious safety concerns, is there anything wrong with self-practice?
Syrian Arab Red Crescent assisted families in Homs, Syria in September.
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The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is getting worse by the day. A survey of aid workers provides a glimpse into life on the ground, and clues to why the humanitarian sector is ailing.
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon whose only anatomy training was using virtual reality?
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Medical students are using virtual reality to help them learn anatomy. But is it the game changing technology some people say it is?
There’s much we can do to stop our junior doctors from feeling devalued, demoralised and depressed, like this junior doctor protesting in London earlier in 2016.
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Highly engaged doctors do much better on a wide range of important measures, from clinical performance, financial management and safety indicators to patient experience and overall quality standards.
Time to take the rough with the smooth.
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Pay-for-performance for doctors works brilliantly … but only in theory.
No matter their age, gender or experience, health professionals from all walks of life have experienced mental health problems.
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In Australia, estimates suggest undesired harmful effects from medication or other intervention such as surgery occur in around 17% of hospital admissions. But blaming the doctors won’t help.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne