After yesterday’s march, protestors will be pleased to see their photos in at least some of the Sunday papers, including The Sunday Times and the front page of The Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph is running its own ‘Back our doctors’ campaign to suspend the entire Modernising Medical Careers programme. It moves the story on with […]
Thousands march in MTAS protest
Police estimate at least 10,000 protestors joined the MTAS march in London today — far more than they or the organisers had expected. And a further 500 supported the march in Glasgow. At one point the numbers in London swelled so much that police had to control the crowds by letting them spill off the […]
Review body issues recommendations
The first round of MTAS applications is to go ahead, despite the reported problems. The announcement was made at 8pm Friday evening after all day discussions by the review group. Changes are to be made to strengthen the rest of the process. The Department of Health said the group had made the following recommendations: […]
Deanery head defends MTAS
On the eve of the march tomorrow, Elizabeth Paice, dean director at the London postgraduate medical deanery and chair of Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans, has defended the new system for appointing doctors to training posts. But she says she wants to see improvements in the MTAS computer system to make it easier for consultants […]
Review group meets today
With a day to go until the marches in London and Glasgow, the review group set up to overhaul the MTAS process meets today. News on their progress may be announced later in the day, says the Department of Health. […]
5000 people expected to protest
As many as 5000 people might turn up for the protest marches in London and Glasgow at the weekend, according to one of the doctors at Remedy UK, the organisation behind the march at the weekend, Judy King. […]
How the MTAS crisis began
The timeline below gives an at-a-glance guide to how the crisis over junior doctors’ job applications began. […]
JAMA 7 Mar 2007 Vol 297
Here’s a fascinating study of computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes, drawn from three US centres and one Italian which screened over 3,000 former smokers and followed them up for nearly 4 years. Three times more cancers were detected than expected, but the lung cancer mortality was exactly as expected. Although the methodology of […]
NEJM 8 Mar 2007 Vol 356
It all began more than a hundred years ago, when a London dentist, Charles Stent, devised a little metal structure to hold in place gingival grafts. His name bears a fortuitous resemblance to the Indo-European root for stand and stay (etc) so it does nicely for the purpose. […]
Ann Intern Med 6 Mar 2007 Vol 146
Population studies in the developed world generally find that about 20-25% of us are anxious and/or depressed, and that is what this US study found when it used a number of assessment tools plus direct patient assessment to detect anxiety disorders in primary care. […]