{"id":35342,"date":"2015-09-30T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35342"},"modified":"2015-09-30T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:06:47","slug":"bmj-today-junior-doctors-contract-cardiac-rehabilitation-and-working-for-the-us-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/30\/bmj-today-junior-doctors-contract-cardiac-rehabilitation-and-working-for-the-us-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ Today: Junior doctors&#8217; contract, cardiac rehabilitation, and working for the US marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/contract.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35344\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/contract-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"contract\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022 The junior doctors&#8217; contract: how did we get into this mess?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With junior doctors about to vote on whether to strike over government\u00a0plans to impose a new contract on them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h5183\">Tom Moberly&#8217;s feature<\/a>\u00a0explains how and why the negotiations collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/exercise_man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35345\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/exercise_man-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"exercise_man\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022 The benefits of cardiac rehabilitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite international recommendations, effective implementation of\u00a0cardiac rehabilitation after acute coronary syndrome, coronary\u00a0revascularisation, and heart failure has remained suboptimal, with\u00a0overall participation rates &lt;50%. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h5000\">A clinical review by Hasnain M Dalal\u00a0and colleagues<\/a> focuses on what cardiac rehabilitation\u00a0is and the evidence of its benefit and effects on cardiovascular\u00a0mortality, morbidity, and quality of life. The authors recommend that\u00a0clinicians should endorse cardiac rehabilitation for patients with a\u00a0recent diagnosis of coronary heart disease or heart failure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/07\/traceykoehlmoos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31983\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/07\/traceykoehlmoos.jpg\" alt=\"traceykoehlmoos\" width=\"161\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 Working as a policy adviser to the US Marines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/29\/tracey-koehlmoos-on-working-as-a-policy-adviser-in-the-us-marines\/\">In her blog, Tracey Koehlmoos describes<\/a> her &#8220;two years and seven\u00a0months at the Pentagon as the Special Assistant to the Assistant\u00a0Commandant and Senior Program Liaison for Community Health Integration\u00a0in the United States Marine Corps.&#8221; And with a title like that, it\u00a0is clearly quite a job. <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/29\/tracey-koehlmoos-on-working-as-a-policy-adviser-in-the-us-marines\/\">Read the full blog here<\/a> as Tracey describes\u00a0what she managed to achieve in her role. &#8220;Firstly, I travelled to\u00a0Afghanistan\u2014on what I can only describe as the combat operations\u00a0health systems tour. There were shots coming in and missiles going\u00a0out; body armor and Kevlar helmets; wounded soldiers and inspirational\u00a0surgeons and nurses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sally Carter<\/strong> is a technical editor, The BMJ.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The junior doctors&#8217; contract: how did we get into this mess? With junior doctors about to vote on whether to strike over government\u00a0plans to impose a new contract on them, Tom Moberly&#8217;s feature\u00a0explains how and why the negotiations collapsed. &nbsp; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/30\/bmj-today-junior-doctors-contract-cardiac-rehabilitation-and-working-for-the-us-marines\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}