Category: Medical education

12/06/2018

“It’s quite obvious that we should stop training radiologists,” said Geoffrey Hinton, an AI luminary, in 2016. In November Andrew…

29/05/2018

Discussing the shortage of GPs, a locus GP writes: As so often, there are several factors. Many GPs have retired…

23/05/2018

Maybe it is just me, but I find many of the graphics in the BMJ hard to follow. The image…

07/05/2018

My third issue is more nuanced. The biggest reason for cataract blindness is the dearth of ophthalmologists. Orthopaedic surgeons in…

30/04/2018

The Medical Council of India has asked state councils to investigate the problem of “ghost” teachers in medical colleges following…

23/04/2018

As the surgeon reached for a scrub brush, the medical student lingered back, his thumbs incessantly and rhythmically tapping on…

09/04/2018

This article is about truck drivers in the US, where getting a license requires a big investment. The article states…

30/03/2018

Most, if not all, of us, if asked to be cared for by a television doctor if we had a…

14/12/2017

Enrico Fermi was big on back-of-the-envelope calculations. I cannot match his brain, but I like playing with simple arithmetic. Here…

08/12/2017

Neurophobia’, a term first coined by Jozefowicz in 1994, describes medical students’ fear of neurology 2. It is a chronic…