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February 26, 2004
GMC consultation on modernisation of PRHO years
Since April 2002, the Education Committee of the GMC has been undertaking a major review of PRHO training. This review has taken into account the development of the Foundation Programmes described in Unfinished Business and Modernising Medical Careers. The consultation document is called Modernising the New Doctor. It is available at http://www.gmcuk.org/med_ed/tnd/index.htm . This document sets out the GMC's proposals, thinking and the questions on which they would like views.
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LTSN01 offers free places at AMEE & ASME
LTSN01 are offering places at AMEE, ASME or ADEE, the leading European conferences for those involved in learning and teaching in healthcare education. For more information see: http://www.ltsn01.ac.uk/resources/competitions/
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February 23, 2004
Reed Elsevier in FT
Reed Elsevier, one of Europe's largest media groups, yesterday defended its dominance of scientific publishing and scorned suggestions that a freely available internet rival could jeopardise its business. Unlike Elsevier's highmargin journals business, Open Access, a new online service that does not charge users to view scientific publications, charges authors for publishing their research rather than relying on subscriptions
FT Companies and Markets 20/02/04 p20
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MRC creates clinical research board
The BMJ reports that the MRC is creating a Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board as part of the reorganisation reported in the THES
BMJ 2004;328:426 (21 February)
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February 19, 2004
Times Higher "MRC cash boost gives researchers new hope"
Today's Times Higher reports that the Medical Research Council is to overhaul its funding system and reinstate small grants for research projects. More information on the MRC's web site . The Times Higher report is available online to subscribers only, but the paper reference is:
MRC cash boost gives researchers new hope
Times Higher Education Supplement February 20 2004 1628: 8
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Times Higher: "Bullying rife for medics in academia"
"Bullying rife for medics in academia" is the lurid headline of a piece in the Times Higher, which reports on a study to be published in the BMJ this week. The BMJ piece will be abstracted in this service tomorrow. The Times Higher report is available online to subscribers only, but the paper reference is:
Bullying rife for medics in academia
Times Higher Education Supplement February 20 2004 1628: 8
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CILIP's response to the House of Commons Science and Technology
Committee Inquiry Is now online at http://www.cilip.org.uk/advocacy/responses/scientific.html
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February 13, 2004
Brighton and Sussex Medical School is the number one choice
Brighton and Sussex Medical School is the number one choice for students. See University of Sussex press release
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February 11, 2004
Guardian reports on online medical school
The Guardian reports on the IVIMEDS project at Dundee dubbing it, perhaps controversially "the world's first online medical school"
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February 06, 2004
Letters in THES: who should fund medical education?
Two letters in today’s THES continue the debate about the balance between teaching, research and clinical practice in medical education. One discusses dental school academic recruitment problems, but the more interesting one is from Michael Rees, Chairman of the BMA’s Medical Academics Committee, correcting the impression given in the report in the previous week’s issue that the BMA was calling for a switch of funding for medical education from HEFCE to the DoH and redirecting attention to the central problem, that numbers of medical students re rising while the numbers of clinical academics are falling.
Full text is only available to subscribers but the paper reference is:
THES 2004: 1626:21 (February 6)
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February 03, 2004
House of Commons Science and Technology Committe inquiry
The ALPSP has posted its web site a copy of its written testimony to the UK House of Commons committee conducting the inquiry into journal prices and accessibility.
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London Review of Books: BSMS student's dissecting room diary
A BSMS first year student, Sophie Harrison, writes the diary page in the London Review of Books on her and her fellow students' experiences in the dissecting room.
The page will be available online from Thursday 5th February onwards at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n03/harr02_.html
The paper copy reference is:
Harrison, Sophie
Diary
London Review of Books 5 February 2004 26(3): 35
There are other reviews of interest in this issue: Hugh Pennington reviews a new book on TB and Ruth Bernard Yeazell new edtitons of books on illness by Harriet Martineau and Virginia Woolf:
Gandy, Matthew
The return of the white plague: global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis
Verso October 2003 1859846696
Martineau, Harriet
Life in the sick room
Broadview March 2003 1551112655
Woolf, Virginia
On being ill
Paris Press October 2002 1930464061
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