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October 28, 2005
Latest what the educators are saying column
Eva, Kevin W, Wass, Val
What the educators are saying
BMJ 2005;331:1006 (29 October)
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October 25, 2005
International and non-academic panel members announced for RAE panels
International and non-academic panel members announced for RAE panels: "Members for medicine:
Russell Hamilton, Department of Health
Sally Macintyre, Medical Research Council
Murray Brennan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US
Garret Fitzgerald, University of Pennsylvania, US
Lap-Chee Tsui, University of Hong Kong
Tachi Yamada, GlaxoSmithKline
Public health:
Noreen Caine, Deaprtment of Health
Fritz Henn, Central Institute for Mental Health, Germany
David Henry, University of Newcastle, Australia
Jeffrey Koplan, Woodruff Health Sciences ..."
(Via LTSN-01 news.)
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October 20, 2005
PDAs
Daniel C Baumgart, Personal digital assistants in health care: experienced clinicians in the palm of your hand?, The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9492, 1 October 2005-7 October 2005, Pages 1210-1222.
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October 15, 2005
£100 million available for medical education
HEFCE and the Department of Health have announced that up to £100 million is to be made available to support around 750 academic clinical fellows, 400 clinical lecturers, and 200 "new blood" senior lectureships over the next 10 years. Medical schools are invited to make nominations inn annual rounds, starting in 2006-2007.
Full details of the Academic Clinical Fellowship and Clinical Lectureship competitions are available from the website of the National Coordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development
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October 13, 2005
Ensuring medical students are "fit for purpose"
Proposes a national licensing system
Wass, Val
Ensuring medical students are "fit for purpose"
BMJ 2005;331:791-792,
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