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The demise of the e-mail

David Payne, bmj.com editor, wonders how today's medical students find information


News

Can I stay or should I go?

Students who go abroad to do their medical degree may not find a job there afterwards, reports Daniel Stott

 










Life

Head to head:Should UK medical students sit a national qualifying exam?

The academic achievements of graduating medical students need to be evaluated for job allocations, and this process has been under debate. Christopher Kelly argues that a new national exam would be a comparable benchmark. But Katherine Burke says that such an exam could have detrimental effects on the medical profession

 


Careers

Tricky exam questions

Daniel K Sokol considers examination ethics for medical students

 


Education

Abdominal stomas

Boris Pinto and Kevin McCallion explain the variations in this common surgical procedure

 









Flank pain radiating to the suprapubic region

A 33 year old woman presented at the urology department with a two year history of intermittent flank pain radiating to the suprapubic region

 










Paper+

Penicillin and meningococcal disease: case-control study

Amy Davis takes you through an observational study that looked at whether penicillin prescribed by a general practitioner before admission to hospital improved children's outcomes