Research published in bmj.com reveals that sub-Saharan African countries lose billions of dollars by training doctors and investing in them only to find that the clinicians leave to work in developed countries. The study shows that the biggest emigration of doctors and the greatest economic losses occur in South Africa and Zimbabwe with Australia, Canada, the UK and US reaping the benefits from recruiting clinicians that have been educated elsewhere… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Training Doctors Who Leave To Rich Nations Costs Sub-Saharan Africa Billions

A Practical Introduction and Survival GuideThis is the second edition of a very popular book on DICOM that introduces this complex standard from a very practical point of view.

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)(Pianykh)

When the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) was introduced in rotas at 77 English hospital trusts in August 2009 they felt ‘derogated’ being allowed to operate at a maximum 52-hour week instead of 48 hours until 31 July 2011. A report by BMJ Careers shows that the majority of the 300 doctors in training rotas exempted from the 48-hour limit on working time imposed by the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) are now compliant… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Working Over 48 Hours Per Week Unusual Now For UK Trainee Doctors

Omega 3 fatty acids play a huge role in brain health and neurocommunication. This summer, a neat paper illuminating more connections between fish oil and mental health was published in my favorite journal, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: Omega-3 supplementation lowers inflammation and anxiety in medical students: a randomized controlled trial.  Primary Topic:  Anxiety read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)

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Fish Oil and Anxiety

Medical students learn little about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in medical school, a new study reports. (Source: NYT Health)

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Well Blog: Doctor and Patient: L.G.B.T. Issues Neglected in Medical Schools

For every medical student, examining specimens under the microscope is part of the syllabus. However, the opening hours of the labs and the number of enlargers are limited. Thanks to a new online platform, students are now able to learn with greater flexibility and independence

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Virtual Microscope Lab Offers Flexible Learning

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) are offering up to four grants of £500 each year to undergraduate medical students at UK universities, who will be undertaking a medical elective overseas. Applications must be made before the start of the project/elective period. Applicants must be RCP medical student members.

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RCP medical student elective bursaries

According to a BMA report, medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating with over £13,000 more debt compared to their better off fellow students. These perturbing findings have been discovered in the BMA’s Medical Student Finance Survey (2010/2011), that questioned over 2,800 medical students. It raises concerns regarding the government’s plans to widen access to medicine from low-income groups..

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£13,000 More Debt From Low Income Medical Students, Says British Medical Association

John J. Miller has written a lengthy piece for Philanthropy Magazine about how medical students, business school students, and foreign-policy graduate students are organizing conservative student organizations, modeled after how the Federalist Society has transformed legal education.

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Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools?

The number of medical students from low income families has fallen in the last 12 months, due to increasing debt, the BMA has warned (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)

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BMA warns increasing debts put low income students off studying medicine