Members attending the Society’s Clinical Cases meetings now only have to pay a registration fee of £50 for half a day meeting (reduced from £190) or £60 for a full day meeting (reduced from £220). Those who have not yet started their specialist training in endocrinology (medical students, FYs, CTs/ST1 and 2) can attend for free.

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Another reason to join the Society!

Since December 2009, a group of nurses, physicians and therapists from Children’s Hospital Boston has dedicated themselves to setting up a “Sister PICU” (pediatric intensive care unit) program between Children’s and the National Pediatric Hospital (NPH) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Children’s global health: Cambodia Days 4-6

New from NLM: PubMed Mobile This post describes three mobile sites and three apps for searching PubMed on smartphones and other mobile devices.

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Searching PubMed on a Mobile Device

University of Warwick (UK) develops iPhone app for medical students (Source: Hospital IT Europe)

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Anatomy app for medics on the move

Pathology departments may want to create similar courses to teach medical students how to interpret genetic and genotyping tests Genetic testing of participating university students was part of a special class that was conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine last summer. The genetic pathology test was voluntary for the 54 students who participated (Source: Dark Daily)

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Stanford Medical Students Undergo Genetic Testing to Study Their Own Genotypes

NHS reforms raise fears over education and subsequent effects on patient care (Source: BMA daily feed)

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Doctors and medical students seek training assurances

WHAT:  Match Day is the fun, frenzied day when medical students nationwide learn which hospital has accepted them for residency — advanced training in their chosen specialty. At UCLA, the ceremony climaxes in a mad scramble for the envelopes, with 150 aspiring doctors tearing them open with their families and friends. Many videotape themselves and let distant loved ones listen in on cell phones during this emotional rollercoaster of an event.     WHEN:  Thursday, March 17     8 a.m

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UCLA medical students brace for news at residency ‘Match Day’

Underachievement among non-white candidates has persisted for decadesRelated items from OnMedicaGMC offers new guidance for disabled students48-hour week rule threatens doctors’ trainingGive your views on examinationsYoung doctors call for urgent medical workforce review Medical students face average £70,000 debt (Source: OnMedica Latest News)

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UK medical education discriminatory, research suggests

Cartoon from Punch (British) magazine, 1872.

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1961: Women Storm the Gates of JMC (Or, A Tale for Women’s History Month)

A wide range of social media tools has become readily available in recent years, to the extent that the use of Facebook in particular is perceived as “second nature” by many students. There is increasing interest in the possibilities of using this social media services for medical education – blogs, wikis, Twitter and Facebook.This UK study included a self-administered questionnaire survey of 212 first year medical students.Over 90% used instant messaging. Social networking sites were also highly used – by 70%.

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Blogs read by 20% of UK medical students, but only 8% write their own