It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well.

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Regrowing hair: UCLA-VA researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution

New supplementary advice for medical schools The GMC is providing medical schools with additional advice on how to help prepare medical students for clinical practice and the Foundation Programme. These are advisory documents to help medical schools implement the requirements in Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009). Clinical placements for medical students (pdf) sets out what medical students can expect from their placements and Student Assistantships, in which they act as an assistant to a junior doctor during their final year

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Supplementary advice to Tomorrow's Doctors (2009)

Childhood experience in front of television cameras gave Karin Purshouse an early taste of the limelight that is part and parcel of her role as BMA medical students committee chair (Source: BMA daily feed)

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More than just a figurehead

Medical students in NI fear debt crisis could put off future doctorsRelated items from OnMedicaYoung doctors call for urgent medical workforce review NHS will reach ‘breaking point’Doctors’ foundation training programme oversubscribedElitism stops many from entering the medical professionDoctors under attack, says BMA Council Chair (Source: OnMedica Latest News)

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NI medical students worried by tuition fees

BMA website publishes compendium of initiatives aimed at would-be medical students from less advantaged backgrounds (Source: BMA daily feed)

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Access resources go online

The Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) is calling on the federal government to give more money to medical students from rural and low-income parts of the country.

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More money for rural medical students: CFMS

BMA medical students committee joint deputy chair Drew Kinmond has been invited to join the BMA council (Source: BMA daily feed)

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Student rep graduates to council

Students from lower income families will be put off from applying for medical courses under plans to raise tuition fees, the doctors’ union says. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

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Medical students ‘face £70k debt’

Psychologist who specialised in marital and family counsellingThe clinical and counselling psychologist Douglas Hooper, who has died aged 83, spent his life cajoling, challenging and enabling people to relate to each other. He played a key role in marital and family counselling in primary healthcare and also had an impact in the fields of social work and family law.In 1980 Douglas took up the chair of social work at Hull University

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Douglas Hooper obituary

Officials at Maine Medical Center, (MMC) the largest medical center in the state, has opened its new simulation lab, a virtual environment designed to train medical students and staff. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

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Medical students to receive training in state-of-the-art simulation lab