The Medical Training Initiative will provide up to 750 two-year placements for doctors from developing countries. Last year, 250 English-speaking doctors from developing countries, secured UK-based education.
‘The time that international medical graduate’s spend with us will benefit the NHS greatly. And when they return home, they will be able to apply their skills and knowledge developed during their time here,’ Read more »
We are in the midst of a golden age of medical education, with schools expanding at an unprecedented level.
MedPage Today reports from a recent summit of medical educators, where they concluded that, with nine medical schools set to open and the majority of the remaining 126 schools planning to expand class size, this is an “unparalleled opportunity” to reform physician training.
That time can’t come soon enough.
The Read more »
Practical education for contraception services is underfunded and training sessions can be seen as a hindrance to meeting service targets, Cornwall GP Dr Sarah Gray says in the February issue of MIMS Women’s Health.
Dr Gray, who is involved with training GPs and practice nurses in their own practices to provide sexual health services, told Healthcare Republic: ‘It can be done without practices having to invest huge sums Read more »
Offering flexible, work-based learning which is designed to fit around work and home commitments, high levels of learning support and the opportunity for you to learn while you continue earning are provided.
RCN members receive a 10% discount on many Open University courses.
Those starting soon include Creativity, innovation and change (B822) and Change, policy and practice (K826).
The first is a postgraduate Read more »
The pledge was made by health minister for GPs Ben Bradshaw in a recent letter to shadow Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley.
Labour ministers today wrote to their Conservative counterparts asking whether they would support David Cameron’s cuts to key investment projects that Labour has brought forward to help the UK through the current economic downturn.
The Tories voted against the government’s pre-budget Read more »
New postgraduate training opportunities will be provided to GPs as part of England’s national dementia strategy, Mr Hope told the Daily Mail.
‘We want to see every GP trained to recognise the symptoms of early dementia and patients referred to specialist services in every area where they would get a proper diagnosis,’ he said.
Funding will also be provided for memory clinics, where treatment and support Read more »
Previous studies looking at the benefits of exercise in HF patients have been inconclusive and have lacked safety data.
This latest study, called ACTION, involved 1,159 patients who were randomly assigned to exercise training and 1,172 patients who did not exercise but had moderate physical activity.
At the end of the 2.5 year study, the researchers found that exercise training reduced the risk of hospitalisation for cardiovascular Read more »
