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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Medicine Residents: A Role for Moral Injury?
(Elsevier, 2018-09)We read with interest the perspective piece on posttraumatic stress disorder in emergency medicine residents in the United States.1 The addition of the new exposure criteria to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ... -
Do changing medical admissions practices in the UK impact on who is admitted? An interrupted time series analysis.
(2018-10-08)INTRODUCTION: Medical admissions must balance two potentially competing missions: to select those who will be successful medical students and clinicians and to increase the diversity of the medical school population and ... -
Contested Pain: Managing the Invisible Symptom
(2018-08-27)Drawing parallels between chronic pain in Vulvodynia and acute pain in Sickle Cell Disease, our opinion is one that challenges the prevailing medical model by contrasting the experiences of pain sufferers and reflecting ... -
Right colic artery anatomy: a systematic review of cadaveric studies.
(2017-12)BACKGROUND: Complete mesocolic excision for right-sided colon cancer may offer an oncologically superior excision compared to traditional right hemicolectomy through high vascular tie and adherence to embryonic planes ... -
“Christ offered salvation, and not an easy life”: How do port chaplains make sense of providing welfare for seafarers? An idiographic, phenomenological approach analysis
(Via Medica, 2016-06-28)Background: The shipping industry has historically leaned towards a biomedical model of health when assessing, treating and caring for seafarers. In recent years there has been more concern for the mental health of seafarers ... -
From the workshop to the workplace: Relocating faculty development in postgraduate medical education.
(2018-06)INTRODUCTION: Postgraduate medical education takes place almost entirely in the clinical workplace, supported by healthcare professionals who strive to combine service and educational roles. Over the past decade, we have ... -
Synthetic biology: biology by design.
(Microbiology Society, 2013-08-01)Synthetic biology can be defined as the design and construction of novel biologically based parts, devices and systems, as well as the redesign of existing natural biological systems, for useful purposes. It builds on ... -
Leaps, Jumps and Hoops: from evaluating cardiac rehabilitation interventions to identifying causal factors underlying substance dependency
(SAGE, 2018-01-10)Intervention research and research with substance abuse populations are challenging. This case details the experiences of two doctoral-level researchers as they tried to improve outcomes for coronary heart disease patients ... -
Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?
(2018-10)BACKGROUND: The term 'moral injury' may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for understanding these ... -
Exploration of cultural competency training in UK healthcare settings: A critical interpretive review of the literature
(Insight Medical Publishing Group, 2015)Cultural competency training (CCT) has been proposed as a strategy for eliminating racial inequalities and ensuring culturally appropriate services. However the literature illustrates inconsistencies in the usage, ... -
Enhancing nuclear translocation: perspectives in inhaled corticosteroid therapy
(Future Science Ltd, 2015-05-21)Corticosteroids are widely used in the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In contrast to their use in mild-to-moderate asthma, they are less efficacious in improving lung function and ... -
Restoration of Corticosteroid Sensitivity by p38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Inhibition in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Severe Asthma
(Public Library of Science, 2012-07-23)Background Severe asthma accounts for a small number of asthmatics but represents a disproportionate cost to health care systems. The underlying mechanism in severe asthma remains unknown but several mechanisms are likely ...
