Careers advice for doctors

Same patient, different advice: a study into why doctors vary.

AIM To understand why doctors differ in their recommendations in situations where there is little certainty about the long term outcomes of the possible treatment options. METHODS A correlational design was used to examine the relation between preference for different treatment options and beliefs about likely outcomes for these options. Eighty doctors, with a mean of nine years in paediatric...

Advice given to patients with epistaxis by A&E doctors.

This study was devised to determine the proportion of patients with epistaxis seen in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and discharged with verbal/written advice, and to examine if this information affects re-attendance rates. A questionnaire was given to all A&E doctors probing their current practice regarding advice given to patients with epistaxis on discharge. The information was com...

Healthline: do primary care doctors agree with the advice?

AIMS To assess agreement between the advice to symptomatic callers to Healthline, and that advised by primary care doctors given the same clinical information, and thus to assess the safety of Healthline advice. METHODS Ninety records of symptomatic calls to Healthline were examined by three primary care specialists, blinded to the actual advice given. They independently recorded what they wo...

What's the best advice for physicians at the start of their careers?

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...