Hints for Young Doctors

Psychosis in young doctors.

Three young men who had serious psychotic illnesses as final-year medical students, with damaging recurrences later in two, have subsequently succeeded as clinical practitioners. One has so far completed five healthy years, the others two years each, since treatment with phenothiazines and support.

Consultation skills of young doctors: II--Most young doctors are bad at giving information.

Forty young doctors, half of whom had had feedback training in interviewing as students, were assessed five years later. Each interviewed three patients and after being given results of examination, investigations, and diagnosis and prognosis returned to discuss them with each patient for 10 minutes. These discussions were filmed on videotape and evaluated. There was no difference between the s...

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 ...

International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics

The objective of the present project was to study how high temperatures affect the different mechanical parameters of chalks. The general result is that both cohesion and the hydrostatic yield stress are typically reduced about 20 % in going from 20 to 130 C, but the magnitude of this reduction may be chalk type dependent.

A Young Doctor's Views of Old Doctors