There is an anecdotal need to increase radiology education in medical school. Surveys were distributed to three medical schools, with a respondency of 55 %. Over 91 % of students believed there should be more radiology teaching in medical school. Students prefer different methods of teaching, lectures, group learning, and web-based modules.

T he article by Fragou et al (1), in this month’s Critical Care Medicine, provides compelling evidence that the routine use of ultrasound guidance increases the safety of central venous access by the subclavian route. In this cohort of critical care patients, cannulation was achieved in 100% of patients in the ultrasound group as compared with 87.5% in the landmark arm. Access time and the numb...

Several publications and reports have recently advocated the use of intravenous ketamine infusions for the treatment of chronic pain. In Pain, Schwartzman and colleagues present the results of a randomised controlled trial where 19 patients with CRPS were treated with ketamine or placebo infusions [9]. The trial was stopped prematurely before half of the planned number of patients was included,...

Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a key concern facing top business and information systems executives. Observers have suggested that both too little and too much SISP can prove ineffective. Hypotheses examine the expected relationship between comprehensiveness and effectiveness in five SISP planning phases. They predict a nonlinear, inverted-U relationship thus suggesting the ex...