In autumn 1977 91% of the women who had graduated from United Kingdom medical schools in 1949-51 (early cohort) and 1965 (late cohort) were practising medicine. Over the first 12 years after qualification the late cohort was marginally more active in medicine and had more members in career and training posts than the early cohort. On the survey date 1 October 1977 (26-28 years after qualificati...

Propose solutions to problems: "Management consulting is a career in which generalist problem solvers help companies solve their business problems," according to this article from Science Careers [1]. Design and complete projects: "Management consultants help businesses improve their performance and grow by solving problems and finding new and better ways of doing things. It's not just in the p...

For the purposes of this article, we define clinical research as that form of medical research that involves human beings as the direct subjects of the research at the individual or a population level. The research may involve the study of biological samples (eg, blood, genes, proteins, and tissue) as a means to understand the individual or the group, but the ultimate objective for the clinical...

At this meeting at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), established academics and members of grant awarding bodies advised an audience, predominantly comprising trainees pursuing or contemplating a career in clinical science, on why, when and how to tackle such a career path in the current climate. There has arguably never been a more exciting time to be involved in clinical science. In this ...

I t is a remarkable fact that antioxidants are nontoxic compounds that reduce the incidence of cancer. Antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin E, -carotene, lycopene, and selenium are regularly found to reduce the risk of lung, prostate, stomach, or total cancers, as well as oral precancers, in epidemiologic studies (1). Foods containing these nutrients are similarly effective, as are nondietary ...