Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year finalist: Dr Kate Samuel

On Thursday 17 January five young doctors will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year. Meet the finalist | Dr Katie Samuel  RSM Orthopaedics Section   Presentation title:  National practice of midstream urine testing preoperatively for elective orthopaedics – Is it worth the resources? A career with a breadth of skills Anaesthesia is […]

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Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year finalist: Dr Peter Jenkins

On Thursday 17 January five young doctors, including Dr Peter Jenkins, will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year. RSM Clinical Neurosciences Section Presentation title: Dopaminergic abnormalities following traumatic brain injury: A targeted approach to treating cognitive impairments. Route into neurology Dr Peter Jenkins studied medicine as a postgraduate at […]

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Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year finalist: Miss Catherine Zabkiewicz

On Thursday 17 January five young doctors will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year. RSM Surgery Section  Presentation title:  A gremlin in the works: Reduced expression of bone morphogenetic protein antagonist Gremlin aids breast cancer progression  Special interest in breast surgery  Miss Catherine Zabkiewicz studied medicine at Guy’s King’s and St.Thomas’ School of Medicine and is a trainee […]

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Yoga and women’s health

Yoga is an eight-part system which influences the whole person, mind and body. It is an ancient practice which incorporates different elements such as physical postures, which may be held for a long period of time, to breath control, mindfulness and a code of ethics. The ethos behind yoga is to be compassionate and kind […]

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Global medicine and women’s health

Professor Alison Fiander, former clinical lead of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist’s Centre for Women’s Global Health and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cardiff University, will be giving a talk on global gynaecology in the developing world at the evening event, Global Medicine and Women’s Health, to be held at the Royal […]

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Music on the brain – the RSM Brain Series

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Last week Professor Catherine Loveday delivered a lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2018 Brain Series lecture to a packed auditorium of doctors and academics. Loveday is a professor of psychology at the University of Westminster and also an amateur musician who performs regularly. She is passionate about neurosciences and is regularly invited to […]

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Surviving and thriving in the digital age

Dr Richard Graham is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Good Thinking: The London Digital Mental Well-being Service, who will be talking on the subject of surviving and thriving in the digital age at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine meeting, Digital mental health for children and young people on Monday 3rd December. Social media […]

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Babies – Their Wonderful World

The BBC2 series, Babies – Their Wonderful World, which airs for the next few weeks, draws on a wealth of recent and historical evidence to examine key developmental milestones in the first two years of life. We’ll look at exactly what happens when a young child has a tantrum from the first physiological response to […]

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Children are half of sport injury-related A&E attendances

The high burden of sport-related injuries on children has been highlighted by new research published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The researchers, from Newcastle University and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, analysed injury attendances recorded at two NHS hospitals in Oxford and Banbury between 1 January 2012 and 30 March […]

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How to tackle workload crisis in primary care

The growing workload crisis in NHS primary care could be helped by the systematic integration of community health workers at scale, a study shows. Published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the modelling study was led by researchers at Imperial College London. Using a model introduced in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy, they […]

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