Are ENT trainees given enough time to operate?

Tips for GP trainees working in ENT.

INTRODUCTION A rotation in ear, nose, and throat (ENT) is becoming increasingly common in general practice specialty training and not before time, given the amount of GP consultations that relate to this specialty. This is an ideal opportunity to pick up knowledge and skills that will serve you well in day-to-day practice in your registrar year and beyond. Youmay even consider using this experi...

How to operate for MRCS candidates and other surgical trainees.

How to operate for MRCS candidates and other surgical trainees is an exciting addition to the market for the junior surgical trainee. Uniquely combining a DVD and handbook companion, it provides a step by step guide to more than 40 common operations likely to be encountered during core surgical training. The handbook is aided by intra-operative images highlighting the salient anatomy and surgic...

Is time enough in order to know where you are?

This talk discusses various aspects of the structure of space-time presenting mechanisms leading to the explanation of the "rigidity" of the manifold and to the emergence of time, i.e. of the Lorentzian signature. The proposed ingredient is the analog, in four dimensions, of the deformation energy associated with the common three-dimensional elasticity theory. The inclusion of this additional t...

obesity dilemma: are there enough bariatric surgeons?

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow? Revisiting Eric Raymond with bug bounty programs

Bug bounty programs offer a modern platform for organizations to crowdsource their software security and for security researchers to be fairly rewarded for the vulnerabilities they find. Little is known however on the incentives set by bug bounty programs: How they drive new bug discoveries, and how they supposedly improve security through the progressive exhaustion of discoverable vulnerabilit...