Considerations on Higher or Postgraduate Medical Studies

Postgraduate medical training: getting patients on board.

OBJECTIVES To survey family planning clinic (FPC) patients who may be involved in the Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP) practical training; to obtain their views about the process of giving consent to their involvement; and to compare their views with current practice. METHODS Questionnaire surveys of 103 female FPC patients and 40 DFFP instructing doctors. Patients were recrui...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Regional postgraduate medical centres.

We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Journal.