Do Junior Doctors feel confident using Emergency Detention Certificates?

How Confident Do You Feel?

In this issue of Neuron, Fetsch et al. (2014) show that microstimulation of motion-sensitive neurons in the visual cortex (MT/MST) of primates mimics the addition of sensory information for which the stimulated neurons are selective. Such microstimulation increases the confidence that monkeys have in their decisions about motion direction.

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Do junior doctors take sick leave?

Nosocomial infections place a heavy burden on overstretched health services. An audit of junior doctors' sick leave behaviour was undertaken in 1993 and again in 2001. The object was to ascertain the level of common infectious illness and to investigate whether junior doctors were remaining at work inappropriately. The doctors were asked if any factors had influenced their decision to take sick...

Violence towards junior doctors in accident and emergency departments.

The experience and training of accident and emergency (A&E) junior doctors with regard to patient aggression was investigated by use of a telephone questionnaire. A total of 114 A&E departments in five different regions in the United Kingdom were telephoned. A total of 100 junior doctors answered the questionnaire. Verbal aggression had been experienced by 96 of them, 50 had received threats an...

Interpretation of the emergency electrocardiogram by junior hospital doctors.

OBJECTIVE To assess the ability of a cohort of junior hospital doctors to interpret ECGs which have immediate clinical relevance and influence subsequent management of patients. METHODS 57 junior hospital doctors were interviewed and asked to complete a standard questionnaire which included eight ECGs for interpretation and a supplementary question relating to the administration of thrombolyt...