Host should also protect students on electives from HIV

Toward reciprocity: host supervisor perspectives on international medical electives.

CONTEXT An increasing number of medical students are engaging in international medical electives, the majority of which involve travel from northern, higher-income countries to southern, lower-income countries. Existing research has identified benefits to students participating in these experiences. However, reports on the impacts on host communities are largely absent from the literature. OB...

Protection from HIV on electives: questionnaire survey of UK medical schools.

Elective studies are an important part of the medical curriculum. Sixty to seventy per cent of British medical students (2400-3000 a year) spend their electives in developing countries. In 1999 the BMJ published our survey at one teaching hospital of students returning from electives, focusing on risks from bloodborne virus infections. In the same edition a survey of all United Kingdom medical ...

Patient organisations should also establish databanks on medical complications.

In 1998 a lawyer working for the Dutch consumer organisation, Consumentenbond, suggested that hospitals, like hotels, should be classified according to the quality of service they provide. For the establishment of such a register it would of course be necessary to determine various parameters, including the incidence of complications occurring in each hospital. It did not take long before this ...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

HIV status should also be documented in patients with tuberculosis-associated symmetrical peripheral gangrene.

HIV status should also be documented in patients with tuberculosis-associated symmetrical peripheral gangrene Sir, A major difference between the reporting of tuberculosis-associated 'simultaneous quadrilateral gangrene' in the era antedating awareness of the association of tuberculosis and human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infection, 1 and the reporting of tuberculosis-associated symmetrical...