Modernising Medical Careers: let's get it right second time around

Transformation: Let's Get it Right this Time

The lessons of Task Force Hawk and Kosovo have rung loudly in the halls of Congress and the Pentagon. However, the immense difficulty the US Army faced in deploying a capable, warfighting force to northern Albania is only symptomatic of a much larger problem that the Army has grappled with for several decades: how to develop a force light enough to get where it is needed quickly and yet lethal ...

Get it right the first time.

From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Disclosures: Author has nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication March 27, 2017; accepted for publication March 28, 2017. Address for reprints: Thomas A. D’Amico, MD, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3496, D...

Modernising medical careers: F2 posts in general practice.

The RCGP has long believed that all doctors in training should spend time in general practice. Since the introduction of the Foundation Programmes in Modernising Medical Careers there have been some local pilots, but wider introduction has been difficult because of lack of funding. The Minister of Health has now announced new funding for Foundation Year 2 (F2) posts in England, of £70 million. ...

Modernising medical careers; the really hard work now begins.

Minute Ventilation: It Takes Time to Get It Right

The search for ideal predictors of successful extubation or “liberation” from mechanical ventilation has been a subject of constant investigation for over half a century. Initial investigations were spurred by the need to determine adequate reversal of paralytic agents after general anesthesia, sufficient to allow sustained spontaneous ventilation and permit extubation.1,2 It is notable that th...