Pregnancy during graduate medical training

Post-graduate medical training in Singapore.

Medical Disorders during Pregnancy

Pregnancy during postgraduate surgical training.

O ver the years, a fair amount of research on pregnancy and postgraduate medical training has been completed. A simple PubMed search on this topic generates hundreds of hits, and yet we are not done examining this very important topic. In this issue of the Canad ian Journal of Surgery, Merchant and colleagues address this topic again. They discuss pregnancy as a potential cause for lack of inte...

Residency training: neurology training: a comparison of Australian and American graduate medical education.

Neurology training varies significantly from country to country, with respect to length of working hours, intensity of work, exposure to subspecialties, and readiness for solo practice postresidency. This has been examined in part through surveys by the World Federation of Neurology. In Australia, neurology training closely mirrors the British system, from whence it was derived. Specialty train...

Thyroid storm during pregnancy. A medical emergency.

Thyroid storm is the major risk to pregnant women with thyrotoxicosis. This life-threatening condition is more likely to occur with another precipitating factor such as labor and delivery, surgical delivery, infection, or trauma. Thyroid storm most often occurs in patients with undertreated or undiagnosed hyperthyroidism. As many as 20% to 30% of cases can end in maternal and fetal mortality. T...