William Eldon Tucker, FRCS, CVO, MBE, TD

Robert Wilson Jackson, OC, MD, FRCS, FRCSC, FRCS(Ed): a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

Robert Jackson (Figure 1) was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1932 and grew up there. He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1956. After a rotating internship, he did a year of research in the orthopaedic surgery department at one of the hospitals connected to the University of Toronto; for his work during that year on the proper management of fractures of the tibia, he re...

Bristol Final FRCS Course

The Final FRCS examination is said to be easy to fail but not difficult to pass. The two-week course held annually in Bristol over the last 6 years is designed primarily to aid candidates gain experience of examination conditions which they will meet when they take the examination at one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons. Poor viva voce technique is one of the largest hurdles on the day and has...

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Jose Medina Pestana , MD , PhD , FRCS

JMP: After finishing medical residency training at the Federal University of São Paulo in 1983, I was offered a position leading a team aiming at increasing the number of kidney transplants at the same institution. At that time, less than 500 kidney transplants had been performed annually in the entire countrywith the vast majority retrieved from living donors. My previous experience had been s...

Finding minimum Tucker submatrices

A binary matrix has the Consecutive Ones Property (C1P) if its columns can be ordered in such a way that all 1s on each row are consecutive. These matrices are used for DNA physical mapping and ancestral genome reconstruction in computational biology on the other hand they represents a class of convex bipartite graphs and are of interest of algorithm graph theory researchers. Tucker gave a forb...