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Volume 214 Issue 2

1 February 2021

Perspectives

We need a model of health and aged care services that adequately supports Australians with dementia

NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research Special Interest Group in Rehabilitation and Dementia

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 66-68.e1

Demographics and performance of candidates in the examinations of the Australian Medical Council, 1978–2019

Neville D Yeomans, Jillian R Sewell, Philip Pigou and Stuart Macintyre

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 54-58.e1

Rethinking pharmacological venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in minimally invasive gynaecological procedures

Esther MC Johns, Alex Ades and Pavitra Nanayakkara

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 60-62.e1

Putting the “good” into Good Clinical Practice

Tanya Symons, Steve Webb and John R Zalcberg

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 62-65.e1

Medical education

Key research skills

How to use imperfect tests for COVID‐19 (SARS‐CoV‐2) to make clinical decisions

Katy JL Bell, Fiona F Stanaway, Les M Irwig, Andrea R Horvath, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto and Clement Loy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 69-73.e1 Free

Editorials

The role of mathematical models in developing policies for controlling COVID‐19 transmission

Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 74-75 Free

Health and climate change MJA–Lancet Countdown report: Australia gets another failing grade in 2020 but shows signs of progress

Nicholas J Talley, Fiona J Stanley, Tamara Lucas and Richard C Horton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 75-76 Free

Is the UCAT appropriate for selecting undergraduate medical students?

David A Powis, Don Munro and Miles R Bore

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 77-78

Research

Modelling the impact of relaxing COVID‐19 control measures during a period of low viral transmission

Nick Scott, Anna Palmer, Dominic Delport, Romesh Abeysuriya, Robyn M Stuart, Cliff C Kerr, Dina Mistry, Daniel J Klein, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Katie Heath, Samuel W Hainsworth, Alisa Pedrana, Mark Stoove, David Wilson and Margaret E Hellard

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 79-83 Open Access

The change from UMAT to UCAT for undergraduate medical school applicants: impact on selection outcomes

Barbara Griffin, Graeme L Horton, Lisa Lampe, Boaz Shulruf and Wendy Hu

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 84-89 Free

Research letter

The short to medium term benefits of the Australian colorectal cancer screening program

Sasha Taylor, Farhad Salimi, Arul Earnest, Alexander G Heriot, John R Zalcberg and Susannah Ahern

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 90-92 Free

Letters

Maintaining routine vaccination during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Jessica Kaufman and Katie Attwell, the Collaboration on Social Science, Immunisation (COSSI) Working Group

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 93-93.e1 Free

Sodium–glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: managing the small but critical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

Emily J Meyer, Venkatesan Thiruvenkatarajan and David Jesudason

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 93-93.e1

Sodium–glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: managing the small but critical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

Peter S Hamblin, Rosemary Wong and Leon A Bach

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 94-94.e1

Time for a clear national COVID‐19 strategy

James M Trauer, Ben J Marais, Romain Ragonnet, Julian Savulescu and Emma S McBryde

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 94-94.e1 Free

COVID‐19: estimated number of deaths if Australia had experienced a similar outbreak to England and Wales

Fiona Stanaway, Les M Irwig, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto and Katy JL Bell

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 95-95.e1 Free