Article Types
Letters
Rural, urban: the real world for medical education
A university program is pioneering urban community-based medical education
Sarah Mahoney
Guidelines fall short on bariatric surgery
The guidelines are not intended for bariatric surgeons and their teams
John McCallum
Guidelines fall short on bariatric surgery
The text within the guidelines did not reflect either the established literature or the systematic review
John B Dixon
Register4: an Australian web-enabled resource created by the National Breast Cancer Foundation to facilitate and accelerate cancer research
Willing participants help cut the costs and time involved in recruitment for cancer research
John L Hopper · Carmel Apicella · Alison J Butt
Harms unknown: health uncertainties cast doubt on the role of unconventional gas in Australia's energy future
Information is accumulating about the impacts on environmental determinants of health
Marion G Carey · Helen Redmond · Melissa R Haswell
The cost of teaching an intern in New South Wales
A greater emphasis on informal teaching may bring higher educational returns at lower cost
Kieran Walsh
Revalidation - what is the problem and what are the possible solutions?
Closing the implementation gap: making sure CPD improves quality of care
Matthew J Links
Myopia and skin cancer are inversely correlated: results of the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study
UV radiation-related skin cancer as a result of excessive time spent outdoors is associated with less myopia
Maria Franchina · Seyhan Yazar · Michael Hunter · Adam Gajdatsy · Jean-Louis deSousa · Alex W Hewitt · David A Mackey
headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?
Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary
Tracey A Davenport · Elizabeth M Scott · Daniel F Hermens
headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?
Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary
Ian B Hickie · Elizabeth M Scott · Nicholas Glozier
headspace - Australia's innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?
Comparing data between centres and nationally is complex but necessary
Debra J Rickwood · Nic R Telford · Alexandra G Parker · Chris J Tanti · Patrick D McGorry
The case for CBT over antidepressants
In support of the central theme of Biegler’s The ethical treatment of depression: autonomy through psychotherapy
P Jane Wilson
A quack heard around the world
Sport and exercise medicine focuses on removing obstacles to physical activity at all ages and exercise capacities
John B Best
A crop of mango dermatitis in the Northern Territory
The sap of mango trees can produce effects similar to those of poison ivy and poison oak
William Sargent · Paula Ferguson
National guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk
Guidelines for managing cardiovascular disease risk don’t preclude combining an ACE inhibitor with an ARB
Christopher J O’Callaghan · Pei Rong · Min Y Goh
A quack heard around the world
Sport and exercise medicine focuses on removing obstacles to physical activity at all ages and exercise capacities
David Hughes
Caveat emptor: the corruption of open access scientific publishing
Is the “publish or perish” culture breeding dodgy journals seeking to make a profit?
Lileane Liang Xu · Anthony Minh Tien Chau
It's time for clinical guidelines to enter the digital age
Clinical guidelines are ideally suited to electronic publication and updating
Richard I Lindley · Richard G Larkins · Erin Lalor
The utility of genetics in inherited cancer
Population-based strategies are needed to prevent breast cancer and to complement identification and treatment
Rosalie Schultz
Growing the clinical academic workforce: the case for structured academic training programs for junior doctors
A growing shortage of academic clinicians provokes calls for an explicit academic training pathway
Harris A Eyre · Rob D Mitchell · William J Milford
Prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders must include maternal treatment
More attention to treating women is needed to prevent FASD
Lucy Burns · Courtney Breen · Adrian J Dunlop
Proportionate research funding based on relative burden of conditions of communication and swallowing
A Senate inquiry offers an opportunity to redress the balance
Adam P Vogel · Sarah E Plant
Pathways to enhancing the quality of stroke care through national data monitoring systems for hospitals
The advent of thrombolytic treatment has focused global research and public awareness on ischaemic events rather than other stroke subtypes
Linda J Nichols · Lindsay Smith · Penny L Allen
Pathways to enhancing the quality of stroke care through national data monitoring systems for hospitals
Current national monitoring excludes subarachnoid haemorrhage, but a separate national registry to monitor process of care may be warranted
Dominique A Cadilhac · Craig S Anderson
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae in an Australian child who had not travelled overseas
Vertical or horizontal transmission of beta-lactam-resistant gram-negative bacteria has occurred in Australia
Christopher C Blyth · Lynette Pereira · Namraj Goire
