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Medical education
Hunting for a cause of painful diplopia
A fit, active 80-year-old man presented to the emergency department with double vision
Sarah L Stevens · Daniel Schweitzer
Chromoblastomycosis in immunosuppressed patients
A 71-year-old man taking immunosuppressive medication for a renal transplant developed four chronic lower leg ulcers over 6 months
Emily R Sideris · Ludi Ge
Massive oxidative haemolysis and renal failure caused by high dose vitamin C
A 54-year-old man, who was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer in March 2016, received first-line treatment with docetaxel and degarelix
Matthew J Rees · Madeleine C Strach · Kate Burbury · Kelly-Anne Phillips
Accreditation as a quality improvement tool: is it still relevant?
Despite lack of quantitative hard evidence, accreditation still works, although there is room for improvement
Nesibe Akdemir · David A Ellwood · Theanne Walters · Fedde Scheele
Who are you and who do you want to be? Key considerations in developing professional identities in medicine
Learning to navigate the complexities of professional identity formation should benefit the profession and in turn improve the safety and effectiveness of patient care
Charlotte E Rees · Lynn V Monrouxe
Network meta-analysis in health care decision making
Network meta-analysis helps determine which treatments are viable options and which are not, but its interpretation to inform clinical decision making remains a challenge
Bram Rochwerg · Romina Brignardello-Petersen · Gordon Guyatt
Bee sting to the cornea: toxic effects and management
A 62-year-old man with a history of bee allergy presented with severe eye pain one day after being stung in the eye by a bee
Andrew Olivo Payne · Elaine Chong
Brugada syndrome and undifferentiated syncope: use of an implantable loop recorder to document causation
Implantable loop recorders allow for continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring in patients with undifferentiated syncope
Garry Hamilton · David O'Donnell · Hui-Chen Han
The scourge of the C
A 58-year-old woman was admitted with chronic lower limb ulcers
Alicia R Jones · Kavita Kumareswaran
An unexpected orbital foreign body
A 61-year-old man presented with left periorbital swelling and an upper lid laceration after a fall onto a chair
Matthew H Lee · Elaine Chong
Reversible pancytopenia caused by severe copper deficiency in a patient with Wilson disease
A 26-year-old woman was referred to the haematologist for evaluation of new onset pancytopenia
Muhajir Mohamed · Anna Johnston · Andrew Maclaine Cross · Archna Sharma
Medical education research: aligning design and research goals
All study designs have their strengths and weaknesses, and it is critical to be aware of these when thinking about how best to address a particular research goal
Jennifer A Cleland · Steven J Durning · Erik Driessen
Survival studies: competing risks, immortality and censoring
Time complicates all studies, but this can be managed by collecting detailed data on participants over time and using survival analysis
Adrian G Barnett · Christopher Oldmeadow · John R Attia
Fulminant meningococcal sepsis due to non-groupable Neisseria meningitidis in a patient receiving eculizumab
A 25-year-old man presented to hospital with 3 days of non-specific abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea
Victoria Hall · Rekha Pai Mangalore · Simon He · Kerrie Stevens · Jason A Trubiano · Natasha E Holmes · Benjamin P Howden · Jason C Kwong
Pulmonary extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Melbourne: local control of a global health challenge
The first reported case of XDR-TB in Melbourne highlights the need for Australia to continue to support global TB control efforts
Adrian R Tramontana · David E Leslie · Aine Nolan · Maria Globan · Janet M Fyfe · Justin T Denholm · Stephen D Guy
Tremor: a simple four-step approach to clinical assessment
Tremor is the most common movement disorder encountered in clinical practice
Andre Loiselle
Understanding statistical principles in linear and logistic regression
Introducing the concept of multivariable regression
Alice M Richardson · Grace Joshy · Catherine A D'Este
A severe case of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) osteomyelitis requiring a below-knee amputation
About 80-90% of patients with Buruli ulcer acquired in Far North Queensland present with an ulcer
Michael J Loftus · Nicola Kettleton-Butler · Denton Wade · R Michael Whitby · Paul DR Johnson
Preparing medical graduates for the health effects of climate change: an Australasian collaboration
Building a medical workforce that understands the impact of climate change on health and health services and will create change
Diana L Madden · Michelle McLean · Graeme L Horton
A case of adult-onset Kawasaki disease
A previously healthy 30-year-old man of European ancestry presented with a one-week history of fevers and vomiting …
Alexandra Gehrmann · Karen Morwood · David Gillis · Terence Coleman · Shradha Subedi
Bedside cognitive assessment
Screening for cognitive impairment may lead to diagnostic and treatment plans that improve patients’ safety
Lorenzo Norris · Elizabeth L Cobbs
Insulinoma: important in the differential diagnosis of persistent hypoglycaemia unrelated to diabetes
Insulinoma is a rare cause of hypoglycaemia but should be considered in the differential diagnosis of persistent hypoglycaemia
Hui Yi Ng · Alexia Pape
Sudden onset dyspnoea and recurrent stridor
A 37-year-old woman admitted for elective reduction mammoplasty developed stridor after extubation
Clarissa Susanto
Educational research: current trends, evidence base and unanswered questions
Medical education is a rapidly developing field requiring specific research approaches to provide evidence that can effectively translate into clinical practice
Lambert WT Schuwirth · Steven J Durning
Guided by the research design: choosing the right statistical test
Choosing the right statistical test or model can be baffling for researchers
Alissa Beath · Michael P Jones
