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Junior Medical Officers will be aided in their professional development by their peers, as part of a pilot study put together by staff of the Medical School at The Australian National University. The project, being undertaken with Melbourne’s Southern Health, aims to develop a kit that Junior Medical Officers (JMOs) can use to self-assess their own strengths across a range of professional competencies.

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The first generation of kids who grew up playing video games aren’t kids anymore. Today, they’re the backbone of the American workforce, and all that time playing games as kids, may be helping them now as adults. In fact, researchers hope to use computer animation to not only help train the next generation of surgeons, but to see how good they can really be.

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Following a request from the Secretary of State for Health, Lord Darzi has conducted a wide-ranging review of the NHS, the final report of this review is launched. The General Medical Council is the independent regulator of the medical profession in the UK, with responsibility for regulating doctors’ practice including overseeing undergraduate medical education and co-ordinating all stages of medical education and training.

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The Australian Medical Association today welcomed the application of the screening exam for international medical graduates (IMGs) coming to work in Australia. AMA Vice President, Dr Gary Speck, said the additional assessment will reassure Australians that they will continue to get the best possible medical care from these doctors.

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Pfizer officials recently announced that the company will no longer provide direct financial support for continuing medical education courses offered by for-profit medical education and communication companies, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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OnExamination, part of the BMJ group, announced a July special offer to schools, which will allow their sixth formers interested in attending medical school access to its online UKCAT practice resource. The online practice resource is designed to familiarise medical school candidates with the question types and exam techniques required to excel on the UKCAT exam.

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Research led by a team at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School has found that reducing the hours of junior doctors does not compromise patients’ safety and could even dramatically cut mistakes on wards but, there are some concerns about reduced educational opportunities for junior doctors which it affords.

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The Medical Defence Union has announced that a limited number of places are remaining for its upcoming communications skills workshops for doctors taking place at its head office in London. Dr Peter Schutte, Head of Advisory Services commented, “Many of the complaints and claims seen by the MDU can be traced back to a breakdown in communication between doctor and patient.

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The American Medical Association (AMA) today adopted new policy to help address the increasing medical student debt burden at its Annual Meeting. Over the last 15 years, the cost of a public school medical education has doubled and private school tuition has increased by 133 percent. Upon graduation, the average medical student has a debt of $140,000.

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Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine on Thursday said that a 424-bed $1.2 billion teaching hospital planned to replace Charity Hospital in New Orleans will not turn a profit, as the original plan had stated, and that it would require state money to become sustainable, the

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