The MJA Dr Eric Dark creative writing prize

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Another fantastic competition to get your creative juices flowing – just in time for the Christmas break – The MJA Dr Eric Dark creative writing prize

MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize

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Announcing the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) and MDA National Nossal Global Health Prize. International competition for medical students and medical practitioners

Osler and Australia

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William Osler’s Australian connections and his Australian legacy is discussed in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Journals go Christmas Crazy

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It is tradition for doctors to descend into a state of inane infatuation with esoteric in-jokes, trifling trivia and medical mockery as seasonal silliness reaches its Christmas crescendo. Nowhere is this more evident than the annual hospital Christmas Quiz, an institution perpetuated throughout the anglocentric medical world, or the ‘Christmas issues’ of the British Medical Journal and the Medical Journal of Australia.

Fellows of the UCEM embrace WHORe model

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It may be idealistic, but the UCEM firmly believes that in the future the management of emergency patients should be outsourced and entirely orchestrated from offshore. Hands-off-medicine, teleconferencing, the iPhone and video assisted robotic technology (VART) will assist in the management of critically ill patients within the waiting room.