Coming face to face with over one thousand GPs and presenting your research at the biggest GP conference in the UK is one way to find out more about GP as a career path. The GP Education Group (GPEG) supported five students to attend the Royal College of General Practitioners Annual Conference in October 2017. […]
Archives for October 2017
Breastfeeding and risk of developing breast cancer
The protective relationship between breastfeeding and the risk of developing breast cancer is well documented. To be able to communicate the protective effect to patients the existing evidence needs to be understood by healthcare providers. As part of their SSC component and the CanRisk project, clinical students Tom Weatherby and Stephen Woodmansey worked with Dr […]
Almost half of teens and young adults with cancer face devastating fatigue long after cancer treatments end
Young people who have had cancer can suffer with severe exhaustion for months or even years after their treatment has ended. Many patients were left unable to study, work or socialise, according to research led by Dr Anna Spathis, Associate Specialty Director in Palliative Medicine at the Primary Care Unit and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, […]
Knowing how non communicable diseases are caused does not mean we can prevent them: lessons from the history of public health
Efforts to prevent non communicable diseases (NCDs) are dominated by a simple idea: once you know the causes of a disease you can do effective prevention. So behaviours like eating, consuming alcohol, not taking exercise and smoking have been the centre of policy attention for decades These behaviours, their associated risks, the disease and its […]
Experts express concerns over infant mental health assessment
Forty world experts on child development and mental health have released a joint statement calling for caution when applying an influential classification for assessing infant mental health and potential cases of abuse. The Disorganised Infant Attachment classification […] is much too blunt an instrument to be used for child protection assessment Robbie Duschinsky The consensus […]
Richard Thaler: Contender for a Nobel Prize in Psychology?
Blog by Professor Dame Theresa Marteau Richard Thaler is an economist that is fluent in Psychology and has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics. His contribution, as recognised by the awarding committee, has been to apply the psychology of judgement and decision-making to economics. This has not only increased understanding sub-optimal financial decisions […]