In my surgery, I sit at my ­grandmother’s kidney-shaped wooden desk with its leather top. My view from the desk is a high window with a glass shelf, lined with patent medicine bottles of all sizes,

It was American surgeon and author Richard Selzer who, in Letters to a Young Doctor, famously wrote: “You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from

Researchers say they may be able to predict which GP registrars are most likely to fail fellowship exams before they even start their vocational training.

Medical education expert Dr Rebecca Stewart,

Thousands of IMGs will be offered mentors under a Federal Government initiative to help isolated doctors achieve fellowship.

The decision follows long-running concerns about the isolation faced by

Claims by GP registrars that they are being bullied on the job have triggered calls for a “rigorous review” of the GP training environment.

General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) claims its

New doctors appear to be focused on surviving rather than on thriving, according to a study looking at their working conditions.

The authors say the findings provide the clearest signal yet of the

Generalists deal better with diagnostic uncertainty than specialists, with research suggesting that having clinical expertise restricted to single organs may be a limitation on formulating

Researchers say they have the first objective evidence of the heavy toll that a hospital internship can take on a young doctor’s mental health.

In this pilot study, 33 new doctors were asked to wear

More than half of junior doctors in the UK report interrupting their training to work overseas, a survey by the British Medical Association shows.

And Australia is the most popular destination for a

It’s time to rethink the way GP registrars are trained, say the authors of a report that suggests young doctors today are not fully up to the job.

Clinical Associate Professor Susan Wearne, a