Hot Topics for the MRCGP

Each week on the DRC the first half hour will be spent discussing hot topics. To get the most out of these sessions, we suggest that you read:

• the last copy/copies of the BMJ - available on-line: http://bmj.com/ (if you don't have time to read it all, pick out one or two papers that interest you)
• the last copy of the BJGP - now also available on-line: http://www.rcgp.org.uk/rcgp/journal/index.asp

Also be aware of current medical news stories. Most days there are medical issues that hit the headlines - everything from purported breakthroughs to scandals to ministerial pronouncements.

If your Course Organisers are talking about these topics, you can be sure that the MRCGP examiners will be asking about them as well!

From: Davin Bains

Sent: 17 January 2007 22:11

Subject: Topic for Wednesday 24/1/07

This is the topic for next Wednesday morning.

Strategies to prevent falls and fractures in hospitals and care homes and effect of cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analyses

David Oliver, James B Connelly, Christina R Victor, Fiona E Shaw, Anne Whitehead, Yasemin Genc, Alessandra Vanoli, Finbarr C Martin, Margot A Gosney

BMJ 2007;334:82, doi:10.1136/bmj.39049.706493.55 (published 8 December 2006)

Sent: 18 December 2006 10:22

Subject: paper- wed 20th

Dear All

The DRC paper this week is from this weeks BMJ:

" Effectiveness of an influenza vaccine programme for care home staff to prevent death, morbidity, and health service use among residents; cluster randomised controlled trial"

BMJ 2006;333:1241 (16 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39010.581354.55 (published 1 December 2006).
Regards

From: Kenneth Burke

Sent: 24 November 2006 14:32

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all well,

I'm going to talk about the recent paper in the BMJ re tennis elbow.

Mobilisation with movement and exercise, corticosteroid injection, or wait and see for tennis elbow: randomised trial.
L Bisset et al

BMJ 2006;333:939 (4 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.38961.584653.AE (published 29 September 2006)

Cheers

Ken

From: Katrina Goodland

Sent: 17 November 2006 09:26

Hi Everyone!

Hopefully you will find attached the paper for next week!

If not it is :Self management of arthritis in primary care: randomised controlled trial BMJ 2006;333:879, doi:10.1136/bmj.38965.375718.80

Enjoy!

Kat

From: Simon Church

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:57:24 +0000

Dear All,

Hope you are all able to open this-let me know if it's a problem,

Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly people living in care homes--randomised controlled trial -- Zermansky et al_ 35 (6)- 586 -- Age and Ageing

Simon

From: Philip Weldon

Sent: 28 October 2006

Hi,

The paper that I'm going to be thrilling everyone with on Nov 8th is the telephone CBT for obsessive compulsive disorder from this weeks BMJ, http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/333/7574/883

Phil

From: Sian Langdon

Sent: 16 October 2006 09:02

Subject: Re: this weeks paper

Hi Paula

Not sure if yahoo groups is working so I'm sending you this weeks riveting read to send to the rest of the group.

It'ss called RCT of management stradegies for acute infective conjunctivitis in general practice, from the BMJ in August

Best Wishes

Sian