You searched for "practice"
An interview with ChatGPT (3.5)
For this month’s Digital Review I explored the hype surrounding Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) from Open AI. The free version is still available at https://chat.openai.com/chat (ChatGPT 3.5) and was used in this article. At the time of writing this...Should it be a mandatory requirement for medical students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend clinical attachments?
The vast majority of medical students have positive attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves and patients, however, what about the small inevitable minority who resist it? Should they be prevented from attending clinical attachments in the NHS? It is...BAUS 2022: Welcome to BAUS 2022. The return of face to face…
What a pleasure it is to write this welcome to the BAUS congress for 2022. The three years that have elapsed since we all met and celebrated together seem like an eternity and I’m sure we are relishing the chance...What is a leadership fellowship?
What is a leadership fellowship?” This is a question that is often asked about my year out of training to undertake the National Medical Director’s (NMD) Clinical Fellow Scheme. I hope to provide an insight into what a fellowship in...How to organise a urology taster week as a foundation trainee
Current exposure to urology in medical undergraduate curriculums is relatively sparse in comparison to the other surgical specialties with one study reporting just 42% of students having a compulsory attachment. These attachments were an average length of just one week...Making the most of BJUI Knowledge – a trainee’s perspective
BJUI Knowledge combines online continuing professional development (CPD) content for urologists with a platform for recording all CPD activity in one place. This also makes it a useful resource for urological trainees. This article will outline how to use BJUI...
Urologists beware!
This article recounts the story of a Californian urologist who was shot dead two decades later by a patient who was diagnosed with stricture of the urethra. The patient underwent surgery for urethral stricture in 1992 by a team (ironically,...
Patient-reported outcomes after prostate cancer treatment
This study used the survivorship (LIVESTRONG) care plan tool to identify patient-reported toxicities that occurred following treatment for prostate cancer. All patients had undergone treatments, which were considered to have similar oncological endpoints. The tool asked patients questions with regard...
Health-related quality of life in men with corrected hypospadias
More and more studies on long-term outcomes of paediatric operations are being published, many of which concentrate on health-related quality of life (HRQol) scores. This paper compared 45 men with corrected hypospadias (mean age 26.2 years +/- 5.1 years) with...
