Editorial: Withdrawal of previously promised funds for training places will undermine efforts to address manpower shortages, writes medical editor John Latham.
News: Influenza increase⿦ Annual summer school 2008⿦ New substance misuse training programme⿦ Irish doctor awarded wins major award... Comments sought on draft strategic plan... New courses launched at distance learning workshop... Popular road show brings relevant clinical updates straight to GPs... Submissions sought from GPs on Mental Health Act.
Cover Story: HSE cuts will increase concern about GP manpower. Niall Hunter reports.
Research: Claire Collins and Helena Daly on barriers to early cancer detection.
Feature: Michael Lucey on the importance of leadership in medicine.
Feature: A look at an audit of a GP liaison nurse hospital service.
IT Q&As: Your computer-related questions tackled by the NGPIT group.
Pain Management: Understanding lower back pain often means looking at psychosocial aspect.
Practice Management: Your practice-related questions tackled by the College MiPP.
Diary: Round-up of meetings and events of interest to GPs.
Allergy Casebook: The second instalment in a new series looks at a sleep problem.
Mental Health: Farhan Haq provides guidelines on early detection in psychosis.
Clinical Review: COPD support groups are invaluable to patients, writes Jaye Farran in the second article in this series.
Clinical Review: Probiotics could become a valuable therapy, writes Colin Hill.
Clinical Review: Oesophageal cancer is on the rise, writes Richard Roche-Nagle.
Men's Health: Hugh Bredin looks at the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Women's Health: Mary Short makes the case for long-acting contraception.
Clinical Review Service: A selection of reviews of papers from the worldâ¿¿s leading medical journals, as chosen by our panel of GPs.
Latham at Large: John Latham on fostering community spirit in primary care.
From the Trenches: Michael Oâ¿¿Brien says â¿¿everything in moderationâ¿¿ is a good motto.
Distance Learning: Cervical Cancer: Womenâ¿¿s Health: This monthâ¿¿s distance learning programme for GPs deals with cervical cancer. The programme is study leave-approved.
ICGP journal supplement
| Format | Weblink |
|---|---|
| Keywords | periodicals |
| Publisher | MedMedia Ltd |
| Classification | periodicals |
| Volume | 25 |
| ISSN | 0790-9977 |
| Pages | 75 |
| Categories: | Irish Content, Forum, ICGP Resources |
| External Link | http://www.icgp.ie/go/library/forum?spid=F44F8609-19B9-E185-83296EEFAC2BB2D9 |
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