Editorial: GP trainee numbers are on the rise, but trainers face an uncertain future, writes medical editor John Latham.
News: Upcoming College AGM agenda, Driver's licence medical report form updated, Wonca Europe conference, Acute cardiac and trauma emergency courses, New mental health guidelines.
Cover Story: Simon Morgan looks at the dangers from communicable diseases, and how important it is to report them.
Feature: Physician Health: An international conference has stressed the need for physician health programmes.
GP IT: College Website: Angela Byrne looks at what the College website can do for GPs and researchers.
Establishing GPs: Locum Work: Locum work is focused on in the first of a three-part series.
GP IT: Your Questions Answered: Your computer-related questions tackled by the NGPIT group.
Open Forum: Chemotherapy: Patricia McNicholl on her experience of undergoing chemotherapy.
Medico-legal: Nurse Prescribing laws: Megan Anne Hooper looks at the new nurse prescribing laws and their ramifications.
Practice Management: Your practice-related questions tackled by the College MiPP.
Feature: Chronic Disease: A new chronic disease programme is to be piloted, writes Carmel Mullaney.
Open Forum: Shared Care: Jim Keely on his ultimately frustrating experience of shared care.
Feature: Smoking Cessation: Olivia Fens looks at the GP role in smoking cessation.
Doctor's Dilemma: Sensitive practice issues were discussed at a recent registrars' meeting, writes Conor Caffrey.
Diary: Round up of meetings and events of interest to GPs.
Research: Cause-of-death Data: Access to cause-of-death data is essential for researchers, write Brian Buckley et al.
Clinical Review: Depression in Dementia: Depression in dementia is underdiagnosed, write Declan Lyons and Foluso Ademola.
Dermatology: Skin Infections: David Buckley looks at the two most common bacterial causes of skin infections in general practice.
Women's Health: ICGP Educational Project: Anne Henrichsen looks at three new ICGP educational projects.
Clinical Service Review: A selection of reviews of papers from the world's leading medical journals, as chosen by our panel of GPs. Readers wishing to obtain copies of the papers can email their requests with reference number for each article.
Latham at Large: A hospital visit through the eyes of a six-year-old John Latham.
From the Trenches: Michael O'Brien says more honesty is needed in sex education.
Distance Learning: Chronic Pain: This month's distance learning programme for GPs deals pain management. The programme is study leave-approved.
ICGP journal supplement
| Format | Weblink |
|---|---|
| Keywords | periodicals |
| Publisher | MedMedia Ltd |
| Classification | periodicals |
| Volume | 24 |
| ISSN | 0790-9977 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Categories: | Irish Content, Forum, ICGP Resources |
| External Link | http://www.icgp.ie/go/library/forum?spid=B6B0EA3D-AC2D-8013-B35EADAA02743DA3 |
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