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Clinical learning is an ongoing cycle of progress pivoting on feedback

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Medical education: giving feedback to doctors in training

When delivered well, feedback improves doctors’ skillsets. This article offers advice on how clinicians can do this effectively for students and doctors in training

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Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

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Malaria drugs left ineffective by spread of multidrug resistant parasites in southeast Asia

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Should obesity be recognised as a disease?

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GMC opens new test centre for overseas trained doctors

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OTC drugs: push to cut prescribing fails to bring savings in some categories, BMJ analysis finds

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Partha Kar: Is genuine patient choice possible in the NHS?

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Helen Salisbury: “Alexa, can you do my job for me?”

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Whorlton Hall: a predictable tragedy?

BMJ opinionWe must listen to, respect, and value people with learning difficulties

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NHS is spending more on private providers despite government pledges

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NHS pension: doctors’ views sought on “50:50” proposal

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Sixty seconds on . . . brushing teeth

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Consultants and SAS doctors in England to get 2.5% pay rise

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Patients find GP online services “cumbersome,” survey finds

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Investing in global health will “improve our NHS,” says England’s CMO

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Developing your career as an anaesthetist

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Separating conjoined twins: five minutes with . . . David Dunaway

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US Pentagon is told to investigate claims that Lyme disease is escaped bioweapon from cold war

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GMC will regulate physician associates, government announces

BMJ opinionMedical associate professionals—we need to challenge traditional hierarchy

BMJ opinionMAPs can become a key part of the NHS workforce, but they must not be treated as cheap, quickly trained doctors

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Ebola: calls for second experimental vaccine in DRC after WHO declares emergency

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