The four pillars of global academic medicine
	Kamran Abbasi
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This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Tackle the hidden curriculum to improve medical schools [Full text] FREE

	Encouraging people to be active is not enough [Full text] FREE

	Health declines fast after 45 in Russia [Full text] FREE

	Off-site triage can work in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Fasting during Ramadan affects drug treatment [Full text] FREE

	Academic medicine needs a global agenda [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Who cares about academic medicine?
	Jocalyn Clark, Peter Tugwell
	BMJ  2004;329:751-752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.751 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Academic medicine and global health responsibilities
	Nelson Sewankambo
	BMJ  2004;329:752-753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.752 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Academic medicine as a resource for global health: the case of Brazil
	Maria Inês Schmidt, Bruce B Duncan
	BMJ  2004;329:753-754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.753 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Home blood glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes
	Rebecca M Reynolds, Mark W J Strachan
	BMJ  2004;329:754-755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.754 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aspartame and its effects on health
	Michael E J Lean, Catherine R Hankey
	BMJ  2004;329:755-756, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.755 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Governance of academic medicine should be with public trustees
	Mary G Baker, B S Singhal, Matthew Menken
	BMJ  2004;329:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.798 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Academic medicine has pitfalls for junior researchers
	Matthew Ridd, Clare Emmett, Rachel Hardwick, Sinead Wright
	BMJ  2004;329:798, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.798-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Evidence base for problem based learning is growing
	Jill Morrison
	BMJ  2004;329:798-799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.798-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Unfunded reform always ends in reaction
	Julian T Hart
	BMJ  2004;329:799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.799 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Students are too many to be assessed individually in general hospitals
	Charles Fox
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	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: "Problem based learning" v "traditional" is a false debate
	Joshua D R Payne
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	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Evangelism triumphs over common sense for ophthalmology
	Michael P Clarke
	BMJ  2004;329:799-800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.799-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
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	Ethics: entitlement may benefit disadvantaged patients and students alike
	Malcolm McCoubrie
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	Measuring participation in UK medical schools: More insight is needed
	J Alastair Lack
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	Measuring participation in UK medical schools: Social class data are problematic to interpret
	I C McManus
	BMJ  2004;329:800-801, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.800-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Measuring participation in UK medical schools: Authors' reply
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2004;329:801, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.801 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Emphasise burns prevention in developing countries
	Abdu S Opaluwa, Samuel K Orkar
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	Screening research papers by reading abstracts: Idea seems reasonable
	S S Musheer Hussain
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	Screening research papers by reading abstracts: Just how rapid is "eternal" review?
	Jonathan N Latham
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	Screening research papers by reading abstracts: Review may be eternal but rejection is swift
	Jeremy N V Miles
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News

This week's News

	Doctor facing GMC inquiry over Shipman deaths admits failures
	Clare Dyer
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	Tobacco companies aimed to keep smokers hooked, court told
	Anne Harding
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	In brief
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	NICE issues guidance on sepsis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.758-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	South Africa to regulate healers
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2004;329:758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.758-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Deregistered psychiatrist convicted of murder
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2004;329:759, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.759 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US consumer body calls for review of cholesterol guidelines
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:759, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.759-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Walking protects elderly people from dementia, studies show
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:761, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.761-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GP training will receive more funding
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2004;329:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.762 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	It's time to rethink access to GPs within 48 hours, report says
	Ann McGauran
	BMJ  2004;329:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.762-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Commission raises questions over Northern Ireland's death certificates
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2004;329:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.760 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Food fortification cuts cases of spina bifida in Canada
	Robert Short
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	Celebrating the bond between mother and child
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2004;329:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.760-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Cardiomyocytes from human stem cells restore heart rhythm
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2004;329:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.760-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Stroke and heart attack admissions are linked to cold weather
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;329:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.760-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	EU proposes changes to working time directive
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;329:761, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.761 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Live birth reported after ovarian tissue transplant
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:761, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.761-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Court strikes down "Terri's law"
	Fred Charatan
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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Criminal investigation follows report on asbestos compensation fund
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;329:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.762-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Corticosteroids may be effective for most cases of croup, study shows
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2004;329:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.762-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Welsh GPs resign from community hospitals
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;329:762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.762-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Promoting walking and cycling as an alternative to using cars: systematic review
	David Ogilvie, Matt Egan, Val Hamilton, Mark Petticrew
	BMJ  2004;329:763, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38216.714560.55, (Published 22 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Life span and disability: a cross sectional comparison of Russian and Swedish community based data
	Martin Bobak, Margareta Kristenson, Hynek Pikhart, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  2004;329:767, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38202.667130.55, (Published 17 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students' perceptions of teaching
	Heidi Lempp, Clive Seale
	BMJ  2004;329:770-773, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.770 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Semistructured interview] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	NHS Direct versus general practice based triage for same day appointments in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial
	David A Richards, Lesley Godfrey, Jane Tawfik, Mike Ryan, Joan Meakins, Evelyn Dutton, Jeremy Miles
	BMJ  2004;329:774, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38226.605995.55, (Published 17 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Drug intake during Ramadan
	N Aadil, I E Houti, S Moussamih
	BMJ  2004;329:778-782, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.778 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	ABC of preterm birth: Obstetric issues in preterm birth
	Deirdre J Murphy, Peter W Fowlie, William McGuire
	BMJ  2004;329:783-786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.783 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	ICRAM (the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine): agenda setting
	International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine
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	Academic medicine: the evidence base
	International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine
	BMJ  2004;329:789-792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.789 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Members of the working party, web references and two tables] FREE

	Gender and academic medicine: impacts on the health workforce
	Laura Reichenbach, Hilary Brown
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	Clinicians and patients' welfare: where does academic freedom fit in?
	James G Wright, John H Wedge
	BMJ  2004;329:795-796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.795 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Funding will make you free
	John C Alcolado
	BMJ  2004;329:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.797 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Forde Everard de Wend Cayley
	Jeannette Cayley
	BMJ  2004;329:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.802 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Edmund John Dowling
	Jonathan Dowling
	BMJ  2004;329:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.802-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Roger Freeman
	Kate Gould
	BMJ  2004;329:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.802-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Robert Barclay Goudie
	Donald Campbell, John Anderson, Robert Colville
	BMJ  2004;329:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.802-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Charles Isadore Levene
	A J Crisp
	BMJ  2004;329:802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.802-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Michael John Oldroyd
	Melvin Green
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Robert Livingstone Orchardson
	Robin Orchardson
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Francis Rees
	Mary Rees
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Tom Smith
	Ian Cooke
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Maxine Lida Leonie Sturdy (née Peto)
	Elizabeth Evans, Robin Sturdy
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Terence Reginald Wilson
	Peter Wilson
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Henderson Yearsley
	Aidan Stowe
	BMJ  2004;329:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.803-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Press: PR coup for herbal cancer drug
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2004;329:804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.804 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Film: Garden State
	Daniel Engber
	BMJ  2004;329:805, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.805 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome
	Marta Buszewicz
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	Personal views: What funders and others can do to help save clinical academic medicine
	Jan Walmsley
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	Hit parade
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	Personal views: My disappointment with an ethics committee
	Siao Pei Tan
	BMJ  2004;329:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.807 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Soundings: I couldn't believe my eyes
	Liam Farrell
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Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.808 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Soy protein isoflavones do not reduce postmenopausal complications
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	Twitched
	Angus Graham
	BMJ  2004;329:766, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.766 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Testing hypotheses
	Steve Iliffe
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	Academic medicine: who is it for?: Webchat
	BMJ  2004;329:777, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.777 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: Heroic surgery
	Martin Christie
	BMJ  2004;329:777, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.777-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interactive case report: A 35 year old woman with diabetic nephropathy who wants a baby
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	The practicable paradox—the five minute emergency
	Ayan S Panja
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	A memorable patient: A forlorn hope
	Jay Kuruvatti
	BMJ  2004;329:786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.786 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: Beating the test
	Jonathan R Osborn, Yvette G M Coldicott
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Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Spinal immobilisation for unconscious patients with multiple injuries
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	Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences
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	Hospital at home for patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence
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Webchat: Academic Medicine: who is it for? [Full text]

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