BMJ talk medicine

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Richard McCallum and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Dr. Lucinda Harris, discuss stress and IBS, antibiotic treatment options, and new findings regarding IBS in females and military service members. Dr. Harris is also a consultant at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale and is a current member of the Gastroenterology Fellowship committee. Her special clinical and research interests include IBS, gastroparesis, chronic constipation, and pelvic floor disorders as well as celiac disease and autonomic disorders.

In this conversation with two members of the scientific committee of the recently held conference of​ the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research​ (SAVIR)​, we focus on ways of growing the field of Injury Prevention and ​include ​new generations of emerging professionals.

​Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure​, interviews Rosemary Nabaweesi, Associate Professor in the Center for Health Policy at the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee, and Elizabeth E. O’Neal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.

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Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America talks to Dr Cristina Drenkard from Emory University and Dr Teresa Brady from Clarity Consulting and Communications, both based in Atlanta, USA.

They discuss their paper on the relationship between levels of self-efficacy and health behaviours and outcomes in black women with SLE. Their study specifically evaluated the associations between age, educational level and depression in SLE patients and the degree of pain and fatigue they experienced. These findings may help predict who might benefit most from self-efficacy-enhancing interventions to improve quality of life.

Access the article: https://lupus.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000566

Essential tremor is characterised by a progressive tremor of the upper extremities, present in posture and action, without other neurological signs or symptoms.

The prevalence and incidence increases with age, but the condition can appear in early adulthood in those who have a family history.

Sheng-Han Kuo, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, gives us an overview of the condition.

For more on essential tremor, visit BMJ Best Practice: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1089

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ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the January 2022 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/107/1/1

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In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Harriette Van Spall, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada. They discuss her paper "Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: recent concepts in diagnosis, mechanisms and management". If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2

Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2022/01/11/heartjnl-2021-319605

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Sarah Mah to discuss the gender imbalance in authorship in gynecologic oncology. Sarah Mah is a Gynecologic Oncology fellow at McMaster University who received her MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety through the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and completed residency at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in quality improvement with an equity and sustainability lens, knowledge translation, and cancer prevention.

Highlights:

Women now account for 55-70% of practicing Gynecologic Oncologists and >80% of Gynecologic Oncology fellows in the United States and Canada.

Rates of female first authorship in Gynecologic Oncology journals are rising in proportion, but rates of female senior authorship lag behind, with male authors still overrepresented.

Women remain underrepresented as members of Editorial Boards of Gynecologic Oncology journals, particularly in leadership positions.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet impacted the proportion of female authors, we discuss reasons for why this could be of future concern and the importance of ongoing surveillance.

We discuss some of the literature regarding gender inequity in academia and publishing and explore possible strategies for improvement.

This is a special episode of our podcast for GP's, Deep Breath In, where we tackle the everyday challenges of being a GP.

With the focus on covid, and the pressure on hospitals, it may be easy to overlook what’s happening in general practice in the UK - but changes are afoot. Our new health secretary Sajid Javid doesn’t seem to like our long standing GP practice arrangement, NHS England has imposed new weekend working arrangements on the already stretched service, and the workforce pressures continue.

In this episode of Deep Breath In, our GP panel of Tom Nolan, Navjoyt Ladher, and Jenny Rasanathan are joined by Gareth Iacobucci, The BMJ’s assistant news editor, to give them the lowdown on what’s happening around primary care, who some of the key players are, and what his predictions for 2022.

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With the focus on covid, and the pressure on hospitals, it may be easy to overlook what’s happening in general practice in the UK - but changes are afoot. Our new health secretary Sajid Javid doesn’t seem to like our long standing GP practice arrangement, NHS England has imposed new weekend working arrangements on the already stretched service, and the workforce pressures continue.

In this episode of Deep Breath In, our GP panel of Tom Nolan, Navjoyt Ladher, and Jenny Rasanathan are joined by Gareth Iacobucci, The BMJ’s assistant news editor, to give them the lowdown on what’s happening around primary care, who some of the key players are, and what his predictions for 2022.

If you see something that doesn’t look right when going on placement, do you feel comfortable raising a concern? In this episode, we discuss the topic of raising concerns and the considerations that med students and junior doctors may have when it comes to speaking up.

Expert guest:

Dr Natasha Malik (@1natasha_malik on Twitter) is a portfolio GP who works with Health Education England, UCL medical school and Imperial medical school.

Top tip:

“In moments of uncertainty, the first thing to do is to find those pillars of support and talk to people about it, because that increases confidence. It also allows you to find out information about where to go next.”

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