Nutrition needs to be made a more important part of the doctor training system, a leading expert has said. Gastroenterologist Dr Penny Neild, who works at London's St George's Hospital, said training on how to spot and tackle malnutrition was "patchy".
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Nutrition training for doctors needs to be improved
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Patricia Hewitt's attempt to find a solution to the junior doctors' training fiasco at risk from surgeons' anger
Surgeons' fury over trainee fiasco - Guardian
Extract:
"Patricia Hewitt's attempt to find a solution to the junior doctors' training fiasco was at risk last night after England's top surgeons threatened to pull out of negotiations.
Bernard Ribiero, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "I will not see a generation of highly qualified, experienced and committed surgical trainees exposed to the vagaries of an untested and clearly flawed system." If a government review committee did not act today to rescue medical trainees from "a professional lottery", the surgeons would take matters into their own hands and make the appointments independently."
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