Injury time

The 2018 FIFA World Cup is nearly upon us. It is a hive of international intermingling seemingly making it a perfect place for the dissemination of communicable disease, be it the classically cited sexually transmitted kind, the exotic Dengue kind, or the new and emerging Zika virus kind. But what about the vast majority of […]

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Whatsapp Doc? Instant messaging etiquette in medicine

Healthcare professionals and students are increasingly using instant messaging applications (usually Whatsapp) to communicate with each other. Learning objectives 1. Consider how you currently utilise instant messaging applications with your colleagues 2. Reflect on how differences between members of a messaging group could impact on training 3. Devise rules of messaging etiquette Imagine you have […]

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