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Volume 205 Issue 5

5 September 2016

News

From Cochrane

Feel better by planting trees and taking up yoga

Steve McDonald and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 196 Free

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 197 Free

Perspectives

Streamlining ethics review for multisite quality and safety initiatives: national bariatric surgery registry experience

Wendy A Brown, Brittany R Smith, Melissa Boglis, Dianne L Brown, Margaret Anderson, Paul E O'Brien, John J McNeil and Ian D Caterson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 200-201 Free

The inequitable burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Indigenous Australians

Philippa J May, Asha C Bowen and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 201-203 Free

Medical education

Clinical skills

The jugular veins: gateway to the heart

Andrew Elder and Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 204-205

Lessons from practice

Reversal of end-stage renal failure using direct-acting antiviral agents for chronic hepatitis C

Tim Mitchell, Aron Chakera, Gary P Jeffrey, Leon A Adams, George Garas, Tamara Jones and Gerry MacQuillan

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 205-206

Reflection

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — not always cost effective for the chronically ill

Susanne P O'Malley

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 207-208

Richard Nesbit Evans, MB BS, MRCP(UK), FAFOM

Eric N Evans, Layli J Evans and James B Evans

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 208 Free

Editorials

The potential of workplace-based assessment of international medical graduates

Andrew H Singer

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 209-210 Free

Rural recruitment and training promotes rural practice by GPs, but is it enough to retain them?

Geetha Ranmuthugala

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 210-211 Free

Research

RETRACTED: Composite reliability of workplace-based assessment for international medical graduates

Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, Joyce MW Moonen-van Loon, Mulavana S Parvathy and Cees PM van der Vleuten

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 212-216 Free

Vocational training of general practitioners in rural locations is critical for the Australian rural medical workforce

Matthew R McGrail, Deborah J Russell and David G Campbell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 216-221 Free

Disparities in acute in-hospital cardiovascular care for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians

Rosanna Tavella, Katharine McBride, Wendy Keech, Janet Kelly, Amanda Rischbieth, Christopher Zeitz, John F Beltrame, Philip A Tideman and Alex Brown

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 222-227 Free

Guideline summary

Endocrine Society of Australia position statement on male hypogonadism (part 2): treatment and therapeutic considerations

Bu B Yeap, Mathis Grossmann, Robert I McLachlan, David J Handelsman, Gary A Wittert, Ann J Conway, Bronwyn GA Stuckey, Douglas W Lording, Carolyn A Allan, Jeffrey D Zajac and Henry G Burger

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 228-231 Free

Narrative review

Progress in the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia: 2016

Damon A Bell and Gerald F Watts

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 232-236 Free

Letters

How can hospitals better identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients to assist medication use?

Erin Sclater, Pauline Deweerd, Sylvia Bridle and Susan Welch

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 236

Ebola outbreak in West Africa: considerations for strengthening Australia’s international health emergency response

Martyn D Kirk, Stephanie Davis and Kerri Viney

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 236-237

General medicine Indigenous outreach registrar training in rural Queensland

Paul Jauncey, Scott McKenzie, Rohan Corpus, Kwun M Fong and Darren L Walters

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 237

Mandatory reporting

Roy G Beran

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 237

Careers

Need for speed

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): Free