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Clinical Medicine is published six times a year and circulated to 20,000 Fellows and Members of the Royal College of Physicians. The journal is read by physicians both established and in training in hospitals across the world. It features a wide range of articles including original papers, professional issues, clinical guidance, medical humanities, ethics and clinical governance. The journal publishes the key features from the College lectures and conferences. Each issue has a CME section which reviews the latest advances in a chosen specialty.

Publisher: Royal College of Physicians

Volume 9, Number 1, February 2009
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Editorials

Teams without Walls
pp. 4-5(2)
Author: Allan, Robert

Coordinating academic training for physicians
pp. 7-8(2)
Authors: Thompson, David G.; Evans, Timothy W.

Career opportunities in the smaller medical specialties
pp. 10-11(2)
Author: McIntyre, Alistair

Have you taken all your tablets this week?
pp. 12-13(2)
Authors: Crome, Peter; Kelly, Sean; Steel, Jonathan

Climate change

The biotic effects of climate change
pp. 14-15(2)
Author: Lister, Adrian M.

Professional Issues

Resuscitation decisions among hospital physicians and intensivists
pp. 16-20(5)
Authors: Brims, Fraser J.H.; Kilminster, Shaun; Thomas, Lynn M.

Is medical research within the UK in decline? A study of publication rates from the British Society of Gastroenterology from 1994 to 2002
pp. 22-25(4)
Authors: Hopper, Andrew D.; Atkinson, Robert J.; Razak, Adam; Rahim, Ashrafur; Perera, Anisha; Jones, Georgina; Sanders, David S.

Services for liver disease in district general hospitals in the UK: a national questionnaire-based survey
pp. 26-29(4)
Authors: Williams, Michael J.; Salmon, Claire; Austin, Andrew S.; Freeman, Jan G.

Original papers

Evaluation of a modified early warning system for acute medical admissions and comparison with C-reactive protein/albumin ratio as a predictor of patient outcome
pp. 30-33(4)
Authors: Fairclough, Emily; Cairns, Eleanor; Hamilton, Jennifer; Kelly, Clive

Chronic fatigue: is it endocrinology?
pp. 34-38(5)
Authors: Evans, Kate M.; Flanagan, Daniel E.; Wilkin, Terence J.

Is this the end of an era for conventional diagnostic endoscopy?
pp. 39-41(3)
Authors: Sidhu, R.; Sanders, D.S.; Thomson, M.; McAlindon, M.E.

Medical education

Career choices made for the hospital medical specialties by graduates from UK medical schools, 1974-2005
pp. 42-48(7)
Authors: Goldacre, Michael J.; Lambert, Trevor W.; Laxton, Louise

The development of core learning outcomes relevant to clinical practice: identifying priority areas for genetics education for non-genetics specialist registrars
pp. 49-52(4)
Authors: Burke, Sarah; Martyn, Melissa; Thomas, Hywel; Farndon, Peter

Occasional Papers

'In need of further tuning': using a US patient satisfaction with chaplaincy instrument in a UK multi-faith setting, including the bereaved
pp. 53-58(6)
Author: Beardsley, Christina

Career lifetime advances and current key developments

Public health changes over my career
pp. 59-63(5)
Author: Griffiths, Rod

Current key developments
pp. 63-67(5)
Authors: Feldschreiber, Peter; Ashton, John R.; McKee, Martin

College lectures

Testing challenges: evaluation of novel diagnostics and molecular biomarkers
pp. 68-73(6)
Author: Zimmern, Ronald L.

Conference reports

Teams without Walls: enabling partnerships between generalists and specialists
pp. 74-75(2)
Authors: Steel, Jonathan; Burnham, Rodney

Concise guidelines

Advance care planning: concise evidence-based guidelines
pp. 76-79(4)
Authors: Conroy, Simon; Fade, Premila; Fraser, Aileen; Schiff, Rebekah

Spheres of medical influence

An international presence and direction for the Royal College of Physicians
pp. 80-82(3)
Author: Williams, Roger

Medicine, music and the mind

Music and madness: neuropsychiatric aspects of music
pp. 83-86(4)
Authors: Mula, Marco; Trimble, Michael R.

Lesson of the month

Transfusion-related acute lung injury: a rare and life-threatening complication of a common procedure
pp. 87-89(3)

Book reviews

book reviews
pp. 90-90(1)

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor
pp. 91-94(4)

Conversations with Charles

Are mistakes still being made?
pp. 95-96(2)

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