Efficiency of clinical training at the Northern Territory Clinical School: placement length and rate of return for internship.

Objective: To investigate the effect of duration of clinical training placements in the Northern Territory on rate of return of medical students for an internship in the NT.

Design, Setting And Participants: Retrospective analysis of medical school and hospital data on all medical students who completed a placement with the Northern Territory Clinical School (NTCS) between 1998 and 2007.

Main Outcome Measures: Logistic regression analysis of weeks spent training in the NT against the binary category of return or non-return for an internship in the NT; number of weeks of placement in the NT required for one returning intern for training models with different placement duration and timing.

Clinical training in the top end: impact of the Northern Territory Clinical School, Australia, on the Territory's health workforce.

Introduction: The Northern Territory Clinical School (NTCS), a teaching site of the Flinders University School of Medicine, was established in Darwin, Northern Territory (NT; 1997) in response to a need for regional clinical training. An enrolment quota of NT resident, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students was implemented to encourage the recruitment of local applicants to the medical program. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of the NTCS and the quota program on the NT health workforce at the intern and junior doctor levels.

Complement-inhibiting effect of ovarian cancer antigen CA-125.

Malignant transformation of ovarian cells of surface epithelial origin is associated with expression of a membrane-spanning glycoprotein, cancer antigen (CA)-125. The bulk of the putative CA-125 molecule is comprised a very large, folded, multivalent, mucin-like exodomain. That the extracellular motif of CA-125 exerts immunosuppressive effects which promote tumor progression has been suggested.