The outcome of applications for restoration to the Medical Register following disciplinary erasure.

In the period 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2020, 76 doctors whose names/entries had been erased from the UK Medical Register by a disciplinary tribunal applied for restoration, and 23 out of 76 (30.3%) applications granted. In 5 of the 53 of those refused restoration, the tribunal suspended indefinitely the right to make further applications.

Is lack of integrity a useful concept when dealing with health and social care pre-registration student fitness to practise cases?

Health and social care regulators in their guidance to pre-registration students and registrants emphasise the importance of honesty and integrity. While the term honesty is generally understood, the meaning of integrity is less familiar, and for many years, there has been disagreement as to whether there is any difference between "dishonesty" and "lack of integrity." To explore the possible application of lack of integrity to student behaviour, we present cases that illustrate what might be considered to demonstrate a lack of integrity.

Comprehensive clinical assessment of home-based older persons within New Zealand: an epidemiological profile of a national cross-section.

Objective: Since 2012, all community care recipients in New Zealand have undergone a standardised needs assessment using the Home Care International Residential Assessment Instrument (interRAI-HC). This study describes the national interRAI-HC population, assesses its data quality and evaluates its ability to be matched.

Methods: The interRAI-HC instrument elicits information on 236 questions over 20 domains; conducted by 1,800+ trained health professionals.

Fitness to practise procedures for medical students.

Medical students who exhibit severe forms of adverse behaviour (including criminal matters), sometimes accompanied by mental health problems, are likely to be seen by their medical school's fitness to practise committee, a topic explained in this review.

Refusal to grant provisional General Medical Council registration to U.K. medical graduates.

In the last five years, 2010-2014, there have been 17 instances when an application for provisional registration by a U.K. medical graduate was refused by the General Medical Council because the Registrar considered that the applicant's fitness to practise was impaired.

Effects of redox state on the efficient uptake of cell permeable Peptide in Mammalian cells.

We investigated whether a cell-penetrating peptide linked via a disulfide bond to a fluorophore-labeled cargo peptide can be used to interrogate changes in cellular redox state. A fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) pair was constructed so that the cargo peptide was labeled with fluorescein amidite (FAM) and the cell-penetrating peptide was attached to a quencher. Incubation of cells in culture with the FRET construct was visualized using live-cell, time-lapse imaging, which demonstrated earlier cellular uptake of the construct when cells were treated with the reducing agent n-acetylcysteine (NAC).

Characterisation of the iterative integral parameter identification method.

Parameter identification methods are used to find optimal parameter values to fit models to measured data. The single integral method was defined as a simple and robust parameter identification method. However, the method did not necessarily converge to optimum parameter values.

Unprofessional behaviour in medical students: a questionnaire-based pilot study comparing perceptions of the public with medical students and doctors.

Background: Evidence suggests that doctors and medical students use different strategies to evaluate unprofessional behaviour. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the public and profession may judge misdemeanours differently.

Aims: To explore whether members of the public will judge examples of medical student misconduct more harshly than medical students and doctors.

Supporting nursing students during fitness to practise hearings.

Nursing students whose behaviour or health raises serious questions about their fitness to enter the profession may have to appear before a fitness to practise committee. One possible outcome could be termination of the student's studies. This article provides guidance on how to support students during fitness to practise hearings.

Fitness to practise for student nurses: principles, standards and procedures.

Since 2009, all schools of nursing have been required to establish a fitness to practise committee to consider any pre-registration student health or character issues (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2008). In 2009, fitness to practice standards were published (NMC, 2009a). This article outlines how fitness to practise procedures apply to nursing and midwifery students in the U.

Medical student fitness to practise committees at UK medical schools.

Background: The aim was to explore the structures for managing student fitness to practise hearings in medical schools in the UK. We surveyed by email the named fitness to practise leads of all full members of the UK Medical Schools Council with a medical undergraduate programme. We asked whether student fitness to practise cases were considered by a committee/panel dedicated to medicine, or by one which also considered other undergraduate health and social care students.

Inverted appendix mistaken for a polyp during colonoscopy and leading to intussusception.

A spectrum of appendiceal diseases, ranging from simple mucous distension to acute perforated appendicitis, are seen in patients with CF. We report a 6 year old boy with CF and recurrent periumbilical pain. During colonoscopy, a fleshy pedunculated mass at the junction of the ascending colon and caecum was mistaken for a polyp and excised.

Association between novel GM-CSF gene polymorphisms and the frequency and severity of atopic dermatitis.

Background: Genetic factors are known to be important in determining an individual's predisposition to atopic dermatitis. The specific genes that are clinically important in this process are still largely unknown.

Objective: Because dendritic cells initiate immune responses and thus are critical to the priming of an individual to potential allergens, we hypothesized that genetic factors controlling the activity of these cells determine an individual's propensity to atopic dermatitis.

Age-related prevalence and antibiotic resistance of pathogenic staphylococci and streptococci in children with infected atopic dermatitis at a single-specialty center.

Background: Skin staphylococci and streptococci are known to exacerbate atopic dermatitis, but the prevalence changes that occur with age are unknown. This study examined the age-related prevalence and antibiotic resistance of these pathogenic bacteria in children with atopic dermatitis and suspected skin infections.

Observations: Medical records of 150 children with atopic dermatitis referred to a regional center, who had skin swabs taken for suspected infection, were studied retrospectively.