Response of US psychiatric programs to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on trainees.

Background: Medical training program and hospital response to the COVID-19 pandemic has varied greatly and has impacted trainee well-being. Which factors have specifically related to trainee wellness, however, has not yet been examined in depth. The aim of the study was to understand trainee perspectives on the individual psychiatry trainee programs' hospitals' objective COVID-19 preparedness management.

Views of Foundation Doctors (year 2) on distress likely with genital examination in children.

Little is known about the attitude of newly qualified doctors towards intimate examination of children. During the 2 course of a training day in child protection, an exercise was undertaken to ask Foundation doctors (FY2) what impact they thought genitalia examination had on children. These responses have been compared with the only systematic examination of the response of children and their parents to such examinations that has been published.

Determination of the total protein and triglyceride content of human breast milk on the Synchron CX7 Delta analyser.

Background: Premature babies have improved clinical outcomes when fed breast milk with a relatively high protein content. Since there was no convenient way of measuring the macronutrition of breast milk we used our routine laboratory pyrogallol red dye binding method for cerebrospinal fluid microprotein (MTP) and our routine method for serum triglyceride to determine the total protein and triglyceride content of human breast milk.

Methods: The total protein contents of whole and defatted breast milk samples, randomly collected from 115 nursing mothers, analysed using a pyrogallol red dye binding assay on a Synchron CX7 Delta analyser were compared with the total protein contents determined by dry combustion analysis.