Global health competencies in UK postgraduate medical training: a scoping review and curricular content analysis.

Objective: To assess global health (GH) training in all postgraduate medical education in the UK.

Design: Mixed methodology: scoping review and curricular content analysis using two GH competency frameworks.

Setting And Participants: A scoping review (until December 2017) was used to develop a framework of GH competencies for doctors.

Time to go global: a consultation on global health competencies for postgraduate doctors.

Background: Globalisation is having profound impacts on health and healthcare. We solicited the views of a wide range of stakeholders in order to develop core global health competencies for postgraduate doctors.

Methods: Published literature and existing curricula informed writing of seven global health competencies for consultation.

ORTHOSPHERE(®) interpostitional arthroplasty used in great toe interphalangeal joint arthritis-a case report.

We report the first case in which an ORTHOSPHERE(®) spherical ceramic interposition arthroplasty has been used successfully in a patient with complex great toe pathology. The ORTHOSPHERE(®) (Wright Medical Technology, Arlington, TN) is a spherical ceramic interpositional arthroplasty designed for use in CMC joint arthritis. It has also been documented for use in basal fourth and fifth metatarsal arthritis [Shawen SB, Anderson RB, Cohen BE, Hammit MD.

Importance of close surveillance for Charcot arthropathy in diabetic patients presenting to the emergency department with low-energy foot injuries.

Close monitoring, regular review and early referral of diabetic patients with midfoot injuries is of paramount importance to identify and limit progression and complications of Charcot foot. The case history is presented of a 46-year-old diabetic patient who presented to the emergency department following a low-energy midfoot sprain which was treated conservatively and the patient was discharged from follow-up. She rapidly developed midfoot disruption and associated Charcot-type arthropathy requiring surgical reconstruction.