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A Letter from the President of BAUS to the Daily Telegraph

June 19, 2013/21 Comments/by Adrian Joyce

19th June 2013 Sir, Laura Donnelly’s article (Daily Telegraph Sat 15th June) contains some factual inaccuracies. She estimates that if all men referred with suspected prostate cancer received an MRI scan prior to a prostate biopsy, a quarter of them could be reassured without the need for a biopsy. This is fundamentally misleading because as […]

Editorial: The need to devise a better means of training

March 6, 2013/1 Comment/by Adrian Joyce

There is increasing concern that current UK trainees at the end of their training are less experienced than their previous counterparts and continue to require more education, skills and support when they assume their consultant posts in the form of mentoring. It is generally accepted that the numbers of hours required to become an ‘expert’ is 10 000–30 000 and […]