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- MDU 125th anniversary film - 20 August 2010
To celebrate the MDU's 125th anniversary, we have produced a short film.
- 2009 Annual Report and Accounts - 18 August 2010
Report and Accounts, including 125th anniversary cautionary tales, for the year ending 31 December 2009.
- Doctors volunteering as Olympic 'Games Makers' - 17 August 2010
With two years to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the organisers have launched a campaign for volunteers, including medically skilled professionals, who will act as ‘Games Makers’.
- Concerns over colleagues - 12 April 2010
A student was worried about one of their fellow medical students and contacted the MDU for advice. The student believed that her friend was drinking excessively and feared he may also be taking drugs.
- First aid - 12 April 2010
A final year medical student asked the MDU whether he could be a First Aider at his local church youth group. He was unsure if his medical education and student experience would be suitable or whether he should get some accredited training from a first aid charity such as Red Cross or St John Ambulance.
- Student–patient relationships - 12 April 2010
A female medical student had been speaking to a patient on the ward. As the student prepared to leave, the patient offered to give her his phone number. The patient added that he would very much like to see the student again and perhaps take her for dinner.
- Protecting confidentiality - 12 April 2010
While on a consultant-led ward round, a student examined a patient who had broken her hip. Later that day, the patient’s friend visited the hospital and asked the medical student about her friend’s condition.
- Good Samaritan acts - 12 April 2010
A medical student contacted the MDU to ask whether her membership covered her for Good Samaritan acts. She was due to conduct her elective in Australia, but also planned to travel extensively in south-east Asia beforehand. A friend had told her they would refuse to get involved in an emergency in case they were sued.
- Conscientious objection - 12 April 2010
A final-year student was carrying out a clinical attachment in her local A&E department. A patient attended for treatment after experiencing heavy bleeding following a termination of pregnancy. The student was reluctant to become involved in the patient's treatment because her religious/personal beliefs meant she had moral objections to abortion.
- Preparing witness statements - 9 April 2010
A medical student has been asked by the police to submit a witness statement in relation to an allegation of sexual assault by a patient against a hospital consultant. The student had been present at the consultation during which the alleged assault took place, but was unsure what information to include in her written statement.
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