Evidence-based Homeopathy
Evidence-based Homeopathy is an exciting new textbook. This exhaustive tome is essential reading for all candidates for the up-coming UCEM Fellowship.
Category Medical Humour
The Broken Doctors Hotel
After a particularly bad winter, with trolley bound patients waiting hours for a bed and colleagues calling in sick as they became increasingly physically and mentally run down…I close my eyes and dream of a new life running a bar, restaurant…
Awaiting the Chop
Feeble sunlight trickled through the dew-drenched windows. The patients were finishing their breakfasts. The medical student wiped the sleep from his eyes and followed the team into the next room.
Jack Dee nomination for F.UCEM
Excitement is building as post-prandial somnolence evolves into austere reverence as the Utopian College Council start the protracted process of sobering up in time to announce the inaugural New Years Day Honours list. This year 50 new individuals will be officially…
Fellows of the UCEM embrace WHORe model
UCEM firmly believes that in the future the management of emergency patients should be outsourced and entirely orchestrated from offshore.
Biological Basis for Blood-Brain Barrier
UCEM's neurologists unveil the biological basis for the character divide between surgeons and anaesthetists. These functional neuroanatomical maps reveal all.
The Art of Sloughing
Your first referral to an inpatient team can be daunting. As a waiting room MUPPET it is often your first opportunity to put into practice lessons learned from years of medical pimping. The UCEM hopes to demonstrate through a series of video tutorials, the alternate sloughing methods employed by internal specialists. Awareness of sloughing tactics will greatly assist in refining your referral skills.
The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate
The Ballad of Eric's Prostate starts with an unusual finding hidden inside a patient's jocks...
Medical emergencies in TV land
The management of medical emergencies (...if you are on a TV show)
Resident evaluations
Many residents are trying desperately to define their future role within the echelons of the medical specialty maze. Scutmonkey can help...
Choose Emergency Medicine
One of my favourite tweets from #smaccGOLD was the re-invigoration of the Emergency Medicine mission statement and recruitment flyer
Automated Radiodiagnostic Security Entrance
Could UCEM have found the panacea for some of the greatest challenges facing Waiting Room Medicine? You be the judge...