Teaching of Non-Clinical Skills should be embedded throughout Medical Training.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Medical leadership has been a focus of criticism after a number of notable health service failures. In order to address the development of a safe and accountable service for the future, medical trainees should be engaged in learning and participating in medical management from an early stage. We discuss measures we have taken at one hospital in the United Kingdom to embed non-clinical skills training in the natural progression of specialist training. This programme has since been expanded to other hospitals. We aim to disseminate our learning further so that others may consider implementing local training in a similar way.

Brain protection: current and future options.

The ability to reduce brain injury before, during or after an ischaemic injury, irrespective of the cause, remains an exciting prospect. In this article, we will discuss some of the current research behind cerebral protection, which will include the use of anaesthetic agents, as well as therapies targeted specifically at the complex cascades following brain injury.