Volume 79 Number 2, May 2010

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Table of Contents

Editorial 45 Testing Times
BE Kelly
Reviews 46 Influenza: a virus of our times
C McCaughey
52 Metrics in Medical Education
P McCoubrie
Papers 57 Diabetic nephropathy and chronic kidney disease at a busy diabetes clinic: A study of Outpatient Care and suggestions for improved care pathways at a subspecialty specialist diabetic renal clinic
UM Graham, GM Magee, SJ Hunter, AB Atkinson
62 The Effect of Modernising Medical Careers on Foundation Doctor Career Orientation in the Northern Ireland Foundation School
ME O'Donnell, R Noad, M Boohan, A Carragher
70 The role of surgery for pancreatic cancer: a 12-year review of patient outcome
SA Badger, JL Brant, C Jones, J McClements, MB Loughrey, MA Taylor, T Diamond, LD McKie
76 Post-operative telephone review is cost-effective and acceptable to patients
RT Gray, MK Sut, SA Badger, CF Harvey
80 Childhood Circumcision in Northern Ireland: A barometer of the current practice of general paediatric surgery
H Groves, A Bailie, W McCallion
82 Rheumatoid arthritis patients with active disease and no history of cardiac pathology have higher Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) levels than patients with inactive disease or healthy control subjects
DJ Armstrong, PV Gardiner, MJ O'Kane
Short Report 85 Screening of clinical, food, water and animal isolates of Escherichia coli for the presence of blaCTX-M extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) antibiotic resistance gene loci
JE Moore, M Watabe, BC Millar, A Loughrey, M McCalmont, CE Goldsmith, JCN Heaney, T Buckley, C Egan, DA McDowell, MAS McMahon, JSG Dooley, J Xu, PJ Rooney
Presidential Address 89 From then to now: lessons from developments in our understanding of the pituitary gland
AB Atkinson
Medical History 95 A History of Dermatology in Ireland
CE Devereux, DJ Eedy
Letters 100 To the Editor
An unusual case of localised hypertrichosis.  C McCourt, S Hoey
Pancreatic Heterotopia presenting as a gastric submucosal lesion.  R Mayes, I Mainie, R Davis, G Spence
Post-operative pyoderma gangrenosum in association with ileal carcinoid tumour.  W Campbell, E Baird, K Murtagh, D Eedy, R Hannon
Use of Out of Hours MRI in the Royal Victoria Hospital - A 6 Month Retrospective Review.  PA Burns, PA Flynn
Olanzapine Induced Hyponatraemia.  SJ Dudeja, M McCormick, RK Dudeja
Reviews 106 Books
Eponyms in Surgery and Anatomy of the Liver, Bile Ducts and Pancreas.  MD Stringer
Recent Advances in Obstetrics and Gynaecology 24.  W Dunlop, WL Ledger
Get through First FRCR: MCQs for the Physics Module.  G Mair, A Baird, A Bisset
Mastering Emergency Medicine: A Practical Guide. 1st Edition.  C Trivedy, M Hall, A Parfitt
The Role of Mathematics on Human Structure: As The World Reviews.  K Adhikari