Postgraduate Medical Journal

Article	Citations
The Royal Surgical Colleges' ingenious adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic kept surgeons training and progressing	160
Six attitudes to promote personal, patient-centred care in an era of addictive technology	155
Gender differences in bullying among internal medicine residents	93
Beta blocker versus ivabradine for cardiovascular outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation	92
The current state of neuropalliative care in developing countries. Where are we now?	52
Surgical ward round proforma can improve documentation and efficiency of ward rounds	42
Umeclidinium plus vilanterol versus fluticasone propionate plus salmeterol for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials	39
Pseudopneumothorax: diagnostic pitfalls	36
Which should we fear more in preschoolers and infants: SARS-CoV-2 or respiratory syncytial virus?	33
The reduction of medical resident duty hours for the benefit of patient safety	33
Citation rat race—an academic malignancy	32
Off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients at 30 days: a propensity score matching study	31
Correction to: Contribution of nebulized budesonide before bronchoscopy, a prospective clinical study	27
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	25
LLMs may improve medical communication: social science perspective	25
Referring wisely: knowing when and how to make subspecialty consultations in hospital medicine	23
What should you have in your little black bag? A letter to a young doctor	22
Polymath: to be or not to be?	21
Crosstalk between COVID-19 and the gut-brain axis: a gut feeling	21
Trends of core versus subspecialty operative procedures completed in general surgery residency training programs	21
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	21
Letter in response to “Many faces of cutaneous leishmaniasis”	21
Medical students and COVID-19: final-year medical students' perspective	20
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	20
Of venous drainage	20

Rational quality and cost of critical care systems are more important than individual considerations: a view from India	20
Benefits of exercise oncology courses for medical oncology trainees	20
Therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal diseases: proteome-wide Mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses	19
Medical registrar bottleneck	18
Medical activism	17
Prospective comparison of two methods for assessing sarcopenia and interobserver agreement on retrospective CT images	17
Informed consent practices in clinical research: present and future	17
Dynamite plots in surgical research over 10 years: a meta-study using machine-learning analysis	15
The emergence of MedTok: a qualitative analysis of popular medical TikTok videos	14
Surgical training fit for the future: the need for a change	13
Self-reported physical activity properties and 20-year all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among community-dwelling older adults	13
Retrospective analysis of the appendiceal neoplasms: sampling technique may influence neoplasm detection	13
Academic misconduct by Chinese medical staff	12
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	12
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	12
Using an application to measure trainees’ procedural knowledge before chest tube insertion	12
Exploring TikTok to increase one’s health literacy: the Philippine experience	12
Preference informed allocation for the Specialised Foundation Programme	12
Healthcare apprenticeships: assessing the potential benefits to an acute care provider NHS organization	11
Safeguarding healthcare professionals from sexual harassment in the workplace: urgent need for effective training and education	11
Ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased prevalence of valvular heart diseases: a cross-sectional population-based study	11
Max Bill’s concrete art, as an instrument against irrational thinking and arguments in medicine	10
Conflict and natural disaster: the impacts on medical education in Ukraine and Türkiye	10
The therapeutic value of vacuum external fixation in polytrauma patients with multiple ribs fracture	9
War-induced obstetric emergencies necessitate improved global intervention	9
An introduction to anatomical pathology	9
A framework for residents’ pursuit of excellence based upon non-cognitive and cognitive attributes	9
Differential attainment in higher surgical training: scoping pan-specialty spectra	9
Causal linkage of psoriasis with ageing: Mendelian randomization and enrichment analysis towards telomere length and psoriasis	9
The effect of socioeconomic status and training programmes on burnout in postgraduate trainees in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional analysis	9
Association of gene polymorphisms and the decreased expression of long non-coding RNA LOC553103 with rheumatoid arthritis	9
Progress in the relationship between mechanical ventilation parameters and ventilator-related complications during perioperative anesthesia	9
Can fibromyalgia be considered a characteristic symptom of climacterium?	9
Peri-operative strategy in resuscitation of unstable injured surgical patients: a primer	9
Sustained clinical knowledge improvements from simulation experiences with Simulation via Instant Messaging—Birmingham Advance	9
Prospective pilot study of the Three Good Things positive psychology intervention in short-term stay hospitalised patients	9
The move to 24/7 mechanical thrombectomy provision for ischaemic stroke: an observational study of the impact on referrals, activity, procedural efficacy, and safety at a supra-regional centre	9
A recent surge of nitrous oxide misuse around London which merits a public health warning	9
Higher dietary zinc intake increases the risk of autoimmune thyroiditis	8
Effective clinical conversations: the art of curiosity	8
Introduction to the development of complex interventions	8
Effects of new hypoglycemic drugs on patients with heart failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	8
Evaluating the McMahon score for predicting mortality in earthquake-induced rhabdomyolysis: a retrospective study	8
Paper-thin roof: submucosal cleft palate with rhinolalia aperta	8
Impact of lockdown on medical emergency visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	8
Health transition of the causes of mortality between 2005 and 2015 in Guangdong, China	8
Lemon-shaped mass in the lung: a phantom tumour	8
Ventricular aneurysm and ventricular septal defect after myocardial infarction	7
Relative positions of the right internal jugular vein and the right common carotid artery	7
Improving senior medical workforce retention at a large teaching hospital trust	7

How patient autonomy drives the legal liabilities of medical practitioners and the practical ways to mitigate and resolve them	7
Fahr's disease	7
A Mendelian analysis of the causality between inflammatory cytokines and digestive tract cancers	7
What became of the ‘eyes and the ears’?: exploring the challenges to reporting poor quality of care among trainee medical staff	7
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	7
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography as a single-modality ‘gold-standard’ treatment for common bile duct stones in the elderly	7
Residency interviews in the digital era	7
Identifying novel risk targets in inflammatory skin diseases by comprehensive proteome-wide Mendelian randomization study	7
Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and silent brain infarction	7
Relationship between hyperglycaemia at admission and prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study	6
Use of social deprivation status in primary prevention cardiovascular risk scores: a must but a challenge	6
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	6
Challenges in establishing a strong telemedicine system in China	6
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none	6
Chronic constipation and gut microbiota: current research insights and therapeutic implications	6
Safety of anticoagulation use for treatment of portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis and its effect on hospital-based outcomes: an insight from a US nationwide database	6
Reliability of patient-reported comorbidities: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Predominant learning approaches of medical students in Saudi Arabia	6
Challenges towards medical writing in a developing country: a post-graduate resident’s perspective	6
Speaking up at conference question and answer sessions—disruptive behaviour typography and assessment scale	6
Impact of body mass index on disease progression and outcomes in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	6
COVID-19 vaccination: patient uptake and attitudes in a multi-ethnic North London maternity unit	6
Muscle involvement in sarcoidosis	6
Generalized papular eruption—an unusual side effect of leuprolide acetate	6
Differences in empathy levels among physicians based on specialty: a nationwide cross-sectional study	6
Statistics: an introduction to basic principles	6
The prognostic value of HALP score and sPESI in predicting in-hospital mortality in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism	6
Implications of evolutionary unpredictability for gain-of-function research	6
Effects of osteoporosis medications on bone fracture in patients with chronic kidney disease	5
Causal relationship between gut microbiota and lung squamous cell carcinoma: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study	5
Portfolio use in postgraduate medical education: a systematic scoping review	5
Safe re-immunization of mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine–induced nonepisodic angioedema with eosinophilia	5
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (MIS-V), to interpret with caution	5
A population-based study of Helicobacter pylori: Does asymptomatic infection mean no gastroscopic lesions?	5
Thirty-day unplanned readmission in hospitalised asthma patients in the USA	5
Elschnig's spots, an atypical sign of target organ damage	5
Evaluation of junior doctors' knowledge of corneal donation and the new opt-out system in England	5
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	5
Temporal relationship between sarcoidosis and malignancies in a nationwide cohort of 1942 patients	5
Pain and its management: Dante’s Divine Comedy	5
F1-taught orthopaedic teaching programme for students (FOTS)	5
Sensitivity and specificity of folate receptor α-positive circulating tumour cells in gastric cancer	5
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	5
Abortion in evolution, caesarean scar pregnancy, and cervical ectopic: discerning the triplets on ultrasound	5
Trauma radiology teaching for foundation doctors working within the Scottish Trauma Network improves radiology requests and patient safety: a multidepartmental quality improvement project	5
Rituximab therapy for connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	5
A more precise interpretation of the potential value of artificial intelligence tools in medical education is needed	5
Sampling, study design, and statistics. A didactic discussion	5
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	5
Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	4
Policy and perceptions of pregnancy during training among residents of various subspecialties	4
Iatrogenic extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm	4
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	4
Predictors of self-reported research engagement and academic-career interest amongst medical students in the United Kingdom: a national cross-sectional survey	4
Correlation between cathepsins and the likelihood of renal cancer: a Mendelian randomization study	4
Reforming DoLS: liberty protection safeguards	4
Resurgence of COVID-19 in India: time for introspection	4
London Major Trauma System: a review of an organised trauma system and the challenges it faces	4
PhenoAge and PhenoAgeAccel in the context of dyslipidemia: association with stroke and potential as a new predictor in the US general population	4
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	4
Reflections on Patient Resilience	4
Facial recognition for disease diagnosis using a deep learning convolutional neural network: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Intensive blood pressure control in older patients with hypertension—a STEP in the right direction?	4
The impact of adopting low-molecular-weight heparin in place of aspirin as routine thromboprophylaxis for patients with hip fracture	4
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	4
Claustrum hyperintensity as a marker of anti-NMDAR encephalitis	4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of acupuncture for De Quervain’s tenosynovitis treatment	4
Comprehensive multi-omics approach reveals potential therapeutic targets and agents for osteoarthritis	4
Should obstetric mortality be an inalienable right?	4
Unravelling the neuroimmune nexus: insights into epilepsy pathology and the role of S100b protein in brain-gut axis modulation: a literature review	4
A comparison of the assessments used in campus-based years at the College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia	4
Using ChatGPT to generate multiple-choice questions in medical education may have potential adverse effects on medical educators and medical students	4
My first dance	4
The improvement of functional dyspepsia symptoms after Helicobacter pylori eradication: caused by an unrecognized change in duodenal microbiota?	4
Complete resolution of calciphylaxis in a renal transplant patient with Calcifediol	4
Small extracellular vesicle microRNAs in pediatric myasthenia gravis plasma and skeletal muscle	4
Publication for sale: the rise of academies catering to medical students	3
Is the NHS really cost-effective? A junior doctor’s experience	3
Arthropod-borne encephalitis: an overview for the clinician and emerging considerations	3

Effect of the interaction between atrial fibrillation and rt-PA dose on the prognosis of acute ischaemic stroke with intravenous thrombolysis	3
Nocardiabrain abscess: a sinister aetiology	3
Correction to: Behavioral trigger factors for hemorrhagic stroke: a case-crossover study	3
Creativity in medicine during times of uncertainty	3
Prognostic significance of international normalised ratio and prothrombin time in Chinese acute ischaemic stroke patients	3
mRNA vaccines as a revolutionary approach to combat cancer	3
Performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) in Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP)-style examination questions	3
Indwelling pleural catheters: evidence for and management	3
Severe skin mottling in fatal sepsis	3
More to obesity than what meets the eye: a comprehensive approach to counteracting obesity stigma	3
Perfusion CT imaging as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for dementia: prospective case–control study	3
Delayed olanzapine induced myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis	3
Associations of mixed metals exposure with cognitive impairment risk: a cross-sectional study in Chinese adults	3
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Opportunities and challenges for young physicians in the era of artificial intelligence: current status and future perspectives	3
National examination for medical residency admission: academic performance in a high-stakes test and the need for continuing education	3
Defining success in medicine: why perfectionism is not the answer	3
Gaza—ceasefire and prepare for a surge in infectious diseases!	3
Advances in the study of microparticles in diabetic retinopathy	3
Research progress on the association between trimethylamine/trimethylamine-N-oxide and neurological disorders	3
Postpartum haemorrhage and associated factors among mothers who gave birth in South Gondar Zone public health facilities, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	3
How the physician’s financial wellness could impact patient safety	3
Many faces of cutaneous leishmaniasis	3
Malnutrition and sarcopenia worsen short- and long-term outcomes in internal medicine inpatients	3
Cerebral venous thrombosis: a practical review	3
Reimagining disability accommodations in medical education	3
The causal relationship between negative emotions and inflammatory dermatoses: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study	3
Painful blue finger: Achenbach's syndrome	2
Screening doctors in training for dyslexia: the benefits of an inclusive screening approach	2
Circulating Hsa-miR499a-5p as markers in dysmobility syndrome patients: a new index for diagnosing dysmobility syndrome based on osteoporosis and predicting fracture risk	2
Multiple intra-articular injections of autologous stromal vascular fractions for the treatment of multicompartmental osteoarthritis in both the tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joint: a single-blind ra	2
Microalbuminuria on admission for acute exacerbation of COPD as a predictor of all-cause mortality and future exacerbations	2
Evaluation of National Anaesthetics Teaching in Undergraduate Medicine (ENATUM)	2
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in a Japanese obese child	2
Disseminated fusariosis presenting as ecthyma gangrenosum	2
Art of communication in medicine	2
The key to addressing the issue of academic misconduct in the medical field is to reform the evaluation system	2
Safety and tolerability of subcutaneous trastuzumab and intravenous pertuzumab as adjuvant treatment for HER2 positive breast cancer: a pilot study	2
What must a medical student learn?	2
Knowledge and practice of home blood pressure monitoring 6 months after the risk and assessment management programme: does health literacy matter?	2
Price for waiting: the adverse outcomes of boarding critically ill elderly medical patients in the emergency department	2
Recruiting and retaining doctors—a wicked problem needing complex solutions	2
Use of UK faith Centre as a COVID-19 community vaccination clinic: exploring a potential model for community-based health care delivery	2
Education and learning: potential methodological and ethical issues in systematic reviews containing a meta-analysis: some critical reading suggestions for junior doctors	2
Temporal trends and risk factors of perioperative cardiac events in patients over 80 years old with coronary artery disease undergoing noncardiac surgery: a high-volume single-center experience, 2014–	2
Cefazolin-induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis	2
Why metaphors matter: the semantic determinants of health	2
Review of the published literature to characterise clinical excellence in COVID-19 care	2
Glasgow Coma Scale on admission as predictor of neurological sequelae at discharge and acute respiratory failure in patients with heatstroke	2
Decreased glucagon in diabetic peripheral neuropathy patients with long duration type 2 diabetes	2
Neurodiversity in the healthcare profession	2
Risk factors for thromboembolic events in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 pneumonia in a general ward and requiring treatment with oxygen	2
Management of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies: narrative review	2
High level of lactate dehydrogenase and ischaemia–reperfusion injury regulate the multiple organ dysfunction in patients with COVID-19	2
Machine-learning models to predict serious adverse hospitalization events after ACS	2
Delivering surgical education: a specialist surgical society and undergraduate student collaboration	2
Reflection in clinical practice: guidance for postgraduate doctors in training	2
Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
The starry sky of tuberculoma	2
Prediction of general practice licensure/certification examination performance by a measure of ‘questionable’ activities in clinical practice: a retrospective cohort study	2
Comparative effect of oral drugs in improving spasticity of different etiology: a network meta-analysis	2
The 2024 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki: a modern ethical framework for medical research	2
Lost in translation: a national cross-sectional study on medical interpreter use by pediatric residents	2
Effect of CYB2B6 (c.516G>T), CYP2C9 (c.1075A>C) and UGT1A9 (c.98T>C) polymorphisms on propofol pharmacokinetics in patients submitted to colonoscopy: a cohort	2
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	2
The other end of the line	2
Implications of the shift from GP-centred to multidisciplinary models on postgraduate GP training in the UK	2
Arm claudication due to giant cell arteritis	2
The basic statistical concepts and their interrelationships in diagnostic research	2
Association between amiodarone use and risk of cataract: a population-based active-comparator study	2
Survival of the wealthiest? Wait in line for COVID-19 vaccination	2
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and emphysematous cystitis	2
Divine bodies: imagining the anatomy of God	2
Is coffee, tea, and red wine consumption beneficial for individuals with hypertension?	2
Appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography in the investigation of general medicine patients presenting with syncope or presyncope	2
Abnormal electrocardiogram and poor prognosis in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	2
Characteristics of Japanese physician influencers on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic and fact-checking their tweets on COVID-19-related drugs	2
‘Virtual neonatal crash course’: quality improvement in neonatal teaching for paediatric trainees	2
Wide-ranging clinical spectrum of paradoxical embolism	2
Modified National Early Warning Score (MNEWS) in predicting the mortality of intensive care unit patients	2
Space Medicine: Inspiring a new generation of physicians	2
Delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions to Pfizer BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine	2
Atrial myxoma presenting with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction	2
Utility of nasal application of lignocaine gel using cotton tip swab versus squirting with slip-tip syringe for transnasal fibreoptic bronchoscopy: a pilot randomised controlled trial	2
Junior doctors and fitness to practice procedures in the UK: analysis of factors prompting tribunal referrals and outcomes	2
Addressing inequalities in cardiovascular health remains an urgent priority	2
Changes in spectrum of biopsy-proven kidney diseases within decade: an analysis based on 10 199 cases from South China	2
Association between non-neoplastic bladder diseases and bladder cancer risk: insights from Mendelian randomization studies	2
Telomere biology disorders: from dyskeratosis congenita and beyond	2
Timeliness of reperfusion in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and outcomes in Kerala, India: results of the TRUST outcomes registry	2
‘Insight’ in medical training: what, why, and how?	2
Anaesthetists and wicket keepers. ‘They also serve who only stand and wait’	2
Learning from the black death	2
Prognostic significance of competition ratios in surgical specialty training selection	2
Clinician’s guide to the basic principles of MRI	2