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	158
Gender differences in bullying among internal medicine residents	98
Beta blocker versus ivabradine for cardiovascular outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation	93
The current state of neuropalliative care in developing countries. Where are we now?	53
Umeclidinium plus vilanterol versus fluticasone propionate plus salmeterol for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials	41
Pseudopneumothorax: diagnostic pitfalls	41
Which should we fear more in preschoolers and infants: SARS-CoV-2 or respiratory syncytial virus?	37
The reduction of medical resident duty hours for the benefit of patient safety	35
Off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients at 30 days: a propensity score matching study	33
Citation rat race—an academic malignancy	33
Correction to: Contribution of nebulized budesonide before bronchoscopy, a prospective clinical study	32
Cohort study of the APACHE II score and mortality for different types of intensive care unit patients	27
LLMs may improve medical communication: social science perspective	27
Association between long working hours and poor cardiovascular health assessed by the American Heart Association’s “Life’s essential 8”: findings from a nationally representative sample of Korean work	26
Uncovering novel metabolic and inflammatory pathways in gout using Mendelian randomization	25
Surgical ward round proforma can improve documentation and efficiency of ward rounds	25
Vector-Borne mites of medical and veterinary importance: biology, ecology, and control strategies	24
Self-reported physical activity properties and 20-year all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among community-dwelling older adults	23
What should you have in your little black bag? A letter to a young doctor	23
Crosstalk between COVID-19 and the gut-brain axis: a gut feeling	22
Polymath: to be or not to be?	21
Medical registrar bottleneck	21
Fake COVID-19 vaccination in India: an emerging dilemma?	20
Letter in response to “Many faces of cutaneous leishmaniasis”	20

Of venous drainage	20
Trends of core versus subspecialty operative procedures completed in general surgery residency training programs	20
Benefits of exercise oncology courses for medical oncology trainees	20
Medical students and COVID-19: final-year medical students' perspective	18
Medical activism	17
Therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal diseases: proteome-wide Mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses	17
Rational quality and cost of critical care systems are more important than individual considerations: a view from India	17
Dynamite plots in surgical research over 10 years: a meta-study using machine-learning analysis	16
Prospective comparison of two methods for assessing sarcopenia and interobserver agreement on retrospective CT images	16
Retrospective analysis of the appendiceal neoplasms: sampling technique may influence neoplasm detection	15
The emergence of MedTok: a qualitative analysis of popular medical TikTok videos	15
Referring wisely: knowing when and how to make subspecialty consultations in hospital medicine	14
Incidence and risk factors for dysglycaemia in Asian-Indians: a 10-year population-based prospective cohort study	13
Informed consent practices in clinical research: present and future	13
The impact of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on medical education	13
Academic misconduct by Chinese medical staff	13
Can fibromyalgia be considered a characteristic symptom of climacterium?	12
Nephrotoxicity of direct factor Xa inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance study using real-world data from the Federal Adverse Event Reporting System database	12
Exploring TikTok to increase one’s health literacy: the Philippine experience	12
Ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased prevalence of valvular heart diseases: a cross-sectional population-based study	12
Using an application to measure trainees’ procedural knowledge before chest tube insertion	11
Healthcare apprenticeships: assessing the potential benefits to an acute care provider NHS organization	11
Preference informed allocation for the Specialised Foundation Programme	11
Safeguarding healthcare professionals from sexual harassment in the workplace: urgent need for effective training and education	11
Peri-operative strategy in resuscitation of unstable injured surgical patients: a primer	10
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
War-induced obstetric emergencies necessitate improved global intervention	10
The therapeutic value of vacuum external fixation in polytrauma patients with multiple ribs fracture	10
The effect of socioeconomic status and training programmes on burnout in postgraduate trainees in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional analysis	10
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
Intercepting the deadly trinity of mucormycosis, diabetes and COVID-19 in India	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
A framework for residents’ pursuit of excellence based upon non-cognitive and cognitive attributes	9
Chaperones in urology clinic: an updated survey of patient perspectives and preferences in the outpatient setting in the United Kingdom	9
Causal linkage of psoriasis with ageing: Mendelian randomization and enrichment analysis towards telomere length and psoriasis	9
An introduction to anatomical pathology	9
Differential attainment in higher surgical training: scoping pan-specialty spectra	9
Sustained clinical knowledge improvements from simulation experiences with Simulation via Instant Messaging—Birmingham Advance	9
Effects of new hypoglycemic drugs on patients with heart failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	8
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography as a single-modality ‘gold-standard’ treatment for common bile duct stones in the elderly	8
Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and silent brain infarction	8
A Mendelian analysis of the causality between inflammatory cytokines and digestive tract cancers	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
Changing face of medical education during a pandemic: tragedy or opportunity?	8
What became of the ‘eyes and the ears’?: exploring the challenges to reporting poor quality of care among trainee medical staff	8
Higher dietary zinc intake increases the risk of autoimmune thyroiditis	8

Lemon-shaped mass in the lung: a phantom tumour	8
Ventricular aneurysm and ventricular septal defect after myocardial infarction	8
Improving senior medical workforce retention at a large teaching hospital trust	8
A recent surge of nitrous oxide misuse around London which merits a public health warning	7
Impact of body mass index on disease progression and outcomes in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	7
Identifying novel risk targets in inflammatory skin diseases by comprehensive proteome-wide Mendelian randomization study	7
Fahr's disease	7
Chronic constipation and gut microbiota: current research insights and therapeutic implications	7
Residency interviews in the digital era	7
Evaluating the McMahon score for predicting mortality in earthquake-induced rhabdomyolysis: a retrospective study	7
Relationship between hyperglycaemia at admission and prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study	7
Roles of macrophages and monocytes in resistance to immunotherapy in breast cancers	7
How patient autonomy drives the legal liabilities of medical practitioners and the practical ways to mitigate and resolve them	7
Relative positions of the right internal jugular vein and the right common carotid artery	7
COVID-19 vaccination: patient uptake and attitudes in a multi-ethnic North London maternity unit	7
Rituximab therapy for connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none	6
The prognostic value of HALP score and sPESI in predicting in-hospital mortality in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism	6
Use of social deprivation status in primary prevention cardiovascular risk scores: a must but a challenge	6
Challenges towards medical writing in a developing country: a post-graduate resident’s perspective	6
Differences in empathy levels among physicians based on specialty: a nationwide cross-sectional study	6
Safe re-immunization of mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine–induced nonepisodic angioedema with eosinophilia	6
Pain and its management: Dante’s Divine Comedy	6
Predominant learning approaches of medical students in Saudi Arabia	6
Muscle involvement in sarcoidosis	6
Challenges in establishing a strong telemedicine system in China	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
Abortion in evolution, caesarean scar pregnancy, and cervical ectopic: discerning the triplets on ultrasound	6
F1-taught orthopaedic teaching programme for students (FOTS)	6
Speaking up at conference question and answer sessions—disruptive behaviour typography and assessment scale	6
Orthopaedic surgical prioritisation: can it be made fairer to minimise clinical harm?	6
Implications of evolutionary unpredictability for gain-of-function research	6
Generalized papular eruption—an unusual side effect of leuprolide acetate	6
Temporal relationship between sarcoidosis and malignancies in a nationwide cohort of 1942 patients	6
Equality of opportunity—absolutely, it is right and just. Virtue signalling without focus on the individual—no thank you! Let’s place individualism over collectivism	6
Trauma radiology teaching for foundation doctors working within the Scottish Trauma Network improves radiology requests and patient safety: a multidepartmental quality improvement project	6
Portfolio use in postgraduate medical education: a systematic scoping review	5
Retracted: Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Germany: a cross-sectional, population-based study	5
Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions	5
Causal relationship between gut microbiota and lung squamous cell carcinoma: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study	5
My first dance	5
A more precise interpretation of the potential value of artificial intelligence tools in medical education is needed	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
Effects of osteoporosis medications on bone fracture in patients with chronic kidney disease	5
The improvement of functional dyspepsia symptoms after Helicobacter pylori eradication: caused by an unrecognized change in duodenal microbiota?	5
What gets resident physicians stressed and how would they prefer to be supported? A best–worst scaling study	5
Using ChatGPT to generate multiple-choice questions in medical education may have potential adverse effects on medical educators and medical students	5
Correlation between cathepsins and the likelihood of renal cancer: a Mendelian randomization study	5
Statin and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pooled adjusted effect estimates from propensity-matched cohorts	5
Elschnig's spots, an atypical sign of target organ damage	5
Intensive blood pressure control in older patients with hypertension—a STEP in the right direction?	5
Valproate induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms: unique side effect of a commonly used drug	5
A case of euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis in a T2DM patient using Tirzepatide	5
Predictors of self-reported research engagement and academic-career interest amongst medical students in the United Kingdom: a national cross-sectional survey	5
Sampling, study design, and statistics. A didactic discussion	5
Sensitivity and specificity of folate receptor α-positive circulating tumour cells in gastric cancer	5
Thirty-day unplanned readmission in hospitalised asthma patients in the USA	5
Facial recognition for disease diagnosis using a deep learning convolutional neural network: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Memory B cells and serum immunoglobulins are associated with disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19	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 systematic review and meta-analysis of acupuncture for De Quervain’s tenosynovitis treatment	4
Healthcare distrust among hospitalised black patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Creativity in medicine during times of uncertainty	4
Prognostic significance of international normalised ratio and prothrombin time in Chinese acute ischaemic stroke patients	4
Effectiveness of different music tempos in guiding cardiopulmonary resuscitation training	4
Resurgence of COVID-19 in India: time for introspection	4
A comparison of the assessments used in campus-based years at the College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia	4
Chaos theory: lessons on educating equality and leadership	4
Iatrogenic extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm	4
Small extracellular vesicle microRNAs in pediatric myasthenia gravis plasma and skeletal muscle	4
Reimagining disability accommodations in medical education	4
PhenoAge and PhenoAgeAccel in the context of dyslipidemia: association with stroke and potential as a new predictor in the US general population	4
Malnutrition and sarcopenia worsen short- and long-term outcomes in internal medicine inpatients	4
Claustrum hyperintensity as a marker of anti-NMDAR encephalitis	4
Inside the Ukraine war: health and humanity	4
Reforming DoLS: liberty protection safeguards	4
Reflections on Patient Resilience	4
AI-enhanced telemedicine for personalized antiretroviral therapy in HIV patients with neurological comorbidities: a narrative review	4

Should obstetric mortality be an inalienable right?	4
Subacute thyroiditis following recovery from COVID-19 infection: novel clinical findings from an Eastern Indian cohort	4
Cerebral venous thrombosis: a practical review	4
London Major Trauma System: a review of an organised trauma system and the challenges it faces	4
Opportunities and challenges for young physicians in the era of artificial intelligence: current status and future perspectives	4
Associations of mixed metals exposure with cognitive impairment risk: a cross-sectional study in Chinese adults	4
Comprehensive multi-omics approach reveals potential therapeutic targets and agents for osteoarthritis	4
Policy and perceptions of pregnancy during training among residents of various subspecialties	4
The impact of adopting low-molecular-weight heparin in place of aspirin as routine thromboprophylaxis for patients with hip fracture	4
Is the NHS really cost-effective? A junior doctor’s experience	3
More to obesity than what meets the eye: a comprehensive approach to counteracting obesity stigma	3
Education and learning: potential methodological and ethical issues in systematic reviews containing a meta-analysis: some critical reading suggestions for junior doctors	3
Publication for sale: the rise of academies catering to medical students	3
Advances in the study of microparticles in diabetic retinopathy	3
Defining success in medicine: why perfectionism is not the answer	3
Venous thromboembolism in professional drivers of automatic transmission vehicles: an underestimated occupational risk?	3
Association between non-neoplastic bladder diseases and bladder cancer risk: insights from Mendelian randomization studies	3
Medical Students’ Insight into Foundation Training (MEDSIFT): a National Cross-Sectional Online Survey reveals close to 50% are considering a career outside the NHS	3
Nocardiabrain abscess: a sinister aetiology	3
Cefazolin-induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis	3
Perfusion CT imaging as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for dementia: prospective case–control study	3
The causal relationship between negative emotions and inflammatory dermatoses: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study	3
Postpartum haemorrhage and associated factors among mothers who gave birth in South Gondar Zone public health facilities, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	3
Indwelling pleural catheters: evidence for and management	3
Delayed olanzapine induced myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis	3
Effect of the interaction between atrial fibrillation and rt-PA dose on the prognosis of acute ischaemic stroke with intravenous thrombolysis	3
Many faces of cutaneous leishmaniasis	3
Performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) in Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP)-style examination questions	3
National examination for medical residency admission: academic performance in a high-stakes test and the need for continuing education	3
Safety and efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) in elderly population of Faisalabad district of Pakistan	3
Timeliness of reperfusion in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and outcomes in Kerala, India: results of the TRUST outcomes registry	3
Severe skin mottling in fatal sepsis	3
Research progress on the association between trimethylamine/trimethylamine-N-oxide and neurological disorders	3
Implications of the shift from GP-centred to multidisciplinary models on postgraduate GP training in the UK	3
CD47 as a biomarker for ovarian cancer: prospects and challenges	3
mRNA vaccines as a revolutionary approach to combat cancer	3
Gaza—ceasefire and prepare for a surge in infectious diseases!	3
How the physician’s financial wellness could impact patient safety	3
Recruiting and retaining doctors—a wicked problem needing complex solutions	3
Correction to: Behavioral trigger factors for hemorrhagic stroke: a case-crossover study	3
Arthropod-borne encephalitis: an overview for the clinician and emerging considerations	3
Appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography in the investigation of general medicine patients presenting with syncope or presyncope	3