Peter Cross

Handling Tough Job Interviews

Julie-Ann Amos How To Books, 2005, 165 pages, £9.99 ISBN: 1 85703 845 2 Rating: ⋆/5 I almost returned this book to the shelf seconds after opening it. I chanced across the following sentence in the preface—“This book is not about manipulating interviews or quick hints to pass difficult ones.” Why else would you want to buy this sort of book? But Julie-Ann Amos, a human resources consultant, has other ideas. She has a few useful titbits here and there but they are well concealed beneath pages of padding. Do you, …

From here to maternity

Babies change everything, and Peter Cross finds out how

Spoilt for choice

Applications for foundation programmes begin next week, with those for specialist training following soon. Peter Cross looks at how four doctors chose their career paths

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Job swapping

This week we are wrapping up what has become a three-issue response to the MTAS debacle. Its our attempt to help juniors who find themselves without a training post in August. One of the concerns with the new centralised system is that some doctors are being offered jobs that mean working hundreds of …

Let's hear it for the good guys

Something is heart warming about the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, an organisation that helps musicians and other performing artists who need medical attention. Its heart warming in the sense that these doctors give their time and expertise for free. As …

Willett's world

Peter Cross on the art of Malcolm Willett

The sub, sub specialist

One of the intriguing things about medicine, or indeed any profession, is the way that over time roles get increasingly specialised. This weeks leading article is a case in point. Perinatal psychiatrists who specialise in the management of psychiatric patients in the antenatal and …

Age has not wearied him

For me, the best bit of being a journalist is the opportunity it gives you to meet and interview people you admire. As an editor you tend to get tied to your desk, responding to an endless stream of emails …

Should medical education be free

Are commercial educational courses unethical? Danny Lim argues the case for and Peter Cross disagrees

An occupational psychologist and anti-stress sage

Professor Cary Cooper CBE is a researcher, writer, and broadcaster, based at Lancaster University, Greater Manchester