Another Breath & other: August 2008

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Australian Medical Students Association: Medical Training Solutions For National Doctor Shortage

�The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) has reiterated calls for State and Federal Governments to desperately address the shortage of clinical training places available to medical students and junior doctors.

The telephone number of medical students graduating annually in Australia is expected to increase most three congregation in 10 years, from 1200 in 2002 to 3300 in 2012.

AMSA President, Michael Bonning aforesaid increasing medical student numbers would only be effectual in overcoming the nationwide doctor shortage if high quality clinical training positions were made available.

"The number of clinical grooming positions uncommitted for medical students and junior doctors can be increased if Governments dedicate to working with medical education stakeholders to direct the shortfall," Mr Bonning said.

"Increasing clinical education capacity volition require a significant fiscal investment which should be tied to the performance benchmarks in the approaching Australian Healthcare Agreements," he said.

"More investment is needed to expand teaching infrastructure, develop novel pedagogy programs such as the prevocational general practice placement program (PGPPP), and adequately remunerate senior doctors world Health Organization teach their junior colleagues.

"In accession we motive to expand medical scholarly person and junior doctor breeding opportunities in underutilised settings, such as private hospitals, general practices and rural areas.

"If we can guarantee high quality clinical training positions for medical students and junior doctors then the surge in medical scholarly person numbers will pay dividends for underserved Australian communities," Mr Bonning said.

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Friday, 22 August 2008

Mp3 music: Matt Monro

Artist: Matt Monro: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Easy Listening
Vocal
Folk

Matt Monro's discography:

The Ultimate Matt Monro

Year: 2005

Tracks: 24

Mis canciones preferidas - Jokin - Euskal Herria

Year: 2001

Tracks: 23

The Very Best of Matt Monro

Year: 1998

Tracks: 20

Spotlight on Matt Monro

Year: 1995

Tracks: 13

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Year:

Tracks: 24

Though Matt Monro is known topper to world audiences as the voice of unrivaled of the best James Bond themes, "From Russia with Love," the British vocaliser produced a lifetime of not bad mould. Often criticized as a second-rate Sinatra personation because of his abstemious, expressive expressive style of swing out, Monro hit the British Top Ten often during the 1960s but managed only deuce moderate hits in America.

Innate Terrence Parsons in London, he began his life history tattle for tV commercials and performed with a few British bands (including Cyril Stapleton's Orchestra) during the early '50s. After a few sides recorded for diverse labels, he gestural to Decca for an album of standards, 1957's Blasphemous and Sentimental. His career actually took turned one year after when producer George Martin asked him to lend his deep voice to a Peter Sellers album of Sinatra satires, Songs for Swingin' Sellers. Monro's straight-faced contribution, "You Keep Me Swingin'," gained him a shrink from Parlophone, and he murder number iII in the British charts with 1960's "Portrayal of My Love."

Both "My Kind of Girl" and "Lightly, As I Leave You" besides hit the Top Ten during the subsequent deuce years; the one-time became his kickoff transatlantic hit, reaching identification number 18 in America. Monro besides proved quite proficient in the maturation land of the uncut; his 1962 LP for Parlophone, Flatness Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael, was a very effected songbook compendium for a pop vocalizer. Though his theme to the irregular James Bond vehicle, From Russia with Love, only hit the Top 20 in Britain, it increased his exposure around the world. His adjacent undivided, "Walk Away," murder number iV in Britain and barely lost the Top 20 in America.

Monro gained his last British Top Ten in 1965, subsequently his association with George Martin and Parlophone gave him the distinction of organism the first creative person of thousands to cover the Beatles' "Yesterday." After moving to America that year, his British chart fortunes declined (omit for the tame 1973 dispatch "And You Smiled"). He continued acting his nightclub act, and recorded slenderly during the '70s. The 1980 solicitation Heartbreakers rejuvenated his career somewhat, though his health suffered during the time. He ultimately died of cancer in 1985.