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Rationale: Radiology plays an integral role in the diagnosis and management of disease. As diagnostic images are frequently reviewed by junior doctors prior to the formal Radiology report being issued, it is essential that they are armed with the skills to correctly interpret pathological findings, especially out of hours. Effective radiology teaching is of considerable benefit to patients as critical findings are less likely to be missed or misinterpreted. Methodology: Quantitative methods were utilised for data collection. Sampling was purposive as questionnaires were disseminated at the end of the series of small group tutorials. The response rate was 81.4 % (228/280). Findings: The data extracted from this research demonstrated the positive impact the change initiative had on the 228 participants. 91% of postgraduates and 84% of undergraduates rated the small group tutorials as either essential or very helpful. 100% of participants would like more radiology teaching with 85% preferring the small group tutorial format. Worryingly, 85% of junior doctor's and 44 % of undergraduates felt that their radiology training had insufficiently prepared them for the clinical duties of a junior doctor. Conclusion: This research supports the implementation of small group tutorials in radiology into the medical undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.Diagnostic Radiology plays an integral role in the diagnosis and management of disease. It is regarded by many as the 'eye' of modern medicine with its use and basic interpretation forming a key component of the role of a junior doctor. However, many doctors do not have an appreciation of the appropriate use of radiology, surrounding radiation safety issues or viable alternatives in order to optimise patient care.

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A United Nations (UN) meeting has failed to agree on an action plan to deal with indoor air pollution-the range of hazards related to cooking indoors that is thought to kill more people every year in poor countries than malaria. Despite two weeks of negotiations in New York, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development was unable to ratify a draft communiqué on indoor pollution and other developmental issues that were up for discussion. But activists say the very fact that the discussion took place represents valuable progress in acknowledging the scale of the pollution problem. At the end of a fractious meeting that cul

To manage the delivery of services competitively on a large, global scale, an IT (information technology) service provider must efficiently use service delivery resources-in particular, skilled service delivery teams. Service requests form a large and important component of the management of a client's IT infrastructure. Currently, the fulfillment of IT service requests is often managed on a per-account basis. Servicedelivery teams fulfill service requests according to account-specific processes by using an account-specific service-request-management environment, making it difficult to leverage the skills of the various delivery teams for multiple accounts. The service delivery management platform (SDMP) uses reusable service components that can be performed by multiple delivery teams and can be assembled into service compositions to which multiple clients can subscribe. The SDMP catalog is the information repository that manages service components, composition, providers, and subscriptions and is used by the service-request runtime environment to implement specific customer service requests. In this paper, we describe a catalog-based architecture for service delivery management and demonstrate how its use can provide a global service-delivery organization with a platform for achieving significant productivity gains.