31 Medical Specialties

Your specialty's literature,
summarised every Monday

AI-powered weekly digests of every new article from the top journals in your specialty. Structured clinical summaries, in your inbox, ready to scan over coffee. Try it free for a month.

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31 Specialties

Choose your specialty. We'll do the reading.

Each specialty tracks the top 5 journals in the field. Every new article, every week, summarised and waiting in your inbox.

Acute Medicine
Anaesthetics
Cardiology
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
General Practice
General Surgery
Geriatric Medicine
Haematology
Infectious Disease
Intensive Care
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Paediatrics
Palliative Care
Pathology
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry
Public Health
Radiology
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology
Urology
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How it works

From PubMed to your inbox,
every Monday morning

01

Automatic literature search

Every week we query PubMed for newly published articles from the top 5 journals in your chosen specialty. Nothing slips through.

02

AI-generated clinical summaries

Each article gets a structured summary: study type, key question, findings with real numbers, clinical relevance, and limitations.

03

Weekly executive overview

A "This Week at a Glance" section highlights the 2–3 most significant findings so you get the headlines in 30 seconds.

04

Direct links to full text

Every article includes DOI and PubMed links. One click to the full paper via your institutional or OpenAthens login.

Example

What a summary looks like

Each article in your Monday Brief is summarised in this structured format.

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Erector spinae plane block with fascial plane catheter for early analgesia of rib fractures in trauma (ESPEAR): a multicentre feasibility randomised trial

Hewson DW, Nightingale J, Ogollah R et al. · October 2025
Study Type: Multicentre randomised controlled feasibility trial (n=25)
Key Question: Is a definitive RCT of erector spinae plane (ESP) block and catheter for traumatic rib fracture analgesia feasible in UK major trauma centres?
Key Findings:
• Recruitment rate was 0.69 participants/site/month, below the target of 1.11, primarily due to out-of-hours presentations
• Retention rate met the 80% target and the trial procedures were acceptable to staff and patients
• ESP block with 72-hour catheter infusion was delivered safely with no serious block-related adverse events
Clinical Relevance: Confirms that ESP catheter trials in rib fracture patients are deliverable in NHS trauma centres but highlights the need for extended recruitment hours or additional sites in a definitive trial.
Limitations: Small sample size (n=25) across three centres; recruitment challenges may limit generalisability of feasibility conclusions.
About

Built by a clinician, for clinicians

Dr Tim Hamilton is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine working in NHS Wales. He built The Monday Clinical Brief to solve a problem he and his colleagues shared: keeping up with the literature alongside a busy clinical workload.

The digest uses publicly available PubMed abstracts summarised by AI. Summaries are a starting point for identifying relevant articles — not a substitute for reading the original papers. No patient data is involved at any stage.

Questions? mondayclinicalbrief@gmail.com