http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blog.php New and discussion for health professionals en Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:37:27 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blog.php http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/unprotectedtext/94-osces-episode-i-phantom-menace.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:07:44 GMT 04/06/08 - Gone phishin':

This post is totally reactionary, but hell is it ever justified...

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20/06/08 - OSCE:

In about 1hrs time I'll be sitting my first OSCE.

Not sure what to expect, who knows it may be even vaguely enjoyable?...

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23/06/08 - OSCEs Episode I - A Phantom Menace:

After the final end of year exam I have reached one single conclusion; that OSCEs are perhaps the most intense two hours of the first year. Normally I manage to compose myself and suppress any inevitable anxieties that arise with exams, but being thrown into an OSCE situation for the first time really is a testament of character...

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27/06/08 - Year one, done:

Results day, for the seventh consecutive year, same anticipation, same ambiguity. The always uncomfortable social etiquette that accompanies results day – Should you ask? Should you tell? Blanket congratulations, well done to all even if you failed.

There’s a saying that goes, “What do you call the guy who graduates bottom of his class in medical school?”...

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02/07/08 - A dose of first year medicine:

It’s over one year on since I first started this blog, back in the days of wonderment, excitement and feverish anticipation. A whole year of lectures, practicals, workshops, placements, tutorials, patients and exams – and a year that has come with sweet highs and bitter lows. Medicine it would seem is the abyss, and one year on I am still right at the top, staring down.

The Good
...

http://uptext.blogspot.com/ ]]> unprotectedtext http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/unprotectedtext/94-osces-episode-i-phantom-menace.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/heatherl/93-usual-rants-about-boredom.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:15:44 GMT Ever feel like yur watching the world pass yu by, but thers always sumthin 2 prevent yu from takin advantage of it? I cant stand it any more! I need an opportunity 2 turn my life upside down just 2 break the monotonous weekly routine. I need a challenge. So BORED!! :mad: Dont ever move 2 the Borders guys, its crap ther is nothing 2 do! Ever feel like yur watching the world pass yu by, but thers always sumthin 2 prevent yu from takin advantage of it?

I cant stand it any more! I need an opportunity 2 turn my life upside down just 2 break the monotonous weekly routine. I need a challenge.

So BORED!! :mad:

Dont ever move 2 the Borders guys, its crap ther is nothing 2 do! ]]> heatherl http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/heatherl/93-usual-rants-about-boredom.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/hongkonger/92-next-life.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:32:02 GMT In the past, a caterpillar fell down from branch because of carelessness, a boy just took from here at this moment, whom caterpillar fear contract, stay body roll, fear that boy steps on from her body, the arrival of her silent wait death, however, when she opened eyes, she found she has been already on the branch, her falling in love with him slowly since then.

She thinks it will be better that if I could meet one side of his again, even if it is worthy to die, then her waiting slowly, her broken pupa appeared one day at last, she was very glad, because she can look for his loved person in order to wave one's own beautiful wings. Though one's own time is less after she knows she turns into a butterfly, but she hope, can meet him again one side before she dies, then whom she make great efforts fly, love of flying to every corner of the world and looking for her.

At last one day, she had seen that boy, but that boy is taking another girl by hand, she is sad, she hovers at boy's side, for a long time unwilling to leave away, but because is tired, her leaving the ground slowly, that boy has stretched out hands and caught her, her so high heart, she lay in the heart on boy's warm hands, she thought he still remembered her. But that boy has said one sentence: "This butterfly's disc is so beautiful, take back sample! " The tears that she dried on the face say to oneself smiling at: "Though I can't become his lover, I can also accompany it at his side at least, worthy too like this " . And that girl says: "She is only an ordinary butterfly, do not have reserve value. "

Suddenly a gust of wind blew through, she went far with the wind, has finished one's own life in an unattractive corner, she has pursued for all one's life earnestly, this is the result that she wants if it is difficult to get, she understood at last, whom love can only park never pursue, and her life is too transient, and she said at that time when oneself died: " I am sure to come to look for you next life, and meet you more early than her " .

More about: storage.relocation|truelove|present| ]]> hongkonger http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/hongkonger/92-next-life.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/tanmay/91-odors-poisonings.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:08:31 GMT *_Odors in poisonings _* *Fruity odor - alcohol Burnt rope - cannabis Fishy - zinc Bitter almond - cyanide Garlic - Arsenic, phosphorus, thallium Rotten eggs - H2S Phenolic - Carbolic acid * Odors in poisonings

Fruity odor - alcohol

Burnt rope - cannabis

Fishy - zinc

Bitter almond - cyanide

Garlic - Arsenic, phosphorus, thallium

Rotten eggs - H2S

Phenolic - Carbolic acid ]]> tanmay http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/tanmay/91-odors-poisonings.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/tanmay/90-hemodialysis.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:06:17 GMT 20 mg/dl and Fomepizole) Lithium - >4 meq/L after 12 hours of last dose. Salicylate - Acute 100 mg/dl Chronic 50 mg/dl Valproate - 100 mg/dl Ethylene glycol - 50 mg/dl ]]> Hemodialysis is indicted at the following blood levels in these poisonings:
Theophyline - Acute 10mg/dl
Chronic 5mg/dl (with seizures)
Methanol - 50 mg/dl
(>20 mg/dl and Fomepizole)
Lithium - >4 meq/L after 12 hours of last dose.
Salicylate - Acute 100 mg/dl
Chronic 50 mg/dl
Valproate - 100 mg/dl
Ethylene glycol - 50 mg/dl ]]> tanmay http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/tanmay/90-hemodialysis.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/heatherl/89-higher-human-biology.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:00 GMT Meh!! Really need some textbooks :( The department is still waitin 4 them 2 b returned, but i dnt think they have enough! Need help!!!! Urgently need some resources! :O Meh!! Really need some textbooks :(

The department is still waitin 4 them 2 b returned, but i dnt think they have enough! Need help!!!! Urgently need some resources!

:O ]]> heatherl http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/heatherl/89-higher-human-biology.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/sephie/88-again-working.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:16:29 GMT Wooooooo
so I've swapped jobs!!!
I'm now in a main stream school where children both adore and fear me. Its odd having such small creatures give you there undying unquestionable adoration.

I was playing baseball with a group of them at lunchtime and it turns out small chirldren cheat like there is no tomorrow. Okay so I hit the ball and it went quite far. Yay off I ran with 20 or so 7/8 year olds screaming. Next thing I know 10 7/8 year olds descended on me, holding on to my legs, waist arm and neck to stop me from running.

It worked.

It wuldnt have been so bad if it had not been witnessed by the headteacher.....my boss. He wondered over to see if I was okay and peel some small children off me. Again this wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't in peels of laughter at the same time.

It turns out 10 8 year olds weigh a lot.

Anyways back to medical stuff, I bought 2 anatomy books today toltalling nearly £80.
I love them, i love reading them.

They now have hot sauce all over them after a disaster with chicken wings. Roll on september I will be the girl with spicy books. ]]> Sephie http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/sephie/88-again-working.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/rat-a-tattat/87-pbl-lectures.html Fri, 30 May 2008 11:41:37 GMT does anyone have any idea which uni does a mixture of PBL and lecture-based learnin? i saw it once on their website but cnt remember which it is...anyone?.......:confused: does anyone have any idea which uni does a mixture of PBL and lecture-based learnin? i saw it once on their website but cnt remember which it is...anyone?.......:confused: ]]> rat-a-tattat http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/rat-a-tattat/87-pbl-lectures.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/unprotectedtext/85-retrosexual.html Wed, 21 May 2008 00:01:29 GMT 20/04/08 - Suture Self?:

The other week a friend and I ventured into the basement of the Royal London for a guest lecture. It would seem that the silent corridors and rooms of the hospital basement are for three things; the MRI, the morgue, and the medical students. Sat in the dingy and dated lecture theatre, most likely surrounded by radioactive dyes in storage through one wall and cold dead bodies through another, we ponder as to what dramas are playing up on the floors above...

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28/04/08 - Diff'rent Strokes:

Lock-down mode once again at the halls for this Friday brings the dreaded, hastily anticipated, and supposedly most difficult of all first year exams – the brain and behaviour (and locomotor) exam.

Cranial nerves, spinal tracts, brain anatomy and infinite fact have been crammed into our cortexes...

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30/04/08 - Unprotected Text and the City:

I temporarily made a transition to city-boy status this morning, donning my smart clothes and making my way to an agency to register for summer work. I hadn’t however, anticipated the two hour slog of paper work and menial computerised tests. As I sat down in this open plan office at a computer terminal, to log on and grind down, I felt a sudden sense of chilling perspective.

Me

The candidate - Ferocious in the boardroom
and packing some serious toner cartridge...


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06/05/08 - Big Mouth Strikes Again:


The final module is upon us, as is the countdown to end of year exams and summer. For the next three weeks we shall be slogging our way through the ins and outs of the pelvis, the highs and lows of the sex hormones and finishing with the triumphant climax of birth – all to come in human development...

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07/05/08 - Yep, I'm Mature:

Following on from a long spiel on various tissue samples, the tutor declares:

"I know there's a lot to take in, but I hope by now you've managed to get a feel for the prostate"...

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18/05/08 - Calling All Haematologists:

Mr Ali, a 59yr old Bengali man, presented to his GP with a 1 week history of cough productive of green sputum. He had a pain in the right side of his chest whenever he coughed. He had been feeling unwell for some time, with aches and pains all over. The GP sent off the sputum for culture, and in the meantime prescribed amoxicillin 250mg three times a day for 5 days.

A week later he returned, feeling worse...

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20/05/08 - Retrosexual:

Human development wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped. Perhaps that is just the typical male medical student attitude, maybe things are different on the wards. I for one will be glad to see the back of anything remotely menstrual. That’s not to say it was all that bad, I learnt a few things, things I perhaps would rather not know in hindsight (– YouTube ‘episiotomy’ at your own risk).

Quote of the week...

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I’m loving the new PBL, especially the way it’s tailored to make it relevant to us.



“Bartek is a 23 year old Polish labourer working on the Olympic site at Stratford. He is involved in an accident with a band saw which results in his right hand being completely severed 4cm proximal to the wrist.”...



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13/03/08 - A day to remember:



We met in a church hall, after the briefest of introductions I sat in the spare chair next to her. She seemed delighted, as the other lady’s gently teased “Oh look after that one, you’ve got a looker there, Emily!” She would then reply, “None of your business!” laughing and flirting harmlessly as older ladies do and I would sit smiling bashfully, as young men do.

Emily has Alzheimer’s, quite how advanced I am still unsure...



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20/03/08 - Cranial Nerves:



Easter has taken a rather rostral turn from the spine to the twelve cranial nerves. It would seem this is a part of medicine where a mnemonic will come in useful. So far I’ve heard two good ones.



(Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal)



Only One Object Transcends Time And Foams Vivaciously: Glorious Vagina! All Hail!



Ohh, Ohh, Oh, To Touch And Feel Virgin Girls' Vaginas And Hymens...



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30/03/08 - Apologies for the late running of this service:



Once again I find myself neglecting this little patch of cyberspace in favour of less pressing matters and general idleness. March has been a fairly dry month, with little of interest to report. Saying that, I have spent the past two weeks arsing about as it was the Easter holidays...



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03/04/08 - Blind mans bluff:



‘Blind people don’t see blackness’

A provocative afternoon at the hospital as we’re given an awareness workshop by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Later on we’re to discover that a person born totally

blind sees with their other senses...



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09/04/08 - Clinical (s)Kills:



There’s nothing like a long clinical skills session to demonstrate how much you’ve forgotten when it comes to cardiovascular, respiratory and abdominal exams. Fundamental, keystones of good clinical practice these theatrical displays of competence are right now, at best shabby. I can’t for the life of me remember the order, and signs we’re instructed to look out for. Come the summer OSCEs we will be given perfectly healthy patients with none of these pathological features...



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14/04/08 - Stroke Folk:



I spent some time last week at the hospital, on the stroke rehabilitation ward. Upon arrival we were greeted by various members of the team, later we would be introduced to a man who’d recently suffered a cerebellar stroke. This is where the medicine learnt in a lecture theatre translates into something completely different. No longer is it as clear cut as ‘a cerebrovascular occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery resulting in localised ischemia.’ It is instead, a man who has difficulties walking, standing, co-ordinating his hand. I watch for a moment as he tries to place a red counter into a connect-four grid...



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18/04/08 - Nuclear warheads:



There are some weird and wonderful disorders in neurology. From the man who could only say ‘tan’, to patients who cannot differentiate between background and objects, and, famously to Phineus Gauge, the first accidental frontal lobotomy. All of which suffer from unusual, bizarre consequences...



http://uptext.blogspot.com/ ]]> unprotectedtext http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/unprotectedtext/82-blind-mans-bluff.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/waveygravey/81-tales-biology-room-006.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:43:59 GMT So Im onto studying "Microbes and Diseases", or as AQA affectionaltly calls this module, "BYB7". Can you feel the love? :)

Im kidding I love this subject really, and can only hope it stays this interesting for the next 5years, here's hoping!
Today we learnt about Influenza (which unbeknownst to me was acctually the flu, stupid of me I know ;)) and then about HIV and the structure of Viruses. Apparantly they're neither dead nor alive, and have capsids surrounded by nothing and then a matrix and an outerphosholipid coating. Hmm me and my buddy Dan from this moment on decided that this was the perfect time to use one our problem solving revision analogies! Subsequently we would know like to have all viruses known as........

Kinder Eggs! Honestly its a fool proof analogy!
...
...
*silence*

Well It'll help me remember it anyhoo...... ]]> waveygravey http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/waveygravey/81-tales-biology-room-006.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/waveygravey/80-offer.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:11:06 GMT Ok so this should have been done april 1st, when i actually got the offer but what th heck.;)

So I acctually got somewhere, i got an offer from birmingham, have accepted them and now have the heady taks of choosing accomodation to spend at least the next 1 of my next(hopefully) 5 years in. I was never that good with decisions, still its not like I'll have to make decisions on a regular basis as a Doctor is it? ;).......
Oh and know I acctually have to do revision for my exams. The only thing is, I really cant be arsed at the moment....oh woe is me.
Guess Im going to have to ban myself my youtbe and msn for the time being ]]> waveygravey http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/waveygravey/80-offer.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/bpr/75-law-medicine.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:39:06 GMT So I've been thinking of starting blogging for a while, In a similar way to the recent(ish) BBC series "doctors 20 years on" I thought it would be quite fun to try and catalogue the triumphs and failures to my hopeful eventual entry into med school.

So a a bit about me to start off with. I did a law degree, I'm now doing the legal practice course (LPC) this is a one year boring course teaching me how to fill in forms and draft contracts. Pretty boring!
Thankfully we've done with the compulsory subjects and are now well into the elective term so I have more interesting subjects like Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence to deal with!

When this year is over I have a bit of a summer and then I start training in a law firm for the next two years, becoming a fully qualified solicitor in summer 2010.

My plan is as follows:
Autumn 08 - apply for med schools (1st try), currently planning on Soton bm4, Soton bm5, UAE and HYMS. These will all be deferred entries so that my entry point will be october 2010 which fits in nicely.
These are subject to change!

Jan-April 09 Interviews etc

If I get offers at this stage, great, but if not, I have another years worth of applications up my sleeve!

So then autumn 09 - more applications, I doubt I'd apply for both of the soton courses in the 2nd year of applications as they're just so competetive, haven't really thought that far ahead yet, I have the first year to go first!

Personal statement writing is going quite slowly as I have what feels like (and literally is!) months before it needs to be ready, but uncharacteristically I'm trying to get it sorted early! I've been struggling with the introductory paragraph for a bit, but when i was struggling to sleep a few nights ago, I had a flash of inspiration which I may well use!

Aside from that, work experience, I've been working part time as a bank HCA since december last year and intend to carry that on for as long as I can in my new job, doing weekend shifts etc.
On top of that, following spending the best part of two evenings reading Dr Claytons blog (heh!) I'm now considering doing something to do with St Johns ambulance, however I doubt that will happen until late this summer as its probably better I do it where I'm going to be working for two years, rather than where I'm living for the next 2 months!

This is probably enough now for my first blog, I have two lectures later today Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (henceforth this will become PICN) and Intellectual Property (IP) which hopefully will be interesting.

Let me know what you thought of this entry, with a bit of luck and encouragement I'll keep this going for the next 7 years or so charting my path through law and into medicine. ]]> bpr http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/bpr/75-law-medicine.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/embyronicdoc/73-clarifications-africa.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:16:36 GMT 1) Africa is NOT a country, it is a continent. 2) theres no one common african language, so pls dont say do you speak african? 3)Yes, you can have your medical electives in one of the many teaching hospitals in nigeria. So for all of you who want to have a tropical electives, is 27-31 degrees tropical enough, why go to bahamas or guyana when you can come to mama africa?. let me know if you are interested ehn. i have more details, 1) Africa is NOT a country, it is a continent.

2) theres no one common african language, so pls dont say do you speak african?

3)Yes, you can have your medical electives in one of the many teaching hospitals in nigeria.

So for all of you who want to have a tropical electives, is 27-31 degrees tropical enough, why go to bahamas or guyana when you can come to mama africa?.

let me know if you are interested ehn. i have more details, ]]> embyronicdoc http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/embyronicdoc/73-clarifications-africa.html http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/adetoun-faniyan/72-o-g-paedo-mb.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:57:32 GMT Hi, Is there any one there who has O+G, paedo MB this year?. How are you preparing for the exams, in Nigerian schools its said to be the most difficult MB. Hi,

Is there any one there who has O+G, paedo MB this year?.

How are you preparing for the exams, in Nigerian schools its said to be the most difficult MB. ]]> adetoun faniyan http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/blogs/adetoun-faniyan/72-o-g-paedo-mb.html