alee92
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I actually can't quite believe you asked this! What do you expect anyone to say? 'Oh no, put what you want on your application form - no one will ever check it...' - ?? Even if that were true - and...

And graduates from different medical schools differ in their success rates in these exams: BioMed Central | Full text | Graduates of different UK medical schools show substantial differences in...

Mmmm. I always wonder about it when people say "four years of extremely hard work, only to be a junior doctor" - because surely the goal isn't being a junior doctor, it's being a doctor. That...

well cambridge looks at your application as a whole and they're the only uni with access to your UMS marks so your good marks should give you an advantage, but as I said, your GCSEs really let you...

Hey guys! I'm Arsa from Toronto, Canada. I am currently completing my grade 12. I have an interest in medical research and cardiology. So I'm planning to do something along those lines in the...

Overdose [copied from half way through] To cut the story short, after a day on the treatment, it was decided that this poor bloke needed a liver transplant as the liver was failing. An organ...

Last week I noticed a deep sense of calm in me. I was smiley happy all week from a combination of small things: the fact my shoes click when I walk in the office (when I was little I couldn’t wait...

An ABG is where a needle is stuck into the wrist at a steep angle to go and pierce the radial artery (the one you can feel with your fingers at your wrist). This is needed to see the levels of...

Crash call! Here is the start of my latest blog... On friday (two weeks ago!) had the most awesome ward round ever! Literally! Reading the title of this blog you might think I'm a bit weird for...

Last week at work went really quickly. Partly because I was looking forward to my interview (perhaps looking forward to is the wrong word, more anticipating the interview) and my boyfriend coming...

The human body contains 10 times more microbes than the human body has cells. Further study of gut bacteria has shown that these bacteria contain 3.3 million genes in comparison to just 23,000 human...

Aggressively treating HIV infection before symptoms become apparent could improve patient outcomes and control the spread of the disease. The studies conducted in both developing and developed...

A big step forward has been made in understanding how polymorphisms in a region of junk non-coding DNA (an intron) can affect the risk of heart disease. The intron in question is located on...

The usefulness of mice as animal models in hepatic research has taken a great leap forward. One of the most commonly cited problems with animal models is that they are different and respond...

At the London nightclub Pacha, the Department of Health and Alzheimer's Society launched a new campaign to inform the public about dementia. The launch featured people with dementia ballroom dancing....