May 23rd, 2009
Medical Educator is now accredited by the leading surveyor of web based health information, namely the Health on the Net (HON) foundation.
An example of the HON Code logo, soon to be displayed on our homepage. The HON Code allows users to check a sites authenticity through the HON website.
The HON foundation have reviewed the site and found it to be compliant with their 12 ethical principles which they have been applying over the past 12 years, leading them to them being the most recognised and one of the most respected sites to search for web authenticity. We hope to continue to abide by their 8 key principles (amongst others) namely:
- Authority
- Complementarity
- Confidentiality
- Attribution
- Justification
- Professionalism
- Transparency of Financing
- Advertising
We have made some minor alterations to the site at the request of the HON, we continue to respect their authority, and the status of our membership will soon be available via our homepage.
May 14th, 2009
In your medical finals, as with any examination in a clinical setting, you will be asked by the examiners “how would you complete the medical examination?”.
You need a simple, precise way of explaining this to your medical finals examiner. We will talk you through a simple approach for all of the abdominal organ systems in this podcast.
“To complete my medical finals examination, I would like to examine the…
Hernial orifices
External genitalia
Digital rectal examination
Inspect observation charts
Relevant organ systems, for example peripheral vascular examination”
Notice we have not abbreviated terms, and given the medical finals examiner closure, putting the ball back in his court to ask more questions.
Remember you can listen to more podcasts, get MCQs and EMQs, watch clinical skills videos, and download ‘one minute’ revision guides in the medical finals login area of the site.
May 11th, 2009
The overall average score of medical students on MedicalEducator.
The following weeks will represent the culmination of years of hard work by medical students over the past 1-5 years. Revision patterns have been changing and increasingly medical students are approaching final examinations preparing for them using web based MCQ, OSCE and video guides. For the first time, resources like podcasts and the like have taken a firm footing in the medical students preparation for final examinations.
One technique of sitting mock written papers has long been popular. Short answer questions, EMQ and MCQ format questions help people to prepare.
To quote one of our contributors:
I always felt more comfortable preparing for any exam, and I mean any, by running through exactly what I should know, first from a theoretical perspective, then from a practical perspective. If that meant filling in multiple choice questions, I got a book on multiple choice questions. It was what it was.
Maybe you’d like the opportunity to measure yourself against other medical students across the UK or
The average mark in one of our mock final examinations, which was added to the site in April 09.
across the world. A good example of this is our *(tough) mock medical finals paper. This is designed for students sitting year 1, year 2, year 3 year 4 or final examinations, which have a clinical component.
The average for this exam is 49.6%. Tough. But will it help you learn? A comment from a subscriber:
You keep doing questions where a principle that you didn’t understand is explained in the answer. Thats the value of them.
Overall this is a stressful time for medical students, on behalf of the Medical Educator team, good luck in those examinations.
Loading ...