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	<title>Medical Educator - Medical students, revise for your OSCE medical student exam with our free MCQs, EMQs, videos, podcasts, downloads.</title>
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	<description>Medical students - get help passing and revise for your medical student exams with our multi choice questions (MCQs/EMQs), videos, podcasts and downloads. Free resources give it a trial!</description>
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		<title>What were medical students doing 100 years ago?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medical Educator has been donated a copy of the 1910 (second edition) of the Students Handbook of Operative Surgery. The second edition comes complete with hand written medical student notes and diagrams of common surgical procedures from back in the day. The edition, written by William Ireland Wheeler was designed to help students understanding of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Us Your Favourite iPhone Apps!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We here at medicaleducator.co.uk are currently checking out he use of predominantly free iPhone apps on for medical students. So what we would like are three things. Why not email us at iphone@medicaleducator.co.uk if you have a point of view on any of our points below. We&#8217;re keen to supply our users with a free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Med students use blogging to help see themselves as Doctors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theory that writing about an experience helps you reflect and learn is being used for some medical students, reports the Arizona Daily Star. Med students are put through a blogging exercise when they first start to shadow medical profesionals in a hospital.
At first, the students dont see themselves as Doctors but through the blogging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of a good handover between doctors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reality is simple. Poor handovers create discontinuities in care that can lead to adverse events and subsequent litigation. Poor handovers are associated with delayed diagnosis, medication errors, inaccurate diagnosis and increased length of stay.
A New Zealand study of clinical handovers in a tertiary hospital found that the majority of house officers encountered a clinical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to our medical student fundoscopy question: About a third of you got this right!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is our answer to our fundoscopy question from January the 8th. 
Well now we have the answer, lets go through it step by step. Remember this is from the perspective of a general medicine/ internal medicine doctor, NOT from that of an ophthalmologist, who may have all sorts of other interesting comments to make.*
*These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 things you need to know to Master OSCE Clinical Exam Technique (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the week we posted the first 5 of our 10 most important things you need to focus on for your medical examination OSCE technique. Here are the final 5.
To recap, here is our 36-year old&#8217;s patient history and findings:
“I’ve been getting hot for the last 6 weeks, on and off and have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 things you need to know to Master OSCE Clinical Exam Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One topic that continually crops up in medical student questions is exam technique, and issues that can revolve around it. For this reason we have produced a list of the most important things you need to know.
This is based on common errors in exam/ OSCE techniques that crop up in medical examinations from our experience.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A medical student is practising for her OSCE exams on the ward&#8230;
She examines a 19 year old female patient admitted with asthma on the medical assessment ward for revision purposes.
The patient has a past medical history she has the occasional migraine, and eczema.
The observations are as follows.
BP 128/70
Pulse  98 regular
Fingerprick blood glucose 8.3
Oxygen Sats 97% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors tweet plastic surgery operation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It could only happen in America. This story from the Miami Herald tells of how a doctor has used twitter to send families regular updates during a plastic surgery operation:
In the waiting room, the patient&#8217;s family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://medicaleducator.co.uk/doctors-tweet-plastic-surgery-social-networking-tools.html</link>
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		<title>Christmas brings welcome respite for medical students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Festive period doesn&#8217;t always bring Christmas cheer to medical students in the UK and abroad. Whatever your religious standing, the Christmas break brings a welcome bit of respite from university study and placements, but normally brings up extra exam work.
We took a straw poll of our colleagues and friends who will be at work [...]]]></description>
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