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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 [...]
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’re keen to supply our users with a free [...]
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 [...]
A medical student is practising for her OSCE exams on the ward…
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% [...]
The answer is….. b. Warfarin
Based on NICE Guidance 36 (AF) and the CHADS 2 scoring system.
The CHADS2 score is an excellent aide memoir to anticoagulation in AF. It is based on:
CHADS2
Stands for
Score
C
Congestive heart failure
1point
H
hypertension
1point
A
Age>75
1point
D
Diabetes Mellitus
1point
S2
Previous stroke/ TIA
2 points
SCORE
2 or over=Warfarin
1= Warfarin or aspirin
0=aspirin
This [...]
At Medical Educator we are always looking to push the boundaries of what we can do on the web to further medical student e-learning in preparation for medical student finals.
We’re pretty excited about the potential our new technology (in collaboration with the kind folks at iSpring) has to offer medical students an even richer learning [...]
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 [...]
Thanks for talking to us Joel. We came across you via the social networking site Twitter. As a UK based doctor, its always nice to chat to students from across the pond. Tell us a bit about yourself and your medical training.
First of all, thanks for asking me to do this. Born and raised in [...]
Is it possible to have an international site for medical revision? There is a diverse range of assessment methods in place in today’s medical marketplace, ranging from the familiar MCQ exam, to the OSCE format that may not be so familiar to some medical students in the US or in other parts of Western Europe [...]
UMAP is the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership and is relevant to many medical students from the UK.
It’s essentially the organisation which is writing/ collecting a bank of medical student exam questions for use in ‘high stakes’ examinations, such as medical finals.
UMAP’s description of their activities can be found on their website: On the site they [...]