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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 [...]
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 [...]
A 76 year old man presents with atrial fibrillation which is permanent. He is lucid and has specifically made an appointment with you to discuss the best way of stopping him “dying ” as a result of the AF.
PMHx:
Hypertension (treated), Mild COPD. Nil else of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the UK in the past few years there has been a bit of upheaval in the old junior doctor jobs market.
A UK pressure group, set up and run by doctors called Remedy UK has been representing doctors in the UK for the last few years. Many will remember the junior doctors Marchig through London [...]
Alan Mortiboys is Professor of Educational Development at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. He talks to James Bateman from the Medical Educator team about learning theories.
Professor Mortiboys lectures at BCU on educational development and also on formal “medical education” programmes to doctors and health professionals including the Masters in Medical Education at the University of [...]
Nice to read what’s going on at the Whitehouse after President Barack Obama was sworn in earlier today: they have some sensible thoughts about helthcare in the US the complete transcript of which you can read here.
The 7 key reforms listed on the site are as follows:
“Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all [...]