Pass your medical student exams
The students today should be ever more vigilant about their mobile phones… Although we’ve polled you to find that you want to use them more for revision purposes, it seems that great exam performance isn’t all that they’re bringing. As the Department of Health in the UK made waves today announcing encouraging news that patients […]
Nice to see the people at the NEJM continue to provide us with clinically relevant topics across all specialities: none more so than the complication of DVT in pregnant women.The review article (link here) highlights management and thromboprophylaxis in the NEJM. What is more interesting to my eyes is the actual planned investigation of suspected […]
Medical Educator is continuously updating its content and its services. In a direct response to a query from one of our members we thought we’d put a poll up about the classic ‘Honey and Mumford’ styles of learning: theorists, activists, reflectors and pragmatists. If you have no idea then that’s fair enough… What they emphasised […]
Here’s a selection of what we’ve published in our links page to different sets of guidelines: These are particularly helpful for referencing evidence based medicine. AAN: American Academy of Neurology guidelines AACE: American association of Clinical Endocrinologists with guidelines here BAD: British association of dermatologists with guidelines here BOA: British Association of Orthopaedics with guidelines […]
Ever caught medical student’s syndrome? Or come across a googlechondriac on ward rounds? If you haven’t a clue what we are on about check out the slang list below. Essentially the urban dictionary for Medical Students. Got any slang to add? Email us with your additions! ALS – Absolute Loss of Sanity Appy – a […]
Writers at Medical Educator have watched the news coverage with interest of this introduction of a 48 hour working week.* The asterisk is an important one. For example, junior doctors will still be working more than 48 hours in one week (it’s an averaged figure over several weeks), and it doesn’t do much to inspire […]
The Festive period doesn’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 […]
Medical Educator is now accredited by the leading surveyor of web based health information, namely the Health on the Net (HON) foundation. 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 […]
Berci Meskó is a Hungarian medical student, and a leading innovator when it comes to the web 2.0 and using new healthcare technologies. His medical blog is one of the most popular on the internet from a medical student. Here he is interviewed by one of the Medical Educator team. Hi Berci, you’re a busy […]
The message is clear: students are ready to use mobile for internet services and among one of the earliest adopters of mobile technology. In a recent survey we asked our audience if they would use mobile to revise for their medical student exams. The results show that 35% are ready and willing, and 33% are […]
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