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Some useful guidelines…

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 […]

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Whats your style of learning?

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 […]

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Mobile phones in hospitals? That will be the MRSA….

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 […]

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The Rise of the EMQ (Extended Matching Question!)

EMQ’s EMQ’s are being increasingly used in research and papers have recently been published on their success in the USMLE. Its likely that many medical schools will adopt this N from many approach. An EMQ is simple: its a series of typically 6-10 answers, used a number of times with different question stems.They first cropped […]