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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We set out with the aim of collecting and publishing our feedback, marks and progress. The site is aimed broadly at medical students, and it would be unrealistic to expect the site to meet with universal approval. We now have >600 registered trial users growing at an exponential rate. We have tried to do the […]