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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 […]

It goes all the way back to 1986? Sometimes its best to look back not forwards, and we can see from research in the BMJ dating back to 1986 that medical students were having a tough time back then. Lets go back to the results from 1986 from the paper “Levels and sources of stress […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]