Archive for March, 2009
Search the Medical Web – ScienceRoll
ScienceRoll Medical Search Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine. The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community.
Insider's Look at USMLE Step 2
This practical exam is comprised of a rapid-fire history and physical of 12 actors pretending to have various, common medical problems, with subsequent documentation of the encounters. this exam costs over $1000 for medical students to take. Moreover, there are only 5 centers around the US where students can take the exam, so if you [...]
Clean Your Home in Minutes
Parent visit? Physician stopping by? When tidiness falls through the cracks, fall back on these clean-up tips whenever you require a presentable home without the work. Reserve one side of sofa cushions to be shown to guests. Before company arrives, flip over the cushions to reveal good-as-new fabric. When guests are gone, flip them back [...]
Spruce your CV with Free Fonts
1001 Free Fonts – free fonts for Windows and Macintosh organized categorically and alphabetically Dafont – Comprehensive database with detailed categorical organization. This is a good stop if you know what you’re looking for Font Squirrel – Free fonts all with commercial-use licenses SearchFreeFonts.com – over 13,000 free fonts organized by category and user-rating TypeNow.net [...]
Essential Facebook Privacy Tips for Medical Students
1. Use Your Friend Lists – For those not aware of what friend lists are, Facebook describes them as a feature which allows “you to create private groupings of friends based on your personal preferences. For example, you can create a Friend List for your friends that meet for weekly book club meetings. You can [...]
Guide to Student Taxes
This extensive guide will help you to Determine your need to file a federal income tax return Learn about the various tax benefits available to students Find low/no-cost tax preparation assistance. . College Student’s Guide to Taxes [GoCollege] . Correlate: Prepare your Taxes with IRS Free File . .
Pronunciation Challenge
Homonymous hemianopsia: It’s a complex, yet quick way of saying that a person has lost the same field of vision in both eyes. Prader-Willi Syndrome: a spectrum of disorders caused by a deletion or doubling on chromosome 15, resulting in a person’s never, ever, ever feeling like they’ve had enough to eat. There are related [...]
Tempered Expectations of Care
By Sarah Averill How should you handle patients who don’t want to follow your medical advice? How should we deal with the negative emotions that some of them will inevitably bring out in us? What does respect for patients look like? And what should we expect — if anything — from our patients? One of [...]
Forum Filter: IMG Taking a Research Year Before Residency
Derm83: I am an IMG applying to Radiology next year but I’d like to do 1-2 years or research so that I can be more competitive. I’d like to start contacting programs for research but I’m wondering what things I should be looking at in a program: 1. A program that takes a substantial number [...]
Fast Facts for Medical Basics: Access Medicine Quick Answers
For fast answers to medical quandaries, bookmark AccessMedicine’s Quick Answer search. Example: Tapeworm Infection, Beef Topics Discussed: taenia saginata infection Excerpt: Generally asymptomatic Abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms may be present Eosinophilia common AccessMedicine Quick Answers [McGraw-Hill]