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How to Export Facebook Friends’ Email Addresses to Gmail / Yahoo Mail

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Forum Filter: Managing Relationships in Medical School

tristak: Communication is key. Being in love is a wonderful thing especially with your soul mate. I have been very fortunate to be with someone that is supportive and fits into my madness. I was once in a position where I was concerned that if I didn’t find someone to share my life with soon [...]

How to Answer Patients' Questions

It is very important not to give off-the-cuff answers to questions that may seem casual. The patient may pop the question that way because of fear, or may not realize how complicated the question really is. A careless, quick or off-the-cuff answer, even to a seemingly off-the-cuff question, is neither therapeutic nor safe. It also [...]

E-mail Etiquette – Breaking Bad Habits

Email Signatures – Does keeping an automatic “Sent from my iPhone/iPad/BlackBerry/mobile” signature on your device-typed emails provide helpful information about the context of your message, or does it just imply you’re too busy to properly address someone’s thoughts? “‘Sent from my iPhone / bb’ always makes me think I’m only worth a quick note on [...]

Developing an Approach to Patient Handoffs

Pauline W. Chen, M.D. I worry that I am playing some real-life medical version of the children’s game “Telephone” where the complexity of my patient’s care will be watered down, misinterpreted and possibly mangled with each re-telling. While older patients with multiple chronic conditions will see up to 16 doctors a year, some of the [...]

Common Phrases Medical Students Must Avoid

1. This won’t hurt at all – many procedures do hurt, at least a little, even when performed with skill, and patients would rather know that going in. Pediatricians, in particular, must be careful that patients don’t eventually take such assurances as a prelude to pain. Try, “This could be a little uncomfortable,” or “This [...]

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 [...]

Resume: Creating a Medical CV

Laura Brammar: Being able to provide evidence of skills and abilities is vital in order to produce an excellent CV… It is not enough to simply list your experience; instead you need to provide examples of when you have used the core skills required for the post. Many applicants fail to provide the best example [...]

How to Learn a New Language

If you were a student of English (though the list can be adapted to most languages), [the top 100 most common written words in English] would deliver the greatest ROI per hour invested for the initial 1-3 weeks of study Content and vocabulary selection beyond the most common 300-500 words should be dictated by subject [...]

Some Interviewing Basics

Laura Brammar: Motivation is key in an interview, and failure to show enthusiasm for the role can often lead to rejection. Use the research you have done into the job to convince that this is the role for you. Don’t be afraid to refer back to your motivation for the role as regularly as possible, [...]