Archive for 'How-To' Category
How to Begin a Successful Day
1. Get Up On Time - I won’t say “get up early” – because we’re not all morning people. Getting up on time means setting your alarm early enough that you don’t feel rushed right at the start of your day. Often, just getting out of bed ten or fifteen minutes earlier transforms a stressed, harried morning [...]
Simple Steps to Secure your Smartphone
Lifehacker is featuring a helpful tutorial on smartphone security. This is a worthwhile resource for those interested in features such as password protection and remote data wiping. Features are discussed in the context of several different mobile software platforms. How to Secure Your Smartphone [Lifehacker]
How to Shine Shoes
An illustrative guide to at-home shoe polishing by Alan Witschonke: How To: DIY Shoe Shine [Wall Street Journal]
How to Export Facebook Friends’ Email Addresses to Gmail / Yahoo Mail
from Lifehacker
Wean Yourself from Facebook
An insider’s guide to shaking the Facebook habit: 5. Target solutions to enable smarter, brighter usage of Facebook in the future. While you could quit Facebook, it’s probably far more productive, constructive, and socially useful to manage it and to put Facebook in its place in your life. Some of the positive solutions for healthy [...]
How to Send and Receive Faxes for Free
Many medical offices are riddled with paper. You will inevitably require a fax machine at some point during medical school. Here are a few resources that will help you to squeak through those rare instances using only your computer. Send faxes with FaxZero: Requirements: email address File types: .pdf, .doc(x) Limits: 3-page max Receive Faxes with K7.net: Requirements: [...]
How to Stop Being Late
Some practical advice for those medical students finding it difficult to make deadlines… 2. Surround yourself with clocks (not just the one on your cell phone) 4. Give yourself a handicap. If you’re a bad estimator, double the time you think it will take to get there. 7. Don’t try to do too much. Keep [...]
How to be a Good Medical Student
An excerpt from Kendra Campbell’s 8 pointer’s for first-year residents – equally applicable to medical students… 1. Show up early, stay late. 2. Know as much as possible about your patients. 3. Be BFFs with the nurses. 4. Do things without having to be asked. Figure out what needs to be done, and do it [...]
How to Tie a Necktie
an oldie but a goody…
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 [...]