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'Scrubs' gets promising start in med school
2009-12-01 18:46:00 If you thought the silly sitcom "Scrubs" was over last season when Dr. John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff) left Sacred Heart Hospital, surprise! ABC
Med School Finds a Home
2008-04-08 05:43:00 The proposed Commonwealth Medical College will soon own a 3-acre lot to build a $75 million headquarters beside the Northeast Intermediate School. Medical school officials reached perhaps their biggest milestone yet tonight when the Scranton School Board unanimously approved the nearly $1 million sale of the Pine Street parcel. Commonwealth administrators now expect construction of ...
Med School Humor - Bringin’ Study Back
2008-02-28 03:29:00 Well I’m a fan of these medical student videos. So here’s another one. Enjoy.
By: JeffreyMD.com
Preparing for Med School Early: a Pre-Med Student?s Guide
2008-02-11 17:48:00 There’s a lot more to applying for med school than just picking out a major with “Pre-Med” attached to it. Good Grades Start Now. I’m sure you know that your grades are a big deal if you’re applying to med school, so don’t be tempted to give in to too many parties or late-nights when ...
Andrew Cuomo?s ?Code of Conduct? Plan: The Best Attempt To Stop ?Predatory
2008-02-10 19:13:00 If you are a parent of a college bound student or a student trying to finance your education on your own, you owe it to yourself to throughly investigate Andrew Cuomo’s campaign to expose and indict the student lending industry. This information could save you thousands of dollars and millions of headaches! In June ...
Med School Humor - Pimp My Scope
2007-12-02 20:12:00 Did you ever watch that MTV show “Pimp My Ride”? Well here’s a bunch of med students spoofing that show with a lil clip called “Pimp My Scope.” And who said med students have no life? Enjoy. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeffreymd.com-%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Fmed-school--humor-pimp-my-scope%2F'; addthis_title = 'Med+School+Humor+-+Pimp+My+Sco-pe'; addthis_pub = '';
By: JeffreyMD.com
Mini-Med School
2007-12-01 19:39:00 You wanna know what med school is REALLY like?! Check out Mini-Med School hosted by the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine.Course Topics & DatesLectures start at 7 p.m. and run to 8:30 p.m.(Feb. 12) Now you see it - CT, MRI & the Visible HumanHow technology assists medical students and physicians to visualize the human body Cal Hisley, Ph.D.(Feb. 19) The bones know all - New directions for osteopathic medicineUnderstanding the body's structure as a basis for wellnessBrad Klock, D.O.(Feb. 26) Almost human - Technology and simulations in medical educationComputer-driven models aid in clinical learning Greg Kolbinger, M.S., PA-C(March 4) Our invisible self - The Human Genome and promises for future treatmentHow we benefit from understanding the incredible complexity of life. Tom Breithaupt, Ph.D.(March 11) Our search for wellness - Chronic disease and new strategies for wellnessWhat is being done to address the issues faced by an aging population Bill Appelgate, Ph....
Med School Humor - Gunners
2007-10-10 07:06:00 Do you have a gunner problem in your class? Sometimes I feel like there are a lot of gunners in my class…. Take a look at this video from youtube. Click the pic to view it.
By: JeffreyMD.com
Some Med School in the Philippines!
2007-10-04 11:22:00 Ok folks, this issue has started to bombard the world wide web, especially the browsers of both the curious, and the concerned, people of the Philippines, myself included. I do watch Desperate Housewives, and for some reason or another, I'm actually watching reruns of the previous season in a local tv station. {I won't mention which station anymore, ok?} And it's only through the news that I
Teri Hatcher and the Philippine Med School
2007-10-04 10:00:00 “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.†Hopefully Teri Hatcher's derogatory reference to the Philippine Med school will serve as a challenge to Filipinos. I see a lot of movies that had a negative racial impression to Filipinos, example of this is Jarhead where there's a line about Filipina Order Bride. Well,
Joke 519: Med School
2007-10-03 16:55:00 A professor is giving the first year medical students their first lecture on autopsies, and decides to give them a few basics before starting. “You must be capable of two things to do an autopsy. The first thing is that you must have no sense of fear.” At this point, the lecturer sticks his finger ...
My first day at med school
2007-09-17 20:23:00 Q. What is the most unpredictable way to start medical school?A. Have the very first person you meet ask “oh! are you the blog guy?!â€More surprising still, was when quite literally the exact same thing occurred with the second person I met.That’ll teach me to blog without a pseudonym!(And seeing that they will probably read this at some point, I will take this opportunity to say “Hey! Fancy a cuppa in the kitchen??â€)*****The first night was a ‘mummies and daddies night’, where freshers are paired up with current students (the parents) who have to look after their baby freshers. My dad is an alcoholic, but he did buy me a drink, told me to join the water polo society and suggested I should cheat on my girlfriend as it was my first night (I was NOT impressed).Needless to say, it was an uncomfortable conversation - being the sober one. Trying to be non-judgemental, I’m taking it with a pinch of salt. I got a text the following day asking if I’m settling in alright, an...
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Top 10 List: Foods that Med School has ruined
2007-07-20 12:07:00 Not for the faint of heart...I've written more than once about medical school taking over my life, but now, I'm about to demonstrate another, entirely new and different, way that being a medical student is invading every aspect of my daily existence. In the words of the evil resident, pathologists love food anologies. Thanks to pathologists who drew the analogies, and who provided photos that in many cases didn't need an analogy to be verbalized in order to cause irreprable harm, I now have trouble eating some foods. Without further ado, here is the list of foods that are hard to eat now, and why, thanks to medical school. Actually, there will be further ado, a warning that certain individuals may find the following quite disturbing. If you fall into that camp, I don't mind you choosing to not read this post, so long as you shower me with empathy anyways.(You're lucky I provided a warning, by the way. I didn't give my sister a warning before I took her on a tour of my school'...
Environmentally friendly
2007-07-17 02:29:00 It is freezing. The wind is howling outside, and the rain is lashing the windows mercilessly. I am huddled over my laptop in the hospital, trying to read the medical literature and trying not to feel the cold seep insidiously into my bones.Ariel has set the heater to a maximum of 20 degrees. Joy was exclaiming in shock, but Ariel solemnly proclaimed that if we raised the temperature any higher, we would be killing the Earth due to the emission of greenhouse gases."But 20 degrees is considered air-conditioning back in Singapore," Joy spluttered."20 degrees is warm. You don't want to kill the earth," Ariel replied calmly."21 degrees? Can we raise it up to 21 degrees?" i asked helpfully. A one degree increase in temperature is as good as any.Ariel shook her head.We did not contest Ariel's decision because we were just too amused. But now we are freezing. I think Yasmin is going to urge Ariel to change her mind soon. Haha.
Research, spanish and more
2007-07-14 00:43:00 Emo. Also representing emotional, emotions, and people to stay the hell away from.I was introduced to this word not too long ago, and already i wonder how did i not learn of this word earlier. There are so many emo people out there! And it seems, the older one gets, the more emo the person is. How strange. Suffice to say, the best way to deal with emo people is to give them as much space as possible till they are drowning in the vastness of it. Listening to emo people brood all the time can wear one down, and honestly i am not a very emo person. I do get down in the dumps at points of time but i don't dwell on such periods for long. Moving on saves yourself and the nervous people around you, a fair bit of trouble. Sometimes being ignored would knock some sense into the person.Just a note, i'm not referring to anyone in particular, but it is just an observation i have made, and a very tough lesson to learn. I don't regret it however.I have so many things to update that i have forg...
Some Of The Things We Do In Med School
2007-06-18 19:14:00 Yesterday afternoon, my class of 160 students was subdivided to 6 groups. Each group was tasked to tackle a specific issue concerning the topic at hand - rational antibiotic use. Antibiotics are among the most abused and misused drugs in the world and the consequences of such lapses in judgment contribute to a growing ...
By: Atheista
Pain relief
2007-06-05 09:20:00 I just got home from my first exam. Today marks the day we hit the exams, hard. The 100 MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) paper was gag-inducing.After the mere first few pages of answering the questions and already getting thoroughly sick of the exam, i found myself biting my nails. I do not have a habit of chewing on my nails because i hate broken jagged ugly nails, but today was sweet relief. The pain induced from chewing on the quick of my nails was a welcome distraction from the uproar in my head as i stared at the questions in front of me.The facts that i have remembered blurred into one gigantic mass. I ended up confused with some of the microorganisms. I took a look around me, the other med students were slumped in their seats, some with heads in their hands, some chewing their pens, others just stared at their papers. That brought some comfort, comfort that it ain't just me being confronted with a killer paper, but the consolation was short-lived because it is after all, each...
You can tell i am not studying
2007-05-24 15:07:00 I was reading through my radiology notes when i read this line:The mammogram is basically an x-ray. However, compression is added to get better soft tissue definition.My jaw nearly dropped. You apply force to a fragile part of a woman to check whether she has breast cancer. Now i am highly curious whether it was a man who devised such a devious method.I did a Google search and i was right. If a man is suspected of having penile cancer, he does not undergo an X-RAY + COMPRESSION. Tell me, why exactly is that then???But i admit, amputation of the penis if the cancer is too aggressive might be harder to handle than a mastectomy (removal of an entire breast). Whilst cosmetic reconstruction can help a woman, it is a different story for an affected male, because he would still not be able to have an erection. With a mastectomy, there would be no sensation in the nipple either.By the way, whilst i was googling about penile x-rays, i stumbled upon this site (i was quite surprised that no po...
Boopies
2007-05-24 12:57:00 Practical sessions can be quite hilarious especially when Dumbo, Donkey and i are working as a group.We were looking at mammograms, and histological slides of the biopsied tissue taken from the breast.Squinting heard at mammogram,"What's wrong with the breast? It's look normal to me," i said."I don't see anything wrong either," Dumbo replied. He was falling asleep first. Only Donkey's persistence in staying for the practical session prevented him from dragging all of us for a cup of coffee."Is this the abnormality?" Donkey asked tentatively, and pointed to a white mass.I looked at it. "Isn't the whole breast sort of whitish? So the whole breast is cancerous?"Donkey and Dumbo snickered good-naturedly."We don't know anything!" Donkey said.We turned to the histological slides."What's that?" I saw lots of cells but i have no idea what the hell they were."They are the ducts," Donkey replied.I scrutinized the ducts. There was something in them. Before i could think of what i was sa...
A different crowd
2007-05-23 15:38:00 Today was the last lecture of the whole semester, and quite possibly the last lecture ever for me in University in Med school. After this, it will be a whole year of research in hospitals, and then 2.5 years of clinical studies. Woo hoo.As the exams are drawing closer, i have been feeling quite squeezed by the time. Honestly, i have actually been in quite the holiday mood. I have not been studying since last Friday and have instead been hanging out with friends and watching DVDs and movies. In fact, i just came home from the movies (i watched Zodiac, a really interesting show if you are the kind that enjoys thinking and analyzing, but it was quite long so i don't think i will be inclined to watch it twice) with Sachs and Tiara. It ain't that i am not frazzled. I have been stressed, and i have this certainty that i won't be sleeping on the night of my major papers not because i have to cram, but because i am too pressurized. I am particularly anxious about my clinical examination,...
A very telling sign
2007-05-21 16:38:00 So i was late again for my tutorial. It is the second last tutorial of this semester. I get a week of study break after this week, and then i hit my exams, full steam ahead.I knew today i was really late, and i actually entertained the thought of not turning up at all. But i did, because i figured since i was in Uni already, i might as well go for my lessons, late or not. I may get penalized for being consistently late every single session, but at least i retain the minimal knowledge that goes on in that class.I walked into the classroom, and the tutor looked at me."You are late even by your standards!" She said this without a hint of sarcasm or annoyance. She just meant it good-naturedly."It was windy," i replied.It is winter now, and it has been predicted that this winter is going to be colder than usual. I can tell. I am freezing my ass off. I am already switching on my heater, something i did not do last year, except for the few days when i was down with the cold. My dogs and i ...
Working without any reward
2007-05-16 16:07:00 Medicine is the only field of study where you can spend the whole day at your desk studying incredibly hard, and you get through a lot of material but at the end of it all, you are still as frustrated, or maybe more, and the anger just hits you in the head and the heart because there is a whole pile more of information waiting to be assimilated. And so it becomes a vicious cycle - trying to motivate oneself to study, but it is mostly in vain, because at the bottom of your heart, you know that it is just not possible to remember all the stuff they are trying to cram into us.What can we really say then?It's a couple of minutes past midnight. I am going to turn in for the night. I will get less than 8 hours' sleep tonight again, 7, if i am lucky. I need to rise early to get through 6 clinical examinations in preparation for my 10am tutorial. I was going to do it today, but my pile of tutorials took longer than i expected. Never mind the laments now, i am done with them.One weary step...
One chance too many
2007-05-16 02:19:00 Today i went for my first 8am lecture for the whole semester. It is the second last week of this semester; next week is the final 14th week. After that, i get one week of holidays study break (it is very important i call it a study break. I made the mistake of calling the one week a holiday during my tutorial, and had 10 medical students exclaiming loudly to me that it ain't a holiday. So much for my happy bubble. Med students are such pessimists!).I do not attend 8am lectures for a good reason - i never stay awake through them. And it would make be my concentration span really poor for subsequent lectures in the day. I saw greater benefit in sacrificing the earliest lecture to have moderate (or slightly less than moderate) focus in the later lectures. The faculty had the brilliance to schedule 4 lectures in a day, you see.I specifically woke up this morning for the lecture because it was a radiology lecture. I don't know about you guys, but x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, Nuclear Me...
Feeling happy
2007-05-09 16:30:00 I have been thinking about my immediate future ever since i learnt that i got into Hospital V for my clinical school studies. That means that i will actually spend the bulk of my med school career in Hospital V. Hospital V is arguably one of the best, but i am having mixed feelings about spending the next 3.5 years in that hospital. I am not complaining, but it is kind of daunting when i envision myself either riding my bike to the hospital (when i need not meet patients and therefore can dress casually) or taking the tram (because there is no way in hell i am riding to the hospital clad in skirt when i need to meet patients).Will i get sick of it? It will be like high school all over again, spending quite a substantial number of years of my life in that institution. I will certainly develop a bond for the hospital (just like i did for high school), and what will it be like when i fast forward a couple of years later, and i start reminiscing the days and missing those days?Also beca...
It has been a bizzarre day
2007-05-08 07:41:00 Let me just list the events in order:1) I did not get much sleep last night. I received an urgent sms from a friend at 4am. She was asking me for some serious medical advice regarding a relative of hers. The symptoms sounded severe, so i told her to tell the relative of hers to seek the help of a doctor. Then the bombshell dropped - the person-in-topic is currently in a 3rd world country doing some social work. Medical facilities are apparently, crap. If she needs to see a doctor, she has to fly back; and it has to be a serious medical condition because she cannot just fly back as and when she please. Thus, i was forced to ask my friend to take a very short concise history from her relative by texting her all the relevant questions. I discussed with the Med Clique, and we all agreed she should seek help. Sugar Hyperness suggested that she should consult a doctor from the international agency. Right now, i am trying to get hold of my friend.2) Clinical schools allocation came out. I ...
The ultimate behavior
2007-05-06 17:04:00 Test is in less than 10 hours. Barely through a quarter of the stuff i am supposed to be assimilating, but i am beyond that point. Not intending to study half the shit i am supposed to know.Right now, i am trying to tune in to the lecture recordings for my Health Practice module, and the recordings better be in fine order.Maybe, a good starting point is to start printing out all the required notes first.Oh wait, i should ask someone exactly which weeks' work are being examined.*Slaps forehead*
Can't wait
2007-05-04 10:21:00 I must say that i really cannot wait for this semester to get out of my hair. Then i can forever bade farewell to the nuisance curriculum of boring lectures coupled with droning sedative professors (though there are some incredible ones out there who make this otherwise shitty life in University a little more bearable, a little brighter) whose lectures induce guilt whether or not i attend.I am really really really not cut out for a lecture-based curriculum. I simply cannot handle mass lectures. I retain zilch information. Whereas when i turn up for one clinical attachment, i forever remember what condition the patient has, the mechanism of his pathology and the treatment required. And this very same disease is the one i have been trying to remember for ages before i saw this patient.Hurrumph.Of course, if i cannot get pass this semester, then i am forever destined to repeat the whole year. Shit.The test on Monday is looming ahead. I think it no longer boils down to whether i am prep...
Race for a mate
2007-04-28 08:15:00 This is the hand of the guy in my prac class, whom i think was cute. (I can already imagine the uproar i have created amongst you guys. Thank God i am separated from the chaos by my computer screen.)I have never seen him before, but i did notice he has the gentlest kindest eyes ever. Yes, the eyes are the first i notice of the opposite sex. Followed by the abs. HAHAHA.We were doing a microbiology prac and we were trying to cultivate the bacteria present on our hands. Cute Eyes was not my lab partner; he was Mon's. I could have paired up with him, but damn, another girl asked me whether she could do the prac with me and it would be bloody weird if i had said no, and go on to partner up with a postgraduate i have never seen before, let alone speak to. DAMN.I completed by prac early, so i dropped by Mon's table and spoke to her (and of course to further check the postgrad out, discreetly of course. DUH!)."I have never seen him around," i whispered to Mon."Neither have i," Mon shrugge...
Erm...you do realize i am 3rd year right?
2007-04-27 17:58:00 I went for my clinical this morning. It was an early tram ride to the clinic. En route many high school students boarded the tram, each adorned with the colours of their school uniforms. The chatter filled the tram, though not as much as i recalled back from my own high school days. The first leg of the journey was filled with girls from the same high school. I quietly observed them, you can easily pick out the popular ones, the Gothic ones, the quiet ones, the studious ones and the sporty ones. Then all of them alighted at the same stop, and it was a huge crowd. Some met up with friends excitedly, others looked like they would rather be in bed.I could not help but smile. It reminds me so much of my own high school days, waiting impatiently at the bus stop with friends, and cursing the bus for taking so long. Arguing with my friends animatedly, and just random talk about things in general. I could easily recognize the Pink Bottles, the Easties, the Xenas and the Lins amongst the hig...
Playing traunt
2007-04-24 02:08:00 I have been skipping all my lectures in a bid to do some serious catching-up with my workload. We had an emergency evacuation yesterday. It was in the middle of my tutorial. I happened to be the person allocated to write the notes on the whiteboard. There was a small group of med students down the corridor in the lounge having a noisy party (probably first years, i mean who else can be so damn free on a Monday morning right??). Suddenly an announcement came on."Attention, attention. Please evacuate the building immediately. There is a gas leak underneath the building. This is an Emergency. This is not a drill."There were no wailing sirens. I actually thought it was those party-goers playing a prank because this is the 3rd time a similar thing had occurred, except this time there was no siren. But then the tutor hustled us out, and when we left the building, we saw a huge crowd gathered outside. The occupants of the nearby buildings had to be evacuated too, and we were not even allow...
Hit and Miss game
2007-04-15 12:42:00 Classes resume tomorrow, and i am not the least bit pleased about it. My grandiose plans of catching up on my workload has flopped miserably. I have decided that my brain just does not match up with the rest of the medical students. Why? I honestly tried to study, and i put in some serious effort. But still i could only manage to complete one chapter of immunobiology before my brain just went kaput. It's not that i lost the motivation to read on after 4 hours of sitting at my desk, but rather i discover much to my dismay that i was reading the same sentence thrice and yet i was still not comprehending its meaning. Also i no longer remember what i was reading. It baffles me how so many medical students can just dedicate the whole day to studying and still retain what the hell they were reading. Thus, it led me to the conclusion that my brain is just not made of the same material. Of course with such a revelation comes acceptance. Acceptance is good, because it just lessens the guilt...
Nearing the end of my Easter holidays
2007-04-13 14:14:00 Hallo everyone, i have been missing for almost a week and that's because i took off to the countryside with Tiara and the dogs for a break. I will not blog about the road trip and country getaway now, simply because i can't spare the time (since i have to narrate what we do and add captions to each of the photos i took) but i will just update on my life in general. I just want to add that i will definitely blog about my countryside getaway because it was action-packed (including earning myself a speeding ticket and having to take a breath analyzer test when all i had was chocolate!), and the photos have been uploaded to my laptop anyway (which always make everything a little easier).Let's see, i sat in with the GP again and observed her consultations with her patients. I got to administer 2 intramuscular injections all by myself for the first time, one in the buttocks and one in the arm, so that was pretty good. I had to take the blood pressure of the patient which was kind of ne...
The tricks of medical students
2007-04-06 11:52:00 I have been wanting to write this particular post for a long time now, after i observed the behaviour of several medical students. Unfortunately, i did not have the time, and now i cannot guarantee that i will recall everything that i want to say.Medical students are not as hardworking as we seem. Seriously, some of us do get by with minimal studying, and i am not implying we are smart or anything. I am just reminding the general masses out there that we are like any other normal University student who tries their best to get through classes as painlessly as possible.There is a postgraduate medical student in my cohort, who also i think happens to be the unofficial clown of the faculty. He always sits in the front row, and no, he is not a nerd. In fact, most times when i am glancing around the lecture theatre in boredom, i would see him completing the crossword puzzle in the newspaper or looking up his astrological sign for the day. Other times, he would be making discreet funny ant...
You really meet different people in life
2007-04-04 17:06:00 I had my second clinical placement today. My clinical placements have been everything but boring. I learn a lot and realize that there are lots of stuff that i do not know. These placements are the first time that i discover very clearly that whatever i have learnt in med school in the past 2.5 years is not very relevant. Reality and theory are 2 different things, and i sorely lack patient exposure.First off, i have been sent to a medical centre that caters solely to the Chinese community and this includes people from Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. My jaw nearly dropped when i discovered where i have been sent to. There was bilingual messages everywhere. I have never felt so immersed in a Chinese community ever, not even back in Singapore. Also, 95% of the patients who came in spoke Cantonese, and i do not understand Cantonese let alone speak the language. Occasionally, a patient would stride in speaking in Mandarin, and i would give a sigh of relief because final...
Haiz
2007-03-31 10:06:00 Tiara just took the dogs out for a walk. I can't take them out because of my workload.Times like this, i really feel quite irritated.Sometimes i do wonder whether it is worth it, to dedicate so much of my life to a line of work that i am not even sure will return a similar amount of fulfillment or not.
Glass life
2007-03-31 09:29:00 A lot has happened in the past few days. I was basically nursing a God damn headache for several nights in a row, and just giving up and curling in bed.My mobile phone and my wireless internet chose to ditch me simultaneously for 2 days. I had urgent texts to send, and i can't do it using my phone and i can't use the internet to send a text either. It was infuriating. So much so, i was on literally on the verge of hurling my Motorola phone to the ground and smashing my Fujitsu laptop down the stairs, with no heed of the consequences whatsoever.Getting so worked up resulted in a throbbing headache because i could find no other outlets to calm my raging temper that was building up internally. Fortunately, i did not lose all rationality, and opted to go to bed at 7pm.But it ain't these 2 trivial matters that had me in a bad mood for the couple of days.I had a tutorial, one on breast examinations, where real women volunteered to let us examine them. Except, i was not very comfortable...
Med school Book Cake
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