Medical Student Resources
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Microbiology
Some tips on microbiology.
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Bacillus Anthracis
Some facts about anthrax.
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Forensic Medicine
What's availabe about forensic medicine for medical students.
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Obesity
A few words about obesity.
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History taking
A review of resources available on the internet.
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Communication Skills
The importance of communication skills for medical students.
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Prenatal Diagnosis
A review of websites on prenatal diagnosis techniques.
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Health Behaviour
Health behaviour- an introduction
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Definitions of health
Some of the definitions of health.
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Kidneys
Resources for the kidney.
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Anterior triangle of neck
Subdivisions of the anterior triangle of the neck and their boundaries.
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Mnemonics
Memory aids
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Immunology
Immunology - complex? difficult? boring?! It doesn't need to be.
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Ageing (Part 2)
Myths and stereotypes associated with ageing.
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Ageing
The psychological aspects of ageing, facts and myths.
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Anatomy
This may help you with your anatomy.
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The Newborn: physiological characteristics (part 2)
The second part of last week's article.
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The Newborn: physiological characteristics
Physiological characteristics of the newborn (part 1).
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The Newborn (2)
The second part of last week's article on the essential characteristics of a newborn.
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The Newborn
The next series of articles will deal with the characteristics of a newborn baby.
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Heart Failure (Part 2)
The second part of last week's article, dealing this time with the causes and treatment of heart failure.
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Heart Failure (Part 1)
Heart failure: causes, effects, symptoms.
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Cardiac function curve.
Cardiac function, factors controlling.
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Adrenoceptors
A summary of the role of adrenoceptors in the cardiovascular system.
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Pumping Heart
This is the first of a series on the heart derived from an assignment on "The Work of the Heart" I had written.
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I Cell disease
The answers to questions from last week's case study.
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Case Study
This article introduces case studies and features a case study of I-Cell disease, with a few questions.
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Plasmids (Part 2)
The second part of last week's article on plasmids and their use in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Plasmids (Part 1)
A brief look at plasmids, recombinant DNA and their uses in the pharmaceutical industry.
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The Osmotic Fragility Test (Part II)
This is the second part of the last article featuring the lab report of the osmotic fragility test, with the discussion, graphs and conclusion.
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The Osmotic Fragility Test (Part 1)
The procedures to follow for an osmotic fragility test ,with the reagents required. The test consists of exposing red cells to decreasing strengths of hypotonic saline solutions and measuring the degree of hemolysis.
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Determination of iron in blood.
This gives an example of a laborarory report.
In this case, the practical is about the determination of iron in blood. The procedures to be followed are listed first, followed by the lab report itself.
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Writing Practical Reports
Guidelines to writing practical laboratory reports.
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Getting into medical school
Information on how to get into medical school.
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Antibiotics are losing their magic touch
This article gives an overview of the current situation concerning the use, abuse and 'effectiveness' of antibiotics nowadays, the reasons for the situation of antibiotic resistance and what can be done to prevent and correct it.
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