Category: Medicine
All the articles in the "Medicine" category.
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So You Did not MATCH: A Guide to the USMLE Residency Re-applicants
Every year, 38.6% of US citizen IMGs and 41.9% of non-US citizen IMGs fail to match into any specialty for residency. If you did not match into residency, it is natural to find yourself stranded, not knowing what to do next.
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Yeolpumta: Study Tracker for NEET SS Preparation
Tracking our habits is an effective method to achieve our goals. This is a short description of how I benefitted from tracking studies with the app Yeolpumta
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Sexual Assault and Women
When did we last apologise to a victim of sexual offence, for not being able to protect her from being acted upon violently, perhaps in a bus, roadside or any other public space? When did we make a legal and/or psychiatric counselor available to her from the time of reporting the crime? Maybe we should…
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Being the Dean: Two Years Summarized in 1221 Words
The experience is worth a share for being a Dean of an institute like AIIMS, Bhopal was something I had not comprehended despite all the thought I gave before I consented to accept. It was the 6th year of the Institute and I remained Dean till its 8th year. Many friends were surprised when I…
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Sodium, Potassium and Creatinine Abnormalities in Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is associated with a wide variety of metabolic abnormalities, and the most common ones are sodium and potassium irregularities. I will try to explain in brief, the sodium and potassium imbalances in DKA and their causes. Due to excess glucose in the blood, which acts as an osmotically active substance at such…
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Ankidroid for NEET PG preparation
Ankidroid is a flash cards app that I have probably used the most for my NEET PG preparation. For those who are not familiar with flashcards, a flashcard is a card bearing information, as words or numbers, on either or both sides, used for revising and memorizing. One writes a question on one side and an answer overleaf. There are a lot of flashcard apps available in the play store and you can use any of them. Now this app is based on the principle of spaced repetition for revision. You can make your own flashcards in the app(so this app is of better use if you start a bit early). These flashcards are then repeated in the app on particular time intervals.