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Balancing Humanity and Medicine: AJourney from Medical Student to JuniorDoctor
The path to becoming a doctor is a profound journey filled with rigorous education,intense training, and a lifelong commitment to the well-being of others. However, asmedical students and junior doctors, we often find ourselves navigating the fine linebetween the...
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Emerging Global Health Threats: Preparedness and Response
In today's interconnected world, disease knows no borders. A new infection can spread from a remote village to a major global metropolis within days. As global air travel continues expanding, unprecedented population growth and climate change exert new pressures,...
Expanding Global Clinical Trials: Addressing Challenges and Embracing Diversity
Introduction: Clinical trials are crucial for furthering medical understanding, creating novel medicines, and enhancing patient care. However, traditionally, the majority of clinical trials have been carried out in a small number of nations, which has resulted in a...
Global Health Diplomacy: Collaborating for a Healthier World
Introduction Global health diplomacy is essential for addressing and reducing health concerns in a linked world where diseases can spread quickly across borders. To encourage cooperation, collaboration, and collective action among governments, organizations, and...
Revolutionizing Medicine: Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine and Personalized Treatments
Introduction: In the dynamic field of medicine, a groundbreaking approach is gaining momentum and transforming the way we understand and treat diseases: precision medicine. This revolutionary approach moves away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model and...
From Medical Student to Lifelong Learner: Embracing Growth
The path from medical student to becoming a healthcare professional is an incredible odyssey that encompasses learning, self-discovery, and personal growth. But what makes this journey even more remarkable is the transition from a student of medicine to a lifelong...
The Human Side of Medicine: Developing Empathy
By Mubeen Hasan The Human Side of Medicine: Developing Empathy In the fast-paced world of modern medicine, where technology and scientific breakthroughs continually push the boundaries of what is possible, it's easy to forget the profound impact of a simple human...
Learning from the Regrets of Retiring Surgeons
“Ever wondered what 52.4% of retiring surgeons regret most about their careers? Dive into their reflections for insights” The roads not taken. The doors unopened. The choices left unexplored. We often find ourselves entangled in regret's embrace, caught between the...
Coaching for every stage of your medical career and getting started!
Introduction In today's post, I'd like to share how to make the most of coaching opportunities you may have at any stage of your medical career, whether you're applying to medical school, a medical student juggling exams and placements, or a junior doctor just...
My Journey With Coaching
My journey with medicine I have always wanted to be a doctor. I left my home country of Singapore at 16 years old to study medicine in the UK. Medical school was challenging, but I enjoyed the camaraderie and the opportunity to learn about the complexities of medicine...
What Is Coaching & How Could it Help Me?
What is coaching? Coaching is a process of helping people achieve their goals. It is a partnership between the coach and the client, where the coach facilitates the client's self-discovery and problem-solving. Coaching is not therapy, and it is not mentoring. How is...
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd: Book Review
Article Title: Unnatural Causes Author: Richard Shepherd Type: Non-fiction Published: 2018 Pages: 422 For fans of: This is Going to Hurt, My Life in your hands & Being Mortal When I picked “Unnatural Causes” for my summer read, I thought I knew what I was getting...
The 3 C’s of an Effective Productivity System
Medical students are always on the lookout for ways to boost their productivity and actually retain most of the information from lectures. Whether it is trying out new study techniques, fancy note-taking systems, or even just the latest app, we are willing to give it...
Non-verbal Communicating for OSCEs
What is non-verbal communication? Non-verbal communication is defined as the act of conveying information without the use of words. A large proportion of our communication is actually non-verbal, with some studies suggesting that around 80% of what we communicate is...
How to Learn to Code for Stats
Why Bother? Gone are the days where you could breeze through the world of academia and medical research with a basic knowledge of Excel formula and graphing. As research develops to require increasingly complex statistics and analyses, so has technology progressed to...
How to Find a Supervisor
The process of getting into research as a medical student or junior doctor can seem arduous and difficult to navigate - our monthly research column aims to tackle this by simplifying the processes associated with getting started in academia! Why do I need to find a...
3 Resources to Prepare You for Your ITU Placement
ITU was my last placement of F2. I had gone into the placement with the hope of gaining an understanding of what happens in ITU so that I can confidently pursue medical training and become a diligent medical registrar with a solid grasp of which patients are in...
Reaching New Heights: Leg-lengthening Surgeries on the Rise
What would you like to change about yourself? Your eyes? Your hair? Your sense of humour? Despite the old adage "never judge a book by its cover", we all know how important subconscious first impressions can be. Height would also often be included on that list of...
(meno)Pause on hormonal treatments?
What is the menopause and how do we usually treat it? The decline in ovarian function and alterations in hormone levels known as the menopause, is a natural part of the female aging process and marks the end of reproductive capability, as the ovarian hormone levels...
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