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AI for Medical Diagnosis 🔘Free course in the coursera offered by DeepLearning.AI 🔘Disease detection with computer vision, Evaluating models, and Image segmentation on MRI images are the main topics discussed in this course. 📌For more information and registration…
AI for Medical Prognosis
♦️Free course offered by DeepLearning.AI
♦️In this second course, you’ll walk through multiple examples of prognostic tasks. You’ll then use decision trees to model non-linear relationships, which are commonly observed in medical data, and apply them to predicting mortality rates more accurately. Finally, you’ll learn how to handle missing data, a key real-world challenge.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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♦️Free course offered by DeepLearning.AI
♦️In this second course, you’ll walk through multiple examples of prognostic tasks. You’ll then use decision trees to model non-linear relationships, which are commonly observed in medical data, and apply them to predicting mortality rates more accurately. Finally, you’ll learn how to handle missing data, a key real-world challenge.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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📝Writing a Good Research Title: Things to Avoid
#part_2
Interesting research topics coupled with clever yet accurate research titles can draw more attention to your work.
It would be helpful to have a list of what should never go into the title of an article. With this “don’ts” list, authors could have a handy tool to maximize the impact of their research.
🔰A Handy List of Don’ts
🌀Avoid question marks (this tends to decrease citations)
🌀Numerical exponents, or units (e.g. km-1 or km/hr)
🌀Vague terms (e.g., “with” could be re-written with a more specific verb; “amongst” rectified by simpler word ordering)
🌀Cryptic/complex drug names (use the generic name if allowed to)
🌀Obvious or non-specific openings with a conjunction: e.g., “Report on”, “A Study of”, “Results of”, “An Experimental Investigation of”, etc. (these don’t contribute meaning!)
🌀Shorten scientific names (not E. coli, but write instead Escherichia coli)
🌀Keep it short. Aim for 50 to 100 characters.
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#part_2
Interesting research topics coupled with clever yet accurate research titles can draw more attention to your work.
It would be helpful to have a list of what should never go into the title of an article. With this “don’ts” list, authors could have a handy tool to maximize the impact of their research.
🔰A Handy List of Don’ts
🌀Avoid question marks (this tends to decrease citations)
🌀Numerical exponents, or units (e.g. km-1 or km/hr)
🌀Vague terms (e.g., “with” could be re-written with a more specific verb; “amongst” rectified by simpler word ordering)
🌀Cryptic/complex drug names (use the generic name if allowed to)
🌀Obvious or non-specific openings with a conjunction: e.g., “Report on”, “A Study of”, “Results of”, “An Experimental Investigation of”, etc. (these don’t contribute meaning!)
🌀Shorten scientific names (not E. coli, but write instead Escherichia coli)
🌀Keep it short. Aim for 50 to 100 characters.
📚Reference
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2021 Cancer Symposium: Multidisciplinary Care for Lung Cancer
🔹Friday, November 12th
🔹16:30–18:30 (Tehran time), 13:00-15:00 (GMT)
🔹Highlighted topics include case studies from the multidisciplinary lung cancer tumor board and lung cancer screening program.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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🔹Friday, November 12th
🔹16:30–18:30 (Tehran time), 13:00-15:00 (GMT)
🔹Highlighted topics include case studies from the multidisciplinary lung cancer tumor board and lung cancer screening program.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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Five Books, Five Podcasts for Every Medical Student
🌐https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20190101lv-studentmedia.html
📌At this link, you can find five books and five podcasts that are informative and suitable for medical students with a brief explanation of each book/podcast.
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🌐https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20190101lv-studentmedia.html
📌At this link, you can find five books and five podcasts that are informative and suitable for medical students with a brief explanation of each book/podcast.
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ECG Assessment: an Introduction for Healthcare Providers
💢Free course offered by St George's University of London
💢This course will equip you with an introductory understanding of ECG assessment and interpretation, which will support the further hands-on training that is needed to competently perform the ECG test and understand it in clinical practice.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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💢Free course offered by St George's University of London
💢This course will equip you with an introductory understanding of ECG assessment and interpretation, which will support the further hands-on training that is needed to competently perform the ECG test and understand it in clinical practice.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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What is graphical abstract?
✅A graphical abstract is one single‐panel image that is designed to give readers an immediate understanding of the take‐home message of the scientific paper.
✅An effective graphical abstract will attract the attention and curiosity of your reader and it’s useful to screen the information very rapidly.
✅The ideal graphical abstract should be self-explanatory. The reader should quickly understand it and be able to decide whether to read your paper or not. If you achieve this, your graphical abstract is successful and effective.
✅Not all publishers are using graphical abstracts at the moment, but this is an initiative of Elsevier, probably the biggest scientific publisher in the world, which is followed by some important ones, like Cell and Springer.
✅There is not a “correct” form to create a graphical abstract, but specific guidelines are being published.
📌Attracted to this post is one graphical abstract example to understand how it looks when published.
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✅A graphical abstract is one single‐panel image that is designed to give readers an immediate understanding of the take‐home message of the scientific paper.
✅An effective graphical abstract will attract the attention and curiosity of your reader and it’s useful to screen the information very rapidly.
✅The ideal graphical abstract should be self-explanatory. The reader should quickly understand it and be able to decide whether to read your paper or not. If you achieve this, your graphical abstract is successful and effective.
✅Not all publishers are using graphical abstracts at the moment, but this is an initiative of Elsevier, probably the biggest scientific publisher in the world, which is followed by some important ones, like Cell and Springer.
✅There is not a “correct” form to create a graphical abstract, but specific guidelines are being published.
📌Attracted to this post is one graphical abstract example to understand how it looks when published.
📚Reference
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Managing COVID-19 in Primary Care
💠Free course offered by St George's University of London
💠In this course, epidemiology, clinical symptoms and signs, safe assessment of cases, current management of COVID-19 and evolving situation in the UK are discussed.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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💠Free course offered by St George's University of London
💠In this course, epidemiology, clinical symptoms and signs, safe assessment of cases, current management of COVID-19 and evolving situation in the UK are discussed.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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Software for Creating Graphical Abstracts
Here are some tips to help you choose the software that will work best for you. The programs below are listed according to their accessibility and simplicity of use.
🔰Microsoft Paint
Pros: simple, free (within Windows), supports most image formats
Cons: a limited number of drawing tools
🔰Microsoft PowerPoint
Pros: well-known and simple, a good selection of built-in shapes, supports vector graphics
Cons: paid software, a limited number of drawing tools
🔰ChemDraw
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, use limited mainly to (bio)chemical structures
🔰Gimp and Inkscape
Pros: free, open-source, semi-professional
Cons: requires time and effort to learn, lacks advanced features
🔰Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, require time and effort to learn
🔰CorelDraw (for Windows) and Affinity Designer (for Mac)
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, require time and effort to learn, work only on the operating systems they were designed for
📌We will introduce some useful websites helping you easily design your graphical abstract in our next post!
📚Reference
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Here are some tips to help you choose the software that will work best for you. The programs below are listed according to their accessibility and simplicity of use.
🔰Microsoft Paint
Pros: simple, free (within Windows), supports most image formats
Cons: a limited number of drawing tools
🔰Microsoft PowerPoint
Pros: well-known and simple, a good selection of built-in shapes, supports vector graphics
Cons: paid software, a limited number of drawing tools
🔰ChemDraw
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, use limited mainly to (bio)chemical structures
🔰Gimp and Inkscape
Pros: free, open-source, semi-professional
Cons: requires time and effort to learn, lacks advanced features
🔰Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, require time and effort to learn
🔰CorelDraw (for Windows) and Affinity Designer (for Mac)
Pros: professional, state-of-the-art
Cons: paid software, require time and effort to learn, work only on the operating systems they were designed for
📌We will introduce some useful websites helping you easily design your graphical abstract in our next post!
📚Reference
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AI for Medical Prognosis ♦️Free course offered by DeepLearning.AI ♦️In this second course, you’ll walk through multiple examples of prognostic tasks. You’ll then use decision trees to model non-linear relationships, which are commonly observed in medical…
AI for Medical Treatment
♦️Free course offered by DeepLearning.AI
♦️In this third course, you’ll recommend treatments more suited to individual patients using data from randomized control trials. Then, you’ll apply machine learning interpretation methods to explain the decision-making of complex machine learning models. Finally, you’ll use natural language entity extraction and question-answering methods to automate the task of labeling medical datasets.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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♦️Free course offered by DeepLearning.AI
♦️In this third course, you’ll recommend treatments more suited to individual patients using data from randomized control trials. Then, you’ll apply machine learning interpretation methods to explain the decision-making of complex machine learning models. Finally, you’ll use natural language entity extraction and question-answering methods to automate the task of labeling medical datasets.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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🌀The 6th International USERN Congress Workshops🌀
🔷Scientific Publication and Scientific Progress
🔷Instructed by Prof. George Perry
🔹Top 1% scientist in neurosciences
🔹H-index of 155
🔹USERN Advisory Board Member
🌀Saturday, November 6th
💢For workshop registration, please click/tap here.
🌐 userncongress.tums.ac.ir
📧 [email protected]
👤 @USERN_congress2021
#USERN2021
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🔷Scientific Publication and Scientific Progress
🔷Instructed by Prof. George Perry
🔹Top 1% scientist in neurosciences
🔹H-index of 155
🔹USERN Advisory Board Member
🌀Saturday, November 6th
💢For workshop registration, please click/tap here.
🌐 userncongress.tums.ac.ir
📧 [email protected]
👤 @USERN_congress2021
#USERN2021
@usern_congress
@usern_net
@niima_usern
🌀The 6th International USERN Congress Workshops🌀
🔷Statistics for Dummies
🔷Prof. Serge Brand
🔹Top 1% Scientist in Psychology
🔹Ph.D. in Cognitive and Clinical Psychology
🔹Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapist, University of Basel, Switzerland
🔹USERN Advisory Board Member
❌Now, less than "3 DAYS", left until the registration deadline❌
🌀Thursday, November 11th
💢For workshop registration, please click/tap here.
🌐 userncongress.tums.ac.ir
📧 [email protected]
👤 @USERN_congress2021
#USERN2021
@usern_congress
@usern_net
@niima_usern
🔷Statistics for Dummies
🔷Prof. Serge Brand
🔹Top 1% Scientist in Psychology
🔹Ph.D. in Cognitive and Clinical Psychology
🔹Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapist, University of Basel, Switzerland
🔹USERN Advisory Board Member
❌Now, less than "3 DAYS", left until the registration deadline❌
🌀Thursday, November 11th
💢For workshop registration, please click/tap here.
🌐 userncongress.tums.ac.ir
📧 [email protected]
👤 @USERN_congress2021
#USERN2021
@usern_congress
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@niima_usern
⭕️Do not miss the opportunity to learn from world's top 1% scientists and experts researchers⭕️
🔅USERN Congress Workshops🔅
Registration and more information at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflajRjAki6s8Z0cxqhJdFiq6tdGhXWx7ihbugOYP6isIy2IA/viewform?usp=sf_link
❌Limited seats❌
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🔅USERN Congress Workshops🔅
Registration and more information at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflajRjAki6s8Z0cxqhJdFiq6tdGhXWx7ihbugOYP6isIy2IA/viewform?usp=sf_link
❌Limited seats❌
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Websites for Designing Graphical Abstract
As we discussed about different softwares for designing your graphical abstract, here we want to introduce some websites that can help you in this regard.
🌐mindthegraph.com
🔺Mind the Graph is an easy to use, comprehensive online graphic tool that is specifically designed to cater for the design needs of the scientific community.
🔺If you want to try it out, free access allows you to create up to five scientific illustrations with one photo upload each. The free version allows you to download your creation with a resolution of 72dpi.
🔺Once signed-in, there are several categories to choose from which help to get you started: ‘main image’, ‘versus’, ‘diagram’, ‘process’, ‘timeline’, ‘facts & figures’, and ‘cycle’.
🔺You can choose from a database of icons, elements, and images or upload your own images and start creating compelling visual content yourself without having to hire a graphic first designer.
🌐biorender.com
🔻Its library of icons and templates features about 20,000 icons from neuroscience, immunology, and microbiology, and covers more than 30 areas of life science. Users can even request new icons if they cannot find what they need, and BioRender will create them in as little as 48 hours.
🔻BioRender offers drag-and-drop functionality and pre-set colors based on scientific conventions and of course the possibility to export to multiple formats for publications, presentations, web or print.
🔻It is free to try out for educational purposes with some feature limitations. Monthly subscription with full functionality and permission to use the figures in publications is $35 per month for an individual user.
🌐smart.servier.com
🔺At smart.servier.com you will find 3000 medical images covering the anatomy and the human body, cellular specialties, and general terms. They are all available for you to download for free!
📌 many other online tools are suited for the creation of your graphical abstract (e.g. Canva, Snappa, and Piktochart). And you can find more websites from: https://crastina.se/guides/the-poster-design-hub/scientific-images/
📚Reference
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As we discussed about different softwares for designing your graphical abstract, here we want to introduce some websites that can help you in this regard.
🌐mindthegraph.com
🔺Mind the Graph is an easy to use, comprehensive online graphic tool that is specifically designed to cater for the design needs of the scientific community.
🔺If you want to try it out, free access allows you to create up to five scientific illustrations with one photo upload each. The free version allows you to download your creation with a resolution of 72dpi.
🔺Once signed-in, there are several categories to choose from which help to get you started: ‘main image’, ‘versus’, ‘diagram’, ‘process’, ‘timeline’, ‘facts & figures’, and ‘cycle’.
🔺You can choose from a database of icons, elements, and images or upload your own images and start creating compelling visual content yourself without having to hire a graphic first designer.
🌐biorender.com
🔻Its library of icons and templates features about 20,000 icons from neuroscience, immunology, and microbiology, and covers more than 30 areas of life science. Users can even request new icons if they cannot find what they need, and BioRender will create them in as little as 48 hours.
🔻BioRender offers drag-and-drop functionality and pre-set colors based on scientific conventions and of course the possibility to export to multiple formats for publications, presentations, web or print.
🔻It is free to try out for educational purposes with some feature limitations. Monthly subscription with full functionality and permission to use the figures in publications is $35 per month for an individual user.
🌐smart.servier.com
🔺At smart.servier.com you will find 3000 medical images covering the anatomy and the human body, cellular specialties, and general terms. They are all available for you to download for free!
📌 many other online tools are suited for the creation of your graphical abstract (e.g. Canva, Snappa, and Piktochart). And you can find more websites from: https://crastina.se/guides/the-poster-design-hub/scientific-images/
📚Reference
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Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Specialization
🔷Free course offered by University of JOHNS HOPKINS
🔷This specialization combines the strength of 4 different neuroscience courses. They include Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging, Principals of fMRI1, Principals of fMRI2, and introduction to Neurohacking in R offered by the University of JOHNS HOPKINS.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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🔷Free course offered by University of JOHNS HOPKINS
🔷This specialization combines the strength of 4 different neuroscience courses. They include Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging, Principals of fMRI1, Principals of fMRI2, and introduction to Neurohacking in R offered by the University of JOHNS HOPKINS.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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🎙Docs Outside the Box Podcasts
🌀Dr. Nii Darko collected hundreds of stories from doctors who worked outside mainstream medicine. War medics, TV physicians, humanitarian workers and entrepreneurs. They were Docs Outside The Box.
🌀The must-listen podcast tells the tales of healthcare professionals doing extraordinary things - outside an exam room. Get inspired from professionals who take their medical degrees to another level.
📌See here for podcasts of Outside the Box
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🌀Dr. Nii Darko collected hundreds of stories from doctors who worked outside mainstream medicine. War medics, TV physicians, humanitarian workers and entrepreneurs. They were Docs Outside The Box.
🌀The must-listen podcast tells the tales of healthcare professionals doing extraordinary things - outside an exam room. Get inspired from professionals who take their medical degrees to another level.
📌See here for podcasts of Outside the Box
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Diabetes Research: The Next Generation
💢Free webinar offered by RCIScience
💢Sunday, November 28th
💢22:30–24:00 (Tehran time), 19:00-20:30 (GMT).
💢"Insulin to Innovation" presents the next generation of diabetes research, hosted by writer and podcast host Krista Lamb. Since its discovery, insulin has changed the lives of millions of people around the world. But there is still important diabetes research that needs to be done. Meet the rising stars of diabetes research from across Canada and discover how they’re changing the game.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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💢Free webinar offered by RCIScience
💢Sunday, November 28th
💢22:30–24:00 (Tehran time), 19:00-20:30 (GMT).
💢"Insulin to Innovation" presents the next generation of diabetes research, hosted by writer and podcast host Krista Lamb. Since its discovery, insulin has changed the lives of millions of people around the world. But there is still important diabetes research that needs to be done. Meet the rising stars of diabetes research from across Canada and discover how they’re changing the game.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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Why it is a good idea for medical students to have a LinkedIn profile?
🔹Low-threat, low-resource, high-yield action
It doesn’t take long (or cost you anything) to add your profile to LinkedIn nor does it “expose” you in the same way Facebook, Instagram, etc can. Connecting with ex-professors, teachers and other students around the globe can also lead to good opportunities too – especially in terms of projects and research.
🔹Networking for side-gigs/side-hustles
If you have a business along with your medical career, Being on LinkedIn can land quite a few clients this way (and others by redirecting them to your profile). It’s an excellent way to connect and make business connections
🔹Networking for shadowing opportunities and clinical experience
As many other physicians maintain a presence on the network, it can be a good idea to search locally and contact people about potential shadowing or work experience opportunities. Just check out this Reddit user, for example, who claims they were able to land research gigs in surgery by reaching out to people through LinkedIn.
🔹Set you up for future recruitment opportunities
Having a profile in place, listing your experience, and showcasing your achievements, can help other healthcare recruiters reach out to you. This can give you an edge over other less-marketing savvy med students soon after graduating.
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🔹Low-threat, low-resource, high-yield action
It doesn’t take long (or cost you anything) to add your profile to LinkedIn nor does it “expose” you in the same way Facebook, Instagram, etc can. Connecting with ex-professors, teachers and other students around the globe can also lead to good opportunities too – especially in terms of projects and research.
🔹Networking for side-gigs/side-hustles
If you have a business along with your medical career, Being on LinkedIn can land quite a few clients this way (and others by redirecting them to your profile). It’s an excellent way to connect and make business connections
🔹Networking for shadowing opportunities and clinical experience
As many other physicians maintain a presence on the network, it can be a good idea to search locally and contact people about potential shadowing or work experience opportunities. Just check out this Reddit user, for example, who claims they were able to land research gigs in surgery by reaching out to people through LinkedIn.
🔹Set you up for future recruitment opportunities
Having a profile in place, listing your experience, and showcasing your achievements, can help other healthcare recruiters reach out to you. This can give you an edge over other less-marketing savvy med students soon after graduating.
📚Refernce
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Diabetes – the Essential Facts
♦️Free course offered by Offered By University of Copenhagen.
♦️This course will provide you with an introduction to the most recent research in the field of prevention and treatment of diabetes as well as a broader understanding of the situation in different communities, rich and poor, across the world, where diabetes threatens public health.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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♦️Free course offered by Offered By University of Copenhagen.
♦️This course will provide you with an introduction to the most recent research in the field of prevention and treatment of diabetes as well as a broader understanding of the situation in different communities, rich and poor, across the world, where diabetes threatens public health.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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The top 10 online resources for medical students
#part1
Here is our list of the top 10 online resources for medical students, in no particular order:
🌀1. Osmosis
Osmosis combines simple videos with fantastic explanations across a wide range of topics, with questions and study notes to help consolidate your knowledge at your own pace. Their platform is simple to use and very comprehensive, making them one of the best online medical learning platforms in the world.
🌀2. Passmedicine
If completing thousands of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) is your style of study, then Passmedicine is the platform for you! Filter your MCQs by specialty and work through as many questions as your brain desires.
🌀3. Amboss
Amboss provides a fantastic bank of MCQs as well as an interactive resource library. They aim to not only help you through med school, but also provide you with a useful tool when you are a practicing doctor. Plus, they link directly to Anki (one of our favourite study note tools) which is a nice touch!
🌀4. Med Master
Want to brush up on your ECG skills? Or learn how to interpret ABGs? Med Mastery provides great interactive courses which help fine tune your clinical skills. They are slightly more expensive than other resources, however they are pitched at the level of practicing doctors so the quality is exceptional.
🌀5. Dr. Najeeb Lectures
He has helped so many students through difficult concepts with his wacky and amazingly memorable drawings. Our favourite lectures include the coagulation cascade, glomerulonephritis and vasculitis. Unlimited access is usually very cheap when a promotion is on!
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#part1
Here is our list of the top 10 online resources for medical students, in no particular order:
🌀1. Osmosis
Osmosis combines simple videos with fantastic explanations across a wide range of topics, with questions and study notes to help consolidate your knowledge at your own pace. Their platform is simple to use and very comprehensive, making them one of the best online medical learning platforms in the world.
🌀2. Passmedicine
If completing thousands of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) is your style of study, then Passmedicine is the platform for you! Filter your MCQs by specialty and work through as many questions as your brain desires.
🌀3. Amboss
Amboss provides a fantastic bank of MCQs as well as an interactive resource library. They aim to not only help you through med school, but also provide you with a useful tool when you are a practicing doctor. Plus, they link directly to Anki (one of our favourite study note tools) which is a nice touch!
🌀4. Med Master
Want to brush up on your ECG skills? Or learn how to interpret ABGs? Med Mastery provides great interactive courses which help fine tune your clinical skills. They are slightly more expensive than other resources, however they are pitched at the level of practicing doctors so the quality is exceptional.
🌀5. Dr. Najeeb Lectures
He has helped so many students through difficult concepts with his wacky and amazingly memorable drawings. Our favourite lectures include the coagulation cascade, glomerulonephritis and vasculitis. Unlimited access is usually very cheap when a promotion is on!
📚Reference
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COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers
💢Free course offered by University of Stanford
💢Topics include symptoms and signs in patients with COVID-19, early stabilization of patients, preventing the need for intubation, and ventilator management. The best evidence and guidelines are summarized while accompanying handouts provide written learning points and links to online resources. Simple infographics are available for providers to utilize within their care facilities to educate and promote optimal care across their entire institution.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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💢Free course offered by University of Stanford
💢Topics include symptoms and signs in patients with COVID-19, early stabilization of patients, preventing the need for intubation, and ventilator management. The best evidence and guidelines are summarized while accompanying handouts provide written learning points and links to online resources. Simple infographics are available for providers to utilize within their care facilities to educate and promote optimal care across their entire institution.
📌For more information and registration, click/tap here.
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