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What You Might Not Know About Scientific Journals
A reviewer at the National Institutes of Health evaluates a grant proposal. (Wikipedia) I managed to read quite a number of interesting books in the last couple of months. Among them, was Scientific...
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Why Equivalence Studies Are So Fascinating
Bronze balance pans and lead weights from the Vapheio tholos tomb, circa 15th century BC. National Museum, Athens. Shot courtesy dandiffendale@Flickr. by-nc-sa license. Objectives and talking points:...
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Keywords For Your Surgical Rotation In Med School
An Ongoing Surgery Bonjour everyone! Today, I’m going to share with you some high yield keywords that should hopefully help you breeze through your surgical rotations in med school. Call it a checklist...
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Decision Tree Questions In Genetics And The USMLE
Courtesy cayusa@flickr. (creative commons by-nc license) Just a quick thought. It just occurred to me that some of the questions on the USMLE involving pedigree analysis in genetics, are actually...
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USMLE – Designing The Ultimate Questions
Shot courtesy crystaljingsr @ Flickr (Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial License) There are strategies that examiners can employ to frame questions that are designed to stump you on an exam...
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The Doctor’s Apparent Ineptitude
via Steve Kay@Flickr (by-nc-nd license) As a fun project, I’ve decided to frame this post as an abstract. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: To elucidate factors influencing perceived incompetence on the part of the...
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On Literature Search Tools And Translational Medicine
Courtesy danmachold@flickr (by-nc-sa license) Howdy all! Apologies for the lack of recent blogular activity. As usual, I’ve been swamped with academia. A couple of interesting pieces on literature...
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The Mucking About That Pervades Academia In Scientific Pursuit
Bureaucracy (by Kongharald @ Flickr by-sa license) Howdy readers! I’ve not had the chance yet to delve into the bureaucracy of academia in science, having relegated it to future reading and followup....
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Revitalizing Science Education
[Video] Richard Feynman: “… But you’ve gotta stop and think about it. About the complexity to really get the pleasure. And it’s all really there … the inconceivable nature of nature! …” And when I...
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Contrasts In Nerdity & What We Gain By Interdisciplinary Thinking
Where Do You Fit In This Paradigm? (via xkcd CC BY-NC license) I’ve always been struck by how nerds can act differently in different fields. An art nerd is very different from a tech nerd. Whereas the...
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