Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered […]
PSM as a Career Option: #3 What do we Learn in MD PSM and does it Help Later in Life?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered […]
PSM as a Career Option: #2 Is Delhi the Best Place for Doing MD in PSM?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered […]
PSM as a Career Option: #1 Why Choose PSM?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered […]
On Being A Gadfly
Although this is the age of Evidence Based Medicine, in large parts of our country, the “E” in EBM does not stand for Evidence, and more often than not, means “Eminence”. Medicine, […]
AIIMS May 2012: Part–I: Nostalgia
First up, a sincere apology to my email subscribers for messing up your email with multiple temporary post mails from Windows Live. Sorry for spamming you, the program went bonkers trying to […]
And the AIPG Fiasco Continues
The 5300-odd rankers in the AIPG were breathing a sigh of relief when the notification for counseling for Post Graduation seats was declared, along with dates and ranks and the rank cards […]
Another AIPG Controversy
Rumors and hearsay have been a dime a dozen since the bombshell of an AIPG dropped on us and since the results were postponed, there seems to have been an explosion of […]
MAHE: A Fantastic Test Experience of an Unfair Evaluation System
I took the Manipal MD/MS PG Entrance examination today (aka MAHE) and as it was the first ever online test I was going to sit for, I was naturally a little excited […]
Landmark Order: JIPMER Asked to Reveal Test Paper and Keys
One of the biggest bones that the Indian post graduate entrance examinees had to pick with the system was the (?apparent) lack of transparency in the examination system, One of the things […]
The Map of the Cat Conundrum: Richard Feynman and AIIMS November 2011
Well, that sounds like an odd assortment of topics to group under the same heading, does it not? Well, today I had the misfortune of experiencing first hand what Feynman had described […]
Google+ for Google Apps, Open Lab and Exam Musings
So this is a bit of a mishmash of a post. Google Plus is finally being opened up to the Google Apps users! Phew. That settles the hash of using my old […]
PG CET: Not Happening in 2012. Thanks for the mess!
Oh well, this question has been bugging us endlessly for the past few weeks, ever since the MCI declared on its website (ridiculously named MCIIndia.org. Redundancy five!) the much vaunted plan to […]
Got A Coupla’ Crores Lying Around? Go, Buy An MD Degree!
Rant Alert: The post below comes from a MCQ-mauled, beleaguered medical student who is suffering an early mid-life crisis. So switch off your brain cells before you commence reading! If you are […]
FlowChart: Classifying Staphylococci
I made this using Bubbl.us which seems like a pretty decent tool to make simple flowcharts and stuff. What do you think of this? Important tool to aid visual learners?
CET: Proposing a NEET Idea
I have had this presentation made by Dr. Avinash Supe, Professor and HOD, Department of Gastrosurgery, KEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College and was waiting for the right time to publish […]
NEET: Not Just A Neat Idea?
So according to the latest update on the website of the Medical Council of India, the proposed merging of state and national level entrance examinations for the post graduate education is going […]
On the Wrong Side of Right…
A terrific TED talk that I stumbled on Dr. Ravi’s Posterous blog. A great bit: “The way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes: we learn these really bad […]
A Common Test?
This post was written on an old blog of mine when the common entrance test for the medical under and post graduation levels were being mulled. Now it seems the big shots […]
A Test of Character
I had another examination today. As the readers of my blog probably know, I am working and simultaneously studying to get into a post graduate degree course in Medicine. Now I will […]
Blog Buddies: How is it Working Out For You?
Its been over a week since Scott over at Daily Post announced the blog buddy issue. I jumped in headlong and managed to garner a lot of friends. And since I am […]
Recalled Questions 41-50: AIPGMEE 2011
Q. 1 – 10 Q. 11 – 20 Q. 21 – 30 Q. 31 – 40 41. Deoxygenated blood flows through all of these, except: a. Umbilical Artery b. Umbilical vein c. […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!
I know I am late, stop looking at me like that! I was on call for most parts of the first 4 days of the year, and have a life changing examination […]
Counting Down: 25 Days to go!
Now before you ass-u-me that the post is about counting down to the new year and start abusing my poor mathematical skills (they are poor, sadly) let me make it clear: it […]
