Literature Search Workshop at UCMS: Extra-Curricular Academics at the MEU
The Medical Education Unit at the University College of Medical Sciences, where I am now doing my residency, is aContinue Reading
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Facebooking Your Faculty: To be or not to be?
Few emerging technologies have taken by storm the world as much as Facebook has. Although a plummeting share price hasContinue Reading
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Despatch from Narela: Another Rural Posting Experience
It has been quite a long hiatus since I last wrote here, and a plethora of changes have affected myContinue Reading
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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 testContinue Reading
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Remembering Tinsley Harrison, the Oslerphile Physician
The past few weeks have been very demanding on me and I have not had the best of times, eitherContinue Reading
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Save the Junior Doctors: Primum Non Nocere
It seems like an age old saga of woe and misery. Once again the media and mob seem to haveContinue Reading
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Comic Book Meets Medicine: Little Orphan Annie
One of the classic histopathological signs that we read of in Pathology quite often is the Orphan Annie Eye nucleusContinue Reading
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Tech Care of Your Health
Well, it took a massively thought provoking article by Vinod Khosla on TechCrunch to jerk me out of my inertiaContinue Reading
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Rapid Revision: Serum Sickness Like Reactions
Background: Serum sickness like reaction is a rare but well-recognized adverse effect with certain drugs, especially antibiotics, amongst which CefaclorContinue Reading
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Rapid Revision: Chromoblastomycosis
This is the segment where I jot down high yield notes for rapid revision of some key features of aContinue Reading
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Is MBBS Becoming a Vestigial Degree?
“There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a manContinue Reading
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Why the Future of Medicine Should Not be Predicted Based on Recruiting Company Surveys
KevinMD has been the blogging guru of almost all the young medical bloggers out there. I am no exception. IContinue Reading
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Earworms: Kolaveri Di and the Pathogenesis of a Musical Malaise
Like the rest of the nation (and some would say, the world), I have been asking myself over and overContinue Reading
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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, todayContinue Reading
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Trendelenberg vs Trendelenburg: What’s in a name?
I have a slew of exams lined up and am recovering from a (suspected) repetitive stress injury of the rightContinue Reading
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Trick or Treatment: Do Doctors Encourage Poor Patient Behaviors?
Happy Pumpkin Day folks, and to celebrate this day of weird encounters, I am going to reel off a listContinue Reading
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Charles Beevor: The Sign of a “Bloody” Jerk
Forgive the hyperbolic title. Do not take offense and read on before hating on me. Please note the post scriptContinue Reading
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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 theContinue Reading
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What Flies in KVPY: A Sample Project
I have been getting a deluge of requests to post some examples of the type of projects that have beenContinue Reading
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Gender Bias + Ignorance = DANGEROUS Patients?
Oh well, just read this post, and had to come write about it before sitting down to study for theContinue Reading
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Grand Rounds Comes to INDIA!
Guess what, grand rounds is in India, hosted over at Radiologist Dr. Sumer Sethi’s blog. He has several great postsContinue Reading
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House MD 8×02: Transplant
As big a fan of the House MD show I am, let me start off with the disclaimer that IContinue Reading
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Medical Student Research: The First Year Quandary
The problem with the Indian Medical Curriculum is that it is too intense, as it should be, no complaints there,Continue Reading
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Embryology Mnemonic #Fail
Anatomy and Embryology have remained some of the most volatile subjects that I learnt in my medical course. Little hasContinue Reading
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A Doctor’s Touch: An Oslerphile’s Delight
First watch this TED Talk: This talk touched upon one of the most important aspects of Medicine today. It isContinue Reading
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House MD 8×01: Twenty Vicodin
So, like I said in my last post, House is back, and with a bang. The new season starts offContinue Reading
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The Sailor’s Syphilis Detecting Handshake: Preventive Medicine or An Oslerian Folklore?
This post is a result of a Tweet that reminded me of my clinical medicine lectures from a several yearsContinue Reading
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Blogger’s “Dynamic Views”: 10 Things I Learnt From Using it For A Day
Oh well, Google is finally paying some attention to its vastly overrated blogging service, Blogger aka Blogspot (where my CargoContinue Reading
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Grand Rounds 7-50 Over at Dr. Rich’s
Go on to read the latest summary of the best in medical blogging over at the Covert Rationing Blog writtenContinue Reading
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Grand Rounds on Health 3.0 Blog
This week’s Grand Rounds is up at Health 3.0 Blog on Tumblr. Check it out here. One of my postsContinue Reading
