PSM as a Career Option: #4 Will I Regret Choosing PSM if all I Want is a Clinical Branch?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as aContinue Reading
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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 aContinue Reading
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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 aContinue Reading
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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 aContinue Reading
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Rural Posting Post-MBBS: Part 1 – Why it is a bad idea
These past couple of days, the medical student community of Delhi (and by extension, India) has been seething with discontentContinue Reading
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The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea
I have been known to lament the loss of the prestige of the basic medical degree (MBBS) in India. WhileContinue Reading
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USMLE 2013 and IMGs: All That Glitters is NOT Gold
I have pretty much been declared the official (Indian) USMLE rumor-monger by one of the most famous USMLE coaching institutesContinue Reading
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The USA Dream for IMGs: Coming to an end? Analysing the 2012 Match
My attention was drawn to an article in the JAMA today (1) by one of my friends who is activelyContinue Reading
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On Being A Gadfly
Although this is the age of Evidence Based Medicine, in large parts of our country, the “E” in EBM doesContinue Reading
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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 fromContinue Reading
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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 GraduationContinue Reading
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Game, Set… MATCH!
A number of my friends applied for the USMLE this year and it seems that with every passing year moreContinue Reading
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Another AIPG Controversy
Rumors and hearsay have been a dime a dozen since the bombshell of an AIPG dropped on us and sinceContinue 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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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 theContinue 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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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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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 onContinue Reading
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…maybe your life just sucks?
I don’t know why but this cartoon by the FANTASTIC Abstruse Goose reminded me of my life.
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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. SoContinue Reading
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FlowChart: Classifying Staphylococci
I made this using Bubbl.us which seems like a pretty decent tool to make simple flowcharts and stuff. What doContinue Reading
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CET: Proposing a NEET Idea
I have had this presentation made by Dr. Avinash Supe, Professor and HOD, Department of Gastrosurgery, KEM Hospital and SethContinue Reading
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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 stateContinue Reading
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The Tyranny of Diagnosis
For a profession that primarily concentrates on the well being of the human being, we seem to be very disconnectedContinue Reading
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AIIMSing for the Best
A weak pun, I know, forgive me, I have an exam in a few hours for which I am grosslyContinue Reading
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DNB = MD/MS? No Way!
The union health ministry has approved Medical Council of India‘s recommendation that bars Diplomate of National Board (DNB) degree-holders fromContinue Reading
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A Common Test?
This post was written on an old blog of mine when the common entrance test for the medical under andContinue Reading
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A Test of Character
I had another examination today. As the readers of my blog probably know, I am working and simultaneously studying toContinue Reading
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Recalled Questions 41-50: AIPGMEE 2011
Q. 1 – 10 Q. 11 – 20 Q. 21 – 30 Q. 31 – 40 41. Deoxygenated blood flowsContinue Reading
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!
I know I am late, stop looking at me like that! I was on call for most parts of theContinue Reading
