You all should check out the blog at http://jaewonjoh.com/. He’s currently a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine and the latest post (as of 1/25/10) is a fun read (link to aforementioned post). He also tweets, so if you are a social media fan, go ahead and follow too.

Fox News published a story in their “Love & Marriage” section online by Marissa Kristal entitled “How to Date a Med Student. Here are a few selected nuggets of wisdom (a link to the full article can be found below):

6. here will be weeks you’ll forget you even have a boyfriend—friends will ask how he is and you’ll say, “What? Who? Oh….right. He’s well…I think.”
3. Learn to hide your “ew, gross” reactions when they tell you all the stuff you never wanted to know about your bodily functions.
1. Don’t expect to see them. Ever.

Source: FoxNews.com

Just found this music video on YouTube. It’s an a cappella group consisting of medical students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Enjoy.

I got an email today from John over at The WikiPremed MCAT Course – An Open Access Learning Program for the Premedical Curriculum.. In the email he shared with me about the WikiPremed MCAT Course website that he and his team have been working on for a few years now.

I thought it sounded interesting so I clicked on over to check it out.

It really looks to be like a great resource for pre-med students who are trying to study for the MCAT. Even better, it’s a whole lot more affordable than the Kaplan or Princeton Review courses.

In addition to their online learning modules, they do provide written materials, flash cards, etc.

If you’re a premed student, consider checking them out. Even if you do go ahead with one of the more well-known review courses, it looks like this could be a really nice addition to your study regimen.

Also, another idea would be to read through the modules covering the sections you are learning in your Physics, Biology, Chemistry, or Organic Chemistry class.

You can click on over to the Wiki by using the link above (at the beginning of this post) or the link to the right under the “Student Resources” section.

If you live in America and haven’t been a hermit for the past few months you will surely have heard about this whole healthcare debate. Here are some celebrities who are speaking out urging us to protect insurance companies (satire). The celebrities include Jon Hamm, Will Ferrel, and Olivia Wilde who have all joined to collaborate with Funny Or Die.

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On a side note, I had a lecture today where the lecturer said that he doesn’t believe there is an answer to our healthcare problems. Government’s solution is to try something we aren’t doing and see if it works. He noted that in the UK, there is also a healthcare debate with the National Health Service (NHS) and the British government is inviting American insurance companies to discuss ways to try something different (more like the American system) which will allow people to opt out of NHS coverage. Food for thought…

Article Link: MSNBC.com:Sleep-deprived docs told to drink 6 cups coffee

um… yeah.. very good example of patient care focused on patient safety… (Sarcasm. I hate that I have to put this, but I am paranoid that if I don’t, this Internet post is going to come back and bite me in the future.)

I thought US Resident Physicians had it bad with our 80 hour/week cap (which isn’t as strict as some would like). But 80 hours of work without rest? That’s just downright ridiculous!

Maybe the guys in charge down under think that their doctors are super-human…

Ok, ok… so they admit that there is a doctor shortage. And they need more doctors. I guess it’s a good thing for foreign graduates who have an interest in working there.

Personally I have thought about working there in Australia after I finish training here. But I would not want to have to do an Australian residency in addition to my US one…

Just saw this video on Facebook and I thought I’d share it here. Is there anything wrong with this model? Does her ankles look two weak? I know they try to be as slim as possible… but is her “wobbly-ness” a result of weak ankles (as a result of malnourishment) or just poor balance?

I just found a new medical student blog. It is titled Captain Atopic : Degranulated. The author, Captain Atopic, is a medical student in Australia. Really enjoyed the series of posts about arrogance among medical students. They are stories the exemplify this very annoying trait.

Here are links to the three posts on arrogance: Arrogance I, Arrogance II, and Arrogance III.

A link to Captain Atopic’s blog has also been added to my sidebar for easy access if you ever want to find it again.

Hope you all enjoy

Lenovo is having a giveaway for this back-to-school season. Now I’d normally encourage others to go with Apple unless they absolutely must run windows (even though I know about and use Boot Camp). But if I were to get a PC, I’d definitely go with these guys.

You can enter every day from now until September 14. They are also running some online sales for the next few days. So if you’re in the need, stroll on over to Lenovo.com. But be sure to click the widget below and see if you win anything. Go ahead.. you can thank me later

Double vision is an interesting thing. In Neuroscience we discussed double vision a bit — but referring to it with the technical term, “diplopia.”

I won’t go into the cause of diplopia. A cursory search of the internet should lead you to some fairly good explanations.

I wanted to share a few pictures I found on the Internet. It’s a sort of simulated diplopia. And it feels weird looking at it. It feels totally wrong — I almost felt dizzy looking at these pictures. Maybe because the brain was trying to make sense of it all.

Well below are the pictures. Have fun with them.