#8 🪒Sharpen up your diagnoses
🙌Discover new study hacks and high-yield MedEd resources.
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Welcome back to MedEd Mondays! I have a couple of questions for you:
1. Do you want to get better at diagnosis?
2. Do you have hirsutism?
If you answered yes to either of the above questions, then you’re going to be all for this weeks study hack. Why? Because it involves razors 🪒 Whose razors you ask? You’ll see further below.
Also, this week’s addition to the MedEd vault is in the elite tier. If you’ve never come across it, you won’t be disappointed.
🙌 Study Hack of the Week: How razor blades can make you better at diagnosis. (6 mins)
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - that’s right… this study hacks an old one.
Now I don’t know about you, but nothing quite gets me going like scholastic philosophers of the 13th century. Combine such philosophers with a means to be a better diagnostician and its no wonder that I’d cross William of Ockham at some point.
Who is he? What’s he got to do with razors and how is this going to make your diagnostic skills sharper… let me reveal all.
🔓 The MedEd Vault: High-yield MedEd resources you may never knew existed.
🔦This week’s resource in the spotlight is: TeachMeSurgery
🔗Access here: https://teachmesurgery.com
TeachMeSurgery is a gold mine for surgical education. Whether you’re going for an MBBS, MbChB or MD, your medical qualification requires you to cover surgery as well as medicine. You’ll probably notice that around half of your modules are some way surgically inclined and you can certainly expect to find a heap of surgically related questions in your clinical year exams. Look no further, TeachMeSurgery will prepare you very well.
Pros:
Concise notes covering all the major surgical topics that you’ll need to be aware of at undergraduate level
A stunning, easy to use website
Content is super-skimmable.
Topics cover conditions, presentations, complications, classifications, instrumentations and perioperative complications.
Their colour theme goes so nicely with mine.
Cons:
Nada - I fully back TeachMeSurgery. Sure, it might not be the resource to help you perfect your practical skills like Knott tying and suturing (Checkout YouTube videos for that - like this one), but for undergraduate medical students, TeachMeSurgery should💯 be in your collection of high yield surgical education resources.
👋Thats all for this week! See you in 2 shaves time.