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Hi there! Welcome to medstudent.info, a website for medical students by medical students (studying in Australia).
In this new age (2010+) where medical information is freely available through Wikipedia, iPhone apps and the university's online library, the old way of learning medicine from textbooks needs a re-think (especially when they are quickly out of date at the time of publishing).
As medical students in this age, we've found a better way to do things.
And this is where this website comes in.
We've included websites and apps really worth bookmarking. There are plenty not worth visiting. If you are like us, finite beings with finite hours, then you know you need to know what's easy to digest yet reliable.
Besides websites, we've also uploaded some of our notes which covers common questions consultants and registrars love to shoot students with. So if you wanna survive those ward rounds unscathed, go and have a look. (Though actually, it's really good to be absolutely clueless and make mistakes - they are your best teachers) But copyright..? We hope this disclaimer helps:
[The information here is organised by specialty and presented in the form of answers to common viva questions. They are synthesized from countless textbooks, journal articles, tutorials and seniors' notes - we neither claim credit for them nor responsibility for any errors. Whilst we would like to cite them, the way the knowledge has been passed onto students like us in the form presented here makes it difficult; researchers constantly add to or update knowledge of basic sciences, doctors adapt the basic sciences to clinical practice, and seniors and students alike invent teaching aids such as mnemonics to help others remember - some of them can be cited, but others are just passed along unquestioningly, recipients never knowing the real contributors behind them.]
But in spite of the internet, some textbooks can still be really helpful and we've put up a list of recommended ones.
In this new age (2010+) where medical information is freely available through Wikipedia, iPhone apps and the university's online library, the old way of learning medicine from textbooks needs a re-think (especially when they are quickly out of date at the time of publishing).
As medical students in this age, we've found a better way to do things.
And this is where this website comes in.
We've included websites and apps really worth bookmarking. There are plenty not worth visiting. If you are like us, finite beings with finite hours, then you know you need to know what's easy to digest yet reliable.
Besides websites, we've also uploaded some of our notes which covers common questions consultants and registrars love to shoot students with. So if you wanna survive those ward rounds unscathed, go and have a look. (Though actually, it's really good to be absolutely clueless and make mistakes - they are your best teachers) But copyright..? We hope this disclaimer helps:
[The information here is organised by specialty and presented in the form of answers to common viva questions. They are synthesized from countless textbooks, journal articles, tutorials and seniors' notes - we neither claim credit for them nor responsibility for any errors. Whilst we would like to cite them, the way the knowledge has been passed onto students like us in the form presented here makes it difficult; researchers constantly add to or update knowledge of basic sciences, doctors adapt the basic sciences to clinical practice, and seniors and students alike invent teaching aids such as mnemonics to help others remember - some of them can be cited, but others are just passed along unquestioningly, recipients never knowing the real contributors behind them.]
But in spite of the internet, some textbooks can still be really helpful and we've put up a list of recommended ones.