Category: طب
Tips For Phone Interviews
A nice post from the British Medical Journal blogs about phone interviews.
Enjoy 🙂
Teaching Perspectives
Not all good doctors make good teachers. I have a good example in the team I’m working in now. But this post is not about that.
We had a lecture last week about teaching medicine. It was very interesting. Apparently the suggested way of teaching depends alot on asking the learners first in order to know what they already know and start from there. As a learner, I personally find that uncomfortable. Of course I love it when I know the answer. Otherwise, I just want the information to be given to me directly.
The lecturer talked about an interesting concept in teaching adults (in general, not only in medicine): Teaching Perspectives. Simply there are five teaching perspectives:
- Transmission: the teacher has a great commitment to the topic and presents it in an accurate manner to the learners.( I’m that type of teachers according to the test– Maybe only when talking about hematology) .
- Apprenticeship: the teacher is highly skilled in what he teaches. He presents the education by allowing the learner to observe how does it in the correct way, and allowing the learner to improve through graduated levels of supervision.
- Developmental: the teacher plans the teaching experience upon what the learner already knows. 2 main actions take place: 1) Effective questioning to challenge the learner to advance his thinking to more complex levels, and 2) bridging of the new information to what the learner already knows.
- Nurturing: the teacher believes that knowledge is acquired by hard persistent work, guiding the learners to help themselves and acquire self confidence in during the learning experience.
- Social reform: the teacher awakens the learner to values and ideologies embedded in text and practice. Aim is to change society in substantive ways.
The website explains the idea in the publication section, you can try the free test and/or buy the book that explains the concept, online.
Coagulation Cascade – Animated
Understanding the coagulation cascade is one of the most difficult areas that medical students and doctors face in the field of hematology. Here are 2 animated illustrations of the coagulation pathway, which might help make things easier.
McGraw-Hill displays a short animation, while Johns Hopkins University shows a more detailed one.
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يوم في حياة أوسكار
بينما يتمشى أوسكار في ممرات الدور الثالث في المصحة يقف أمام باب إحدى الغرف. يقف بصبر منتظرا أمام باب الغرفة . بعد 25 دقيقة تفتح إحدى الممرضات باب الغرفة في طريقها للخارج. ترى أوسكار منتظرا عند الباب فتفسح له الطريق ليدخل. بداخل الغرفة يوجد شخصان، أحدهما السيدة : ت، النائمة على الفراش، و هناك ابنتها تقرأ بجوارها. تحيي الابنة أوسكار عندما تراه. يقفز أوسكار على سرير السيدة التي أنهكها السرطان و التي تبدو في مرحلة حياتها الأخيرة. يتفحصها سريعا… إنها تتنفس بصعوبة. يشم أوسكار الهواء…ثم يقفز إلى الأرض مسارعا بالخروج من الغرفة. ليس اليوم.
ينتقل أوسكار إلى غرفة أخرى. الباب مفتوح، وبالداخل تنام السيدة ك وحيدة، إلا من صور عائلية تملأ غرفتها. يتشمم أوسكار الهواء ثانية. يتأمل السيدة التي تتنفس بصعوبة مثل جارتها. يقرر أوسكار فجأة أن يتكور على نفسه بجوار السيدة في سريرها.
بعد ساعة تقريبا تدخل ممرضة. تلاحظ وجود أوسكار بجوار السيدة النائمة فتسارع بالخروج من الغرفة لتراجع ملف السيدة ك. تقلب بعض الأوراق، ثم تسارع بإجراء بعض الاتصالات الهاتفية.
خلال نصف ساعة كان أفراد العائلة قد اجتمعوا. سيدات و رجال و أطفال حضروا لتوديع جدتهم العجوز. في الغرفة أيضا يوجد القس يتلو دعوات لروح السيدة المريضة التي ما لبثت أن أسلمت الروح. عندئذ فقط، يخرج أوسكار من الغرفة.
بينما يتمشى أوسكار في الممرات ثانية، يتأمل اللوحة المعلقة على الجدار، والتي تحمل شهادة التقدير الموجهة للقط الذي لا يتوفى أحد في الدور الثالث من المصحة بدون أن يمر بغرفته و يبقى فيها.
ملحوظة: منذ تم تبني أوسكار صغيرا في المصحة ساعد الكثيرين من المرضى و الذين كانوا في مراحل حياتهم الأخيرة. لوحظ أن وجوده و بقاءه في غرفة أي مريض هو علامة لم تخطأ أبدا في أن ذلك الشخص سيموت قريبا جدا. اعتبر الأطباء و الممرضات ذلك إشارة ليبلغوا العائلة بتدهور حالة مرضهم. من دون خدمات أوسكار ، كان الكثيرون في المصحة سيسلمون الروح وحيدين.
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القصة مترجمة بتصرف شديد من جانبي
سبحان من جعل على أبصار بعض بني البشر غشاوة…فلا يرونه سبحانه
Ask Me
If you are a medical student or a doctor, and you have any question regarding any topic discussed or related to this blog, for example:
-Undergraduate studies
-Postgraduate studies, specially in Canada
-Writing your CV
-Interview strategies
-Hematology
-Other related topics
Then you are welcome to post your questions here. I will do my best to help you or refer you to who might help.
About me: I’m a medical graduate from King AbdulAziz University-Jeddah, KSA and is studying internal medicine and planning to go for clinical hematology later. Currently I’m training in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Top Books for Junior Hematologists
This is a list of the books that I believe are very important during hematology training, (not in order) :
PDQ Hematology :This small book is really great for beginners. Whether you are a medical student, a junior hematology resident, or just in any medical field but would like to know more about hematology, then this book is for you. It is not deep, and this is what makes it beautiful.
Pros: the whole book (as PDF) is on the included free CD, in addition to bonus mcqs. Reasonable price.
Cons: very simple, single edition published on 2002, not available in Jeddah.
A Beginner’s Guide to Blood Cells : This is also a small book that covers a very important side in hematology, which is morphology, and specifically peripheral blood films. The author, Barbara Bain, is a world expert in the field. She wrote the book in a great way and made it a real “guide for beginners”. This book must be read from cover to cover.
Pros: Includes a section for self-evaluation. Cons: none
The big brother of that book is : Blood Cells: A Practical Guide
In order to review bone marrow morphology you might want to refer to:
Bone Marrow Pathology
These last 2 books are not for beginners, and that’s why I will not discuss them in details here.
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology :That book is one of a successful series covering many specialties in Medicine. It was very practical during on-calls as it gave very useful advice about management, and was specifically useful in emergencies.
Bloody Easy 2 :A great book in transfusion medicine. In a simple way it teaches all what the junior needs for safe transfusion of blood and its components. It also explains complications of transfusion and transfusion reactions and how to manage them.
The authors of this book developed web site which provides a free course on the same topic. It is called Bloody Easy Online Learning. Don’t miss it.