The August 2007 Philippine Licensure Exam for Physicians is fast approaching. How do you prepare for it? Here are few tips you can follow:
1. Follow these tips from The House Officer’s Survival Guide: Rules, Laws, Lists and Other Medical Musings, by Lawrence Martin, M.D for It is written for doctors in training, but will also be of interest to medical students, and practicing physicians who must take recertifying exams.
2. Get good reviewers and focus on one study material per subject area. This way, you can concentrate more and it won’t take more of your time. Of course you will still need the “big” text books for clarification of some points you can’t understand while taking the review.
3. To attend to review center or not? Some successful passers do not advocate attending review center while others do. It would depend on the person’s preference. Read more…
The June 2007 nursing licesure exam results will be released in the middle of August 2007. Only half of the 78,000 board takers are predicted to pass.
For some people, not passing the board exam may mean a closed door for opportunities for being full nurses. Good thing that the Department of Labor and Employment or DOLE have proposed a program for those who won’t make it to the licensure exam.
While they can have a re-take, one fall back offered by the DOLE is to have them licensed as practical nurses, assuming they do not want a re-take. This opens another opportunity for nurses to work abroad and practice their chosen field even though they failed the test. Read more…
The National Braille Press had a special exclusive agreement with Scholastic Press, the publisher of Harry Potter book series (in the US), released a special braille edition of the Harry Potter and the Deathly WHallows, the last of the series. It is 1000 pages long in 10 volumes, weighing about 12 pounds, and standing more than a foot tall when stacked up. It costs $63 to publish one book with an expected higher price than the regular print edition but with NBP partnering with Yahoo! blind children and need not to spend more for a copy of the book than sighted people.
Two groups of Harry Potter fans, who aims to provide everyone (including the blind) an access to this international phenomenon, had made an initiative to raise funds for the project. The Walking Wizards had committed to raise $10,000 and Harry Potter for Grownups (a Yahoo! group) to raise $7,777. Yahoo! has spotted the kind intention of these groups and decided to help them with their goal. Yahoo! has decided to donate to the National Braille Press what each of these two initiatives raise, up to their respective goals. Read more…
I am a fourth year medical student, currently on my clerkship and hospital rotations, and if compared to an average student, perhaps I face bigger responsibilities, sacrifice, hardships, and self-punishment or anyway you put it. I tried several attempts to quit blogging but I just couldn’t because:
Firstly, it’s one of my passions. I have always been tagged as an internet addict by people around. I just can’t simply live without the internet, blogging included. Read more…
Fullbooks.com offer thousands of full-text books for free. They offer fiction and nonfictional books. You can find historic books as well. The Darwinian Hypothesis by Thomas H. Huxley, The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay, and The Canadian Dominion, a Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor by Oscar D. Skelton are only among the thousands of books offered.
All books are available in html which offers the convenience to print and save it directly. You also do not need to download the book because it can be opened directly through your browser. Further, document readers are not needed to view them.
Books are also arranged alphabetically for readers’ convenience and easier find. However, a search function is not yet available. Read more…
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