I thought that my four years of stay in medical college and the hospital rotations I am having right now for clerkship were the hardest part of my medical education, until I faced choosing for the best hospital to do my post-graduate internship, which include:
1. Monetary constraints. I come from an average family so I had to consider it.
2. The board exam which comes 2 months after internship. Many have advised that I should choose a hospital which is not too busy, nor benign to prepare for the board exam.
3. The skills I could acquire. I was advised that I should go to a public hospital to acquire more skills. In our clerkship, we were exposed to both private and public hospitals and I could really compare the difference. It is true that when you are at a private hospital, you acquire “lesser” skills, due to the lesser number of cases to handle, but the advantage is you get the appropriate techniques. Further, in private hospitals, you are “hands off” when you are not a license yet because the patient pays for a better service. At a public hospital, you are are exposed to different kinds of cases, the great thing is you can do the procedures yourself. But of course, this differences varies among hospitals. 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…
Medical iSilo™ Depot is a collection of medical documents created for use with the iSilo™, a highly versatile document reader available for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Sybmain UIQ, Symbian Series 60, and Windows® CE Handheld PC handhelds, as well as for Windows® computers.
Medical iSilo Depot has a collection of more than 150 iSilo documents for the medical PDA user and more than 100 are free! These documents are useful for doctors and medical students on the go for quick references while they are away from their books. Read more…
Students’ fingertips may hold a clue to their academic test scores, a British study found out. 75 children aged 6-7 at a British elementary school. The subjects’ hands were photocopied and the length of their fingers measured. They checked the children’s math and verbal scores on a standardized British academic exam, then compared the test scores and finger length data, especially the ratio of the length between the children’s index and ring fingers.
The results say that:
Among boys, a low ratio of index finger length to ring finger length was associated with higher math scores. But that ratio wasn’t associated for better or worse with boys’ verbal test scores.
The opposite was true for girls. Among girls, a low ratio of index finger length to ring finger length was linked to better verbal test scores, but not to any patterns in girls’ math test scores. WebMD.com
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