Cool Stuff

4th Year Medical Student - Australia

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Being from Texas, this place was like stepping foot on another world. Yosemite National Park, CA - Instagram @The_Blurred_Lens [OC] [5599x3733] - StanleyLock

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Check out our Nature Blog - http://ift.tt/2x0nwBr

[duodenaldan]

Scenic beauty 

[il-etait-lune-fois]

Une série d’illustrations sur l’histoire du médicament pour mon diplôme d’illustration scientifique !

[duodenaldan]

History of Pharmacology and Medicine. Love the colours. 

[uni-med]

[the-potential-drgreen]

Medical art

Some of my favourite pieces of medical art I have found and links to where you can get them :) 

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[wavemotions]

The dungeon…

[robotcosmonaut]

A Quick Diagnosis Diagram, 1924

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Source: 10 daily steps for less stress.

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[human--science]

Naegleria fowleri

AKA as the brain-eating amoeba.

These guys are known to withstand higher temperatures and are typically found in water.  This includes ponds, rivers, moist soil, lakes, HOT springs, and UNCHLORINATED POOLS.  

This parasite enters the host via nasal passage and feasts on the central nervous system (CNS) and brain which causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM) taking down it’s victim in less than 2 weeks 99% of the time. 

Initial symptoms include fevers, change in taste and/or smell, headaches, nausea and stiff neck.  Eventually as the infection progresses due to reproduction of the amoeba, the individual will experience photophobia (low tolerance for light), mental status changes and seizures leading them to a coma and die within 2 weeks upon contracting the disease. 

There is no known cure for the disease as of today and the affected hosts have a mortality rate of 98%, but there are survivors.  

There is no exact way to prevent yourself from possibly being infected besides avoiding untreated warm bodies of water.

N. fowleri has three stages: Cyst, trophozoite, and flagellate.

Here is the bastard in its trophozoite stage:

YES, I know.  They look as terrifying as they sound.  And here is what it would do to your brain:

Whole brain necrosis

Artsy pictures borrowed from brainsenemy on wordpress.

[23pairsofchromosomes]

I remember learning about these guys in the second year of my degree and they definitely scared me off bathing in warmer waters. Luckily they’re only found in fresh water and the number of actual cases is low, but they still have ridiculously high mortality rate for a pathogen, And the people who have survived are generally severely brain damaged.

[nursingisinmyblood]

I have always been fascinated with this. I am from the south and I remember hearing about kids getting “the amoeba” after swimming in some lake during the summer. Pretty much every summer you hear of at least a couple of kids who get this and die soon after. Thanks for a great, informative post!

[pensandmachine]

A guide to the Cornell Note-taking System

(As per anon’s request)

[duodenaldan]

used this last semester and it is very rad

[study-well]

Study Techniques:

SQ3R Reading

The Pomodoro technique

Online Pomodoro timer

Feynman Technique

100 Things to do in your study break

Develop active learning strategies

Cramming (last minute option)

Study Methods, Tips, and Resources:

How to make flashcards (electronic and paper)

What to write on flashcards

Uses for flashcards

Creating and using mindmaps

Studying using textbooks

The benefits of textbooks

How to annotate

Tools for referencing

Tips for visual learners

How to read journal articles critically (by marielstudies​)

Top 5 Study Tips to Achieve your Study Goals

How to pull an all nighter

How to pull an all nighter (2)

Studying vocabulary

Study guides

How to create a study guide (by studyspoinspo)

Using whiteboards

Assignment Calculator

Learning how to learn (by strive-for-da-best)

Get good grades (Youtube)

Memory:

Learn how to memorise and find the memory techniques that work best for you.

Here’s an interesting article about long term memory.

6 research tested ways to improve your memory.

Here’s an ask about how to memorise material.

An ask about forgetting material within a few hours.

Some memory tips (by astackoftextbooks)

Learn instead of memorising

Thinking and memorising

Time Management:

How to prioritise tasks

Apps for scheduling

Creating a revision timetable

A post about making a timetable (by grxeek).

How to keep your revision focused

An online study planner.

Motivation/Procrastination:

Reasons to study

Blocking apps/extensions for phones and computers.

Reasons to study now

10 tips for getting started on an academic task

How to deal with family distracting you from study

How to stop procrastinating (Youtube)

10 Tips for managing procrastination

Questions to ask yourself for motivation

How to improve your concentration

Quick concentration tips

Get Motivated (Wikihow)

Choosing the appropriate study environment

Short and sharp motivation

Stress Relief:

Stress relief techniques and ideas

The 10 Best Yoga Poses for Stress Relief

Relaxing Yoga Poses for Beginners

20 Easy Steps to Stress Relief

Relaxation Techniques

23 Science Backed Ways to Reduce Stress

25 Destressing Techniques

Deep Breathing Exercises

Three Guided Relaxation Videos

Vent Anonymously Online

A sleep calculator here which will calculate when you should go to sleep/wake up (depending on what you’re working out) based on sleep cycles. This will make sure that you wake up refreshed and ready to work.

Problems with sleep

Failure anxiety

Do nothing for 2 minutes

Calm (meditation site)

Health:

There’s also some information here about studying with mental illness from MIND.

There’s a really great post here about depression in university (by landofstories)

There’s a similar post here about studying with depression (by bloggerforstudentprogress)

Studying with ADHD

Studying maths with dyscalculia

Managing test anxiety

Self help: test anxiety

Emergency Compliment (for when you’re feeling down)

Studying with dyslexia

Revision and exams for people with dyslexia

Study skills for dyslexic students

How I coped with OCD at university

Study skills and OCD

Study skills and OCD PDF

Music:

Nature sounds in calmsound

Sounds of rain

Beethoven

Coffee shop sounds

More coffee shop sounds

Mix sounds (soundrown)

Sounds of the ocean

Whitenoise

Study mixes on 8tracks

Music to boost concentration

For the exam:

Exam preparation

Exam life hacks (by studyblob)

The best ways to prepare for exams

Exam tips

The day before an exam

Tips on Taking Multiple-Choice Tests

How to write a great essay (by englishlit-chic)

Psychology Essay Exams (gives an example and how to answer)

Looking after yourself after exams

Oral tests and exams

Writing and presenting a good speech

Links, Games, etc.:

Live panda camera (for destressing; you wouldn’t believe the amount of time I spend watching this camera).

Live animals

Try to find the ten gnomes

Origami

Create your own nebula

Easy magic tricks

DIY Home Spa (BY @recoverykitty)

Brownie in a cup

Cookie in a cup

[duodenaldan]

very helpful, will defiantly utilise some of these resources in the coming semester and SWOTVAC

[eylindc]

El volet costal son una serie de fracturas costales que asientan en dos puntos diferentes de cada costilla y que abarcan por lo menos de dos a tres costillas o más. Es decir, son traumatismos costales escalonados que alteran la continuidad y la rigidez de la pared costal por lo que se pueden considerar como una fractura de la pared torácica. Ocasionan lo que se conoce como tórax inestable, a veces con graves consecuencias cardio-respiratorias. Al perderse la rigidez de la pared torácica, la parte intermedia de la costilla que ha perdido el contacto se hunde y penetra en el tórax comprimiendo el pulmón, los grandes vasos, o el corazón, a los que puede lesionar. Puede no hundirse constantemente este fragmento, pero se mueve de una forma paradójica, dando lugar a la respiración paradójica. Otra explicación 👇 _______________ Flail chest is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks under extreme stress and becomes detached from the rest of the chest wall. It occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in multiple places, separating a segment, so a part of the chest wall moves independently. The number of ribs that must be broken varies by differing definitions: some sources say at least two adjacent ribs are broken in at least two places, some require three or more ribs in two or more places. The flail segment moves in the opposite direction as the rest of the chest wall: because of the ambient pressure in comparison to the pressure inside the lungs, it goes in while the rest of the chest is moving out, and vice versa. This so-called “paradoxical breathing” can increase the work and pain involved in breathing. Studies have found that up to half of people with flail chest die. Flail chest is invariably accompanied by pulmonary contusion, a bruise of the lung tissue that can interfere with blood oxygenation. Often, it is the contusion, not the flail segment, that is the main cause of respiratory failure in patients with both injuries.

[duodenaldan]

“ The sky is the daily bread of the eyes “. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843

[buzzfeeduk]

This Incredible Pizza Is The Best Possible Way To Eat Food

[duodenaldan]

oh good lawdie

[duodenaldan]

Shot using MRI; anatomy is fab.