Medical Student Carnival 3rd Edition 4-2-2008

Welcome to this weeks edition of the carnival :)




Posts by Medical Students:

• Kendra at Island Med Student wrote: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor! Explaining her experience in a psychiatry rotation.
• Tomography at Indulge in The Fascinating World of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine wrote: Tomography blog is over it’s 11000th visitors!
• Alberto at Medical Pills shared another pod-cast with us. This time from John Hopkins.
• Hoover at Med School Hell shared an other reason with us on why he hated med school; Needle Sticks!
• Vitum Medicinus at vitum medicinus ::: a life of medicine wrote "The vaccines scare us because the diseases don't. And they don't because of the vaccines."
• The Lone Coyote at Medical Student Musings wrote: "You Are What You Eat" ... If you are a busy medical student and don't have time to prepare or eat healthy food all the time, this will sure sound familiar!
• Medskool at From Medskool wrote: "British Doctors Say Don't Treat The Old and Unhealthy"
• Halfmd at HalfMD.com wrote on "How To Succeed in Medical School"; some bad habits some medical students have.
• Jeffrey at Monash Medical Student hosted last weeks edition of the Grand Rounds Carnival. (very impressive work).
• Polly at Studying Under a Palm Tree wrote on Choices for Medical Specialty. (similar to my choices, I must say!)
• Maria at intueri: to contemplate wrote Three Events That Trainees Don’t Ever Want to Experience, But Might!
• Kendra Campbell at the Differential wrote "To Test or Not to Test: That is The Question!" explaining how sometimes too many lab tests are ordered when they might be unnecessary.
• Avaron at Scrub Notes wrote: Second-Hand Obesity Kills.
• Old MD Girl at The Long Road to Medical School wrote What Would You do?! (A funny quiz for students during rotations)
• Anna Gregory at My Journey From Nurse To Doctor wrote Not Many People fail Medical school.
• Bertalan Meskó at Science Roll shared some useful resources for 3D anatomy on line.

Note: It was funny how many times Gray's Anatomy (the Book or the Show) were mentioned in the Medical Blogosphere the last couple of weeks! Here are several (I forgot where the rest were):

1. At The Daily life of a med stuent
2. At Street Anatomy
3. At Monash Medical Student

Posts by Non medical students:

• From Radiology Picture of The Day: Achalasia --- Traumatic Aortic Injury
• From USMLEMD: USMLEMD group on Face Book
• From Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: How to Backup Your Medical Blog

Thank you for reading this weeks edition of the Medical Student Carnival. I hope you enjoyed it. To submit an article for the next edition of the carnival please send me a link to your post by email at: prep4md(at)gmail(dot)com. Till next time, take care!

Note: I would really appreciate it if you could mention the carnival on your own blog.