As promised yesterday, here are some key words you could make yourself familiar with. before the exam on Monday:acidic, alkaline, clump, clusters, components, ducts, endocrine, enzymes, exocrine, glucagon, glycogen, lipase, metabolize, neutralize, nutrients, pancreas, regulation, slender, tract, trypsin, tucked
I have finished compiling the results for the Oral Component of the Final Practical Exam.
Please find below a link to a Review Powerpoint reviewing the answers for the Sample-Term Exam on the subject of the Skin. If you still have questions about why the answers were what they were, check it out. I plan to put up a list of words you might be interested in checking up before the exam tomorrow.
Just in case you have missed the final lecture and/or have not looked at the Powerpoint of the final lecture, I wanted to let you know that the Subject of the Reading and Listening for the Theoretical Part of the Final Exam will be Pancreas.
Please find below a link to a Review Powerpoint reviewing the answers for the Mid-Term Exam on the subject of the Mouth. If you still have questions about why the answers were what they were, check it out. I will try and keep putting up Reviews before the exam next week.
Please find below a link to a Review Powerpoint reviewing the answers for the Practice Exam on the subject of the Nose. If you still have questions about why the answers were what they were, check it out. I will try and put up some more Reviews before the exam next week.
Some final points to think about while preparing your final exam:
This is just a reminder that the oral component of the Practical Exam [worth 25%] will be held during your normal workshop classes next week. The Theoretical Exam [worth 30%] and the Listening component of the Practical Exam [worth 5%] will be held on Monday the 25th January from 8:30 to 10:30.
Following up on the 'Powerpoint' Powerpoint I showed in class, find below a link to the powerpoint which is titled:"PowerPoint Presentations: Some Things to Consider. With Emphasis on Things to Avoid!"
Please find below youtube.com links to two videos concerning the Subject of Unit 7, the Stomach. While the first has two American(?) medical students examining a plastic model of the stomach, the second has a ' birds eye view' of the stomach care of and internal camera.
Please find below a link to Youtube.com site of the the Video for Unit 6 concerning the Eye.
As I have said in class, there will be five marks awarded for answering a set of listening questions. These questions will answered during the Theoretical Exam on a separate piece of paper.
As Purdue University’s Online Writing Page notes, in English, regular verbs consist of three main parts:
Find below links to the Lecture Powerpoint for Unit 7: The Stomach. A copy of the Audio file is also included.
Please find below links to the Workshop Powerpoint for Unit 7: Treatment. The audio files for the unit are also included.
Medicines.org.uk, is a information web site provided by Datapharm Communications Ltd. There aim is to: "... improve public health and safety by giving information on medicines that is up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive".They claim to work closely with the NHS, the pharmaceutical industry, patients and healthcare professionals to "create simple and accessible medicines information services".
In addition to their Medicine Guide, Datapharm currently provides three other medicine related resources:
1. electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
2. X-PIL service
3. A Dictionary of Medicines and Devices
Please find below links to the Home Page of Medicines.or.uk; the homepage of the Online Guide to Medicines; and a Sample page dealing with Human SoluableInsulin.
Drugs.com claims to provide "free, accurate and independent advice on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products."
The Stanford Hospital & Clinics: Health Information web pages are a service offered by Stanford University's Health Library. It aims to offer users "an array of information choices to meet [their] needs". They are also happy to help them [users] individually with their topic research if they not fully answered in the resources on the page.
Please find below a link to the final copy of the Lecture Powerpoint for Unit 6 on The Eye.
Please find below a link to the exam Questions, Answers and Listening Text.
The Healthwise Knowledgebase site is associated with the Harvard University Medical School and produced by Healthwise - a nonprofit organization founded in 1975, with the mission: ''to help people make better health decisions''.According to their website, people use Healthwise information ''more than 100 million times a tear [in order to ] to take an active role in their health''.
According to the healthwise people: ''..the best formula for making health decisions is to combine the most reliable medical facts with [their] personal feelings. Put more simply: Medical Information + Their Information = Better Health Decisions''.
Peoples decisions, they argue: ''...influence [their] overall well-being as well as the quality and cost of [their] care. By taking an active role in [their] health, [people] are likely to be happier with the care [they] receive and the results [they] achieve.''
Find below links to the Home Page of the site and the links on the general site to the various bodies of information on the data base .
Links:
ust a reminder that I will be giving you the opportunity to do a practice exam during class tomorrow [Wednesday].
'It's the middle of the night and they can't sleep because their back is bothering them. Or they just had a dizzy spell which caused them feel faint. Or they've noticed for the past few weeks that they get heartburn when they lie down in bed at night and wonder what could be causing it.''While they know they should probably call to make a doctor's appointment', Trisha Torrey notes in her about.com article about Symptom Checkers, members of the general public of what their doctor might tell them are increasingly turning to online symptom checkers.
One of the most popular and well know of these is the one developed by the Medical School at Harvard University the information from which is also available at About.com. Here people can chick on a part of the body and then choose from a list of symptoms to determine what condition they might have.
Please check below f0r links to: the articles by Trisha Torry in online symtpom checkers; the Harvard and About.com sites for their symptom checker; and, a sample page on symptoms related to the ear nose and throat. I'll be posting links to some more 'symptom checkers' in coming weeks.
Links:
1. Using Health Website Symptom Checkers [About.com]
2.. Symptom Checker [About.com Site]
3. Symptom Checker [Harvard Site]
4. Sample: ENT Sypmtoms
GetBodySmart is being developed by Scott Sheffield and represents his attempted to ''create a fully animated and interactive eBook about human anatomy and physiology.' The contents and design of this long-term project are ''based on his 20 years of teaching this material at the university level.''While it is being constructed, he is: ''inviting all interested teachers, students, healthcare professions, and others to use the free tutorials and quizzes in GetBodySmart to help explain the body's complex physiological interactions and illustrate its important anatomical landmarks.''
The site is in the very early stages of development, and he notes that a lot of content is still missing. He is however trying to make additions/updates every day. Check it out.
Please find below the final of the Powerpoint for the Workshop for Unit 6: Making a Diagnosis. The audio for the unit is also included.
Given that we only have two more weeks of lectures [including this one] I was wondering whether for your Homework you could have another read of the passage on the eye as answer the Questions in the Pronunciation Section. If you could take time t0 try and lable the picture of the Eye in Activity XIII [click on icon] - after reading the 1st and 2nd paragraphs of the passage - I'd be really grateful.
Your Total Health is a service of NBC universal and the iVillage network.
Lab Tests Online UK has been designed to: ''help patients better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases'.
The Body Map located on the NHS: Choice blogspot is another interesting tool that allows you to get information about conditions and treatments related to the different parts of the bodies of two figures - a man and a women.
NHS Choices is a comprehensive information service that aims to help its users 'in control of their healthcare'. The service is intended to help users make choices about their health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services in England when they need them.
It draws together the knowledge and expertise of:
Please find below links to the Home Page for the site and a sample page related to Migranes.
Links:
1. Home Page [nhk.uk]
2. Sample: Migranes
Launched in 1995 and ''visited by millions each month'', this award-winning Web site offers health information to help users assess symptoms, understand their diagnosis and manage their health. Produced by a team of Mayo Clinic experts, MayoClinic.com gives users access to the expertise and knowledge of the more than 3,300 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic. The Web site aims to: ''offer more ways to get information — search by symptom, procedure, disease or condition, with convenient tabs on every page for quick links to comprehensive resources about specific health conditions''.
Backed by the expertise of Mayo Clinic, MayoClinic.com provides the peace of mind that results from knowing its medical information comes from some of the world's leading experts. Users can sign up for a free weekly e-newsletter, "Housecall," which includes the latest health information from Mayo Clinic.
Links:
eMedicine claims to be: ''... the most authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference available to physicians and other health care professionals on the Internet''The evidence-based content, updated regularly by more than 8,000 attributed physician or health care provider authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 38 clinical areas. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on over 6,500 diseases and medical topics, and is richly illustrated with some 28,000 multimedia files.
New eMedicine articles, they claim: ''... undergo several levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication. Sources for subsequent revisions of articles include the author, a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board, user-driven feedback, and systematically reviewed medical literature''.
Links:
1. Home Page [emedicine.medscape.com]
2. Sample: Temporal arteritis
WebHealthCentre.com is a healthcare portal offering online medical consultation and comprehensive healthcare information.The site is designed, developed and maintained by Tata Consultancy Services, Asia's largest software consultancy, in association with some of the region's top medical institutions and professionals.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been developing and maintaining healthcare solutions for clients in India and overseas for the last two decades. TCS, state that: ''..being pioneers in this field, ...[they have].. resources and considerable expertise spread across various locations of the world''.
Find links below to: the Home Page on the site; and, a Sample Information Page on: Viral Fever.
Patient UK was first launched in 1997 by PiP (Patient Information Publications). It started as a directory of UK websites which provided information of health, disease and related issues. In December 2002, Patient UK was re-launched as a joint venture between PiP and EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems). For the re-launch Patient UK was extensively revised and considerably more content was been added.
Their aim is: ''...to be a reliable and comprehensive source of health and disease information, mainly aimed at the UK general public, but of interest to all.''
Please find below links to: the Home Page for the site; and a 'Sample page' related to: Space Occupying Lesions.
NetDoctor.co.uk is a collaboration between 'committed' doctors, health care professionals, information specialists and patients who believe that ''medical practice should be based on quality-assessed information and, wherever possible, on the basis of the principles of evidence-based medicine.'' Over 250 of the UK's and Europe's leading doctors and health professionals write, edit and update the contents of NetDoctor.co.uk. In addition to creating written content for the patient these same health professionals respond to users questions and concerns regarding general health concerns.
The site ''About Us'' page notes that: ''Our editorial independence and reliance on professional advice is our single most important asset. There is a clear distinction between the editorial and business staff. As a matter of policy our doctors, writers and editors are not allowed to be influenced or answerable to our sponsors or advertisers. We follow the same standards of practice as the leading medical journals.''
Please find below links to: Net Doctor's home page; the indexes for 'Diseases & Conditions' and 'Examinations & Tests'
Links:
1. Net Doctor [netdoctor.co.uk]
2. Index: Diseases & Conditions
3. Index: Examinations & Test
4. Sample: Cystoscopy
5. Sample: Dementia
Better Health is an online medical information site produced by the Department of Health of the Australia State Government - Victoria [the city of Melbourne is in Victoria]
As noted in class, for the final Practical Exam you will be required to give a 2 minute talk [aprox] and answer a number of questions.
Launched in 1996, the award-winning MEDtropolis aims ‘’to inform, educate and entertain kids and adults in the areas of healthcare and healthy living’’.
The Virtual Body aims to help educate children and adults alike on the workings of the human brain, heart, skeleton system, and digestive system.
Health.Discovery.com is the web page for the Discovery Health Channel (or DHC), launched on August 2, 1999.
As we are getting close to the end of semester and only have two weeks to complete the last two Units, I was wondering if for your homework you could try and read the text on the eye before class and try and answer some of the questions related to it so that we can get through as many exercises as possible.
As their names implies, eslcafe.com notes, irregular verbs are those verbs ''that fall outside the standard patterns of conjugation [ie. the creation of derived forms of verbs from their original form due to such factors as number, gender and tense – eg. ski, skis, skied, skiing].''While the past participles for regular verbs are the same as their past forms:
* e.g. look-looked-looked and study-studied-studied,
As the MBA Aspirants Zone site of India’s International Management Institute notes, the Past Indefinite Tense denotes actions or happenings that took place in the past.* My friend has lived in the USA since 1974.While, however, in the first sentence shows that my friend is still in the USA, the second sentence shows that my friend is not in the USA.
* My friend lived in the USA.
Please find below a link to the final copy Powerpoint Presentation for Unit 5 on The Kidneys'. I will try and post the audio file later today.
