With the growing strength of social media and technologically savvy citizens, we have definitely seen our fair share of controversies on the internet. The medical world is definitely not an exception. Time and again, we come across Facebook statuses of…
Reading/studying skills Lo and behold, many of us are already in the final year of our 5th-7th year medical education. The years of learning, studying, suffering and practicing will finally be put to the ultimate test. All in hopes to…
STUDENT and DYING. Does that sound familiar? To many of us, student life is regarded as “slowly dying”, especially when exams are right around the corner. Hence, the word STUDYING. Most of the time, we rise at the crack of…
Channel your hunger for food to hunger for knowledge and thirst for success!! It is that time of year again. The month eagerly awaited by Muslims; the Holy month of Ramadhan. In efforts to perform our religious obligations as Muslims,…
Sweat trickling down your temples even in an air-conditioned room, sweaty palms, quivering lips and shaking knees, all a common occurrence when speaking in public for many of us. Having the fear of public speaking or of speaking in general which is termed…
It has been five months since the night before the first day of my “Final of the Final” exams yet I can still remember it clearly. I have finished all four major rotations for my final year – Obstetric &…
Waking up from a warm bed, a cool room, taking a shower, getting dressed, having a fulfilling breakfast, going to school, work or wherever we are supposed to. Then, coming back to a comfortable and conducive home, having dinner and…
The beauty of living in a multicultural country does not stop only at the variety of food we have, we also have a beautiful mixture of culture and languages. Yet, not many of us feel the need to learn other…
“If you read 20 pages of Davidson every day, 7 days a week, by 10 weeks you will be able to finish the book. Well, you don’t have to read it cover to cover, just read about the cases you…