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A Comprehensive Guide to Surgical Clerking

This guide is designed to help you identify the key areas you need to focus on when clerking a surgical patient. There are several differences when compared to clerking a medical patient, namely getting a more extensive surgical past medical history, examination and assessing frailty. Your clerking needs to be succint, pertinent and clear. Presenting

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Inflammatory vs Non-inflammatory Arthritis

A brief guide to help you distinguish between inflammatory and non-inflammatory arthritis in UKLME MCQs. Inflammatory Arthritis Inflammatory arthritis will present with: Joints which have pain, stiffness and swelling. There are many different types of inflammatory arthritis, these include but are not limited to rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and reactive arthritis . Rheumatoid arthritis Typically affects

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Top Tips for the IMT Clinical Station

With IMT interviews fast approaching, we have partnered with Optimise Interviews to publish free resources for anyone who has interviews upcoming! They have provided the below video and article for Mind the Bleep users. This resource contains top tips for the IMT clinical station, delivered by past Dr Balrik Kailey – Cardiology ST6 and Cardiology

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Top Tips for IMT Interviews

With IMT interviews fast approaching, we have partnered with Optimise Interviews to publish free resources for anyone who has interviews upcoming! They have provided the below videos and article for Mind the Bleep users. This resource contains top tips for the IMT interviews, delivered by past candidates who excelled at each station within the interview.

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Strabismus: A Comprehensive Overview

Strabismus, commonly referred to as “crossed eyes” or “wandering eyes,” is a visual condition characterised by the misalignment of one or both eyes. This condition can have significant implications for visual acuity and quality of life. Below is a detailed discussion on strabismus, diagnosis, affected populations, treatments, and potential complications, intended to provide medical professionals

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Where to go for foundation training?

This article has been written with final year medical students in mind, deciding where to go for foundation training. As an FY2, it is one of the questions I get asked most by medical students. You might already have a clear idea of where they want to be, but if you don’t (or just want

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Neonatal hypoglycaemia

Neonatal hypoglycaemia is defined as blood glucose levels < 2.6mmol/L. It’s a common problem in the first days of life, affecting up to 15% of neonates. It can be due to a variety of reasons, stemming from factors such as maternal diabetes, preterm birth, congenital hyperinsulinism or transient hypoglycaemia of the newborn. Recognising the condition

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Retinal Detachment

Basic anatomy In this article, we will be discussing retinal detachments and will therefore focus only on the back of the eye. The eye is full of a jelly called the vitreous which plays a role during the foetal development of the eye and then remains there providing turgor to the eye. The posterior edge

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Paediatric Respiratory Examination

This article gives a run down of how to perform a thorough paediatric respiratory examination and what signs and symptoms to look for. It will be helpful for anyone on a paeds placement and for MRCPCH examination

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