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• How Much Do US Doctors Earn?

  

  In this blog post, I take a peek at the summary slides presented for the Medscape Physician Compensation Report, 2019. Like every year, there are some... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #DTMH Strategies: The Preventive Medicine Paper

  

  One of the trickiest bit of the Royal College of Physicians’ DTM&H; paper is the Preventive Medicine paper. This is a flat out written paper, which comprises... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #DTMH Strategies: Using the GHHM Site

  

  This is a quick round up on how to use the Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine (GHHM) site, which is a Moodle site designed by the MSF teaching team, in... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #DTMH Strategies: An Introduction to the Test

  A short introduction to the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene offered by the Royal College of Physicians, London. This is an examination tests the... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Kerala: May 2018 – May 2019

  

  A brief summary of the infectious disease outbreaks reported from the state of Kerala between May 2018 and May 2019 by the Integrated Disease Surveillance... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #SaveTheDoctors: Indian Doctors Raise Their Voices Demanding Safe Workplaces

  

  An octogenarian gentleman was brought into the emergency room of a government-run hospital, the Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital, colloquially... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• How to Stay Healthy on a Vegan Diet

  Guest Post by Andrea EstradaA vegan diet is becoming more popular every year, so much so that vegan food delivery in Toronto is becoming a great deal more commo... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Witnessing Death: The Charnel House of Choeung Ek, Cambodia

  

  Disclaimer: Contains graphic depictions of death and brutality, unfortunatley, all of which is based on truth. There are pictures and accounts of the genocide... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• “I Can Work with This.” Thoughts on the Satirical Comedy “Look Who’s Back”

  

  I just finished watching this strange movie, which I assumed would be all humor, based on the premise of… wait for it… Adolf Hitler! I know, humor is not the... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• PLOS NTD Launches New Focus Area on Enteric Infections and Enteric Dysfunction

  

  A recent editorial in PLOS NTDs has declared that the journal will launch a specially focussed section on enteric infections and enteric dysfunction. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• AMR Goes Global: Detection of Allochthonous Anthropogenic AMR Genes in High...

  

  This study has been popping up all over the AMR radar for me for the past week; so, when I was stuck in traffic today, I decided to sit down and give the articl... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Make Money on the Side While You’re in School

  Guest Post; may contain affiliate links.Everyone knows that medical students are dirt poor, and I took out loans just like everyone else did. I needed loans to... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Beatocello: The Story of Dr. Beat Richner, the Swiss Pediatrician in Cambodia

  

  My significant other and I spent a fair amount of time last month backpacking my way across Cambodia. Whilst we were doing the usual rounds, looking at... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2019 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Mapping Infectious Diseases Using Crowdsourced Data Collected With Open-Source...

  

  One of the challenges that is ubiquitous for infectious disease epidemiology researchers is getting access to correct, up-to-date mapping data which can be... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2018 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Abyss Stares Back: Silos in One Health and the Emergent Need to Breach Them

  

  The One Health approach, widely adopted and acknowledged as the way forward in dealing with issues which cut across sectoral compartments, has sometimes being... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Addressing Cholera Under-Reporting Key to Mounting Proportionate Public Health...

  

  Cholera remains a cause of public health concern, not only causing explosive outbreaks in settings with disrupted socio-political and health infrastructure,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #PHCIn 2: Dermatology for ICMR-STS

  

  Can you suggest ideas for ICMR research (STS) in dermatology?For ICMR-STS, you have to depend on a guide from your medical school. So, it would largely be guide... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2018 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• #PHCIn 1: Community Medicine Senior Residency in AIIMS

  What are the pros and cons of joining as a senior resident (Community Medicine) in All India Institute of Medical Sciences?Which AIIMS are you referring to?... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2018 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Social Media for Doctors: Signing up for Online Professional Networking Sites?...

  

  So this post follows on from one previous post about the spammy email practices of Docplexus, a networking site for doctors, and has been incited by a deluge... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2017 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Social Media for Doctors: Signing up for Online Professional Networking Sites?...

  So this post follows on from one previous post about the spammy email practices of Docplexus, a networking site for doctors, and has been incited by a deluge... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2017 HEALTH, MEDICINE