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Becoming a Doctor

This is a most interesting career choice for me. I have always wanted to be a part of the medical fraternity for as long i can remember, the compassion that i have for this field and towards helping people has made my motives even stronger. The problematic part of this story is that acquiring this medical degree is not as easy as anticipated by many. Even though i am not fully into the medical field as yet, i am gathering/ mustering the prerequisite knowledge for this field.

Posted: 04 August, 2008 - 05:52pm
by: TrilogyX

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hi there i am an MBCHB3 student in medunsa i want to know how to keep the knowledge of anatomical pathology and physiology so that i dont forget my work,and give me a few study methods, and how can i prepare to be the best doctor in amy place.

Posted: 10 June, 2008 - 03:43am
by: spha

Medical files

Whrer can I order more medical files? I am using the Apprentice Doctor course as part of my Grade 10's pre-med course.

Thank you

Amanda

Posted: 04 June, 2008 - 02:53pm
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Today I would like to address an important subject and that is the importance of good record keeping.

More often than not it seems to be the little things in life that makes a big difference. Taking a comprehensive medical history, making proper notes and keeping these notes for an extended period of time, is of utmost importance!

I started of my career as a state dentist in prison services. One of the rules that I've instituted was the keeping of detailed dental records including dental x-rays of each prisoner. In fact each new prisoner had to visit the dental clinic as part of the admission routines.

During the first visit I would create a detailed chart of the prisoner's dentition including the position of each filling, missing teeth and so forth.

Now, many years after I have moved on to further studies, a male prisoner was released, and he visited one of his old girlfriends. Unfortunately she didn't want to have anything to do with him, and a fight ensued ending in this woman's death.

Now this male prisoner fled into remote mountains and wasn't found despite an extensive police man-hunt. About 18 months later a farmer came across skeletal human remains and informed the police, but there was no way to identify these remains, until the investigating officer and the state pathologist visited the prison's dental clinic.

To make a long story short, a forensic dentist easily identified this skeleton as that of the missing prisoner using the dental records that I had created of this prisoner some years previously. A case successfully solved and that only because someone was diligent with keeping proper records!

Diligence in this area of medicine will avoid numerous complications, life threatening emergencies and will avoid many medico-legal incidents.

Project 0 in The Apprentice Doctor Foundation Course deals with how to take a proper medical history and keeping proper patient records. Don't skip this project as it is indeed one of the most important projects in the course!

Finally, welcome to all the new Apprentice Doctors who visited The Apprentice Doctor booth at the Orlando Florida FPEA conference recently!

Committed to your success, and looking forward to hearing from you soon!

This Letter from the Doc was submitted on 29 May, 2008 at 10:40am

Becoming a Doctor

This is a most interesting career choice for me. I have always wanted to be a part of the medical fraternity for as long i can remember, the compassion that i have for this field and towards helping people has made my motives even stronger. The problematic part of this story is that acquiring this medical degree is not as easy as anticipated by many. Even though i am not fully into the medical field as yet, i am gathering/ mustering the prerequisite knowledge for this field.

Posted on: 04 August, 2008 at 05:52pm
By: TrilogyX

GENERAL

hi there i am an MBCHB3 student in medunsa i want to know how to keep the knowledge of anatomical pathology and physiology so that i dont forget my work,and give me a few study methods, and how can i prepare to be the best doctor in amy place.

Posted on: 10 June, 2008 at 03:43am
By: spha

Medical files

Whrer can I order more medical files? I am using the Apprentice Doctor course as part of my Grade 10's pre-med course.

Thank you

Amanda

Posted on: 04 June, 2008 at 02:53pm
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