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New online medical community: Tiromed

If you’re a physician, a medical student or a resident, then join Tiromed! You can search by groups, read articles created by the members, interviews, Member Spotlight, etc.
Come join this new online medical community !
Examples of articles for medical students:

N.B. You have to sign up first before you can take a look at the articles.

Surgery: [...]

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Continuing Medical Education (holiday style!)

I spent the last 4 days in Hainan Island, China. Yes I’m Hainanese and I do speak the meagre basics of the dialect. I was there on a medical and social mission trip.
The attendance roll boasted 3 plastic surgeons, 2 anaesthetists, 1 dermatologist, 1 GP, 1 gastroenterologist and 1 MO. 3 medical students (2 from [...]

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Awakening Hippocrates: A Call for Health Providers to Serve Where Most Neede

Dr. Edward O’Neil, Jr., a practicing emergency physician at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and founder of Omni Med, voices his opinion on serving where is needed most.
What will you once you get that MBBS?

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World AIDS Day

Yes that’s right! AIDS is the disease alot of us will inevitably see as practitioners one day.
Let’s revise abit of microbiology here. HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) is a retrovirus with 2 serotypes – HIV1 & HIV2. It infects CD4+ cells of our immune system such as T lymphocytes and macrophages. This renders the immune system [...]

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