I recently graduated in medicine from Townsville, Australia, and I still enjoy writing blogs on medicine and pharmacy-related topics. I appreciate writing about my experience on different placements or topics I'm interested in. As English is my second language, writing blogs is a hobby and a fun challenge!
Follow me on my normal medical day as a second-year medical student at James Cook University. Of course, every medical student’s day will be different, especially on the way they go on about their day such as watching lectures on-line, their social life, being on/off-campus and so on.
Sometimes as a student we are bound to come across unpleasant situations. So how do we cope with it or what should we do? Some scenarios can be difficult to deal with and on the moment can make someone’s mind race and go completely blank.
You can hear your heart pounding in your chest knowing that this is a very important moment of your life, so how to make this as easy as possible? The competition is tough and there is no denying it. Interviews are extremely scary but unfortunately, we all have to go through it.
In 2017, the healthcare staff made a commitment to turn the tide of the impact of chronic Kidney disease and to provide the Indigenous community in Palm Island with the tools they need to take ownership of their kidney health.
Nearly all of us and every child by the age of 5, would have experienced otitis media. However; on Palm island, 75% of children suffer hearing loss from this condition. I wanted to learn more about how this situation has occurred.
I am sure we have all walked up castle hill as the sun is rising and looked out at the breathtaking view to see a number of islands surrounding our city. If we look towards the horizon we may be able to catch a glimpse of Palm Island. It may only be 65km from Townsville but the discrepancies between the two places are far further apart.
The further I researched Palm Island, the more I discovered how different it is to Australia. Palm Island could be described almost like a third world country. Palm Island has a lot of issues that needs to be addressed which is difficult when the socio-economic status is very low.
We live on Reunion Island which is a French island and has similar weather and humidity than some part of the Americas. During all my childhood to adulthood, I always saw that cacao tree making these cacao pods and I thought to myself… I am going to make chocolate.
Almost every morning, there is this special calling from an unknown bird so I decided to investigate the specimen that created that sound. I noticed that the bird made three distinct noises. One deep continuous “coo coo coo” but the other two are really strange to describe.
It is the end cycle of fertility, where puberty started it — menopause will end it. But some questions arise. How does the body know when to start the process towards being menopausal? What starts it? And what are the factors? What speeds it up or slows it down? Can we escape from it?
I did a course called Sterilization of Pharmaceuticals Products for a whole semester. It was an introduction to pharmaceutical products that were prepared in a special sterile and aseptic environment. In this blog, I will show you how we made the labels and the sample production record.
Let us dive deeply into what caffeine does to our body and how it interacts with us. Every coffee taken should have something in common with each other and that is — caffeine. What are the pharmacokinetics of caffeine and what does it do to its targeted receptors? Let’s find out!
Puberty is not a single time event and takes a long time throughout an individual's life. Puberty is extremely important for humans to carry on our legacy and humanity's survival, so the important questions are when, why and how does puberty start?
After completing successfully my first year in medicine, the James Cook University Medical College sent us on a 2-week placement that we could choose and organized. I chose home.
HCV infection is a national and international concern. It is one of the most common blood-borne infections in the world, carries a high burden of disease, and has higher patient mortality than HIV-related disease in some countries.
An important drug development feature is to find an active compound that is ideal to the human body in terms of absorption, distributed, metabolised efficiently and effectively, excreted well from the body and should be non-toxic. This blog describes how to do an efficient pre-formulation study of a compound.
A patient information leaflet feels more personal. It helps patients knowing more about their disease, how to control their conditions by means of medication or other and be more reassured. A patient leaflet is a great reminder and increases adherence as well as a better prognosis outcome.
It is always daunting to make a poster that displays a medication, a certain disease or a scientific paper. In this blog, I will be giving tips on what to do to get a clear, concise and well-articulated medical poster.
