"Back to Basics" Series

Over the summer, #twitfrg is planning a new venture. A series of discussions, following a single "patient", focussing on different aspects of being a medical student/being a doctor and the "patient"'s care. The series will be aimed at pre-clinical medical students (years 1-3), and A level students about to start at medical school, and will focus on the basics of history, examination, investigations, data interpretation, etc.

We'd like to think the series would be tailored to those students it's aimed at, so.... Here's a short survey (it's only 4 questions) so you can tell us when you'd want this to run, and what you'd like to get out of it:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/55RW9ZG

Please take 5 minutes to fill it in and let us know what you want!

Pastest Shortness of Breath Questions

(Kindly provided by @Pastest for twitfrg. Questions belong to Pastest)

Click on the images to zoom in. If you would like the answers, please direct message (DM) the @twitfrg twitter account on Monday 14th January for the link to the answers. I will be uploading a link to google drive for you to access these there too, as soon as possible. Currently google drive isn't working.

Merry Christmas from twitfrg!

I hope everyone enjoys their Christmas break (if you all get one!) and twitfrg will restart with notes being posted on 7th Jan, and discussion on 10th Jan.

If you would like to write revision notes or get involved next year, please get in touch! And if you've used our revision notes this year, please take 2 minutes to fill in this quick survey to tell us what you think so we can improve them!

Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M73NY95


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The twitfrg team

Revision notes

I've created a survey so we can get some feedback on what everyone thinks about the revision notes. Please take part and let us know your thoughts. The survey can be found here in the sidebar to the right of this post.

Guidelines for Writing Revision Notes

• Submit all notes by email to twitfrg@gmail.com
• Deadline is 5pm on the SUNDAY BEFORE the discussion week (e.g. W/C 17th Dec, Submission would be by 5pm on 16th Dec)
• Notes must be written in Microsoft Word, size 12 Arial font, no more than 2 A4 pages of text
• Please focus on either a general overview of the topic or a particular aspect (e.g. Diagnosis and management of obstetric cholestasis when the topic is "The approach to the itchy pregnant patient") [and please let me know which of these you are doing!]
• Please appropriately reference your work as necessary (Harvard or Vancouver referencing)
• Please make sure any images used are referenced properly
• Please let me know how you would like to be referenced when I put your notes on the blog (e.g. Faye Bishton, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia; or Faye, @twitfrg, Final Year Medical Student)
• Use whatever formatting you prefer (provided it is readable!) - tables, images, mind maps, or whatever else. The more variety, the better!