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Aug
30
College Board Reveals SAT Reporting Errors Due to Excessive Moisture on Answer Sheets
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College Board Reveals SAT Reporting Errors Due to Excessive Moisture on Answer SheetsFriday July 21st 2006, 2:56 pm Filed under: College, SAT
Can you blame students for sweating a little when they’re taking this thing?
The College Board (SAT test administrators) hired a consulting company to look into the matter, but didn’t release the report until a New York state senator threatened to subpoena executives from the non-profit Read more
Tags: Answer, Board, College, Errors, Excessive, Moisture, Reporting, Reveals, SheetsAug
26
The worst way to learn periodic trends (or anything else in the PS portion of the MCAT) is to memorize them. This is because memorization without understanding will only allow you to solve problems that are asked in the same format that you have memorized. However, the MCAT is infamous for forcing you to take information that you’ve learned in your college classes and apply it to new scenarios with which you have no previous experience.##1## Read more
Tags: Charge, Effective, Nuclear, Periodic, Trends, ZeffAug
22
Usmle TESTING AGENCIES
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National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Department of Licensing Examination Services 3750 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3102 (215) 590-9700 Fax: (215) 590-9457 E-mail: webmail@nbme.org www.nbme.org
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 3624 Market Street, Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104-2685 (215) 386-5900 Toll free within North America: (800) 500-8249 Fax: (215) 386-9196 E-mail: info@ecfmg.org Read more
Tags: AGENCIES, Testing, UsmleAug
19
Did Any 2007 Best Actor Nominees Attend College?
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Did Any 2007 Best Actor Nominees Attend College?Thursday February 22nd 2007, 4:17 pm Filed under: College, Work, Ivy League
Many actors grow up on stage - spending their childhoods in a spotlight of some sort - why would they stop their careers to go to university? Very few actors actually attend college and if they do, a high percentage drop out. Famous college dropouts include: Jake Gyllenhaal - Columbia University, Woody Allen - New York Read more
Tags: 2007, Actor, Attend, Best, College, NomineesAug
18
Post-College Pain Assessment
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Post-College Pain AssessmentMonday May 05th 2008, 2:15 pm Filed under: Work, Career, Life, Post-College
Allie Osmar has a great post up on her blog listing the good and bad bits associated with her first year out of college and in the corporate world. She uses the same pain assessment graphic hospitals use when trying to get a straight answer out of little kids regarding the level of pain they’re experiencing Read more
Tags: Assessment, College, Pain, PostAug
18
Washington State University Offers Organic Farming Degree
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Washington State University Offers Organic Farming DegreeWednesday June 28th 2006, 8:13 am Filed under: College, Career Education
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Even as enrollment in traditional agriculture degree programs waned, John Reganold kept getting questions about organic farming.
So the Washington State University soils professor put together a proposal to create the nation’s first organic farming degree, and the state approved Read more
Tags: Degree, Farming, Offers, organic, State, University, WashingtonAug
15
Blood pH and How It Is Controlled
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Important things to know about acid/base balance in the human body FOR THE MCAT:
The buffer system you need to know: HCO3-/CO2 (think HCO3- = base and CO2 = acid)
Chemical equation: H+ + HCO3- = H2CO3 = CO2 + H2O (imagine the equilibria arrows)
The lungs independently control CO2 (fast response – minutes to hours) while the kidneys independently control HCO3- (slow response – hours to days).##7## Read more
Tags: Blood, ControlledAug
12
Usmle Samples of LOR 3
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To Whom It May Concern:
This serves as a letter of reference for Dr. Martin Kaye, Ph.D., who has applied for an administrative position at your company, Healthcare Systems. It is my honor to recommend Dr. Kaye. I have known him since January 1994. I became his administrative supervisor upon my employment at County Medical Center. Dr. Kaye has been the Chief of Psychology Service here for ten years. He has demonstrated outstanding Read more
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10
This book provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarize themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material prepared by Cambridge ESOL. Each collection contains 4 complete tests for Academic candidates, plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates. An introduction to these different modules is included in each book, together with an explanation of the scoring system Read more
Tags: 8217, Answers, Book, Cambridge, IELTS, Rapidshare, Student, WithAug
9
Usmle Mnemonics Surgery
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The 5 W’s For Remembering Common Causes of Fever Post-Operation: WATER, WIND, WALK, WOUND, & WEIRD DRUGS WATER = urinary tract infections WIND = atelectasis or pneumonia WALK = deep vein thrombosis WOUND = surgucal wound infection WEIRD DRUGS = drug induced fever
F = Foreign bodies E = Epithelization T = Tumors I = infection I = Irradiated tissue I = IBD D = Distal obstruction
CT scan indications in trauma Read more
Tags: Mnemonics, Surgery, Usmle