"Residency Pearls" Section

• Smith GC, Pell JP. (2003) Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ. Dec 20;327(7429):1459-61.
  My beef with evidence-based medicine!

• Bloody Easy - A Guide to Transfusion Medicine (Callum JL, Pinkerton PH)
  As a resident, please request a copy from your local Haematology or Pathology office!
  N.B.: written by Canadian transfusion medicine experts, this is a relatively unknown but most useful and handy reference on transfusion. This book is a "must have"!  It's a shame that no one advertise its existence.

"Clinical Perks" section

• Medical Ethics Movies Series: GATTACA - background info page

• LLSG Laboratory Reference Guide for PDA v1.0b (unabridged from LLSG website)
  disclaimer: for UWO clinical clerk, personal, academic, and non-commercial use only, on an "as is" basis, not for resale or redistribution, © LLSG
  click here for original URL

Med School Notes and Files - Year II

Down the Memory Lane: last day of class (2nd year)

N.B.: These files have been removed from the server. To request a copy please send an e-mail to: Kevin Kuo

Immunology/Skin Week

• Envenomations (ppt), printer-friendly version (pdf)

Toxicology Day

• Infection Control in Hospital (ppt)

Emergency Week - Friday

• Shock (ppt)

• Sepsis (ppt)

Emergency Week - Thursday

• Paediatric Resuscitation Part 1 (ppt)

• Paediatric Resuscitation Part 2 (ppt)

Endocrine - Week 2 - Monday

• Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (pdf)

• adrenal hormone pathway (jpg)

• Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersex (pdf)

• sexual differentiation pathway (jpg)