‘Medical Student Development’

Recent articles on child health and pregnancy

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Many parents provide, with the best intentions, drugs that endanger the health and even lives of their children.

Some parents, when their children represent that they have some pain, they begin to administer medication indiscriminately and, worse, without prior consultation with the doctor.

Many mothers, for example, noting that their children are suffering from vomiting, stomach pain, disgust with food or an attack of constipation, give their children medications considers that these same symptoms can occur at the beginning of an attack appendicitis. In that case, the laxative can make things worse. (more…)

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Blows to the head may limit the child’s intelligence?

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

child's intelligenceHowever minor, the blows that children receive in the head always worried and alarmed parents. Although often do not have major consequences, others can cause permanent brain damage. Every child at one point in his life are beaten on the head, skating, walking bicycle, running and even playing with other children.

Symptoms to Watch

However, after any blow to the head, parents should keep a constant watch on the development of small, because if you show some of the following symptoms should receive immediate medical attention:

Supor or lethargy The child should wake up with ease, especially during the first two nights, try to wake him every three or four hours. Supor should not experience or lethargy especially when getting up. (more…)

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Recovery after a febrile illness

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

febrile illnessOnce the child exceeds a common illness with fever (eg, influenza), start the recovery period which can last from three to five days.

This recovery time is important, because the infant’s body needs to recover all their energies primarily the immune system which must regain its usual efficiency.

It is important to note that, after recovering from an illness like the flu the child can cough again which does not necessarily mean that it is a relapse (a recurrence of the same disease), although in rare cases, can occur.

Relapse may be due to other microbes with which the child has come into contact which attack you more easily, because the defenses are weakened small, due to recent illness. (more…)

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Degree in Medicine

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

medical degreeAt the end of your studies will be highly qualified to deal with the MIR, the selection system for access to the specialized training necessary to practice medicine in Spain and other European Union countries.

In addition to being able to hold any post of care in public and private healthcare system, you can access relevant positions in health management at all levels, as well as performance management or research.

Prepares for

Thanks to the deep knowledge gained on the biological processes and physiological health and cutting-edge biotechnology, will be fully prepared to deal with the MIR and choose the specialization that is most suitable to your profile. You will be a professional with ethical values and self-confident, aware of the problems and needs of the health sector, and well trained in skills relating to communication with patients and their families. Your total domination of English international enrich your vision allowing you to update your knowledge. (more…)

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Master’s Degree in Physical Activity and Health

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Understand and prepare alternative regimens that involve taking behavior that reduces the possibility of disease, distress and suffering (biopsychosocial model).

The Master is designed for university graduates (undergraduate and graduate) in Physical Activity Sciences, Psychology, Education, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Medicine and graduated in Physical Education Teaching. (more…)

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Residents Problem

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Let us not therefore confine the elderly in nursing homes as is often the case … In many institutions with little or no appropriate, residents are confined all day in rooms and common areas invaded by the darkness. The staff are sometimes in short supply can not take the time to benefit the residents of the sunlight. Yet our bodies need light, at the risk of wasting away in case of lack! And when the days are too short, sessions of “light therapy” may be the solution. Essential cons seasonal depression, this technique can also fight against other disorders. With the approach of winter, cases of SAD are legion. It is now established that the cause of the winter blues is mainly the lack of light. Sleep disorders, sadness upon awakening, irritability … one in five feels that evil. In addition to conventional treatment, based on psychotherapy and certain medications, it is vital to address the lack of light. This purpose has been invented light therapy, also called phototherapy. The principle: exposing the body to a lamp specifically designed to offer maximum light (several thousand lux – a unit of illuminance). Several hospitals offer light therapy sessions as well. Whether patients come into the school, or they get a lamp for home treatment. And the effectiveness of this treatment is proven! At a rate of half an hour a day, sitting a few inches from the lamp, depression disappears in less than 15 days!

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Medical Preparatory Classes

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

For several years, develop the private for-profit called “prépas” (usually used for preparatory classes for grandes ecoles) or “stables”. It is a learning support during the 1st year, completely independent of the university and faculty, and providing opportunities for students who enroll in training for competitions and whites to be classified among their peers.

These “preparatory classes,” are often controversial as their prices are considered excessive and effectiveness  . The training unit and Medicine Research at the University Lyon-I decided to develop a pedagogic workshop for students of 1st year: self-assessment sessions with specialized software, @ Pedagogie their are available each week on a specific subject (anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology molecular biology, histology, physiology). A tutorial guided by upper-year mentors will then allow each student to ask his questions, like what is done at the University Pierre and Marie Curie.

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Studied Medicine in France

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Studied medicine in France

In France, medical studies are the longest of Graduate Studies. They provide a theoretical and practical training, more theoretical at the beginning, more and more practical to measure progress. At the end of the course, the future physician is authorized to make more and more acts, and finally received the State diploma of doctor of medicine, after the defense of a thesis work called Exercise . He also holds a special diploma (DES) marked its specialty, and in some cases, a special diploma supplementary

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Medical Studies

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Medical studies are the longest of Graduate Studies. The undergraduate medical studies (abbreviated CDR) is a two-year contest late in the first year to select students admitted to pursue medical or dental. National laws stipulate that the teaching of undergraduate and first year of graduate must carry on disciplines or disciplinary following packages:

  • Physics, biophysics and image processing
  • Chemistry, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology
  • Anatomy, embryology, developmental biology and reproduction
  • Cytology, histology and pathology
  • Bacteriology, virology and parasitology
  • Hematology, oncology and immunology core
  • Genetics and biotechnology
  • Physiology and nutrition
  • Pharmacology and the major classes of drugs
  • Epidemiology and biostatisques
  • The clinical symptomatology, biological and clinical characteristics of medical imaging techniques
  • Techniques of first aid
  • Demography, health economics and organization of health systems.
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Medical Student Development

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

  • Following the events of May 68, the assistance of the clerkship was removed, and all medical students followed the training quality practice what the clerkship, became mandatory (the term “external” then disappeared texts, replaced by the term “student hospital”). This corresponds to the ideal university hospital (CHU creation in 1958): Action (externship) and theory (courses at the university) are reconciled in a single curriculum for all. With the law Faure, Medical schools become EBU (then Department from 1984) integrated into a university.
  • This reform, correlated with the overall increase in student population, led to a massive influx of students in the departments of university hospitals. In response, he was then introduced in 1971 a competition for end of first year medical student, with a system of numerus clausus
  • Until the 1990s, any doctor could become a specialist, or through the hospital and selective way of boarding, or through non-selective and university certificates of specialized studies (CES) in lower quality, thus leaving develop a medicine that specializes in speed between two “old internal hospital” and “old heads of clinical hospital” on the one hand, and holders of these other. A reform, therefore, suppressed the ESC medical internship and went to the mandatory “Qualification ordinal” of specialists, through the Diploma of specialized studies (DES), complements the degree of doctor of medicine.
  • Interns were forced to do an internship in “hospital device, that is to say non-academic, part of a Regional Hospital or CHR.
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