I am a neurologist and neuroscientist on the
faculty at the University of Central Florida Medical School. Originally, I started this site when I
was at Dartmouth Medical School to list links that could be good teaching resources for medical students and residents
there. The main contenct still consists of the numerous categorized links to neurology, neuroscience, and other
medically related topics. Recently I have added more content in the form of news feeds and a Blog. Let me
also make the disclaimer that these are just references to information. Do not rely on what you find
here to treat yourself or anyone else. Physicians and other health care providers must use their own judgement
and multiple inputs from many sources to reach decisions. Information found here is not diagnostic or treatment
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you.
British Neurology and Medical Review Site: Neurology4MRCP Teaching Website
I'm always looking for new medical, scientific and (especially) neurological
education sites. Also, I am rather partial toward British textbooks. I think they often are better written than American ones.
So I was really pleased to see a British neurology review site, "Neurology 4MRCP Teaching Website" by Dr .Osama S.M. Amin MD MRCPI MRCPS(Glasg). It has a number of free downloadable
ebooks and also some notes for what is called the MRCPI Part II General
Medical Clinical Examination. One of the books "One Year of Hard Work" by Dr. Amin is presently being revised and
will be again downloadable soon (I hope). I think these will be very useful for American neurologists and residents as well
as for the British, but--noteably--the emphasis is different. We Americans are very focused on multiple choice tests of individual
facts and, as the style of these books indicates, the British are much more interested in analysis of cases. But they do have
multiple choice cases analyses using a "best of five" question and answer format. In other words, it IS a multiple
choice question in which the test taker is presented with five possible answers of which he/she must choose the best. Initially
the title of one of Dr. Amin's books (not a free download, by the way, but one that can be purchased through the Royal
Society of Medicine Press) is entitled "Get Through MRCP Part 1:BOFs" I am sure that British students would instantly understand that BOF means "best
of five." I was Googling (and Binging) this for 5 minutes before I figured it out. I suggest that anyone interested in
these downloadable books should get them as soon as possible because I bet they will not stay free for very long. The link
is as follows: http://www.neurology4mrcp.com/ebooks.html.
