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The admission note for a patient is really important. For the nurses it signifies that the medical team treating the patient is aware of them and their current level of stability and that there is a plan in place for their admission. For the doctors involved in treatment it is one of the most read entries in the notes because it provides a summary of why the patient is in hospital, and their background. This is crucially important for an ...

Everyone develops their own style for writing in the notes but these symbols and diagrams are fairly commonly recognised and effectively give a lot of information very quickly.

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As a medical student on the wards you’re allowed to slowly take on some responsibility for ward work and one of the things you can really be of help with is writing in the notes. While this sounds like a simple task, and is a simple task, it’s one that can be done well or done poorly. In particular I remember during my pre-internship term the fellow writing in the notes for the consultant ward-round and being stunned by how efficient and ...

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You may not have noticed but MSO has undergone a few changes recently... After all that downtime I'm happy to reveal the refreshed MSO style! With that you will notice a brand new homepage that we hope you'll find more useful than the last. During this downtime we also upgrade our server so we hope you don't experience too many slow downs now (but no promises, hehe).

There are a couple of new features sprinkled throughout the new design but I'll let you discover them for yourself. A major new upgrade though is our new search function. ...

Now here's a brief intro so you know what to do and why you should do it!

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MSO user frootloop reflects on his time spent as a HSFY at Uni Otago including the papers he sat, the college he stayed at, and how he found the year as a whole. Interesting reading for the budding HSFY as they contemplate entering the circus of medical (and other health professional) school admission.

Time for my very subjective impressions of Otago university's health-sciences first year course. Any good grammar is not intentional, ...