POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS

POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS (PRIMARY TYPE 1 OSTEOPOROSIS)

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(ARTICLE BY: Hina Fatima, 3rd Year MBBS, Rawalpindi Medical College)

The term osteoporosis as defined by The National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference reveals “a disease of increased skeletal fragility accompanied by a low bone mineral density (a T score for bone mineral density lower than 2.5) and microarchitectural deterioration”.
Postmenopausal osteoporosis,however strongly refers to

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Gen. Pathology MCQz (Sendup paper RMC 2011)

3RD YEAR MBBS SENDUP EXAMINATION 22nd OCTOBER 2011


GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY MCQ’s (THEORY)

Time allowed: 65 minutes Marks: 65

65 MCQs distributed according to modules, with Topic of Specifications.

Attempt all questions, each question carries one mark

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USMLE step 1 Experience-2 (95/227)

Ali Usman shares his Usmle step 1 experience.

Here I am! finally the day has come when its over…
Took my exam on august 5th and the result is out today…
I have upcoming final yr exams without any prep…but I am happy that the reason I ignored final yr has paid off well and I am ending up with a decent score…
95/227
In my view…it’s a good score…the baseline for

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USMLE step 1 Experience-1 (99/242)

Someone shared his experience of usmle step 1. Just to share it with you all..here you go.
99/242 during Final Year-My Experience
Assalamualaikum

Got my result ... and alhamdulillah its 99\242

My post would be a bit different in a way that it is much of guidance for those who want to take the test during their course. But it may generally be helpful for all others too.

I took the test in final year mbbs out of very odds.. cos there was not much of a trend in king edward medical university to go for the test during the course.. but owing to few of my seniors i had

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3rd year patho send up result...clear format

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Addressing The Problems Faced By 1st Year Medical Students

Reaching a top-profession institute like a medical college is dream and desire of every passionate student. Every student who aspires to choose the profession of medicine and does all the studies devotedly and passionately, finally reaches the rank of those who are considered the cream of nation's education and are admitted into a medical college.

At this point, he considers himself as one of the most successful persons in the world and rightly so. He would be able to continue his studies without

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How To Lose weight- Day to day Plan

1. Day 1 plan
2. Day 2 plan
3. Day 3 plan
4. Day 4 plan
5. Day 5 plan
6. Day 6 plan

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Electives Experience in Pakistan (Holy Family Hospital, RMC, Rawalpindi)

Kathleen O’Dea from The University of Queensland Australia recently came to SU Unit 2 Holy
Family Hospital for a month long clinical elective. Read on as she describes her experience


Prof Asif Zafar Malik, who was the clinical preceptor, is head of Surgical Unit II at Holy Family Hospital and project
director of the Telemedicine e]health training centre there. Week 1 and 2 were mostly spent in Surgical Unit II
at Holy Family hospital.
Jan 15 Introduction to SU II : Staff include 12 junior doctors, 12 postgraduate trainees, & 5 consultants. This team is
responsible for half of the general surgical and orthopedic patients presenting to Holy Family Hospital and cares for
a 45 bed ward, usually full. The team is on call to

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How to lose weight - Day 6 plan

Well, coming to the plan of 6th day on "how to lose your weight", first see how much are you satisfied with your routine and how well you have adjusted everything in your daily routine. Be honest with yourself about following the routine and evaluating the results because this is where it matters where this is heading to. Just give your everything to it if you really want to get smart and look kool. Just remember

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USMLE - A beginner's guide

What is USMLE?


USMLE, United States Medical Licensing Examination, is US based examination system to get license for practice in US. Medical students need to clear USMLE steps before applying for residency in U.S based hospitals. This 3-step examination aims to assess the ability to apply the knowledge, concept and ability to diagnose, treat and manage the patient in an effectice and patient-centered environment.
It is governed by

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How to lose weight - Day 5 plan

Well, before we start our day 5 plan, just look back and see what improvements u have to make. Where you have been lousy, where u can put more effort. Be honest with what you do. Moving on with today's plan, get up early and go for jogging. Try to go an extra mile as far as you can. The actual effort that counts is when you are about to

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A guide to clinical Electives

Going for clinical electives in a developed country like UK, USA or canada has always been a dream for medical students. Electives are considered to b a good step for career building of a medical student. First of all, lets talk about what are electives in the medical world?
what are electives?
Clinical electives consist of a short duration course in a specific field where the

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Profs, Medical students and Dengue- behind the scenes and after effects.

Dengue proved out to be a major epidemic this year in Pakistan which affected people from all fields of life including medical students. Many of the medical students were affected by dengue right before their annual professional exams were about to commence. This led to a serious problem because they were not able to prepare for their exams. It was just two days before that all the students specially from

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How to lose weight - Day 4 plan

Exercise can be very refreshing not only for your body but also for your mind. The best time to jog is morning before you go to work. Try this today, wake up before sunrise and jog in fresh breez jog for upto 45 minutes. Get back home and dry yourself and take a bath. Remember never to take bath right aftr you exercise. It is dangerous. Always relax yourself a bit after exercise. Try doing yoga for it. Now how to do yoga, right after you jog and get back home and stretch yourself a a bit. Now calmly sit in yoga position with legs folded. Take deep breaths close your eyes and count from 1 to 10 in heart till your mind is fully concentrated on the numbers you are sayin in heart. This will increase your ability to concentrate. Keep this for 10 to 15 minutes. Calm yourself and then take bath and go to work. please comment on how you feel after this morning's exercise. Keep up the rest of the routine same as before.

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How to lose your weight - Day 3 plan.

So here comes your day 3 plan for losing your weight.
Now things would be getting critical, as you ll have to add more and more effort in ur daily routine. Every coming day should be harder when it comes to exercise and the key is to keep ur morale higher. During this routine, you are not supposed to check weight and mark it down now at this time. You have left all the oily food by now and junk too but never go for

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