How a Doctor Manage Time with his family...?

"Family is the most important thing in the  world....
"No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.......
"Love you family.......
"Your children only get one childhood......
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life......

Here is the way to manage time...

Friends and family always come first. whatever be level of professional engagement, leave any thing, anywhere if you needed by them.

You Always prioritize someone in need.
When you are seeing a patient in pain or in a life threatening situation, you  forget the watch that you're wearing.

Sunday has to be an off day, with family/friends. Movie and dinner out is usually what you plan. You have to have one day to destress.

The Doctor-Patient Relationship

The Doctor-Patient Relationship has been and remains a keystone of care: the medium  in which data are gathered, diagnoses and plans are made compliance is accomplished, and healing, patient activation, and support are provided.
A robust science of the doctor-patient encounter and relationship can guide decision making in health care plans we know much about the average doctor's skill and knowledge in this area, and how to teach doctors to relate more effectively and efficiently.
In addition Doctor-Patient Relationship is remarkable for its centrality during life-altering and meaningful times in person's lives, times of birth, death, severe illness, and healing. Thus providing health care, and being  a doctor, is a moral enterprise. An incompetent doctor is judged not merely to be a poor businessperson, but also morally blameworthy, as having not lived up to expectations of patients, and having violated trust that is an essential and moral feature of the Doctor-patient Relationship.

How to treat patients....?

Here are some ways to treat patient's needs  and concerns:

#1 Watch facial Expressions:
Focus on the patient's face as they are speaking.
This helps you better gauage the emotion and meaning behind the words being spoken.

#2 Pay attention to your own Emotions:
Before entering the room to see the patient, check your emotions at the door. You may have had difficult situation with the previous patient or are concerned about another's well-being, but this patient you're about to see deserves your 100% attention now.

#3 Write down important things to say, questions to ask:
There's a not alot of time to cover everything you need to with each patient, but if you do have a minute or so before you enter the room, jot down questions to ask the patient or items you want to vover during the visit. This minimize wasted time and leaves you room to listen to what your patient has to say.

#4 Use 75/25 rule:
A good way to keep your listening at the right level is to make use of the 75/25 rule. This means you listen 75% ogf the time and talk 25 percent of the time. It may not work out perfectly, but it's a good  goal.

#5 Make effective use of long pauses: If you think your patient is holding back  due to discomfort, fear, shyness or is possibly  strugglingto find the words to describe symptoms, the judicious use of long pauses may help draw out the patient.

#6 Avoid reacting immediately:
You may have a recalcitrant patient, or one who's difficulty to treat. Here's where it's a good  idea to avoid reacting immediately to whatever the patient has to say. Hold  your judgment or urge to give advice or recommendation until the conversation _
-gently guided by you- gets more at the crux of the reason  why the patient has come into see you.

#7 Don't interrupt:
No one likes to be interrupted, least of all your patient. Give an adequate amount of time to allow  the patient to finish his/ her thoughts and wait for a pause before speaking. Your patient may be searching for something important to tell you, or recollectng a key  symptom thay you've just reminded them of in something you've said.

#8 Make the most of face to face time:
When it's time to see your patient set technology aside as much as extent possible this means no using the smartphone to make or take calls or texts. This is valuable time you're spending with your patient. Make the most of it.

Study Tips for Medical students

Take ptactice Tests:

Find step 1 sample questions that are close to the subject you're studying to familiarize yourself with the material and build the confidence you need  going into the exam.

Limit Study session to 30 minutes or Less:

Cramming is ineffective for 2 reasons: you'll eventually lose focus in one long night of studying, and you'll forget most of the information by the next day. you,ll remember more of the material if you spread your studying out across short, multiple sessions to 30 minutes.

Switch Up Your Study Areas:

This goes against a lot of a advice you may have heard but, according to conginitive research, repeatedly studying in the same place could adversely affect your memory recall. When it's time to take the exam, the new setting might catch you off guard. Switching up the surroundings you study in will help you remember the material regardless of the environment.

Build a Memory Palace:

Think of the information you're memorizing where place suits you. For example, if  you're  studying anatomy, imagine each room as a different organ with all  the components that make it function inside that room. When you're start thinking about what that subject's mansion looks like and you'll have a more concrete vision of the material when you go back to study. During  the test, you'll know what corridors to walk down and what rooms to explore to retrieve the correct answers

Consolidate Notes:

Distilling your previously taken notes can help to improve your analytical skills. To start, figure out which concept can be chunked together, and how to express them in the fewest words possible. Pulling all the information together in one place will help you better grasp of the material and understand how it all fits together. Just be careful: some subjects may be more complex and may not fit neatly into page.

Draw a Map:

If you're a visual learner, consider becoming a knowledge crtographer. Instead of rereading a textbook, take out a big sheet of paper (or several taped together) and plot each element of information as it relates to the rest of it. 

For example, if  you're studying  pathology, you might write down all the possible symptoms, visually marking which clusters of symptoms indicate which disease. When you step back, you'll be able to physicall see how the information relates. By the end of the map, you might discover the burried treasure: a passing score on your exam.

What qualities should a good doctor have...? 
Some qualities of a good doctor we all want doctors who will:
1.Respect people, healthy or ill, regardless of who they are
2.Support patients and their loved ones when and where  they are needed
3.Promote health as well as treat disease
4.Embrace the power of information & communication technologies to support people with the best available information, while respecting their individual values and preferences
5.Always ask courteous questions, let people talk and listen  to them carefully
6.Give unbiased advice, let people participate activity in all decisions related to their health and health care, assess each  situation carefully, and help whatever the situation
7.Use evidence as a tool, not as a determinant of practice; humbly accept death  as an important part of life and help people make the best possible arrangments when death is close
8.Work cooperatively with other members of the healthcare team
9.Be proactive advocates for their patients,mentors for other health professionals, and ready to learn  from others, regardless of their age,role or status.

Finally we want doctors to have a balanced life and to care for themselves and their families as well as  for others. In sum, we want doctors to be happy and competent and good travel companions for people through journey we call life.

What is Medical....?

Medical has 2 basic meanings it refers to

1.The science of healing; the practice of the diagnosis,treatment and prevention of disease, and the promotion of health.

2.Medications, drugs, substances used to treat and cure diseases and to promote health.

How to TIME MANAGEMENT for medical student life....?

As crucial as time management is, it is unfortunately something that almost everyone struggles with.

Ironically, our time management skills often fails us when we need it most, resulting in the often heard complaint, 'so much to do, so little time'.

While it may seem like an acceptable excuse, a lack of time management can lead to anxiety, stress and poor sleep habits, all of which ultimately have a damaging effect on our health and performance.

As a medical student, you will often find yourself  juggling numerous activities and multiple deadlines almost everyday with so much to do, tha all 

important time management seems to  be ever-elusive.

 However if you want to excel  in your studies and all those other activities, you have to learn to conquer the beast.

Here are few tips  that will help you manage your time better.....

Tip #1- Use a Weekly Planner:

Use a planner that works best for you, wether it is a computer, notebook or a good old fashioned diary in your planner first enter in important events with rigid timetables such as tests, meetings or special appointments that way , you know what you have sheduled for the week  with one quick galnce and you can shedule all your other smaller, flexible tasks around your important, inflexible events.

Smaller tasks  could include everything from doing homework to making a phone call home or a reminder to watch a favourite television show when sheduling in these tasks, be realistic do not pack every every minute of your day with things to do be realistic prioritize all of the things you need to get done and don't sweat the small stuff.

Tip #2- Set Regular Study Blocks:

Schedule consistent study blocks for the day everyday studying everyday is important but if you decide  to study in between other tasks, you will find that often the time has just flown by and you did not put in enough study time for the day.

Allocate a fixed time everyday to study subject A,  a fixed time to study subjec B and a fixed time to study subject C.

That way you can tick them off your to-do list and enjoy a guilt-free, relaxed evening.

Tip# 3- Try To Be Consistent:

Consistency can play a huge role in helping you stay  on top of things, when you wake up, eat, exercise, sleep at the time same time everyday, it helps your body get into a rhythm instead of  having it adapt constantly it is is hard to have  consistency as a college student but try your best to be a creature of habit being  consistent can help you be more  focused, more energetic and ultimately more efficient.

Tip # 4- Get Rid Of Distractions:

Having your cell phone or your laptop on and within sight can be incredibly distracting.

It is difficult to resist the temptation to read every message or every emails as they come in.

However these can interrupt your train of thought, prevent you from having any quality study time and also result in you taking longer than you would normally need to, to finish your homework or complete your revision.

Get rid of all distractions and you will cut your study time down drastically, giving you more free.