Archive for the 'Pharmacy' Category

A tale of four tutors

31May08

Four tutors at two Group of Eight universities in Sydney in the past two weeks: an allegory on some of the qualities of good teachers…
Tutor A teaches medicine. Although qualified in a clinical health science, she had little understanding of the subject material nor demonstrated any convincing attempt to do so. She did not attempt [...]

Dysphasie en français

24Mar08

The hospital I work at has an arrangement with the New Caledonian private health fund Caisse de Compensation des Prestations Familiales des Accident du Travail et de Prévoyance Familiales des Travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dépendances (CAFAT), which means that we regularly have French-speaking patients under our care – many of whom have little command [...]

NAPSA Congress Sydney 2008

30Jan08

I was asked to take the official photo for the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association (NAPSA) Congress 2008, this year hosted by the Sydney University Pharmacy Association (SUPA) – both organisations with which I have had a fair bit of involvement over the years.

NAPSA Congress Sydney 2008 official congress photo
(click on image for full-size version)

To [...]

Pregnancy category mnemonic

05Oct07

It seems that most of us in the Sydney Medical School have become suckers for mnemonics… Recently, after the Problem 4.05 theme session on drugs in pregnancy, I came up with a mnemonic to help people remember the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) pregnancy categories used for medications in Australia.

Category A = A-OK – generally [...]