Medicine is a vocation of perpetual independent learning; long-term success is critically dependent on finding the right resources and establishing effective study methods and test-taking strategies. Students who struggle with the academic transition in medical school have common risk factors and characteristics. We highlight key resources that are available for struggling medical students with...

Based on personal experiences I have felt that the lack of real knowledge about the underlying mechanisms of stuttering is a problem in many ways. It makes it more difficult to treat, it leaves the field open to unfounded speculations, and it makes it difficult for persons who stutter to reach self-understanding. For this reason, I changed my vocation from engineering to research on the nature ...

He was discharged cured on the 28th August 1868, having remained as an inmate for 13 days only. After the patient returned home, he was capable of carrying on his vocation for about tliree months, after which, distress during urination, and other symptoms of the presence of calculus in his bladder began to manifest themselves gradually. After suffering for a lapse of three years and three month...

of Chapter 3 [Idealist mistakes & Materialist corrections] Idealist misconceptions On Hierachy On Religion Consciousness throughout history An idealist conception of Humans On Language & Idealism Individuality according to Materialism Individualism created Individualism in a class perspective Relation of individual to class interests The role of will in the desires of an individual Individualit...

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH TRADITIONALLY ESTABLISHES MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION: A career, or vocation based on the professing of an oath regarding personal and public behavior. For Catholic physicians, the commitments of the Oath of Hippocrates take on new meaning when seen in light of the promises made at Baptism and renewed every Easter. This paper, originally an address to medical students, conside...