ChartingMed

Hi there! I’m Chloe and I’m a MD-PhD student at the University of Queensland.

I know how overwhelming it is to study med: force-feeding readings, wondering if you will ever find the hole-puncher wreaking havoc in your hippocampus, and the terrible realisation when you take foot on the wards that you really should have taken heed of this whole “have a system” advice instead of fooling around in CBL choosing mates over VINDICATES.

This site is a collection of my study materials that I’ve generated over the past few years. The notes are set out per UQ curriculum, but of course knowledge is knowledge.

When learning is so memory intensive, you have to resort to some tricks. And for me, flowcharts and mindmaps were the way to go. As a particularly legendary reg said, "everything in medicine can be distilled into a flowchart or a table."

I’ve learned so much from #FOAMed resources (Free Open Access Meducation; eg. Life In the Fast Lane, McMaster Pathophysiology, Deranged Physiology). This is me just trying to pay it forward :)

Please bear with me as I upload!!

Also please note that I'm taking a 2-year interruption from medical studies for the #phdlife from 2020-2021, so will be back with MD4 notes in 2022!

P.S. A thank-you! I just wanted to say thank you so much for the responses I've gotten back. I wasn't expecting to get much, and have been off from medical school for a bit, so it took a long time for me to open them up again after I first launched this site (oops ...). I'll fix soon the edits soon - thank you for the eagle eyes! And thank you so much for the kind feedback - it's really warmed my heart <3

Errors, edits and updates (I'll remove from this list when I resolve them)

• pg 7/12 of the oedema and fluids pdf. In the table of hyponatraemia causes, you've accidentally switched the high and low urine Na levels (Urine Na >20 would be inappropriate renal wasting of Ka+ e.g. diuretics, renal failure, SIADH)

• Posterior cricoarytenoid muscles are the ONLY ones that abduct - all others adduct (currently says ALL muscles ABDUCT EXCEPT for posterior cricoarytenoid, which is wrong!)

• CF notes - mucoid is more severe than non-mucoid