About Didact.me

Scientia Aperta Esse Debet  — Knowledge must flow freely

I wrote my notes contemporaneously as medical student, and they served as my revision materials over the years. I hope that these notes remain freely accessible and shared between students at George's, as I have personally found that educational materials from seniors tend to be hereditary and trafficked through people in the know. Hence, I produced this website to make it even easier to share these materials with colleagues and peers. I have named my project "Didact"  as it reflects my belief that the best way to learn is to teach others. I would like to give thanks to my own teachers, mentors, peers, colleagues and patients who have in all ways large and small contributed to my education, and resultantly these notes. 

Because my medical education has often been tempered with hangovers, these notes might contain factual inaccuracies and out of date clinical information. If you have spotted anything odd, I would be very grateful if you could report them on the form at bit.ly/didactfeedback, or click the button at the very bottom of this page. I've also been told I write in painful abbreviations and ludicrous contractions, and show utter contempt for punctuation and capitalisation; I apologise for my grammatical transgressions.

This website will always make no form of revenue and will always remain open access. I have made all of my materials freely available, and I hope in return you would pass on the link bit.ly/didactmed to anyone and everyone who you'd think might benefit from them. 

Jia Ming Koh

BSc  MBBS

I am currently practising in Singapore as a Resident Physician in an acute hospital setting. 

I completed my F1 year at St George's Hospital, London 2019-2020, rotating through Acute and General Medicine, General Surgery and the Coronavirus Response. I qualified at St George's in 2019, including intercalating in Surgery and Anaesthesia at Imperial College in 2017. I am a strong believer of the role of technology in translational medicine, while retaining the humanitarian traditions of holistic, patient-centric care.

I am Singaporean by nationality and identity, Chinese by ethnicity (and severely limited language capacity), and a physician (albeit very junior) by passion. In my free time I enjoy cooking, baking, writing mediocre poetry, tending my own little tropical rainforest (https://www.instagram.com/rainforestshelf/), and sometimes assorted hot and cold beverages, always in good company.

Didact Med is dedicated to my friends and colleagues, mostly from St George's Hospital Medical School class of 2020, the very  last vintage before things went to heck.