Welcome! Whether you’ve stumbled in while revising neuroanatomy or you're deep in a diagnostic reasoning rabbit hole, this blog was designed to help you connect clinical concepts, and spark questions that actually matter.
It's a scaffolded learning tool designed to provoke thinking, support understanding, and build clinical intuition. Here’s how to dive deeper and make the most of it.
🌱 Start here, then go deeper
Think of this blog as your thinking companion:
- Use it before lectures as a sneak preview of core concepts.
- Come back after lectures and textbooks for a wrap-up and overview and clinical link.
- Or use it in between—to link fragments together and start seeing the system-wide picture.
- Come back in a month or two, or in the next Phase as revision for exams or a reminder of the fundamentals.
Whatever works best for you—there’s no right order. Just keep circling back. Understanding comes in layers. Like an onion lol
🧭 Where to begin
- Follow the Threads: Many posts connect conceptually, start with Neurotransmitters or From Cortex to Brainstem if you’re new to neuroanatomy, then follow the path through Seizure Classification to Consciousness. You can do the same with any of the other body systems. You can find my suggestions of related topics at the bottom of each post.
- Think Systemically: Posts are often designed to highlight integration across physiological systems, zoom out when you feel stuck and explore adjacent topics.
🗂 Navigating the home page
Here’s how to find what you need (or didn’t know you needed):
- Labels (Tags): Click any label at the bottom of posts (or the big list in the right hand side bar) to explore related content, whether it's public health, microbiology, gastrointestinal system or structure and function. Scroll through categories like Cardiovascular system, Educational tips, or Pharmacology or Quiz questions to match your study focus.
- Search: Use keywords in the search bar (also in the right hand side bar ) to find concepts, conditions, or themes. Try “thalamus,” “hypokalaemia,” or “ventricular”
- Most Recent / Most Popular: The right hand sidebar also shows what's new and what’s been most visited, great if you want to follow the crowd or go straight to clinical staples.
- Follow the Blog: click the Follow button also in the right hand side bar (there's a theme here!) , or at the bottom of the page, to get updates when a new post goes live.
💡 Tips for active engagement
- Sketch it Out: Turn complex pathways into diagrams. As you read, sketch pathways, draw brain regions, cardiac action potentials, biochemical pathways, or create a diagnostic map. It’s not just about reading or rote learning flash cards. It's about REASONING and whiteboards are excellent tools for this !
- Clinical Imagination: Can you picture this in a patient? What symptoms would emerge? Turn physiology into clinical cases.
- Reflect: Posts often end with open questions, don’t skip them. They’re meant to stretch your thinking beyond the facts. Similarly, don't be intimidated by quiz questions, no one sees your answers except you - its always better to know what you don't know.
Here's the point: every post is designed to help you slow down thinking just enough to make it stick. It’s not just about memorising, it’s about reasoning.
💻 Best viewed on a computer
Sure, it works on your phone if you have a quick bit of time and just want to read a post. But for all the diagrams, formatting, searchability and full “bells and whistles,” you’ll get a far better experience on a laptop or desktop.
💬 Got an idea? Use the suggestion box
There’s a floating button on the bottom right of your screen to drop ideas, requests, or even clinical puzzles you'd love explored. Just like the quizzes, this is anonymous so go for it ! This blog grows with you, and many posts were shaped by student questions just like yours.
✨ The philosophy behind the posts
- Scaffolded Learning: Each entry aims to build from the ground up, starting with foundational concepts and layering complexity.
- Clinical Relevance: Even theoretical content is rooted in clinical application. Ask: Where would this matter in practice?
- Accessibility with Depth: You’ll find plain-language explanations alongside intricate diagrams and nuanced critique. It’s all by design.
🤝 From me to you
This blog is built on a touch of curiosity-driven madness. You’ll find posts that some zoom out for big-picture integration and others that zoom way in for detail. Either way, it’s designed to support you, not overwhelm you.
So feel free to explore, scribble, draw question, and imagine. You’re not just studying medicine, you’re building the mindset of a future diagnostician. I hope you enjoy it.
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