User talk:Cyclonenim/Archive Jan08

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Medicine Portal

That would be fantastic! While I'm working on the medical wikiproject, the science collab of the month and others, it's extremely hard to maintain properly the medicine portal. These are the boxes that should be updated from time to time. Please tell me which one would you be interested in:

Selected article
Medicine WikiNews
Did you know...
Selected picture
Things you can do

Currently, I can take care of the selected material. NCurse _work 19:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me for the long silence (exam period...)! That's how you can work on the Did you know section:

First, find good did you know quotes in articles.
If you find one, please insert it here (archive page).
Then put it into the Did you know box by adding a {{*mp}} tag before your new line.

That's all. Have fun and thank you! :) NCurse _work 10:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Cyclonenim. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. β^_command 13:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

rfa

Thank you for your support in my RFA last week. If you ever need assistance, let me know. Archtransit (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mucormycosis

My compliments on your hard work on this article. It looks fairly complete and most content is sourced. I've shuffled things around a bit and improved the references (have a look at footnotes), but I have made no major changes to the text.

I notice that you have relied mostly on Emedicine and HealthAtoZ. That's fine, both are high-quality sources supported by generous amounts of primary research. If you want to refer to a more recent peer-reviewed article, doi:10.1128/CMR.18.3.556-569.2005 will probably meet your needs. Let me know if anything needs clarification.

When do you intend to apply for medical school? JFW | T@lk 22:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! My pleasure, I enjoyed working on it! I noticed my references weren't done particularly well, but I didn't know how to do them properly so I repeated the same link more than once. I'll have a read of that article on Tuesday when I have some spare time from college. I wish to apply to medical school's in September this year, chances are i'll have little success with my secondary school qualifications being quite poor (even if my college qualifications and work experience are good (which they aren't just yet!)). I see you work in the United Kingdom, may I ask which hospital you work in? CycloneNimrod (talk) 22:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See my talk page for some Tolosa Hunt references. No rush about the CMR article - Rome wasn't built in one day. Wish you luck re med school. I will email you about my place of work etc. JFW | T@lk 21:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Medicine

Hi Cyclonenim,

Thanks for your contributions to the portal, you're doing a great job! I wanted to give you some more tips:

when you update the Did you know section, could you also update the Portal:Medicine/Did you know archive, just add the dates you added and removed articles.
try to avoid Title Case (Fanconi syndrome instead of Fanconi Syndrome, for example)

thanks, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No apologies needed, I'm just here to help! I'm currently on a GP placement which is going very well, hope you get into medschool soon! cheers, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you might have seen on my user page, I'm from Belgium, studying at Catholic University of Leuven. I'm just from a 3 month placement in Newcastle though. GP isn't popular in Belgium at all, mainly because our GPs work 6 days a week 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. and earn 4 times less as in the UK. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:59, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know how Newcastle courses work exactly, I mainly did an elective actually. Teaching at my uni is awful, almost 100% lecture based, with a medieval preference for theory over practice. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, in Belgium we basically have 5 basic years then 2 clinical years, and I'm in my 6th year. Contrary to the UK, we only get paid and register after 7 years :-s. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on what I'll end up doing, I'll stay in Belgium most likely but it's tempting not to do some locum work as it pays so well... --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 07:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]