Navigating Medical Education: Degrees, Training & Career Advice

Medical Education and Career Path

After I finished high school, I studied biology in the premed track for four years at university (Bachelor’s degree).

After finishing my bachelor’s degree, I attended medical school for the next four years (medical school).

I finished medical school and now I’m doing my residency for the next four years to get training in a specialized field (residency).

I’ve just finished a two-week first aid course (certificate).

This is the highest university degree and involves a

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Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf: Literary Insights

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose books, set among the English middle and upper classes, are notable for their wit, social observation, and insights into the lives of early 19th-century women.

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire. She was one of eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family. She began to write as a teenager. In 1801, the family moved to Bath. After the death of Jane’s father

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English Grammar Rules: Tenses, Conditionals, and Speech

English Grammar Rules

Present Perfect Progressive

Subject + have/has (have not/has not) + been + verb + -ing

Example: She has been travelling.

Present Perfect

Subject + have/has + verb (past participle – third column)

Past Progressive

Subject + was/were (was not/were not) + verb + -ing

Conditionals

Zero Conditional

Actions that are always true.

If + simple present, simple present

Use if or when.

Example: If I study a lot, I pass the exam. / When I study a lot, I pass the exam.

First Conditional

The result of a

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Mastering English Grammar: Tenses, Comparisons, and Conditionals

English Grammar Essentials

1. Present Simple

Particles: always, every day, every week, sometimes, ever, never, usually, often.

2. Present Continuous

Particles: at the moment, now, right now, today, these days.

3. Past Simple

Particles: last year/week/night, in the past, yesterday.

4. Past Continuous

Particles: last night, at + a specific time.

When + past simple, while + past continuous.

5. Future Tense

Will: Actions that are certain to occur.

Be going to: Future intention (later, tomorrow).

6. Present Perfect

Used

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Learning from History: Preventing Future Conflicts

It seems that with the wars unfolding, we have forgotten important lessons. It’s as if history is repeating itself. When will we learn? When will humanity wake up and realize that we cannot continue building on a sinking foundation?

If we do not learn from history, we are condemned to repeat it, as happened with Hitler and the abhorrent refugee camps for Jews, where millions died, especially children deprived of medical attention. Today, refugees are again fleeing war-torn countries due to various

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Classroom Instructions: Useful Phrases for Teachers

Common Classroom Instructions

This document provides a list of frequently used instructions in the classroom.

Getting Started

Come in / Go out
Stand by…
Put your hand up / Put your hand down
Stand up / Sit down
Hold your books/pens/… up
Come out to the front of the class

Point to…
Show me…
Go to…
Touch…
Draw…
Label…
Match…

Put… in the right order.
Do actions. (Sit down, Stand up, Close your books, Make a…, etc.)
Show me your pencil/rubber/…
Just listen.
Now, listen and repeat.
Listen and complete/

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