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About this Website

This is the note database of a junior doctor in Australia. The information contained in these notes is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. While I strive for accuracy, I make no guarantees regarding the completeness or reliability of the content provided. Additionally, I do not claim copyright for any images included herein unless explicitly stated. If you wish to request a correction, removal, or alteration of any content, please feel free to contact me or submit an issue via the associated github repository. The colour theme for this website is based off catppuccin.

Anything surrounded by curly braces is likely a card that has been incorporated into the Malleus anki deck (I can't demonstrate here, otherwise it'll create a card)

Quick Reference

Consider taking a look through my Intern Reference file if you are an intern yourself, otherwise here is a list of notes in my rotations folder. Click on whatever rotation you might be on right now:

Useful Notes

Mainly for the admin side of things as a junior doctor

• Intern Reference
• iSBAR Handover
• Pronouncing Death
• Writing Discharge Summaries

Some other administrative notes:

• [[Administrative Notes on Radiology]]
• [[Consults and Referrals]]
• [[End-of-life orders]]
• [[Finding Notes and Documents]]
• [[Home Screen]]
• [[Ordering Investigations]]
• [[Patient Lists]]
• [[Useful Numbers to Save on Your Phone]]
• [[Viewing Investigations]]
• [[Writing Discharge Summaries]]

Rotations

If you'd rather just find notes on medicine relevant to the particular rotation you are on look below:

• [[Cardiology]]
• [[Common Ward Calls]]
• [[Common Ward Calls.sync-conflict-20250126-203424-OJTSAOO]]
• [[Emergency Medicine]]
• [[Gastroenterology]]
• [[Intensive Care Unit]]
• [[Nephrology]]
• [[Neurology]]
• [[Paediatrics]]
• [[Psychiatry]]
• [[Respiratory]]

Otherwise have a look through the "01 Disciplines" on the left panel.

Medications

Non-exhaustive list of medications that are commonly prescribed. Consider navigating for more medications using the file browser on the left. ![[03 Medications/index#^handy-medications|index]]

How I Studied in Medical School

This is a non-exhaustive guide to studying in medical school. I do plan on making a more complete guide one day but until then here's some words of wisdom.

I rarely made comprehensive notes. I mainly studied by doing pre-made flashcard decks, my own flashcards and a bunch of practice questions. Closer to exams for my OSCE exams in particular, I would try to learn by approaches to presenting complaints.

Tip

I used to take notes using notion during medical school. I found it to be fairly reliable and meant that I did not need to bring a laptop to placement to take notes. I could simply just login to notion and take notes or even review my notes from any computer I had access to on placement. You can find my notes here https://mango-cellar-b90.notion.site/. Another alternative is Remnote, which provides a more unified experience with flashcard support but it can be a bit buggy at times. Personally I have been moving towards trying to use more FOSS (hence this website).

Useful Resources

• Your university resources (my university resources have been kept private)
• State based/hospital based guidelines (e.g. RCH, ACI, PCH, KEMH guidelines)
• National guidelines (e.g. RACGP Red Book, RANZCOG guidelines)
• Other national resources (e.g. eTG, AMH Online)
• Other useful Australian resources: LITFL
• Other useful resources: Teach Me Series (e.g. Teach me surgery, Teach me Obgyn), Amboss
• Qbanks: I used emedici but there also exists passmedicine and armadex

How I made these notes

These notes are for the most part formatted in markdown and hopefully made to be quite presentable and accurate.

I use a mixture of Emacs and Obsidian to take these notes¹². Emacs has been wonderful to use especially with obsidian.el. After a year of using Vanilla Emacs, I got tired of configuring everything myself and switched to Doom Emacs and have been quite happy with it.

Obsidian has been a great to use on my other devices (namely, my iPad and my phone synced to my computer using syncthing). I use a few plugins to make my use of obsidian more palatable including but not limited to:

• Core plugins:
  • Backlinks
  • Bookmarks
  • Command palette
  • File recovery
  • Files
• Community plugins:
  • Advanced tables
  • Code editor shortcuts
  • Dataview
  • Dataview serializer³
  • Excalidraw
  • Footnote shortcut
  • Git
  • Iconize
  • Obsidian_to_Anki
  • Omnisearch
  • Recent Files
  • Style Settings
  • Text Extractor
  • Vimrc Support²

Footnotes

1. Both are great applications for note taking but unfortunately there might be some barrier to using either application because of the initial learning to use either program. If that is the case for you, I'd recommend something like notion or remnote to take notes on ↩

2. Man vim support in obsidian sucks. Just use emacs with evil mode and obsidian.el. ↩ ↩²

3. This is how I make autogenerated lists on a lot of different pages (e.g. this page's rotations list) ↩