Siddhansh Shrivastava
Interantional Medical graduate 2020
I review medical-related content online, I believe #COVID-19 has changed the lens of our perspective on healthcare. It is my pleasure and passion to channel that spirit in words
Excellence
Let’s explore what CanMEDS has to offer. I do an in-depth review of the website contents
Study
The most reliable source that I use, I will give an in-depth breakdown of the various features it offers
Opinion
The change over from DSM-IV TR to 5 has been all the talk, why?
Interview
London, Ontario has a number of hospitals and research centres, not to mention the 7th best Medical school in Canada. I interview Dr. Srivastava, Prof. Emeritus to find out more about this city
Book Review
How to read a paper, or how to not lose face in front of your colleagues. This is a book on evidence-based medicine, what better way to learn this skill than to do a book review on it?
Reflections
Care of the patient, spoken by Dr. Francis W. Peabody in 1927, is a timeless piece of literature, whose words capture the heart of Medicine and move the reader. Here is my essay in honor of his speech
Survey
Saturday, 10th of October, 2020 marked the World Mental Health Day with the overall objective to raise awareness about mental issues around the world and mobilize efforts in support of mental health. I made a short survey and circulated it within my inner circle. Here are the results.
Personal growth
Presentations are performances. Shying away from them is passing up on a wonderful opportunity to learn a number of skills. Here is what I’ve learnt from enjoying making presentations.
Interview
International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Shrikant Chinchalkar. Top 10 questions to ask someone who’s not in your field.
Burning question
How to break stereotypes in the medical circles? I once stepped on a metaphorical rake when I started discussing the new advances in ADHD with a Family Physician who mostly dealt with diabetics and hypertension patients. That was the day I learnt I needed to have backup on what I was speaking.
Personal experience
There are many forms of articles that get published in a journal aside from the contemporary one. This is a personal experience, and I have written my thoughts and opinions in an objective and straightforward manner
Online course
Stanford offered a course on COVID-19 for Healthcare workers, with a shareable and free certificate. I was expecting rather weak information on PPE protocols and general knowledge we all know intuitively by watching the news. I was pleased to be wrong.
Online course
Canada: The Indigenous Edition. A course supplied by University of Alberta that peeks into the heart of the historical peoples of our country.
Workshop
April 6, 2019: Advanced Trauma Life Support Workshop @Curacao, a little island in the Caribbean. Sun, sea, sand and surgery!
Online course
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers a course on contact tracing-it definitely opened my eyes to the significance of this exercise, which up till now I had mistook for a peripheral and tired strategy to pursue the goal of prevention in this pandemic. Here are my impressions.
Medical non-fiction
Science of Success is a medical non-fiction written by psychiatrist Dr. Amresh Srivastava, watch my interview with him
Knowledge Translation
Centre for Effective Practice, established as part of U of T’s Dept. of Family & Community Medicine. Pioneering Ontario’s quality of primary care. My thoughts on what the terms ‘knowledge translation’ entails.
Knowledge Up-To-Date
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease is a project that envelopes everything on what is happening in COPD healthcare around the globe. I do a deep-dive into the website and explore the different components.
Role of epidemiology
At a conference I always find two kinds of doctors, those who chat about their patients, and those who chat about the disease
So which one is thinking ahead? Which one is thinking deeper? Which one is thinking more scientifically?
Just do it
If there is anything worth practicing as a hobby in the branch of medicine, it is writing. It does not have to be worthy of Oxford University, just has to be an original thought. As soon as an inspiration hits, pen your thoughts no matter how incoherent they are. Over time, the habit matures into critical training for medical writing.
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