I want you to place a mirror in front and watch your own eyelids, lips and tongue. Are they pale or red. Why are they pale? Do you think you can make them more red? How?
How do you make your eyelids, lips and tongue look more red?
Yes, you take iron tablets.
Which and what type of iron tablets?
How do you know which iron tablet is good for you?
How do you know they are safe to take?
How will you find out?
Are there people who have little iron in their blood?
How do you tell people have little iron in their blood?
Can you tell if a person suffers from iron deficiency? How?
What are some of the effects of iron deficiency?
Is iron deficiency a bad thing or a good thing? Explain.
What would you do if you suspect a case of iron deficiency?
Is dietary change important in overcoming iron deficiency? Explain.
What are food sources rich in iron?
Read here for some hints
Monday, 30 January 2012
Musculoskeletal resources
This is a website for free-to-download resource material
on musculoskeletal problems and general health and work related issues,
in PDF format.
Sample downloads from 'Tackling Musculoskeletal Problems: A Guide for Clinic and Workplace'
Free Download Resources
Sample downloads from 'Tackling Musculoskeletal Problems: A Guide for Clinic and Workplace'
Free Download Resources
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Where is e-learning today? Can Open PhD work?
This is me in somebody else blog: open-academic-education-people and she said: "So I procrastinated by surfing through cloudscapes that were focusing on mobile learning. As I went through them I found Faridah Abdul Rashid, who teaches chemical pathology at the Universiti Sains in Malaysia
and she mentioned she was into problem-based learning, using Moodle ...
but what captured my eyes was her mentioning 'open PhD'. It certainly
sounds very contemporary and attractive as a term."
My comments:
What are the terms she used? Try and define them ...
Mobile learning - that form of learning that follows you around on your mobile devices such as smartphone.
Chemical Pathology - a field after medical biochemistry that deals with patients body fluid chemistries (blood, urine, CSF) and stool chemistries in pathological conditions.
Universiti Sains Malaysia - that's the long form of USM
Problem-Based Learning - that's the long form of PBL, a form of teaching methodology used in Year 2 & Year 3 Medicine in our medical school.
MOODLE - An acronym for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. It simply means most of what students need for learning is hosted online and students can pick and choose what they wish to learn. There is no time limit and everything is self-paced, follow your mood and do as you please. It also means students are now responsible for their own learning. There are advantages and disadvantages but it is better to have an e-learning portal (MedLearn) rather than not have one. Else, everything needs to go on YouTube, EduTube or Scribd and choosing what to learn in difficult as there will be too much trash too.
Open PhD - this simply means you propose a PhD topic, do the PhD and submit online where you wish to submit and get your PhD. No need to attend this class and that class. It means you are mature enough to be responsible for your own PhD program. If something is not going right in your PhD program (eg your PhD Supervisor is creating unnecessary problems for you, you run out of money but wish to stay on in a PhD program), then you have a place online to voice out for assistance. Then the entire academic people in your area are alerted and learn of your problem and can come and save you. This saves you headache and heartache, which is commonplace in any PhD program. I hope you will like this idea and agree with me. We have a more understanding Internet committee of academics than a PhD supervisor who is assigned to a PhD candidate. The whole world is willing to help, so why waste time pleasing one professor or supervisor? This is a new Age and we need not stick to old ways of learning.
My comments:
What are the terms she used? Try and define them ...
Mobile learning - that form of learning that follows you around on your mobile devices such as smartphone.
Chemical Pathology - a field after medical biochemistry that deals with patients body fluid chemistries (blood, urine, CSF) and stool chemistries in pathological conditions.
Universiti Sains Malaysia - that's the long form of USM
Problem-Based Learning - that's the long form of PBL, a form of teaching methodology used in Year 2 & Year 3 Medicine in our medical school.
MOODLE - An acronym for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. It simply means most of what students need for learning is hosted online and students can pick and choose what they wish to learn. There is no time limit and everything is self-paced, follow your mood and do as you please. It also means students are now responsible for their own learning. There are advantages and disadvantages but it is better to have an e-learning portal (MedLearn) rather than not have one. Else, everything needs to go on YouTube, EduTube or Scribd and choosing what to learn in difficult as there will be too much trash too.
Open PhD - this simply means you propose a PhD topic, do the PhD and submit online where you wish to submit and get your PhD. No need to attend this class and that class. It means you are mature enough to be responsible for your own PhD program. If something is not going right in your PhD program (eg your PhD Supervisor is creating unnecessary problems for you, you run out of money but wish to stay on in a PhD program), then you have a place online to voice out for assistance. Then the entire academic people in your area are alerted and learn of your problem and can come and save you. This saves you headache and heartache, which is commonplace in any PhD program. I hope you will like this idea and agree with me. We have a more understanding Internet committee of academics than a PhD supervisor who is assigned to a PhD candidate. The whole world is willing to help, so why waste time pleasing one professor or supervisor? This is a new Age and we need not stick to old ways of learning.
Books vs e-Books
We have a decision to make re books. Now that we have to stop cutting down trees for human consumption (make furniture, houses, paper, newspaper, book, etc), we cannot keep on printing books on paper, i.e., no more hardcover or softcover textbooks. What is left is e-books. Are we happy with e-books?
E-books will be the in-thing of the future and paper printed books will be something nobody would want to do anymore (which is sad).
Are we familiar with e-books? Can we cope?
What does it take to create e-books? Practically nothing except the usual copyright licensing, ISBN, hosting and online marketing. Students just need a PDF Reader program.
But we have a problem when things are made available electronically. And that is, only one medical student needs to purchase an e-book and that can be shared with 200-300 students in a class.
So, what is the point of publishing then? Even if publishers try to enforce a code on e-books (download and upload or further re-hosting), there are means and ways of hacking and getting past the problem.
Students stand to benefit from e-books but lecturers suffer since they cannot earn royalty from illegal replication of their e-books.
Any comments from students?
E-books will be the in-thing of the future and paper printed books will be something nobody would want to do anymore (which is sad).
Are we familiar with e-books? Can we cope?
What does it take to create e-books? Practically nothing except the usual copyright licensing, ISBN, hosting and online marketing. Students just need a PDF Reader program.
But we have a problem when things are made available electronically. And that is, only one medical student needs to purchase an e-book and that can be shared with 200-300 students in a class.
So, what is the point of publishing then? Even if publishers try to enforce a code on e-books (download and upload or further re-hosting), there are means and ways of hacking and getting past the problem.
Students stand to benefit from e-books but lecturers suffer since they cannot earn royalty from illegal replication of their e-books.
Any comments from students?
Herbs in daily life - Indian nettle
Source: A CAP Guide by the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP)
Indian nettle
Scientific name: Acalypha indica
Tamil name: Kuppaimeni / punai vananggi
Malay name: Kucing galak
Chinese name: Yin du tie jian cai
Herbal and medicinal uses:
Cures phlegm
Cures skin disorders
Cures body ache
Cures bed sores
Cures worms in breastfed infants
My comments:
This is a light green plant that grows well in the open with lots of sunshine. It is hard to grow from seedling but grows well once it takes root. It spreads by wind-blown seeds. Spreads and grows fast even if left unattended. No need to take care. Can overgrow and fill an entire garden. Easy to pluck and remove but young plants may have started growing around the old plants. Can be terrible to have to pluck the small plants, and becomes a nuisance.
The plant is effective against the worst skin disorder - especially if due to itchiness (severe scratching, gatal sangat).
To use the plant for skin disorders, wash and clean and boil the entire plant including its roots. Let the water cool and then drink when it is lukewarm. it looks light brown like normal tea. Can add a bit of sugar since it has no taste.
Drink a glass in the morning and a glass in the evening. Drink daily till the itchiness subsides. Cures any skin disorder within a week, even the worst type or chronic whole body itchiness and skin disease. It does work and works well.
Indian nettle
Scientific name: Acalypha indica
Tamil name: Kuppaimeni / punai vananggi
Malay name: Kucing galak
Chinese name: Yin du tie jian cai
Herbal and medicinal uses:
Cures phlegm
Cures skin disorders
Cures body ache
Cures bed sores
Cures worms in breastfed infants
My comments:
This is a light green plant that grows well in the open with lots of sunshine. It is hard to grow from seedling but grows well once it takes root. It spreads by wind-blown seeds. Spreads and grows fast even if left unattended. No need to take care. Can overgrow and fill an entire garden. Easy to pluck and remove but young plants may have started growing around the old plants. Can be terrible to have to pluck the small plants, and becomes a nuisance.
The plant is effective against the worst skin disorder - especially if due to itchiness (severe scratching, gatal sangat).
To use the plant for skin disorders, wash and clean and boil the entire plant including its roots. Let the water cool and then drink when it is lukewarm. it looks light brown like normal tea. Can add a bit of sugar since it has no taste.
Drink a glass in the morning and a glass in the evening. Drink daily till the itchiness subsides. Cures any skin disorder within a week, even the worst type or chronic whole body itchiness and skin disease. It does work and works well.
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| Indian nettle / Kucing galak |
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| It is called Kucing galak as cats like to chew on the roots. This increases their prowess (miang). The Kucing galak plant is good for the general health of cats, male and female. |
Herbs in daily life - serai
This is from CAP Guide produced by the Consumer Association of Penang (CAP).
Serai
Scientific name: Cymbopogon nardus
English name: Lemon grass, citronella
Tamil name: Karpurapul
Chinese name: Ning meng cao
Uses: for lemon fragrance in tea, cooking soup, curry, sambal, rice
It is sliced to make nasi kerabu Kelantan
It is sliced for making kuah singgam
The fresh stalk is used in curry and sambal
Herbal and medicinal uses:
Antibactericidal, antifungal
Helps to detoxify the liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder, digestive tract
Reduces uric acid and cholesterol
Improves blood circulation
Helps in digestion
Relieves flatulence and colic
My comments:
How do we demonstrate its bactericidal effects?
How do we demonstrate its antifungal effects?
How effective is it in detoxifying the liver? What sort of conditions result in toxic liver?
What results in toxic pancreas?
What causes kidney toxicity? Toxic bladder?
What causes toxic digestive tract?
How effective is it in reducing uric acid and cholesterol?
How does it improve blood circulation?
How does it help in digestion?
How does it relieve flatulence and colic? What is its mode of action?
Serai
Scientific name: Cymbopogon nardus
English name: Lemon grass, citronella
Tamil name: Karpurapul
Chinese name: Ning meng cao
Uses: for lemon fragrance in tea, cooking soup, curry, sambal, rice
It is sliced to make nasi kerabu Kelantan
It is sliced for making kuah singgam
The fresh stalk is used in curry and sambal
Herbal and medicinal uses:
Antibactericidal, antifungal
Helps to detoxify the liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder, digestive tract
Reduces uric acid and cholesterol
Improves blood circulation
Helps in digestion
Relieves flatulence and colic
My comments:
How do we demonstrate its bactericidal effects?
How do we demonstrate its antifungal effects?
How effective is it in detoxifying the liver? What sort of conditions result in toxic liver?
What results in toxic pancreas?
What causes kidney toxicity? Toxic bladder?
What causes toxic digestive tract?
How effective is it in reducing uric acid and cholesterol?
How does it improve blood circulation?
How does it help in digestion?
How does it relieve flatulence and colic? What is its mode of action?
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| Serai / Lemon grass / Citronella / Karpurapul / Ning meng cao |
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