Independent Youtube Channels to learn from

ambitiouslylearning:

So I guess we all spend too much time on Youtube or the internet in general. To be honest, a lot of time is wasted, but there are also fun and entertaining ways to educate or motivate yourself - that’s why I’ve collected my favorite YouTube channels that could potentially be interesting to the studyblr community. I tried to differentiate the channels using a few bullet points. Hope this is helpful! 

Mainly study-related
Holly Gabrielle: university, (vegan) lifestyle
Rhiannon: a lot of motivational study with mes
Ruby Granger: study with mes, books
studyign: videos about studying, origanization, productivity
studyquill: studying & organization
StudyWith Me: the name says it all
UnJaded Jade: studying & (vegan) lifestyle
WaysToStudy: everything about studying & organization

Mainly lifestyle & self-improvement
Jusuf: organization, productivity, lifestyle & minimalism
muchelleb: self-improvement & organization
Rowena Tsai: productivity, self-care
Kristen Leo: sustainable lifestyle

General Knowledge
The School of Life: philosophical answers about life
What I’ve Learned: unconventional knowledge 
NutritionFacts.org: health & nutrition information

(Every channel, excluding The School of Life and NutritionFacts.org, is hosted by independent individuals.)

(via hufflepuffwannabe)

medically-challenged:

FREE MEDICAL PDFs

Anatomy:

• 1–> KLM for Gross Anatomy
• 2–> Snell’s Anatomy
• 3–> BD Churassia
• 4–> RJ Last
• 5–> Grey’s Anatomy
• 6–> Langman Embryology
• 7–> KLM for Embryology
• 8–> BD For General Anatomy
• 9–> Dissector
• 10–> Di Fore Histology
• 11–> Junqueira’s Histology
• 12–> Netter Atlas of human Aantomy

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LYV9KQ3lxY29FY28

Physiology:

• 1–> Guyton
  
• 2–> Ganong
• 3–> Sheerwood
• 4–> Sembulingam
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LdXlCSjdZM214dEE

 

Biochemistry:

• 1–> Harper
• 2–> Lippincott
• 3–> Chatterjea
• 4–> Satyanarayan
• 5–> Stryer
• 6–> MRS Biochemistry
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0Ld0o3WnhCR2VEczg

Pathology:

• 1–> Big Robins
• 2–> Medium Robins
• 3–> Pathoma
• 4–> Goljan
• 5–> Harsh Mohan Pathology
• 6–> Atlas of Histopathology
• 7–> Levinson
• 8–> MRS microbiology
• 9–> Microbiology by Jacquelyn G. Black
• 10–> Color Atlas of Microbiology
• 11–> Kaplan Pathology
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LYkRYdjFrTm5MR0U

 

Pharmacology:

• 1–> Big Katzung
• 2–> Mini Katzung
• 3–> Kaplan Review
• 4–> Lippincott
• 5–> Pocket Katzung
• 6–> Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology
• 7–> Atlas of Pharmacology
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LMkE1UUVRZGwtTlU

Forensic Medicine:

• 1–> Simpson’s Forensics
• 2–> Krishan’s Forensics
  
• 3–> Atlas of Autopsy
• 4–> Atlas of Forensic Medicine
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LQXVwOGoyWnFSV2s

Ophthalmology:

• 1–> Jogi
• 2–> Jatoi
• 3–> Parson’s Textbook of Eye
• 4–> Kanski
  
• 5–> AK Khurana
  
• 6–> Atlas of ophthalmology
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LOHc5WVZMdkJjX2M

Otorhinolaryngology:

• 1–> Dhingra
• 2–> Logans Turner
• 3–> Color Atlas of Otorhinolaryngology
• 4–> Maqbool’s Text Book of ENT
• 5–> Clinical Methods in ENT by PT Wakode
• 6–> ENT at a Glance
  

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LaDY2a0lFNDlfTGc

Community Medicine:

• 1–> Monica’s Text Book Community Medicine
  
• 2–> Mahajan And Gupta Text Book of Community Medicine
• 3–> Bancroft’s Text Book of Community Medicine

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0Lc1RCMml2NjhFNjA

Internal Medicine:

• 1–> Churchill’s Pocketbook of DD
• 2–> MTB Step 2 Ck
  
• 3–> Davidson Essentials
• 4–> Davidson Principals and practice
  
• 5–> Harrison’s Internal Medicine
• 6–> Internal Medicine USMLE Nuggets
• 7–> Internal Medicine on call bt LANGE 8–> Oxfords Specialties

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LeEFJNG5TMlc4eWc

Surgery:

• 1–> Bailey_love short practice of Surgery
• 2–> Churchill’s pocketbook of Surgery
• 3–> Deja Review of surgery
• 4–> Farquharson’s Textbook of Operative General Surgery
• 5–> Hamilton Bailey’s Physical Signs
• 6–> Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery
• 7–> Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery
• 8–> Macleod’s Clinical Examination
• 9–> Macleod’s Clinical Diagnosis

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LRFpFSG5hZ1pVWkE

Obstetrics & Gynecology:

• 1–> Case Discussions in Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 2–> Deja Review of Obstetrics Gynecology
• 3–> Obstetrics by Ten Teachers
• 4–> Gynaecology illustrated
• 5–> Gynaecology by Ten Teachers

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LMU1LRjFDa1FrbjA

Pediatrics:

• 1–> Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics
• 2–> Nelson Complete
• 3–> Pediatrics Review

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LUkdTQkVuNV92Yzg

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I hope this helps everyone, it’s not mine. But has been shared to me and I am sharing this with all of you.

Brevity: How to Write Less and Say More

thedancingwriter:

Brevity is difficult to accomplish. For me, it takes several rounds of edits. For authors more experienced than I, it might take less.

• Stick to your point. Don’t keep all your dumped thoughts on paper. Find the point of all those thoughts and edit them down to  a singular point.
• Don’t waste words. So I found these edits from that one action chapter I spoke of in my Writing Effective Action Scenes post. Here is both the unedited and published versions.

Theosodore is right. My anger is my strength. If there was anything that could ever persuade me to fight in a situation that seems beyond hopeless, it is seething rage. The rage takes me back to the barn where Colette was trying to teach me how to control my fire. I almost had a grasp on the tempting flames then, almost felt like I would have had full control had Colette not invaded the blackness of my thoughts. Now that feeling is back, and this time, I have the fear just underneath the skin of my palm. All I have to do is snap my fingers and–

Published version:

Theosodore is right. My anger is my strength. The feeling takes me back to the barn where Colette tried to teach me how to control my fire. I almost had a grasp on the tempting flames then. Now the feeling is back. I focus on it, drawing the anger down into the skin of my palm, letting it heat my skin until it’s almost unbearable. All I have to do is snap my fingers and–

Notice that the published version is two lines shorter than the unedited version. There was no reason for me to repeat that “seething rage” could help her fight, when “My anger is my strength” is enough to signal that all it takes is anger. I also didn’t need to repeat that the RAGE helped her remember. That’s treating my readers like they’re dumb. Then “I ALMOST had a grasp on the tempting flames then” is all that needs to be said. Readers can already infer why she couldn’t grasp her flames from a previous chapter. As for the next sentence, it was edited to emphasize her anger. So the published paragraph says more than the unpublished paragraph, yes?

• Don’t think about word count, but value. Having a 100,000 word novel (this is often only accepted for sequels) doesn’t mean you’re being wordy. Oftentimes it means you’re developing your world and characters more from the previous book in the series. So think about the value of each word you’re using.
• Passive voice.  This can add unnecessary words. Sometimes you can’t avoid passive voice, but oftentimes you can.

Passive voice: Canes and wheelchairs are used by people who have some form of physical disability.

Active voice: People with physical disabilities often use canes or wheelchairs.

Not only did I change it to the active voice, but I also cut out some words.

• Use strong verbs instead of adverbs.

I ran quickly to the door.

Use I dashed to the door instead. ‘Dashed’ has more urgency than ‘I ran quickly.’

• Avoid redundancy. Refer to the ‘don’t waste words’ point with the unedited version. The third sentence is redundant.
• Use punchy sentences. Long sentences aren’t a sin, but if you can convey your point in fewer words, do it.

Unedited version of a scene in When Stars Die: A loud rumbling breaks through the shadows, hurling my entire back back into the present, where I’m dodging fire while being subjected to cruel words.

Published version: A loud rumbling breaks through the shadows, hurling me back into the present as I make a hard turn to dodge another ball of fire.

• Don’t say something over and over again. Not only does this assume your readers are dumb, but you only need to state your point once. The sequel to When Stars Die is still going through revisions, but my publisher caught me on this one. He even said I’m treating my readers like they’re dumb, so even I’m not perfect.
• Keep your sentence structure varied. Don’t use long sentence after long sentence after long sentence, unless there is a stylistic reason for this.
• Experience is your ally. Just keep writing and receiving critique from experienced writers.

Thursday’s post will be about using commas. So many of my editorial clients struggle with how to use these.

(via heywriters)