F.UCEM awarded for photo caption!

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UCEM have awarded a Fellowship of the College for the best caption for a photograph of Mike Cadogan at the Essentials conference… Find out who the Fellow is and read the winning caption right here.

ACEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2011

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Updates from the 2011 ACEM ASM are rolling in from across the social media universe. The highlight so far is the announcement of the ACEM Teaching Excellence Award winner…

Friday Feynman Inspiration 003

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The Feynman Series is a companion project with The Sagan Series in hopes to promote scientific education and scientific literacy in the general population.

Australia lead the way in improbable research

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This year, Australian researchers were at the forefront of Ig Nobel research with ground breaking work on the neurological effects of full bladders, and the discovery that the male buprestid beetle enjoys copulating with Australian beer bottles (stubbies)

Jeans for Genes day Competition

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Try your hand at the Jeans for Genes Double-helix tongue twister challenge. Use your literary skills to come up with a novel, witty, poignant or just plain ordinary limerick or tongue twister using theme of Jeans and Genes and be a WINNER

We are the Champions

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Heartiest congratulations to all those blogs nominated for the MedGadget awards for 2010. Unfortunately there can only be one winner in each of the categories…and the winners are

Medgadget Medical Blog Awards 2010

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Medgadget have released the list of finalists for this years prestigious Medical Weblog awards. Voting commences on February 3 2011 and runs to February 13 over at Medgadget.com.

New Years Day Honours 2011

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The first Fifty F.UCEM’s are Grandfather awards for the fifty fondling members who have demonstrated the excellence in their respected fields and uphold the ideals of the Utopian College – supremus totus vindicatum haud officium

Letter From America #2

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Bushy tailed and bright-eyed, I found myself a seat at the trauma review precourse at USC Essentials of emergency medicine in San Francisco. Beneath the vent of an overenthusiastic air conditioning system I soon stopped shivering as profound hypothermia took an insidious hold. Fortunately the pre-precourse warm up involved a big screen appearance of my esteemed countrymen the Flight of the Conchords and their number 23 hit “Hurt Feelings”

Second Blogiversary

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Life in the Fast Lane is proud (if a little surprised) to celebrate it’s second blogiversary this week!