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Disclaimer: Please note that these resources may be/become obsolete/improve over time, or they may not align with your beliefs, but they felt true to me at the time.
Brain Imaging
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), not to be confused with MRI, is used to show the relative metabolic activities of the brain based on blood flow. It is based on the idea that more metabolically active brain areas require more oxygen, therefore more blood. Based on this, one can posit that the region requiring more blood flow is associated with what the person is doing/sensing.
I would like to thank gentlemen Isidor Isaac Rabi and Seiji Ogawa for their contributions to developing this technology.
One should be aware that a person should not wear metal (such as jewelry, tattoos with magnetic ink, et cetera) in the scanner as it can get pulled out by the giant magnets.
Cardiology
From Northwestern
From philschatz.com
Life in the Fast Lane is a most highly recommended resource to learn about reading electrocardiograms (EKGs/ECGs, acronyms used interchangeably), a reading of the heart's electrical activity.
I was taught to start by recognizing the start to the end of the entire cardiac cycle, from the P wave (atrial depolarization) to the PR interval to the QRS complex (ventricular depolarization), and the T wave (ventricular repolarization) until the start of the next P wave; then to learn common and most life-threatening derivations/conduction pathologies/arrhythmias such as Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, Ventricular Fibrillation; AV blocks, Wolff-Parksinon-White syndrome, et cetera, and then onto other less common but still serious pathologies, such as Torsade de Pointes, that sinusoidal "twisting of points."
In clinical context, however, there are many factors that can produce an inaccurate tracing, such as misplacement of the electrodes (the pads placed on the patient). It was important to take into account other data collected from the patient and other providers to obtain a thorough, humane and accurate as possible interpretation.
Educational References
These were some of the resources I used as a med student (mixed online/paper textbooks), but I cannot vouch for how they are today due to the subscription model being so widely gotten out of hand to milk students for their money. Tsk, tsk.
For lectures done by clinical instructors in all honesty I used a combination of OneNote/PowerPoint/Excel/handwriting, but mostly Excel to make notes efficiently as I liked to see the big picture and small details when reviewing for the Big Exams (by the way, many exams didn't correlate with the study tools we were recommended, frustrating, isn't it? I remember pulling out vector math in the middle of my Cardiology block exam, which is probably what helped me pass). I couldn't really stand flashcards in college, and I tried very hard to brainwash myself to use pre-made Anki decks in med school like so many others, but because it wasn't my own original work, I didn't feel it was particularly effective. I am currently working on some Google spreadsheets as of now that I hope to publish and share here with you as a reference/form of entertainment.
Music & Medicine
Eye Health & Optometry / Salud Ocular y Optometría
One of the finest optometrists I've ever had the luck to be a patient of, this practice's web site includes a plethora of informational community resources that is scientifically accurate and pertinent to the times - for example, vision care for computer strain.
Radiology
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