Using LLMs effectively for academic work
This summary reflects my experience with LLMs over the past several months. I have interacted with Gemini (formerly Bard), ChatGPT (including version 4.5), Perplexity, Claude, and Grok3, along with some use of DeepSeek, Mistral, AllenAI, Leonardo, Midjourney and Copilot. Every LLM has its strengths and weaknesses, and no one LLM is the best at doing […]
Journal review: Emergence and Spread of C difficile Isolates With reduced Fidaxomicin Susceptibilti in an Acute Care Hospital.
Sarah N Redmond et al, Emergence and Spread of Clostridioides difficile Isolates With Reduced Fidaxomicin Susceptibility in an Acute Care Hospital, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2025;, ciaf028, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf028 Introduction & Background: Methods: Key Findings: Discussion & Implications: Some points to consider
Types of studies
Research Category Types Experimental Studies - Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT)- Laboratory Experiments- Field Experiments- Quasi-experimental Studies- Pre-test/Post-test Design Observational Studies - Cohort Studies- Case-Control Studies- Cross-sectional Studies- Longitudinal Studies- Ecological Studies Qualitative Studies - Ethnographic Research- Phenomenological Studies- Grounded Theory Studies- Case Studies- Narrative Research- Focus Groups Mixed Methods - Sequential Mixed Methods- Concurrent Mixed […]
Dengue vaccine - Greenbook Summary
Vaccine Description and Composition "The dengue vaccination Qdenga® is a tetravalent live attenuated vaccine. It is produced in Vero cells by recombinant DNA technology and contains serotype-specific surface protein genes of the four dengue serotypes, engineered into a dengue type 2 backbone." Storage and Presentation "Vaccines should be stored in the original packaging at +2C̊ […]
Microregistrar.moodlecloud.com
Microregistrar.moodlecloud.com is a mentoring course that is made on the Moodle platform. The course consists of This group at present has >230 members now from various parts of the world What this course will not give you - It is not a taught course. Although there will be occasional tutorials in future, this is not […]
How to make study-schedule for part 2 FRCPath Microbiology
(Experience of a successful trainee - Autumn 2023) I divided it into bacteriology/antimicrobial/clinical/ Viro/ IPC/ fungi/parasiteAs it’s always easier to prepare in that way.For bacteria - SMIs, especially tables at the back, covering all media, especially for faecal samples - how colonies of salmonella/shigella look like on CLD/DCABiochemical tests - I am sure we do […]