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Moved this to biology section.

The last two years of medical schools here are clinical rotations, wherein you rotate through all the fields (i.e. medicine, surgery, obgyn, pediatrics, family practice, etc.) and mostly watch doctors do their job and you get a chance to see what you learned your first two years applied. Then, when you graduate medical school you're legally a physician. From here, you go on to do an internship year, in which you start making autonomous decisions, but you're still the low dog in the food chain (as they say, crap rolls down hill and interns and students are at the bottom of the hill). After one year internship, you do your residency in whatever field you want to practice in. This is usually 3-7 years. During this time you learn your field in detail under the watchful eye of the medical heirarchy. With each year of residency comes more autonomy. After your residency you are qualified to take the boards and get certified in your specialty. For example, to become a surgeon you would go to four years of medical school, do an internship, and then do a 4-5 year surgery residency (or more if you want to be a specialist surgeon) and then take your boards.

Phi for All's avatar is the Helix Nebula speaking of which, I need to change mine like mad. That picture is so oldddd

Special thanks to atinymonkey for suggesting a few of these.

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Wow, what a great topic. I'd like to see a debate about it here...

So you'll finish school at about the same age I will. Do you have to do internships and residencies?

Dak once called me a banana. BTW, there are a few members from physicsforums who post here as well, so it won't be a secret for long. Besides, we are smaller. We should set our goal to like "1000" or something.

It works differently in the states. Here, you must have your bachelors before you can apply to medical school. So, you finish highschool when you're 18. You finish university when you're 22-23, then you apply to medical school. Some schools have special programs that allow you to complete your bachelors in your first year of medical school, thus shortening the process to 7 years. Thus, 99.9% of the applicants to US medical school have finished college. I'm 22 and I start in August, but I'm one of the youngest in my medical school class. Most are 24-25. Medical school itself is a four year program (+1 yr internship, 3-7 residency). How does it work in the UK?

Thanks for all your replies. I just assumed that batteries would be charged by the alternator, which works as a result of the combustion of gasoline. I couldn't figure out how it could be more efficient to translate the combustion into electric energy, then use that to power the car instead of using the energy directly from the combustion to power the car. It makes a lot of sense to use breaks to harvest energy, that's a lot of untapped energy in regular cars. Thanks again everyone!

How are hybrid cars that don't need to be recharged more efficient than a standard car? The energy from the batteries ultimately comes from gasoline anyways. Wouldn't it be less efficient to charge a battery with gas and then use the battery to power the car than to use gas directly?

hehe, I changed it this morning. Tree brings up good points, and so I'll rename it back.

I'm not sure what you're asking. Could you rephrase it? We assumed that the velocity of the balls were the same. If the pitcher is running, then you would have to add the arm velocity + the velocity of his body to get the final velocity of the ball.

My friend has a lot of money riding on this game. I don't follow the NBA though :/

If the velocities are the same, the balls are thrown and fired at the same time, and they are equidistant from the target, then they will arrive at the exact same time. The motion of the pitcher's arm does not factor in as something you add to the velocity, if that's what your wondering. The motion of his arm is actually what is accelerating the ball to it's initial velocity (right when it leaves his hand). Thus, as long as the velocity of the ball as it leaves the barrel is equivalent to the velocity of the ball as it leaves the pitchers arm is the same, and they are at an equal distance from the target, they will arrive at the same time.

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I never found it useful to memorize the whole periodic table. But it should be noted that the extent of my chemistry career has been six college courses. I picked up most of the characteristics of basic elements and common elements over the years, but I still referenced the periodic table quite frequently. Others will be able to respond to your other questions, I need to sleep.

This thread is dangerously close to being moved to psuedoscience. You all can add your closing comments (responses to El), then I'll move it.

You could always fly over to Japan and have them break your legs and stretch you out. In all seriousness, I've never heard of a sport causing you to grow.

I'm not sure that arm speed can be directly correlated to muscle mass. Smaller people tend to have a speed advantage over larger people, but obviously larger people can sometimes pack a bigger punch. So to answer your question: more muscle doesn't necessarily mean more speed.

whoops, should have said "script" instead of software.

Anyone know of any good (aka free) blogging software?

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