ARE YOU A PRISONER TO YOUR EXAM FEAR

In order to excel in the USMLE exam, students must Think Like a Doctor and apply clinical thinking to each exam question. Becker faculty Dr. Steven R. Daugherty understands the underlying logic of the USMLE exam and is devoted to ensuring students’ success on test day. Through his personal USMLE exam prep resource, USMLEThought.com, Dr. Daugherty collaborated with Dr. Phillip Tisdall, M.D. to provide a ten-step process guiding students through the clinical thinking process.

Collect the basics. Age, gender, time frame and other demographic information will help you to picture the patient and the setting in your mind’s eye.

What’s the chief complaint? Is there a standard or clear clinical problem with a known approach?

Engage the clinical “train of thought.” Imagine you and a senior physician are in the room with the patient. Read through the rest of the question stem as if the physician were talking to you about the patient.

Consider the full set of information which is presented. Dr. Daugherty suggests moving away from looking for a simple association or “hook” in the question to considering the full set of information that is presented.

Come to a conclusion about the disease in question. Before reading the question line, come to your own conclusion about the disease in question.

Now read the question line. At this point, the question line should seem like the logical conclusion of your clinical thought process. Given all that has been presented, what does the senior physician want you to know?

Decide on the answer.

Look at the answer choices. Only look at the answer choices after you’ve already decided on the answer.

If you cannot think of a good answer, exclude the ones that you know are incorrect and pick from what is left. Eliminating false answers first will allow you to spend more time focusing on the answers that are most reasonable.

Move on to the next clinical case.

Practicing these steps and mastering the clinical thinking process will eventually help you to anticipate what information the question gives you to solve the problem. As Dr. Daugherty states: “Learning to think like a clinician is the key to understanding what each question expects from you and how to find the ‘train of thought’ that leads you to the solution waiting at the end.”

ACCA full form - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

As an account graduate the name - 'ACCA' might not be the first time you heard of it. So, let's talk more about it. I will try to give you some information regarding ACCA.

As ACCA full form states it's an association which conducts an exam which is widely accepted and acknowledged across the world.

To be an ACCA one has to give 2 sets of exams – one a fundamental level exam and the second one is a professional level exam.

ACCA exam papers information -

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Start Your Career in Finacial Analyst

Are you a financial expert by profession? Are you a graduate looking to start a career in finance? Have you ever heard of Financial Analyst? Here I will tell you more about financial analyst and how to become a successful financial analyst.

Answer these questions:

1) Analyst analyses financial data?

2) Generate financial reports?

3) Prepare the financial plan for the business?

 If you think "no" is the answer to any of the above questions then you definitely need to know more about what a financial analyst does. Here is a snapshot of Financial analyst job profile - 

1)  sell-side function

2) buy-side function.

3) Investment dealings

4) merger or acquisition.

And what not any financial deal of a company requires a financial expert and here it can be a financial analyst. 

Employment opportunities:

1) NBFCs

2) broking houses

3) mutual and pension funds – corporates

4) investment banking firms

5) and all other MNC which are hungry to aquire other firms

6) other big firms 

Scope of Work

Majority of financial analysts deal with investments. They advise their employer or their clients as to where to deploy funds for maximum returns. The investment could be in stocks or in other instruments such as commodity markets, currency, or even real-estate. This is also called the buy-side function. On the other hand, an analyst in a sell-side function would evaluate stocks and securities and prepare research reports with a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold particular stocks or securities.

One of the positions that are considered very prestigious for a financial analyst is to work in an investment bank. Here, an analyst helps the bank in pricing its investment products. Analysts also work in merger and acquisition projects and play a major role by studying corporates’ fundamentals to determine the feasibility of the said merger or acquisition. For this, they may prepare financial models and also use forecasting tools. They also study venture capital opportunities for their bank’s clients and advice on the prospects of the business that is seeking venture capital. An analyst also prepares financial models to estimate future economic trends and financial parameters of business entities. They are also required to keep track of prevailing laws and regulatory framework for different types of industries.

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