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Summary of Project Management for Real People

I have loved investigating project management skills this month. I have learnt a lot about running my PhD better.

Project management is an important tool that we can borrow from the business world to help get our personal goals and projects on track. Please look back over my recent posts, and share your experiences.

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Grand Rounds up at GruntDoc

I am a bit late on this post, but medical grand rounds is being hosted this week by GruntDoc. It is the 200th edition of the famous Grand Rounds.
Take a look, it is worth it for GruntDoc’s interesting commentary.

Applequack.com is participating in Blogging Idol

Daily Blog Tips is running a Blogging Idol. Applequack has signed up this year. The aim is to increase the number of RSS subscribers over one month. The most successful is declared the winner. This will be a true competition, as competitors are not allowed to pay for advertising.
So [...]

Happy Easter!

I am taking a break over Easter, so I will not be posting until next Tuesday. I will then return to approximately daily posts.
I hope you managed to avoid on-call over the holiday and are having a break yourself. Happy Easter!

Blog intro: Who am I?

I am a doctor in Melbourne, Australia, and a Mac User. I am training to become a surgeon, and currently working on my PhD in surgery at Austin Hospital Dept of Surgery. I switched to using an Intel Mac about 12 months ago and was astounded at how little medical software there is [...]