Sep 20

Sep 20 The Anti-Hypertensive Rap for Medical Students — How to Learn Your Pharmacology with Style.

Now, this is a fun little way to enjoy learning pharmacology for hypertension. If you like to sing during your pharmacology exam and annoy your friends then this is for you!

Sep 10

Sep 10 The Wonders of the Tongue — Its Muscles with Motor and Sensory Nerve Innervations.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

Have you ever wondered how your tongue worked? If you think about it, it is quite complicated and intricate on how all the muscles come together so that you can move your tongue around and change its shape. It is also very interesting to learn about its nerve innervations and how it communicates with our brain. Let's find out!

Aug 30

Aug 30 My Book Review on The Tall Man — Death and Life on Palm Island.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

The Tall Man – Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper essentially boils down to Mr Mulrunji Doomadgee, an Indigenous person, found dead in custody on the cold prison cell floor where Mr Chris Hurley, a non-Indigenous person, was the police officer in charge.

Aug 20

Aug 20 My Rural Diary About Benalla's Health, Victoria.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

My interest in rural life and rural medical practice has been consolidated after visiting Benalla. I have learnt that general practitioners (GPs) have a huge and meaningful impact on the community and, comically, are celebrities around the town.

Aug 15

Aug 15 An Introduction to Benalla and Its Health, Victoria.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

I wanted to visit a small rural town that was outside of Queensland so I could see what Australia had to offer. I ended up in a small quaint city called Benalla in Victoria. I really enjoyed Benalla and decided to look up at its health and see how a rural town was doing compared to a major city.

Aug 7

Aug 7 Chapter Seven — Appendix I.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

Appendix of the project with all the tables that did not feature throughout the presenting project. Includes: amount of CBP (grams) used and the surface area utilised (cm2) for each formulation and days, textural profiling for each formulation and dissolution results of all the formulations at day 0, 7, 14, 28 and 60.

Aug 6

Aug 6 Chapter Six — Discussion and Conclusion.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

The effect of diluting the formulations and the standard formulation containing Dovate® with aqueous cream and homogenizing in a pharmacy setting showed that it was a major factor of slowing down or restricting the release CBP.

Aug 5

Aug 5 Chapter Five (B) — Results and Statistics Analysis.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

A t-test for spreadability was carried out for each formulation and compared to the standard. A dependent t-test, due to being in the same sample, will be used.

Aug 4

Aug 4 Chapter Five (A) — Results and Statistics Analysis.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

The collecting of the results expanded over a 28-day period where 4 dissolutions curves were made. On Day 60 the last dissolution curve was made to expand on the degradation studies.

Aug 3

Aug 3 Chapter Four — Methodology.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

In analytical chemistry the accurate quantitative measurement of the composition of samples, such as in spectroscopy, would require a calibration using standard samples of known composition. A calibration curve is an analytical method to determine the concentration of an unknown sample solution.

Aug 2

Aug 2 Chapter Three — The Development of Formulations and the Analysis of Clobetasol Propionate in Aqueous Cream.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

When an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is incorporated into a formulation, a rate of release of that API occurs. This is the case with a variety of formulations. Clobetasol and various surfactants that were incorporated into aqueous cream during this experiment followed this concept.

Aug 1

Aug 1 Chapter Two — Literature Review of Clobetasol Propionate.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

Topical corticosteroids are formulated for the treatment of dermatoses. These types of formulations vary in efficacy due to the factors on which such efficacy is dependent. Within a pharmacy setting, manufacturing methods are simplified. Do these affect its integrity?

Jul 31

Jul 31 Topical Corticosteroids Manufactured Under Pharmacy Conditions and the Effect Thereof on Stability, Release of API and Textural Profile.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

During my final year of my bachelor of pharmacy I had the joy of doing a project in pharmaceutics on topical corticosteroids. This project took us 6 months to accomplish and it mainly taught us about research, reading the literature and to attempt at making a pharmaceutics project.

Jul 30

Jul 30 Chest Discomfort, Night Cough and Easy Bruising — The Important Questions a Doctor Should Ask.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

There is an enormous amount of patients that present to the clinic with either respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms. A skilful physician will be able to expertly ask the right questions that have a tremendous amount of significance in finding out the current problems. Hence, asking the right questions is extremely important in medicine.

Jul 15

Jul 15 My Role Model Who Has Aspired Me Towards the Medical Profession.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

My admiration for medicine came from a Professor Barau who had inspired and enhanced positively my perception towards medicine along with all the complicated and tedious aspects that come with the medical profession.

May 31

May 31 Hypothetical Cases in Medicine as a Student, Its Challenges and How to Resolve Them.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

Sometimes as a student we are bound to come across unpleasant situations. So how do we cope with it or what should we do? Some scenarios can be difficult to deal with and on the moment can make someone’s mind race and go completely blank.

May 30

May 30 My University Medical Interviews Experience and Getting Prepared for Them.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

You can hear your heart pounding in your chest knowing that this is a very important moment of your life, so how to make this as easy as possible? The competition is tough and there is no denying it. Interviews are extremely scary but unfortunately, we all have to go through it.

May 15

May 15 Clinical Management of End-Stage Renal Disease — Palm Island, Australia.

Andréas L.P. Astier

Medicine & Pharmacy

In 2017, the healthcare staff made a commitment to turn the tide of the impact of chronic Kidney disease and to provide the Indigenous community in Palm Island with the tools they need to take ownership of their kidney health.