VUmc – Amsterdam Medical Student journal

Interview: dr. N.W.C.J. van de Donk

dr. N.W.C.J. van de Donk

Area of expertise

Multiple Myeloma, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), Smouldering multiple myeloma and immunotherapy.

SkillsLab: Acute versus Chronic Leukemia

Acute versus Chronic Leukemia

A case is presented of a 31 year-old male in his usual state of health, until he started experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue and bleeding of gums. What could his diagnosis be? And why is it important to know all the leukemia types?

SkillsLab: Determining benign from malign

Determining benign from malign

Why is it important to distinguish between seborrheic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma in clinical setting? After watching this SkillsLab video you will be able to properly diagnose a patient and distinguish between seborrheic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma.

Interview: dr. M. Muller

dr. M. Muller

Looking back, I made a detour in my career to become an internist-geriatrician. I have always liked working with elderly. For example, during high school I already had a summer job in an elderly home. Nonetheless my interest in working with the elderly patients came much later. After high school, I initially started studying in the field of Human Movement Sciences. I enjoyed classes in neurology and the musculoskeletal system. I found that I did not only want to know about these subjects but also treat patients, therefore I switched to studying medicine, after my master.

Interview: prof. dr. T. de Vries

prof. dr. T. de Vries

I was trained as a medical doctor at the University of Groningen. This was also the place where I was trained in general practice and clinical pharmacology (PhD) and was appointed as lecturer in clinical pharmacology in 1980, later combined with work in general practice. In 1996 I accepted a professorship in Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at the department of Medical Pharmacology at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

Interview: prof. dr. Y. Smulders

prof. dr. Y. Smulders

‘Am I going to die?’, was my first reponse when I was asked to write an In Retrospect. I feel too young to write this.

Anyway, don’t expect me to ‘look back at my career’, as I truly feel as if it has just started. As a docter, I sense that my skills are improving every year still. To find the optimum between knowledge, experience, intuition and communicative skill has been a much more formidable challenge than I ever imagined when I started my career in medicine.

SkillsLab: Acid-Base Homeostasis

Acid-Base Homeostasis

An eighteen year old man is presented at the emergency department with complaints of dyspnea, weight loss and general unease. You’re the junior intern on call that day and the emergency physician sends you to analyse the blood gas. Will you manage?