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I got the poem from one of my instructors.

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Are you having problems recording, Dongqing?
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I think the quality of the record was due to my flu. Thank you for your concern. Merry Christma.

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I was referring to ther fact that for a long time (several hours) there was no recording with the message rather than the quality of it. I'm sorry to hear you are feeling unwell and hope you are better soon.
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DESIDERATA

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

--found in Old St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore in 1692.

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the lecture practise.

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Please listen to my recording and respond with a voice message too. Many thanks.

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Hello Lisa,
I think it is very important for you to have passion to learn English. If you don't enjoy tothe process of learning it, it is hard for you. I suggest to begin with the basic. I sometimes still practice to pronunciate certain words many times. I remeber that at the beginning, I hated remembering the spelling of words, but the more I practice, the more enjoyful I feel.

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Hello Dongqing,

How about listening to authentic audios for learning English? I believe reading intensively is very important, as well as listening too, for learning English language skills. There are authentic audio sources like BBC radio, CNN, you can listen to regularly to train your ears with the voices of native speakers.

There are lots of other topic pages here in this forum. I would invite you to take part in one of the topic pages called “Speaking English for 20 seconds a day?”

You’ve a passion to learn English - this is the basic reason that you’d succeed!

By for now!

Mujibur
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I. Educational Objectives
Medical statistics is an applied science which integrates statistical principles, methods and medicine together. It also is a fundamental course in clinical medicine. In term of educational objectives, the purpose of the course is to train medical students’ statistic thinking skills and to guide medical students to master the basic statistical methods of collection, organization and interpretation of statistical data. The course implements the principle of combining theory and practice in statistics and is also closely relevant to common basic statistical questions in medicine. The objectives for students are to master the fundamental theories, methods and techniques in medical statistics, to apply knowledge to medical practice, to conduct science research, and to use medical statistics as a basic tool to learn others subjects and to read professional publications critically.

(I). Fundamental Theory
Students will focus on mastering fundamental statistical principles, basic statistical concepts, basic statistical methods, application conditions and their advantage and disadvantage in medical statistics. Students also will focus on developing their statistical thinking skills and only need to understand significant meanings of relevant statistical formulas. Students are not expected to learn deeply the mathematical derivation. Students are required to comprehend statistical design, data collection, data organization and interpretation of the correlation of data. Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Master the basic concepts of medical statistics (population and sample, variation, hypothesis testing, the normal range, confidence interval, sample error, etc.), and basic types of statistical data and common statistical indicators.
2. Master meanings, usage, proper application condition, advantage & disadvantage and result interpretation of common statistics methods in medical statistics.
3. Become familiar with the fundamental principles and elemental factors of experimental design and as well as basic content of survey design.
4. Understand common experimental design in clinical trails and epidemiological survey, common theories and application of statistical distribution, and common medical health indicators.

(II). Skills and Competency
1. Self-learning ability: The courses will focus on key and difficult materials in order to inspire and motivate students’ self-directed learning about the course materials and references.
2. Basic skills: Students will be expected to master the accurate statistics methods to collect medical data, drawing chart and its caution, the calculation of common statistical indicators and use of calculators.
3. Independent thinking skills: Students will develop their independent thinking and comprehensive ability through participating in the labs and group discussion.
Application skills: Students will be required to finish assignments independently, to master the skills of calculation and analysis and to write statistical reports.
4. In practice, students will be organized into extracurricular groups to participate in the whole process of scientific research in order to understand the roles of research design, data collection and analysis in medical statistics.
5. English: Students will be expected to master common medical statistics terminology.