A group of Researchers from University College London analyzed the brains of 125 people and 85 of whom were bilingual.
They found that, learning other languages can altered the “grey matter”. The Grey matter is the area of the brain which processes all languages information in the same way exercise builds muscles.
They also discovered that, people who learned a second language at a younger age, have more grey matter than those who learned later, the team said (more info here).
Starting from next july is possible to enroll to an intensive twelve day - 90 hour - course designed to prepare candidates for the “Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in General Surgery”.
This course course offers tutorials on sub-speciality topics, Clinical Sessions, Authoritative state of the art lectures, Symposia, sub-specialty surgery, critical care and academic surgery.
This course will consist of two parts.
The first part will comprise a 2 hour multiple choice paper and a further 2 hours paper using extended matching questions. The second part will be a clinical and oral examination. The 1st session will be held on 18th November 2009 and the 2nd session few weeks later.
The Higher Surgery Course does not at present offer teaching directed specifically towards the MCQ and EMQ papers though the course content will be relevant to them. Candidates who want to attend the course either before sitting Part 1 or before sitting Part 2 must enroll before 31th October 2009.
The total Course Fee is 1200$ for candidates and 700$ for Observers.
