TSR Med Students' Society Part III

thank yoou! i got my colouring book in the post today, i feel like such a kid

Medical management talk today. Very interesting to see how it looks healthcare is heading...

Bah consent.

It's good that you're still involved and busy in student activities...etc. I've certainly toned it down this year. So what are you rehearsing for? Revue? A musical?

I think RAG fortnight is happening the first two weeks after exams so mid-Februaryish. Really looking forward to it! Not sure of the theme as of yet but I'll let you know when I do.

Tooting's not bad. It's stressful to know that the written exam in a few weeks will be 2/3 based on semester 3 (MSS/neuro) and 1/3 based on semesters 1 + 2 (basically every system in the body). I'm almost done with semester 3 revision leaving me just over a week to cram everything I learned in first year. Reckon it's possible lol? I'm hoping I'll be able to blag my way through psychology, sociology and all the models/theories thrown in too. Because knowing the specific, patterning and gate control theory of pain is going to make me become a better doctor. Load of *******s.

We didn't really touch on primary care much other than that a worry about giving such a large amount of the NHS budget to private contractors (GPs) that their will be conflict of interest.

As for everything else that doctors are going to become more and more managers along with being clinicians.

I personally think this is exciting but obviously there are many that do not.

Thing is, there isn't alot of management in the MBBS course. Also, consider that if we do learn management as medics, it will have to shove something else OUT of the curriculum, what gets kicked out?

They were saying they want it brought in plus at the college level, so we will see it at junior doctor level most likely by the time I get there.

I don't know what would go, our anatomy is as paired down as it can be without just handing us a copy of grays and telling us to go learn it.

But it is coming I think. I would like to say take out clinical communication stuff but that is never going to happen...

But it is coming I think. I would like to say take out clinical communication stuff but that is never going to happen...

Anyone got any tips for remembering drug names? I can't find a bearable way of learning 'use X or Y for Z' when we haven't learnt anything about the actual drugs.

Pre-clin

why are you being made to memorise drugs without knowing their mechanism? what kinds of drugs do you mean? is it feasible to learn the relevant phys&pharm before your exam? rote learn is terrible if it can be helped!

Also something to note perhaps, I didn't really sign up to be a manager, I signed up to primarily be a clinician. I imagine most other applicants did too. Some knowledge outside of medicine is clearly needed, but doing specificity and sensitivity calculations, some parts of epidemiology and sociology I find quite dry and, to my current knowledge, not overly necessary.

That's not really management stuff, though, that's necessary to be able to understand why you order one test over another, and why one disease should figure far more highly in your differential than another.

So everyone in the uni is finishing their exams in the next few days. I've got another 2 weeks before mine start. Hmph.

I know, and I agree that some of it is important, I didn't mention any managerial stuff as I haven't been taught any yet, but I imagine some would come in (hopefully to the expense of some of the perhaps 'less relevant' areas of the fields I mentioned - however I must say I am quite naive on their use only being a first year) when the NHS changes take place.

ooo whats it for?

As for advice how long have you got before the application?

Exactly, it's a joke. I'm looking at a table on a lecture slide, it's stuff like 'MSSA: Use flucloxacillin or clindamycin. Alternatively, glycopeptides, linezolid or doxycycline'. I'm effectively just learning long words. I don't really want to give myself extra work, but if it will make it easier...