TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Well, when working throughout the year it's more like an hour per lecture making notes - 15/20 mins is what I'd spend on a first run through when revising over Easter. Each lecture totally varies of course.

Aren't some of the sample questions on the VC related to phase 2? I didn't use them so not sure. You never know, some may end on the black market around revision time.

The basics can be gleaned from books/other resources without much trouble. To me, the only time a lecture feels necessary is if it's about something that's not quite in the textbooks yet... the very up to date stuff.

We don't seem to get that. Our lectures are on the usual stuff that's covered in textbooks... except it's a person talking for an hour generally going through a pretty dismal powerpoint presentation.

Ah ok. Oh gosh yeah, I completely forget about the ones related to phase 2 on the VC! Thank you. Did you get the SSC choices you wanted by the way? We just submitted ours but I'm guessing not everyone gets one of their 6 choices!

i think it might be a department thing, there aren't many lectures i've been to that i feel i could reproduce in less than 50mins... if any! that's not to say i couldn't do the same without it but it would take much longer.

Do you feel you know it well after? Yeah, a lecture doesn't take that long, but to know the material well you'll have to go over it etc. That process in combination with the lecture is no faster really and makes learning more narrowed in my opinion.

This is where lectures and lecture-related things are positive in my book. Most here just reproduce things you can easily get in a more logical order/more comprehensively covered in a book.

Does anyone know if there is a reason why you shouldn't/can't measure b.p. or take blood from an arm after an axillary clearance? Obviously a fair time post-op, not in the same hour.

I'm not sure, I was always torn between what I eventually put as my firm and insurance and ultimately only put them the way they were because one was AAA and one was AAB.

Whenever I have slight tingles that I'm not fully enjoying myself I always turn to the "what if?" argument in my head. At the moment it's been brought on because I'm at home and don't really feel like going back. It's disconcerting when everyone I seem to speak to "can't wait to get back" and finds home so boring.

There are certain aspects that I am getting annoyed with as well, particularly the state of affairs with the union only being open for one night a week for sports teams. Because of this nobody really goes out much from my flat apart from that night which sucks.

Whenever the lectures are crap, I feel ****, miss XYZ etc I always return to what would it be like at the other place. Or if I get sick of London, etc. It's always when everyone else seems to be having a completely fantastic time, it's probably the same at the other place and I was just expecting too much with the way university is hyped up everywhere.

It doesn't help I've always had the thing that I always want to see how both things play out. In games I always save and play out both story lines if there's a decision, or look up both sides even if it's only minor differences. I'm really indecisive with minor things.




Do you dwell on it at all?



It was my favourite too, but every flaw I seem to find always makes me question if it would be like this elsewhere. Especially when I read other peoples accounts of the other place and it always addresses the flaw as being not an issue there.

Does anyone know if there is a reason why you shouldn't/can't measure b.p. or take blood from an arm after an axillary clearance? Obviously a fair time post-op, not in the same hour.

lack of tv license means its 10pm iplayer refresh!

I'd possibly be better off asking the pharmacists, but do any of you know the cheapest way of getting diclofenac (or similar) OTC? I've tried Voltareze, but at £7/pack I'm not keen.

No, not all of it, its much too fast. I know loads more than i would if i read a book for an hour though, i know what bits to read again or think about (often only really need the latter!) which is much more efficient than going through all of it from scratch (as far as i can see?) and leaves you more time to read more complicated things than basics, which is essential for our other exams.

Hmm but I watch it online so I don't need one I don't think? /ponders/

So far disappointing tbh. Don't get why they're living together?

If you watch it live online then theoretically you do


If it's post-showing then you don't