TSR Med Students' Society Part III

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Reply 1880

Renal

Original post by Jessaay!

You say this and you live in Tooting! :p:

I feared death when I was there for sportsnight :p:

I feared death when I ended up with their mixed hockey lot PFO in some grubby indian restaurant.

Reply 1881

Jessaay!

Original post by Renal

I feared death when I ended up with their mixed hockey lot PFO in some grubby indian restaurant.

Scary times :frown:

Luckily I survived being with their rowers in a grubby italian restaurant once.

Reply 1882

John Locke

Original post by Mushi_master

We have 2/3 weeks christmas and 4/5 weeks easter, so that really is quite different! Does that make for very intense terms then?

i'd be worried at the quality of our degree if it didn't :p:

Reply 1883

visesh

I miss the days of having over 6 months of vacation per year :frown:

Actually, **** that, I don't. Yes, the time "off" was good, but the terms far too intense.

Reply 1884

Medicine Man

We have our end of year exams in 12 weeks - apparently one of the hardest exams we'll sit throughout medical school just because of the sheer volume they expect us to know! :afraid:

Quite scary how quickly this year has gone though! :yep:

Our summers are usually quite long anyway in the first two years. Then get progressively shorter each year. Last summer was epically long! :coma:

Reply 1885

Fission_Mailed

Forgot how much I like Coheed and Cambria. :biggrin:

Reply 1886

Jessaay!

Original post by fission_mailed

forgot how much i like coheed and cambria. :d

high five.

Reply 1887

Fission_Mailed

Original post by Jessaay!

high five.

And I will never forget that I like Parkway Drive.

Reply 1888

digitalis

Original post by Medicine Man

We have our end of year exams in 12 weeks - apparently one of the hardest exams we'll sit throughout medical school just because of the sheer volume they expect us to know! :afraid:

Quite scary how quickly this year has gone though! :yep:

Our summers are usually quite long anyway in the first two years. Then get progressively shorter each year. Last summer was epically long! :coma:

Yeah second year is a bitch.

Reply 1889

Medicine Man

Original post by digitalis

Yeah second year is a bitch.

About that. Generally speaking I know they will examine us on stuff from both first year and second year, but does that include FunMed material too because that will take the piss. Like ACTUALLY take the piss. :/

Reply 1890

digitalis

Original post by Medicine Man

No there's enough to examine so it will mostly be just second year stuff.

Although it is a damn good idea to learn the funmed stuff in depth because it is the foundation of all of medicine. If you understand that, you understand the mechanisms behind why things go wrong rather than just rote learning reams of signs and symptoms to go with diseases etc.

I cannot believe actually how badly taught Funmed was, it is proving a real hindrance trying to teach myself all of it properly for the USMLE step 1. For example, Carrol glossing over gluconeogenesis in an hour? Or Burley doing pharm in an hour? Total joke.

Reply 1891

Renal

Original post by digitalis

I cannot believe actually how badly taught Funmed was, it is proving a real hindrance trying to teach myself all of it properly for the USMLE step 1. For example, Carrol glossing over gluconeogenesis in an hour? Or Burley doing pharm in an hour? Total joke.

I agree.

Never thought about it at the time, or through most of medical school, but I really regret not having a good grasp of the basic science, especially since I'm having to teach myself now.

Reply 1892

digitalis

Original post by Renal

I agree.

Never thought about it at the time, or through most of medical school, but I really regret not having a good grasp of the basic science, especially since I'm having to teach myself now.

Primary is really science heavy yeah.

I just like being able to actually understand why things work, helps me remember it more. I.e. everyone knows diabetics get neuropathies, but why...

Glucose > sorbitol in excess (by aldose reductase) which is osmotically active. This is broken down by sorbitol dehydrogenase by most tissues to fructose. Some tissue like schwann cells, lens, retina, kidneys don't have the dehydrogenase so they can't break it down, so you get osmotic damage in those cells!

Was a proper lightbulb moment for me!

Reply 1893

Renal

Original post by digitalis

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(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 1894

visesh

I'm slowly starting to feel grateful about our pretty hellish preclinical years. At the time, it felt so far-removed from "medicine" that I hated it, but in the last year or so, things are beginning to gel together and make sense a LOT.