TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Thanks for trying



Nope :-s just took a bit from the abstract and assumed the rest of the paper would correlate with the rest of the research I've done. #cba

Have to say, first time I've asked for help from TSR and it didn't work

Three weeks until end of years. The fear has officially set in.

I shall start revision en masse tomorrow.

2 weeks for me. Just got back to uni this afternoon.

Have you done any at home? I'm due into London in the next hour or so. I'm not planning on doing any tonight. Going to get a good nights sleep, hit my pharmacology lecture then spend the rest of tomorrow in the library.

I have half a week per three week module. All are three weeks long bar one which is 9 but has a lot of fluff in it.

A week of lectures a day. Oh boy.

My SSC this year is depressingly crap

How often do you guys get the "I hate medicine wtf am I doing" feeling vs the "Man, I love this" feeling? Medical students are excellent at putting up a facade and I've only been able to properly talk to about two people properly about it. Unless, 95% of my year love every aspect of it of course.

I think I've only had the "Man, I love this" feeling maybe three times compared to what feels like hating medicine every other day.

How often do you guys get the "I hate medicine wtf am I doing" feeling vs the "Man, I love this" feeling? Medical students are excellent at putting up a facade and I've only been able to properly talk to about two people properly about it. Unless, 95% of my year love every aspect of it of course.

I think I've only had the "Man, I love this" feeling maybe three times compared to what feels like hating medicine every other day.

I feel your pain, although we don't do ours until after exams! What is it on?

Until I'm presented with conflicting evidence, I'm saying that the Keele year two SSC is the worst SSC of any course in the UK (or even world).

We had to volunteer for a charitable organisation for a total of 24 hours (8 sessions of 3 hours), which we technically chose ourselves. We ranked our top ten (of less than fifteen possibles) organisations and we were then allocated to one. Had to hand in a reflective assignment on our experience there and now I'm struggling through part two of it which is an A1 poster on the aims, target population and actions of the organisation.

How well you do is utterly dependent on your luck in getting a good placement. It's the least objective thing to mark I've ever come across. Yet it's this sort of thing that'll be looked at when I come to apply to intercalate. Really irritating.

What's more is that the year one SSC was really good. Useful.

(/rant )

I did a nearly identical Student Selected 'Unit' (SSU) last year at Southampton. I feel your pain!

Until I'm presented with conflicting evidence, I'm saying that the Keele year two SSC is the worst SSC of any course in the UK (or even world).

We had to volunteer for a charitable organisation for a total of 24 hours (8 sessions of 3 hours), which we technically chose ourselves. We ranked our top ten (of less than fifteen possibles) organisations and we were then allocated to one. Had to hand in a reflective assignment on our experience there and now I'm struggling through part two of it which is an A1 poster on the aims, target population and actions of the organisation.

How well you do is utterly dependent on your luck in getting a good placement. It's the least objective thing to mark I've ever come across. Yet it's this sort of thing that'll be looked at when I come to apply to intercalate. Really irritating.

What's more is that the year one SSC was really good. Useful.

(/rant )