TSR Med Students' Society Part III

I'm now Dr Hygeia

On a slightly unrelated note I can't frickin' wait for Sonisphere in a few weeks time. Slightly excited.

I'm now Dr Hygeia

Our semester 4 clinical skills teaching...

- gynaecological examination - bimanual palpation, bivalve (cusco) speculum examination, performing a cervical smear
- examination of the groin, hernial orifices and male external genitalia
- antenatal obstetric examination
- examining a lump (generic)
- examination of the breast
- GALS assessment
- tissue viability
- phlebotomy (manakin)
- first aid
- otoscopy and hearing assessment
- manual handling

...and any of those + anything from semesters 1 - 3 can come up in the OSCE next week. Very underprepared. It's as if we're expected to be doctors by the end of second year or something. Some may think that it's good that we're taught clinicals earlier on - I personally think it's a bit ambitious and excessive given our curriculum structure.

Ours is relatively systems based, but it's also spiral. Like, we did everything in year one (bar a few topics), but revisited most things in year two and covered the majority of the things we missed (and we'll cover the remainder next year).

For instance, last year my understanding on a lot of the topics was reasonable, but not brilliant; I feel like after year two I understand most bodily systems really quite well. And a lot of the students who didn't feel comfortable with things after first year got a second chance to bolster things this year.

I guess you could then make the argument for covering things properly once rather than the spiral filling in gaps each time you complete a turn. Then again, human memory often leaves a lot to be desired; I'm convinced I'll remember things better having covered information twice or once but had a decent grounding to work on than if I'd just covered it once from scratch.

thanks! well done on the absolute fab result!!!!!!



not necessarily, we get our results back in 2 weeks or less and each write 13 (?) essays in total which is pretty efficient stuff from the examiners.

Er, thats slightly extensive. I'd probably die under the pressure!

We just had to know the following:
CVS exam
Resp exam
Abdominal exam
Shoulder exam
Hip exam
Knee exam
BP measurement
PEFR
Walking the blind
Talking to the deaf
Thyroid exam
Cranial Nerves exam
Upper Limb exam (motor and sensory)
Lower Limb exam (motor and sensory)
GALS
BLS
Communication Skills (gaining consent, taking a history, dealing with angry patients etc).

I swear just doing that felt like a lot to do in second year so your stuff must be crazy hard! Thats not to put you off or anything before they start! Haha.

Yeah but our medical school is relatively massive, it takes longer to go through them...

I have no better argument than that!

That's what we have to know, with added stuff like scrubbing/gloving/gowning, injections, RA or carpal tunnel hand examinations, urinalysis, TPR and stuff like that. And wrist/elbow/ankle exams too. And examining lumps and spine examination

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i imagine you have more examiners than us though

Oh those tests (Phalen's Test, Tinel sign) re carpal tunnel syndrome etc. were mentioned to us at some point last year, as were Rombergs Test and tests for graphesthesia etc. this year but we weren't examined on them in OSCEs. Those specific tests tended to come in spotter exams.

My best mate is a second year at "Norwich Medical School" () and he's always on about how good your OSCE teaching is - and I agree it is. I learnt bits of my shoulder and hip exams from him (because I didn't go to (m)any of my sessions this year) although apparently you guys dont cover neuro until later so he pretty much knows nothing on the cranial nerve examination and was like when I told him we had to know it in year one. That said, he does have an NHS card just because of the nature of your course and gets 40% off from Nandos! So jel.

....That said, he does have an NHS card just because of the nature of your course and gets 40% off from Nandos! So jel. ...

I had to do that in my OSCE today. And there wasn't a sink nearby so I had to dash straight into the next one. It's not as bad as my friend, who ended up auscultating the scrotum and forgot to clean it for the rest of the circuit

Oh those tests (Phalen's Test, Tinel sign) re carpal tunnel syndrome etc. were mentioned to us at some point last year, as were Rombergs Test and tests for graphesthesia etc. this year but we weren't examined on them in OSCEs. Those specific tests tended to come in spotter exams.

My best mate is a second year at "Norwich Medical School" () and he's always on about how good your OSCE teaching is - and I agree it is. I learnt bits of my shoulder and hip exams from him (because I didn't go to (m)any of my sessions this year) although apparently you guys dont cover neuro until later so he pretty much knows nothing on the cranial nerve examination and was like when I told him we had to know it in year one. That said, he does have an NHS card just because of the nature of your course and gets 40% off from Nandos! So jel.



Also, LOL! Joined today!

The Paget is amazing for teaching joint examination. The orthopod lead there is just awesome. Helped me get all my examinations to ~3mins from start to finish (with a fully compliant patient of course ) And yeah the only nerves I know are the ones in the limbs. And 40%!? I swear it's only 20........

Probably is 20%. All I know is that I always get him to pay for my food when we're out so I can leech off the discount too.

And 50% off when you collect at Dominoes

massively jealous of any medical schools with the early NHS cards

Oh thats right....that actually explains why he's always going to "pick up some pizza", or "eating some pizza" or doing something pizza related whenever I ring him!

This hurts me so much.

Where else does this card give you discounts? I might as well just let him get me whatever I need at such places when he finally breaks off for summer!

I do have an NHS card from my work experience 3 years ago though which has no expiry date on it. I am yet to test the waters to see if this will work in Nandos (and now Dominoes ). I don't know why it has no expiry date on it though. Not complaining. haha.