TSR Med Students' Society Part III

This is all so exciting your all medical students! i've applied for 2012 and i've got my fingers crossed for a place how are you all finding it? loving it?

Why were you having it done?

What the **** is the difference between health inequalities and health inequities? I've read so many different resources and it still sounds like bull ****.

Ward Round Me (FY2) started off actually taking all day.
It was care of the elderly, kept getting sucked into doing jobs as we went along & we had patients over 7 wards or so (orthogeri / surgical geri link team)...

All day continuous - acute medical ward.

You use reference software? I just do them manually

As fiddly as refworks/write-in-cite is to set up and start using, it's DRASTICALLY easier and faster than trying to write essays/reviews manually putting in references. You basically find papers on pubmed, save the references on your refworks account. When writing a paper, click in where you want to pop in a citation, write-in-cite will automatically enter in the citation in any format you want (ie number or surname etc) and automatically generate the reference list at the end in whatever format you need (Harvard, Vancouver etc). If you've done them numbered, like Imperial and most institutions want us to do, and not by surname, it automatically orders all the citations and references. This becomes much more important if you've written quite a bit and then go back to add or remove a citation. It also becomes important if you've got 20-30 references in a paper.

I can't even imagine how much time I'd waste trying to do it manually. This is my BSc year so I'm going to probably going to be referencing hundreds and hundreds of papers this year. (will not read hundreds and hundreds of papers though )

Exam, assignment due date, family study visits (2 hour round trips + the meeting!), GP visits (ditto), ethics debate all within a few days of each other. I hate my life.

..and I still have absolutely no idea what Searle is talking about. His booklets are the bane of my existence.

I was hoping that they would start slow since I've only been at university what... a month? But no... it's bloody intense.

I even did it manually for my dissertation which had ~ 50 references The software sounds so much easier though!

Any other second years feeling crushed by the workload? I think I might have an MI from the amount of stress I'm feeling at the moment. I'm generally a really stressy/worried/obssesive person anyway, so it's probably just me thinking things are worse than they are. But oh em gee I think it's just going to get even worse as the year progresses... /RANT

I hear Refworks is ****e, but it's the one Imperial uses so we were taught that one. Yet even still, it's drastically easier than doing it manually.

In any case i really doubt anyone does actually have to know even subunit-type detail as a core component of their course, unless they have a particularly obtuse lecturer setting the exam...

If there was an opposite of loving it (that wasn't necessarily hating it) then that would probably be spot on...

Its hard at first but then when you learn how to use it, its pretty easy. But if you keep changing references and the bibliography too many times, it can mess up the document, as I found out about 2 hours before I had to hand my dissertation in and then it wouldn't let me do anything with the document. The librarian had to bring a manual as she didn't know what to do either Mild panic attack.

Just find the pubmed article (or even if you didn't use pubmed initially to get the article, just find the pubmed version and import that into refworks).

Oh how I wish this was true. Acetylcholine receptor is the easiest of many

Yeah, it's recommended to update the bibliography as you go, and save often. If you try to do too many at once, it throws a fit. I'll also save, close and re-open Word from time to time as it can get buggy after a while and crash inexplicably.

I passed!!!

No I meant don't keep updating and changing the bibliography, make the bibliography at the end. Thats what I did wrong :/ kept changing my references around and then that changed the bibliography = utter mess. Oh definitely keep saving your work, I hate it when you close Microsoft Word and then it gives you an error message saying 'any work you completed might be lost'. I hate writing essays. Medical school has completely ruined any ability I had.

Do mean here that you're required to be aware that nicotinic ACh receptors have different subunits? Or that you need to know the subunit concoctions of them (i.e., (α4)₃(β2)₂)?


If it's the latter...