TSR Med Students' Society Part III

I think the weirdest thing I've seen was a near middle-aged woman (brought to A&E by her sister) who had apparently regressed to a child-like state. She just sat there drawing with crayons and doing baby talk, but was otherwise lucid and healthy. Creepy as ****.

Don't think it was legit.

First lot of inter professional education sessions today. Interesting.......

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My consultant has only asked me to present a patient. On my first day. On the ward round where before I was in handover.
I want to know by what magical ability I was supposed to know the patient...

Lol.
I still felt having never had a chance to meet the patient it was a little unfair

I'm now an acute medical housebitch, this is what I do constantly for four hours a day, every day, every week for six months. My l33t emergency medicine and putting-people-to-sleep skillz are being used to speed read some on-call housie's clerking, parrot it off to a boss and then be embarrassed when they haven't recorded the serum rhubarb in the appropriate place in the notes and they haven't already ordered a magnetic resonance mesenteric angiogram.

Am I supposed to know a lot of stuff by the end of my first two years? I know it sounds stupid because I still have three years left but even before starting clinical there are some diseases we literally have never been taught about.

For example, an old school friend got diagnosed with Crohns. Granted, I know the gist of it from passing anecdotes such as examples when the immune system goes wrong but not the mechanism nor treatment. We've never been officially taught about this disease, have I been missing large chunks or is this normal? Technically I've finished all of my pre-clincial metabolism teaching so I'll never learn about Crohns in a pre-clinical setting, this just strikes me as odd. While I could get the ideas of the treatment from wikipedia/emedicine based on background knowledge of immunology and drugs I still find it disconcerting. Had this old friend never got diagnosed I would have entered a ward having never really learnt about it ready to be arse raped by a consultant.

This isn't the only disease either, obviously. I'm just using it as an example. I understand we can't be taught every condition in the entire world but from what I gather Crohns/UC aren't exactly rare.

You'll pick this stuff up in your clinical years (reading, talking with doctors, etc.).

Mind, if you find a good mechanism for how the immune system goes wrong in Crohn's, let me know. Oh, and collect your global recognition for it too.

I had about 4 lectures on UC/crohns...

You know what I mean, you're a lot more cynical these days than you used to be when I was applying

I had about 4 lectures on UC/crohns...

In third year or in the past? We've never had any formal teaching on either and I can't see any block where it would fit with what's left in this year (Loco/B&B).

My consultant has only asked me to present a patient. On my first day. On the ward round where before I was in handover.
I want to know by what magical ability I was supposed to know the patient...

Am I supposed to know a lot of stuff by the end of my first two years? I know it sounds stupid because I still have three years left but even before starting clinical there are some diseases we literally have never been taught about.

For example, an old school friend got diagnosed with Crohns. Granted, I know the gist of it from passing anecdotes such as examples when the immune system goes wrong but not the mechanism nor treatment. We've never been officially taught about this disease, have I been missing large chunks or is this normal? Technically I've finished all of my pre-clincial metabolism teaching so I'll never learn about Crohns in a pre-clinical setting, this just strikes me as odd. While I could get the ideas of the treatment from wikipedia/emedicine based on background knowledge of immunology and drugs I still find it disconcerting. Had this old friend never got diagnosed I would have entered a ward having never really learnt about it ready to be arse raped by a consultant.

This isn't the only disease either, obviously. I'm just using it as an example. I understand we can't be taught every condition in the entire world but from what I gather Crohns/UC aren't exactly rare.