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Reply 1060

desyek

Sarky

I want to be back at uni! I'm bored! :mad:

Hehe tell me about it!!!!!!!! nyargh!!! only 4 days to go :biggrin:

Reply 1061

Pmc2k

1

Going up tomorrow :biggrin:

Not really ready yet though..

Reply 1062

Sarky

18

Jamie

why 8 days..?

Because thats when induction is....

Reply 1063

Pmc2k

1

6 hours of lectures tommorow.. hows everyone getting on?

Reply 1064

Fluffy

15

A nice easy 4 hour day tomorrow :smile:

Horrid 9-5 on Friday :frown:

Reply 1065

Elles

17

new timetable = 3 lectures per week. a seminar every other. & probably a tutorial every other..

*giggles & :biggrin:

*

that said, i'm currently in the middle of 'DNA' clinically based project frolicks.. :rolleyes:

Reply 1066

Fluffy

15

Stolen from a post made by one of the qualified medics on admissionforum, but have you guys read this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/07/nhealth07.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/07/ixhome.html

The guy is a ******! Joy - do you know him? Is he a sad muppet with no life, no friends and nothing to do with his 'fortune'....

Reply 1067

anita_xx

I am torn. To a certain extent I agree with him - doctors do get *very* well paid compared to nurses and I do not think that's fair - they work just as hard (if not harder) than us and have to endure just as much stress.

However, to suggest that doctors live in 'opulence' is ridiculous - I don't know any doctor who would describe themselves as 'rich' and I definitely don't know any who don't work bloody hard for the money they earn. If Mark Jopling really spends his days "searching for missing heaps of patient notes, running errands and chasing up blood test results", then he should come on call with me and learn how to deal with arrythmias caused by hyperkalaemia, chest pain and haematemesis (all things I have had to deal with in my first 2 months of work, usually alone). Maybe then he'd feel like we deserve our money a bit more.

Reply 1068

Fluffy

15

Anyone else got exams coming up? I hate exams :frown:

I need to stop procrastinating and start revising :frown:

Reply 1069

Elles

17

no exams till finals in the summer for me thankfully! :wink:

but am very confuddled at the mo. trying to decide on an 'extended essay' topic - can be anything within medical sciences really, worth 20% of my degree but only 3,000 words & i need to find a supervisor & get my title approved this term. :eek:

any suggestions? :confused:

am specialising in neuroscience this year - so something with some neuro overlap/relations would be good, but on the other hand, want to try & keep myself as broad as possible (ho ho :rolleyes:

). psychoneuroimmunology or something? but where to begin? *lost*

Reply 1070

Dr Ed

Ive got my first exams in 3 weeks on the first module of the first year so should be a good insight into whether all the information is sinking in although im not feeling to confident at the moment.
P.S. Histology is so so so so so so boring!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply 1071

Whizz

1

We have our first ICA next week and im ******** it. Its only worth 0.5% of yr1 but still...

Only fools fail eh? :rolleyes:

Reply 1072

Fluffy

15

We have our first ICA next week too - garrgghhh! And an assessed PBL write up that we were allocated today to do by Monday (31st). I feel a nervous breakdown comming on!!!

Reply 1073

Dimez

2

Elles

no exams till finals in the summer for me thankfully! :wink:

but am very confuddled at the mo. trying to decide on an 'extended essay' topic - can be anything within medical sciences really, worth 20% of my degree but only 3,000 words & i need to find a supervisor & get my title approved this term. :eek:

any suggestions? :confused:

am specialising in neuroscience this year - so something with some neuro overlap/relations would be good, but on the other hand, want to try & keep myself as broad as possible (ho ho :rolleyes:

). psychoneuroimmunology or something? but where to begin? *lost*

How about coronal and horizontal sections, and possibly the complex somatosensory pathway. You could discuss the different planes of orientation and possibly the discriminitve touch, whatever tickles your fancy I suppose.

That should earn you the big marks. :biggrin:

Reply 1074

Helenia

20

Dimez

How about coronal and horizontal sections, and possibly the complex somatosensory pathway. You could discuss the different planes of orientation and possibly the discriminitve touch, whatever tickles your fancy I suppose.

That should earn you the big marks. :biggrin:

Doubt it, tbh. Big details on scanning techniques aren't our thing, really - that's for the radiologists!

And as for the pure sensory neuro stuff, I don't know about Elles but it's really not that exciting for me. Seems fairly well mapped out already.