TSR Med Students' Society Part III

4 weeks to learn 13 weeks of lectures. Possible?

I'm ****ed. I HATE IMMUNOLOGY.

4 weeks to learn 13 weeks of lectures. Possible?

I'm ****ed. I HATE IMMUNOLOGY.

It most certainly is.

We've had two weeks study leave to learn/revise everything from year two (and year one thoeretically as they can still throw that into end of year exams). Now that's messed up. :/

Last year, the second years only had one week!

Try having a FIFTY THREE week academic year which includes 1 week for christmas, easter long weekend and 1 other week as the only time off and 4 days between last day of firms and first exam which actually starts after everyone else in the medical school/university has finished for the year.

....Then coming back two weeks later to start final year firms.

Soul destroying

I'm probably being a bit thick here but with deep brain stimulation, do you stimulate or depress the subthalamic nucleus? It involves using a depolarising block which stimulates the STN, but surely stimulating the STN as the name of the procedure suggests means you're infact stimulating the GPi and thus inhibiting the ventral thalamus and subsequently the motor cortex from executing movements, which isn't what you want? Or have I completely got the wrong end of the stick?

Can anyone explain it to me please?

Have you figured this out yet?

As far as I know it's already been changed.....though it took a GMC "recommendation" for it to happen.

Finals are also being moved to March which means having to resit won't mean losing your job.

Ahh I see you're following the Barts way!

Our finals are moving to earlier as well so we can resit before jobs start - bloody annoying as it means finals revision drops from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.


I love cramming.

Our finals are moving to earlier as well so we can resit before jobs start - bloody annoying as it means finals revision drops from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.

I've got all of...3 days

Yeah but that's different - you guys blatantly don't have the luxury of cram revising at the end. You geek it out all year long

How do people define finals then? Cos here we sit 'finals' in fourth year, but there are exams (an OSCE, I believe) at the end of fifth, which if failed means resitting the entirety of 5th year and losing your job.

We're not ICSM yo.

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How do people define finals then? Cos here we sit 'finals' in fourth year, but there are exams (an OSCE, I believe) at the end of fifth, which if failed means resitting the entirety of 5th year and losing your job.