http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas The adventures and misadventures of two fresh-faced medical students in the far, far south. Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:28:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just letting you all know that I got my exam results today, and they were really good. Thank goodness!! Next semester starts next week, and the first week has 28 contact hours, and supposedly it only goes up from there. Yikes! I'll post again soon, bye! http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/07/11/results/ Hey everyone. I know when I started thinking about medicine, one thing that kept my interest, motivation and excitement going was textbooks. Okay, I know, lame huh! But they are so good in the medical sciences because there is only so much you can absorb from lectures. So much of ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/06/23/textbooks/ Hey all. So I had my last exam on Thursday. I'll quickly go through what each exam was like. Theme 2-4 was nicely straightforward. Two hours, about 5 questions sections with three or four short-answer questions in each. It was a good exam to show what we know. The questions ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/06/23/aftermath/ Hi all, just a quick one to tell you how todays Theme 1 exam went. I think the exam was fair, there was a lot more pathology than I would have expected, and a lot of the questions weren't straight out, we had to discern what would "most likely" have ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/06/11/post-theme-1-exam/ Hi all, Just a quick update. I've started SWOTVAC study, focussing on neoplasia first because that's my rustiest topic. The exams are as follows: Theme 1: 2 hours, 11th June Themes 2-4: 2 hours, 15th June Theme 1 Practical: 30mins, 19th June Objective Structured Clinical Examination: 5mins, 21st June I have ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/06/01/study/ A few weeks ago we had a Clinical Skills Night. We rocked up to the hospital and signed up for a range of activities to practice: venepuncture, wound care, intubation and suturing. I did everything except intubation (you could only pick three). The venepuncture was great, we got to do ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/05/25/clinical-skills-night/ I thought I'd tell you a bit about the long-term parts of the course, in case you wanted to know. I told you before how we now have an integrated curriculum, where we learn all the basic sciences (anat, phys, pharm, path etc.) at the same time? Well we do ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/05/25/the-road-ahead/ Hey everybody, sorry it's been so long since we have posted. I wanted to write a post about what the new course is like. Michelle has posted on this a bit already, but the coursework for the semester is over now (we've just got review sessions next week, then SWOT-VAC, ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/05/25/the-grind/ In my previous post I talked about the beginnings of the obsession. Today I'm going to talk about the process by which I got into medical school. First came a lot of questions. Where would I like to study? For my personal situation, I would be able to move away ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/03/05/the-pursuit-of-mbbs-part-2/ Post by HAYDEN Hello friends, fellows, colleagues and sundry. I thought I'd dedicate my first post on this blog to a bit of an introduction. My name is Hayden, and as of the 26th of February 2007 I am officially a medical student. Most of you who are reading this ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/utas/2007/03/04/introduction-the-pursuit-of-mbbs-part-1/