Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The third year of medicine

If any one reading this has passed or is studying the third year of medicine he/she knows exactly what I am going through. Any first/second year medical students or pre-meds look away!
How did I fare in my first two years? Spells of laziness combined with exam frenzy producing results ranging from poor to very good.
Now having finished my first semester and basking in the delights of holiday, time can't be flying any faster: with only two weeks to go until the begining of the second semester I am my wits end with how to balance my revision and my free-time (which I am spending infront of the T.V. and Laptop because of the silent neighborhood I am living in).
For those of you who don't know the first thing about medical study the first three years are reffered to as basic sience and the final two are the clinical years.
Now with the basic sience we have the first two years in which we study: Anatomy (cutting up dead bodies and learning the different parts down to the last centimeter-my favirote-); Biochemistry ( ...if you don't know what this means I will kill you); Physiology (mechanisms of how the different body parts function...sounds easy dunnit-killer subject-);Histology (Anatomys cousin once removed ... studying the different tissues of homo sapiens under the lens). In the third year we study: Parasitology (basicly all the worms that live inside you and also some other things); Pathology (any abnormality in the body gross and microscopic);Pharmacology (drugs ...simple? NO); Microbiology (bacteria and viruses with the Immune system mixed in for horrid taste).
The thing with the third year is that they (call them whatever you want) stuff us with a staggering amount of information as fast as they possibly can, while the unfortunate students (us) wonder:why in the world did we choose medicine as a career.
Pray for me ....

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