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  • #632
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "I don't want you learning chunks of text out of the Pharmacopoeia"
    *All lecture slides are chunks out of the pharmacopoeia*

    Plus I don't find him nice or helpful at all. Was completely dismissive of me in labs last week and didn't help me when I asked him to.
    If it's just a block of text from the BP/Ph.Eur., if it's not in red it's probably not important enough to be asked.

    It can be a bit tricky to find out what's important in his lectures but it's actually not as bad as it seems. Just read a general review article or two on basic pharmacognostic tests and quality control and that'll help a lot (Fabio really likes extra reading).

    Just be especially glad the module's split in half this year and you don't have a load of spectroscopy to study as well.


  • #633
    alpha2omega
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭alpha2omega


    Any tips for the JF biology practical exam? Do they check if we have all the questions in the manual answered?


  • #634
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    alpha2omega wrote: »
    Any tips for the JF biology practical exam? Do they check if we have all the questions in the manual answered?
    Even if they don't, it'd be a good idea to have them done because as far as I remember, the questions are similar.

    Don't worry hugely about the JF Biology practical MCQ. Make sure you've read the manual over a few times and it'll be very handy.


  • #635
    Lachlan Magnificent Traction
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lachlan Magnificent Traction


    alpha2omega wrote: »
    Any tips for the JF biology practical exam? Do they check if we have all the questions in the manual answered?

    They take your lab manual during the exam and the demonstrators go through them so I assume they're checking your answers.

    For the exam, know what things look like under the microscope and be able to identify them. What I would say is just go over the experiments again and be confident of the theory behind them. Don't worry about the exam, although if you can do well it'll take pressure off in April when you're studying for 9 exams and you haven't done Biology since Christmas (or skipped the majority of the lectures since Jane Farrar in my case)....

    Don't underestimate the exam and start studying for it the day of either like someone I know did (Okay, it was me....)


  • #636
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    Btw are there any changes to how one applies for an internship as well as the whole application process?


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  • #637
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    BlutendeRabe wrote: »
    Btw are there any changes to how one applies for an internship as well as the whole application process?
    Yeah things have changed apparently, there's a new centralised application system. RCSI are supposed to let everyone know later this month, i'll PM you the slides after they come talk to people.


  • #638
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    What the hell is with the number of Community Pharmacies offering unpaid placements?


  • #639
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    BlutendeRabe wrote: »
    What the hell is with the number of Community Pharmacies offering unpaid placements?

    Are they not all the one chain?


  • #640
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Are they not all the one chain?

    Probably skewing my view.

    One chancer out in the arse end of the Clare is offering an unpaid one. Good luck with that (unless they've a candidate lined up and are advertising to dissuade applications).


  • #641
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Aside from a certain chain trying to get someone to work for them for free for 12 months (they will probably get 0 applications), 12 month community is mostly paid?


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  • #642
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Aside from a certain chain trying to get someone to work for them for free for 12 months (they will probably get 0 applications), 12 month community is mostly paid?

    Yes but wages vary from pharmacy to pharmacy. This is a load of balls for me, I've to go through all this rigmarole to apply to 20 pharmacies yet I have my place already.


  • #643
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Yes but wages vary from pharmacy to pharmacy. This is a load of balls for me, I've to go through all this rigmarole to apply to 20 pharmacies yet I have my place already.
    Do they actually vary all that much?

    I've been told it's basically minimum wage and occasionally a small bit over.


  • #644
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Do they actually vary all that much?

    I've been told it's basically minimum wage and occasionally a small bit over.

    A euro an hour over 12 months adds up :cool:


  • #645
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    On the home stretch. It's been a long time coming but the final chapter and end of pharmacognosy is finally in sight after nearly 4 years :)


  • #646
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    On the home stretch. It's been a long time coming but the final chapter and end of pharmacognosy is finally in sight after nearly 4 years :)

    When's the exam?


  • #647
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    This Monday.


  • #648
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    This Monday.

    Well I hope it went better for you than it did for us....liquorice:mad:


  • #649
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Well I hope it went better for you than it did for us....liquorice:mad:
    Much much better, Fabio was quite nice this year.

    Only two extra reading papers specified this year and a question on each came up, most people were happy. The rest of the paper was standard.


  • #650
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Meegan's huge catalogue of structures to memorise between 02, 04 and 05 is beyond ridiculous. I don't mind learning concepts such as mechanisms or committing to memory certain facts but I have no idea what we get out of memorising 10s of structures that are only immediately forgotten after the exams are over.


  • #651
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Meegan's huge catalogue of structures to memorise between 02, 04 and 05 is beyond ridiculous. I don't mind learning concepts such as mechanisms or committing to memory certain facts but I have no idea what we get out of memorising 10s of structures that are only immediately forgotten after the exams are over.

    Don't you know, its in case a customer wants you to draw the molecule for them :pac:

    One of her lectures on anti cancer drugs, talks about some drug a lot (nope can't remember the name of it).
    Asked my Tutor where do we keep it in the dispensary, she looks at me as if I've two heads. Never heard of it. So I looked it up, to prove to her that I didn't make it up and quickly realised why shed never came across it. Used to treat very rare forms of Leukaemia :o
    Very useful lecture, as you can see


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  • #652
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    At this stage, i've a pathological hatred of memorising structures.


  • #653
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    My God, will I be glad to never memorise a pointless structure or mechanism or look at another rate equation again, roll on 9:30 and may it please be reasonable.


  • #654
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    My God, will I be glad to never memorise a pointless structure or mechanism or look at another rate equation again, roll on 9:30 and may it please be reasonable.

    It never ceases to amaze me the dread and fear that Med Chem induces in people.

    Personally I thinks its fine.


  • #655
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    Btw if you survived 05, you're on the home stretch.


  • #656
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    I felt the exact same way about PH3002. A horror until the exam was over when it instantly became a lovely module. It's just a feeling that's hard to shake.

    PH4005 was surprisingly fine! Still a long road to the 13th May though.


  • #657
    Throwaway25
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Throwaway25


    Just read there that they expect us to right a half to a full exam booklet for the PH1006 essay question? Surely they cant be expecting anything more than waffle?


  • #658
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Throwaway25 wrote: »
    Just read there that they expect us to right a half to a full exam booklet for the PH1006 essay question? Surely they cant be expecting anything more than waffle?
    That is generally what you write for most essays. It depends on your timing but you should have about 45 minutes for the essay which is roughly 4.5 pages.

    For Henman, you can definitely write a solid 4.5 pages on his first year stuff.
    For Roche, it's pretty much all waffle regardless of the essay's length.
    For Sheila, you could probably do 3-4 pages tops without it being excessive.

    But yeah... 10 mins = 1 page is generally what you'd aim for.


  • #659
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    There is probably more content in PH4009 than some dedicated neuropharmacology courses. A long night awaits, caffeine drip a la PH3002 approximately one year ago.


  • #660
    BlutendeRabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭BlutendeRabe


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    There is probably more content in PH4009 than some dedicated neuropharmacology courses. A long night awaits, caffeine drip a la PH3002 approximately one year ago.

    Btw what came up in 4002?

    What worse is that in the old 09 exam was that it was impossible to pass unless you got the extra time or were an insanely fast writer.


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  • #661
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    BlutendeRabe wrote: »
    Btw what came up in 4002?

    What worse is that in the old 09 exam was that it was impossible to pass unless you got the extra time or were an insanely fast writer.
    PH4002 this year was

    Q1: Solid decomposition with a shocker of a calculation (actually easy but people had the impression calculations wouldn't be asked) worth 7/20 marks that threw a lot of people off.
    Q2: Not great QSAR two parter and NH acidic compounds
    Q3: AZT and Lamivudine, Saquinavir
    Q4: Cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin
    Q5: ICH: Limitations of the arrhenius equations and extrapolation... for a full 20 marks :eek:

    Q1, 2 and 5 very much not to people's tastes. I thought I was going to fail when I saw Quigley's two opening questions until I calmed down and tried to invent a way to do the calculation (which miraculously worked...)

    I'm not sure I like the new PH4009 exam... MCQs were not anywhere near as easy as the samples he gave us. But nonetheless, exam went reasonably well.


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