Medicine students in the Ussher

NewOxfordReview

Do medicine students have books in the Ussher? I mean, do they need to be here or are they here for the view?

Awayindahils

In fairness, my books are all in the Lecky, i go to the Ussher just for the view. Most people tend to make the effort to go to the Ussher because of the view.

NewOxfordReview

Coming from the Hamilton is a bit more of an effort though.

Nietzschean

are they not more in the moyne? so its a bit of a trek either way... And i guess its out of term time for them too so all they have is study..

cuckoo

I take books out at the hamilton, wander up to the ussher with them under my arm, use them there and then wander back down to the hamilton and drop them back.

Bartronilic

It's weird that the Ussher is so new. I can't imagine being without it

maxheadroom

NewOxfordReview wrote:

Do medicine students have books in the Ussher? I mean, do they need to be here or are they here for the view?

Med students from year 4 (of 6, that's probably 3 in the new system) are stranded out in James's most of the time, where there's approx 60 library spaces for over 300 med students, all of physiotherapy, radiation therapy, Occupational therapy (maybe Nursing, but I'm not sure since they got D'Olier St.). Not to mention the intern, doctors, research staff, academic staff. Basically, the library there is way way to small to handle the numbers of people who need to use it. So, you'll find a lot of med students in the Ussher coming up to exam time.

snorlax

at least generally James is quite silent, people don't make loads of noise...it is grossly overcrowded at times. i think they're extending the library into the old canteen in a year or two.

DrIndy

are med students freaking you out with the gory anatomy textbooks?

NewOxfordReview

No they're freaking me out by studying hard. I get the feeling they don't appreciate me sitting there surfing the net. One of them was wearing earplugs.

ApeXaviour

DrIndy wrote:

are med students freaking you out with the gory anatomy textbooks?

Having spent one hell of a lot of time in the library recently (hamilton), I've noticed that the vast majority of people around me tend to be peering into some form of anatomy based book (with pharmacy books coming in second, followed by physics books and then the rest). Do that many people actually study anatomy? Or is it just that anatomy needs to be studied a lot?

wheresthebeef

everyone in the faculty of health sciences studies anatomy and physiology. some people study more of it than others. and some courses are obviously more focused, for example speech and language therapy would be studying the head and mouth quite a lot (although under re-structuring they were moved to the Vice Deanery of English for reasons no-one will ever understand).
Nurses have lectures three days a week in D'Olier street, but there is no library there. We have books in level 1 in Ussher, and in John Stearne at James. mostly Ussher to be honest.

Speaking of library does anyone else have trouble logging into their online record. i put in my student barcode which is my student number with a 01 at the end. and it rejects me. i know what my pin is cos i had it changed to same as my ATM card last time i was in the Ussher.

snorlax

anatomy needs to be studied alot as there's a hell of a lot of detail in it.

europerson

The nursing books are in the Ussher, so maybe that's the issue.

wheresthebeef

nursing is by far the largest course in the faculty with 270 entrants per annum. this is set to increase next year to 310 per year. making a total of over 1200 students of nursing, add to that post grad students, and qualified nurses returning to do the BNS and BMS Degree Programmes and your looking at a lot of students for not a lot of library space/books/resources in general.