The Mess

DrIndy

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

For the med students, just found another sexeh link: http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp. They do a great job of the cxr here: http://www.healcentral.org/content/15223/chest2.swf

Thats a pretty good site - i was having a go with it and learning new stuff at the same time. Chest x-rays are the most mercurial of tests and can be the most difficult to interpret unless they are barn door abnormal.

Chunky Monkey

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

For the med students, just found another sexeh link: http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp. They do a great job of the cxr here: http://www.healcentral.org/content/15223/chest2.swf

Oh an-mhaith, that's very cool! Thank you

Larianne

Last assignment handed in today. WhoOOoo. Bring on the SUMMER!! All starts again for me though in September. Yays.

ZorbaTehZ

Got asked in my CXR OSCE what an aortic notch was, anyone know? Google shows me this page which seems to indicate its a congenital abnormality - if that's the case is it not a bit unreasonable for a first year OSCE?

tallaght01

DrIndy wrote: »

Off to Townsville in North Queensland. Nice and warm compared to here!

They get you out on the helicopter retrievals as part of your training up there!

Heading off in a couple weeks....

Thanks for the messages

Dude, with both of us in Oz, this place is gonna got balls during Irish daylight hours. porn everywhere!!! :P

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

Got asked in my CXR OSCE what an aortic notch was, anyone know? Google shows me this page which seems to indicate its a congenital abnormality - if that's the case is it not a bit unreasonable for a first year OSCE?

I'd have taught an aortic notch was a bit harsh if you're first year on the undergrad degree.

sam34

tallaght01 wrote: »

Dude, with both of us in Oz, this place is gonna got balls during Irish daylight hours. porn everywhere!!! :P



I'd have taught an aortic notch was a bit harsh if you're first year on the undergrad degree.

ahem.... thought?

tallaght01

I've juat worked a 13 hour shift here again :P

I'm feckin raging I set that ill advised grammar precedent

DrIndy

tallaght01 wrote: »

I've juat worked a 13 hour shift here again :P

I'm feckin raging I set that ill advised grammar precedent

Hmmmmm..........

Thought you were doing public health to get away from those mad hours - maybe they just follow you with your work ethic?

In sydney and off to townsville tomorrow!

Yipee!!

sam34

tallaght01 wrote: »

I've juat worked a 13 hour shift here again :P

I'm feckin raging I set that ill advised grammar precedent

13 hour shifts... pfft, you don't know how good you have it. come and do real shifts with the big boys here in Ireland

grammar nazi behaviour always comes back to bite you in the ass- thats the one constant truth i've learned from boards!

tallaght01

I've done more hours this week than I ever did in paeds!!! Poxy virus hasn't even reached oz yet! I'm also working acute paeds shifts, that I agreed to do ages ago.

Sam34, I know you don't understand the concept of work outside the hours of 10-4, so I'll phrase it in a way you'll understand: "I didn't get my afternoon cupcake today" :P

sam34

tallaght01 wrote: »

Sam34, I know you don't understand the concept of work outside the hours of 10-4, so I'll phrase it in a way you'll understand: "I didn't get my afternoon cupcake today" :P

i beg your pardon!! i'm currently on hour 5 of a 32 hour shift :P:P

indispensible cogs in the machine, thats us shrinks

DrIndy

They're following your work ethic mate - you just bust your balls whatever is going on.

Hence you will always work long hours unless everything is humdrum.

TBH - I get bored if my hours drop below 50 per week - I am happiest at 60 per week.

drzhivago

DrIndy wrote: »

They're following your work ethic mate - you just bust your balls whatever is going on.

Hence you will always work long hours unless everything is humdrum.

TBH - I get bored if my hours drop below 50 per week - I am happiest at 60 per week.

depends on how the 60 are arrived at I find 5*12 ok, 6*10 and I am not a happy chappy

Chunky Monkey

:eek:

You guys need a hobby.

DrIndy

In Townsville - 27C, 50% humidity, little overcast but nice.

Got my car, got my temporary gaff.

Also just read House of God again (last did so when I started medicine) - I pissed myself laughing right the way through and I am sure generated consternation amongst my fellow passengers as I spontaenously guffawed.

The book has so many connections to clinical medicine it is unreal. I hope to be the "Fat Man" in my future existence as a doctor.....

missannik

I got the job.

tallaght01

Delighted for you both

sillymoo

Wow its all looking up for the bio+med'ers! Good luck to all those doing exams BTW, its looking good so far if the spell of good news is to be believed

ZorbaTehZ

Interesting piece on the appendix as a vestige.

Dr Galen

missannik wrote: »

I got the job.

well done!

was the interview as tough as you thought it might be?

missannik

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

well done!

was the interview as tough as you thought it might be?

Cheers.

It was a lot harder... quite different to back home, plus I haven't done a proper interview in 8 years so I was really rusty. At least they were all lovely, which made it a tiny bit easier.

ImDave

Just want to say good luck to all my fellow GAMSAT'ers expecting results very soon. From what I hear, we are looking at as early as tomorrow :eek:

sam34

i got home from work at 5.10 today (the joys of psychiatry!) and had teh rest of teh evening to sit down and write up a paper for my boss.... which has to be done for wed morning

now, i've known about this for ages, but i'm a last minute person and i didnt sit down till this evening to do it

it would probably take 4 hours of good solid concentration, max

but, this evening, even knowing my deadline is looming, i couldnt focus

i dawdled around, checked my online banking 100 times, read threads on boards that i previously had no interest in, emailed old mates taht i havent heard from in ages, had endless cups of tea, rang my sister etc etc etc

so i only seriously started at midnight or so
and im only finishing now, at 4.50!!

if anyone is selling a "concentration, motivation and get-your-ass-in-gear" pill, i'll ahve a year's supply please!

now, off i go to catch some kip...

sillymoo

Anyone know of a good online tutorial on PFT's? Jeez im stressed to the hilt with these exams.

ZorbaTehZ

Just did an exam on that on Monday, perhaps I can help?
They are a pain in the ass to memorise though...

sillymoo

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

Just did an exam on that on Monday, perhaps I can help?
They are a pain in the ass to memorise though...

Thanks for the offer of help ZorbaTehZ I digged out some old notes I found. I was not really on here much and should have taken you up on your offer A question on the investigations you would do on a patient with suspected pulmonary fibrosis and the expected outcomes came up in the exam today. Made a fair go of it I think!

I really think I came the closest I have ever been to cracking up today. 120 question MCQ paper and then writen paper. 2h30 for MCQ and 1h45 for writen. By the end of the MCQ I was so tired. The most MCQ's we had gotten previously in an exam was 60! Just after a sleep. Guess I just needed to vent :rolleyes:

ZorbaTehZ

And that was only on the respiratory system?! Insanity...
2 hours for 12 mcqs, 6 long questions on anatomy and 10 long questions on physiology was about all we got!

sillymoo

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

And that was only on the respiratory system?! Insanity...
2 hours for 12 mcqs, 6 long questions on anatomy and 10 long questions on physiology was about all we got!

It was cardio-resp public health (:eek:) pathology, micro and clinical med. A "triple module" with about 60/65 lectures in it. We had a long question at the beginning where we had to diagnose a patient based on his presenting complaint, history of complaint and initial tests (BP, O2Sat, HR etc.) If you did not get the diagnosis, there was 7 questions after on said diagnosis and treatment so no diagnosis=no marks. 1/3 of the marks on the written was for that. Thankfully I knew what it was

The MCQ was horrible though. I did ok I think but got really tired once I got passed 60. Thought time was going to be an issue but as it happens I had a nice bit at the end to go over it again. They were originally going to give us 120mins for 120q's but thankfully they decided it was "too mean" :rolleyes: I know exams are going to get tougher but they only informed us of this MCQ marathon 3 weeks before the exam and we are the first year where the MCQ's have been doubled in all modules. They also told us 3 weeks ago we were going to have a micro and pathology OSCE the same day as our clinical TOSCE which created huge confusion and panic.

Public health writen was on total period fertility rates (TPFR's) which im sure Tallaght knows all about

ZorbaTehZ

Good article on Oprah and all her pseudo-scientific BS.

tallaght01

sillymoo wrote: »

Public health writen was on total period fertility rates (TPFR's) which im sure Tallaght knows all about

Eh, you shouldn't be fertile during your p....

actually, I've said too much :P