Medicine course thread

bythewoods

starry nights wrote: »

thanks all ye older meds that replied, yuz have made me feel so much better! I've two weeks, and I have been studying since week 3/4 so I (hopefully) will be ok!!

Whoa, didn't think Anwyl would be like that, he's so nice in person!

Anyone got any tips for the Viva? I'm praying I don't get Mahoney, he's seriously mean, and rude!

And good luck to all the meds with exams over the next few weeks!

OH! and how much do you write for a physiology essay? and biochem?
cos i asked a few lecturers and they all laughed at me and said as much as I can in the time given.... but that doesn't tell me much.

Like do they expect a paragraph, page, two pages a book?

Don't get too freaked about getting Nick for a viva, he always tries to pass everyone...
In terms of study, spend time in the DR! Know your osteology and just basically know PT's notes inside out.
I was talking to a friend in your class and turns out ye're doing a station based exam spot-thing? I think I have past spot exam papers in my inbox somewhere... can try mail them onto you for an idea of qs if ye haven't already got them off someone.

Oh. And don't write "essays". BULLET POINTS. Yeah...

starry nights

bythewoods wrote: »

I think I have past spot exam papers in my inbox somewhere... can try mail them onto you for an idea of qs if ye haven't already got them off someone.

that would be brilliant if you could!!

theowen

bythewoods wrote: »

Don't get too freaked about getting Nick for a viva, he always tries to pass everyone...
In terms of study, spend time in the DR! Know your osteology and just basically know PT's notes inside out.
I was talking to a friend in your class and turns out ye're doing a station based exam spot-thing? I think I have past spot exam papers in my inbox somewhere... can try mail them onto you for an idea of qs if ye haven't already got them off someone.

Oh. And don't write "essays". BULLET POINTS. Yeah...

Can I get them too:rolleyes::) In bio-chem you need essays though right? With a diagram of course.

AndrewJD

Well I'd feel left out if I didn't get me a copy of these papers as well...

Please...?

starry nights

ok, is there any easy way of learning glycolysis and gluconeogenesis?

do we need to know the detailed bits of the pathways? when i say detailed i mean, do we have to be able to draw the molecules etc involved? porter seems to put the same question up on it every year which is basically contrast glycolysis and gluconeogenesis which i suppose is a bright side...

grr hate biochem!! >:(

bythewoods

No.. bullet points!

If ye pm me your tcd address and I'll forward it on, then ye can send them to your class list or something.

Warrior011

starry nights wrote: »

ok, is there any easy way of learning glycolysis and gluconeogenesis?

do we need to know the detailed bits of the pathways? when i say detailed i mean, do we have to be able to draw the molecules etc involved? porter seems to put the same question up on it every year which is basically contrast glycolysis and gluconeogenesis which i suppose is a bright side...

grr hate biochem!! >:(

Make sure you know the controls of the pathways, these are what are usually asked, not the actual pathways themselves

starry nights

what's the most important things to know for Anwyl (sense organ and cellular properties guy)??

And for biochem and physiology how much are ya meant to write, a page, two pages??

bythewoods

Don't even know where to start with Molecular med. What is this subject?
Very upset.

starry nights- he'll have 2 questions on your paper I think! The senses thing is easy enough, you kinda have to know his other stuff first though! Look at his past qs, doesn't he usually just ask a broad enough question on Action Potentials for one of them?

starry nights

thanks for the tips bythewoods!

yeah he asked the cochlea the last two years and action potentials, then the year before the nociceptors... hope he wont ask the eye, there isn't much in his notes about it...

any idea how much you have to write in physiology and biochem?

oh and good luck with your exams!!

bythewoods

Nociceptors would be a wonderful question. Dead easy. He asked that in the supplemental this year.

Doesn't really matter how much you write, quality over quantity and so on.

Like, for some of the physiology qs you'll do it in a page, for others it could be 3! Iunno. Same goes for Biochem really. Just bullet point as much as you know, omit the waffle.

starry nights

thanks! you're the first person not to say 'as much as you can in the allocated time!!''

thank you!

by the way does anyone know if hamiltons open today? they aren't answering their phone...

AndrewJD

Everything's open really.

s0ur_cherry

Hey does anybody know if the marking schemes for any of the JF exams are available anywhere online? particularly biochem mcqs.

A Neurotic

s0ur_cherry wrote: »

Hey does anybody know if the marking schemes for any of the JF exams are available anywhere online? particularly biochem mcqs.

Biochem MCQ's are fairly easily wikipediable!

There are some anatomy marking schemes up on the webct, in the "sample answers" (they're marking schemes really) folder.

WhosUpDocs

s0ur_cherry wrote: »

Hey does anybody know if the marking schemes for any of the JF exams are available anywhere online? particularly biochem mcqs.

If you want to PM me your e-mail I have the MCQs with answers in MS word format.*

*I accept no responsibility if they are wrong

Psychedelia

A Neurotic wrote: »

Biochem MCQ's are fairly easily wikipediable!

There are some anatomy marking schemes up on the webct, in the "sample answers" (they're marking schemes really) folder.

true,
i never thought i'd be wikipediaing my way through med school yet here i am!

A Neurotic

Psychedelia wrote: »

true,
i never thought i'd be wikipediaing my way through med school yet here i am!

Haven't you been attending wikiPBL tutorials all year? :P

damdarts

hey Can't believe my first boards post is going to be about biochem...vomit...question though...how the HELL do you do that calculate the net charge of a peptide thingy?? It's prob dead easy but i was defo not there/not listening if it was ever explained by the one and only mok! anyone?!

AndrewJD

It didn't come up anyway, so no worries. I seem to be one of the few people who thought it was a good MCQ paper there. Not feeling so positive about the essays though...

A Neurotic

Thank god for studious, helpful roomies. Scraped me a few marks out of pharmacology anyway!

bythewoods

Did you receive the accolade for First Contestant To Leave The Exam Hall?

It's a glorious one to hold.

Also,

"Due to the cold, the examinations office have decided to give you an extra 10 minutes to finish your exam, as the cold may have proved a distraction"

Heh...

A Neurotic

bythewoods wrote: »

Did you receive the accolade for First Contestant To Leave The Exam Hall?

It's a glorious one to hold.

I did indeed, waited for about 15 minutes in shame before handing up my paper. I was able to answer a few things so it's all good!

bythewoods

A Neurotic wrote: »

I did indeed, waited for about 15 minutes in shame before handing up my paper. I was able to answer a few things so it's all good!

Ahh, that title was once mine. I might win it back this week yet you know!

starry nights

I completely messed up biochem today, probably failed... not really sure what happens then?
Am i fúcked?

bythewoods

starry nights wrote: »

I completely messed up biochem today, probably failed... not really sure what happens then?
Am i fúcked?

No way! You can compensate in Summer. Especiallyfor ye this year cos these exams are only worth 40%.

All you need is a mark of 45 upwards overall in the Summer to pass anyway, everyone passes the vivas and all.
No bodge.

And you never know... you could've done a lot better than you think!

theowen

bythewoods wrote: »

No way! You can compensate in Summer. Especiallyfor ye this year cos these exams are only worth 40%.

All you need is a mark of 45 upwards overall in the Summer to pass anyway, everyone passes the vivas and all.
No bodge.

And you never know... you could've done a lot better than you think!

Why are the vivas so easy?

A Neurotic

bythewoods wrote: »

No way! You can compensate in Summer. Especiallyfor ye this year cos these exams are only worth 40%.

All you need is a mark of 45 upwards overall in the Summer to pass anyway, everyone passes the vivas and all.
No bodge.

And you never know... you could've done a lot better than you think!

Oh, nice. Well for some...

Anyway, I got 35% in my first Biochem and managed to scrape through the module without a repeat, so there's hope for anyone

theowen wrote:

Why are the vivas so easy?

Depends a lot on the lecturer, and on how much detail you get into. One will be happy to point to things and ask you the basics in a nice, amiable manner, whereas another will demand that you show them x,y,z and DO IT NOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M ASKING YOU SHOW ME THE MUSCLE I CAN SEE IT FROM HERE...

bythewoods

The pass/fail vivas in Biochem are easy, is what I meant. Like, they just pass everyone who gets them. So realistically, with 45 you've passed.

Not so much for anatomy..

A Neurotic wrote: »

Depends a lot on the lecturer, and on how much detail you get into. One will be happy to point to things and ask you the basics in a nice, amiable manner, whereas another will demand that you show them x,y,z and DO IT NOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M ASKING YOU SHOW ME THE MUSCLE I CAN SEE IT FROM HERE...

Sometimes Anatomy vivas can teach you life lessons though tbf.

-What muscle raises the pharynx/larynx when you swallow?
"Em, salpingopharyngeus?"
-Are you telling me or asking me?
"Telling you?"
-Why does it still sound like you're asking a question!?
"Eh.. it is salpingopharyngeus though..."
-If you'll learn nothing else, learn to have some confidence in your answers!

It is salpingopharyngeus! It is!

Larianne

bythewoods wrote: »

Sometimes Anatomy vivas can teach you life lessons though tbf.

-What muscle raises the pharynx/larynx when you swallow?
"Em, salpingopharyngeus?"
-Are you telling me or asking me?
"Telling you?"
-Why does it still sound like you're asking a question!?
"Eh.. it is salpingopharyngeus though..."
-If you'll learn nothing else, learn to have some confidence in your answers!

It is salpingopharyngeus! It is!

Who was that? :pac: