Coursework.....nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Yes, that dreaded thing that is coursework has descended upon me! Not from one module, but from TWO! I find coursework sheer hell, so its lucky it doesn't crop up too much in the course at Nottingham. Still, when it does rear its ugly head it sends a shiver of panic down my spine. The modules which have supplied this terror are Public Health and Communication Skills, neither of which are looked upon favourably by the majority of medical students. Public Health gains its bad rep mainly because its SO DAMN OBVIOUS and yet you still get subjected to hours of lectures informing you rich people get better healthcare than poor people (an important, but fairly blatant fact). Communication skills are of course very important, however my course seems to only care about our ability to analyze our skills, and not about what level are skills are actually at!

Aside from the evils of coursework, Medicine is going well! I passed allllllllll of my exams from last semester and did pretty good too considering I broke my leg. The first performance of the medics play looms closely, so im at rehearsals a lot of the time, but its all good fun! Its also coming up to the time of year where next years Medsoc Committee is elected....think I might go for President!!! (pretty keen huh!?)

Well, rather predictably, i have to dash off out now to a play rehearsal (NO break a leg jokes...) bye!

Back to Lectures

Its been a few weeks since exams have ended now (results on Tuesday!) and life has settled down back to normal. The library has once again become a mere notion and the finer points of med school life have returned to my attention! First of all, medics drama is putting on another production, this time is Midsummer Nights Dream, so im looking forward to being a part of that! I've recently got back from rugby tour to Antwerp. That was AWESOME!. Loads of fun, the best way to unwind after the stress of exams!
Academically, we start some new and exciting modules this semester. The main module we pick up is Neuroscience (the brain!). We also do some pharmacology (nothing specific just the way the body deals with drugs in general). One of the coolest modules we're doing at the moment is about cancer-it's really up to date and cutting edge and has quite a strong clinical feel to it!
Well, I think that's just about all that has happened recently, ill write another entry after I get my exam results next week (if this is the last you hear from me, assume they weren't very good....) :-)