One week to go....

Sometimes you just really love being a medic. For example, right now i'm revising for my 3rd year exams which are in 1 week. To help make is easier for me to be inside working, the weather is very very sunny and warm. All the other students have finished their exams and are lying around sleeping and eating and drinking! As if that wasn't enough to help me revise, some fool decided to put the world cup on at the same time! What the hell is going on!!

Still, I suppose it's not too bad. I've found time to watch a fair bit of football, especially the england games, but joyfully I also caught the 2nd half of saudi arabia vs ukraine. end to end stuff.

My exam coming up covers all of general medicine and general surgery that we have studied so far in 3rd year, which is quite a lot! It's a multiple choice (guess?) exam which is sort of good as you don't always have to know everything in so much detail as the questions can prompt your memory. It's a common format for med school exams so if you're a bad guesser get some practice in now (not that I can encourage guessing or anything.......)

Wish me luck I don't think we'll speak again until after the exam (unless I'm actively trying to avoid revision!)

Panic!

I took yesterday off work for the universitys summer party. They fence off a massive area of grass on campus and turn it into a mini version of glastonbury (except with worse bands and cheaper food!). It's a good laugh though, loads of students chilling to rock music, r&b and all that kind of stuff. They had some guy called trevor nelson dj-ing on one tent (he's famous i'm told but i'm not into r&b so...). The main stage ended with a band called Dirty pretty things, who were awesome! So it was a really good day.

Then I got up this morning. I casually picked up the book of objectives that has all the stuff I need to know for my exam in it. So it turns out I've only read up to page 80 of the book and I thought everything after that was what I needed to know for 5th year. Apparantly I was wrong....and I have to know it in 3 weeks time! If only you could swear in bloggs.....

Oh well, i'm sure it will be fine. There's no point getting to stressed by the exams. Some medics go completely loopy before each set of exams and I dont wanna end up like them!

MASSIVE exam looming!

Crap! Less than a month until my final exam of 3rd year. Bricking it doesn't really begin to cover the feeling.....

Ok, I am of course being a bit of a hyperchondriac. But still, it's a big exam and it forms the last 10% of my first degree (my bachelors of medical science). The exam is called Clinical Practice, and is made up of 3 parts. I have a written exam which tests my knowledge of medicine and surgery. Then I have another written exam which tests my knowledge of how to treat common medical conditions with drugs (legal drugs). And finally, I have a practical exam called an OSLER. I can't remember what OSLER stands for (probably because it doesn't stand for anything particularly exciting). For the OSLER I have to take a history off a patient (i.e find out everything there is to know about them from a medical perspective) AND examine them in 40 minutes. Then I present what I have found to two consultants and they give me a mark. That may sound easy, but 40 minutes is not a lot of time (esp when 89 year old Mrs Smith is telling you all about what she did in the war).

So I have started revising! This is the most time before an exam I have ever started revising. I don't think the actual material is that hard, the problem is there is so much of it. And sometimes the questions on the exam paper can be kind of wierd. I find it all really interesting though, so much more fulfilling than the boring science of years 1 and 2!

So socially what am I up to? Well tonight is the opening night of the 3rd year musical, Sweet Charity. I'm not in it, but i'm gonna go along and watch it to support all my friends. It should be awesome! I've also come to the end of my year as being medsoc president so I have to handovewr to the new committee. This supposedly happens at the annual 'handover meal', however shortly after the starter any serious talk of how to run the committee is replaced with the old committee 'initiating' the new committee (commonly involving copious amounts of blue cheese). That's on monday night. So unlikely to be doing any work tuesday then......