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......