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Physician-Age: Calling all students and doctors
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I had an exam last friday about infectious diseases and there was a question about a 2 year old girl who was playing by her self while her mom was cleaning up the attic. She suddenly started coughing and developed a fever which dropped a bit when given amoxicillin. An X-thorax showed an infiltrate in the right lower lobe and apparently a
A test about host defense disorders and this is what they come up with...
toy car which I managed to miss for a whole 2 hours and 55 minutes
A test about host defense disorders and this is what they come up with...
weird that she developed a fever so soon... usually it's just pain at first, fever comes later when the lobe gets blocked off and an infection develops, not the presenting symptom
Patrick Bateman
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WOOOO congrats bud!!
Got a couple of questions about immigration to USA. Im currently in Finland studying dentistry.
1. How long does qualification take to work as a dentist for someone from a European school and how much might that hassle cost me? Is there any benefit in studying abroad in USA at exchange programs?
2. How long might qualification for oral and maxillofacial surgery take and does it involve residency or something similar?
Would be great if someone could answer. Thanks.
1. How long does qualification take to work as a dentist for someone from a European school and how much might that hassle cost me? Is there any benefit in studying abroad in USA at exchange programs?
2. How long might qualification for oral and maxillofacial surgery take and does it involve residency or something similar?
Would be great if someone could answer. Thanks.
Hated that phase. Remember my heart racing every time I got an email.
The muscles part of Macro was ridiculous. All the insertions, origins, functions, and innervations.
God help me.
Tell me about it, I'm studying that right now ;_;
Patrick Bateman
Member
It's ridiculous how much time I already put in it, yet I still feel like I don't have a clue..
I found watching some youtube videos with 3D models pretty useful. Think AnatomyZone was one of the good ones.
And yet I still managed to forget everything.
Tarkus
Member
If AnatomyZone is the series with the guy who has a British accent, then it's good. Moore's Clinical Anatomy and Netter's Atlas will provide with all you need to know for lecture. I use Clemente's dissector for lab. We had a choice of Gray's or Clemente's. Gray's is weak sauce. Also try Netter's flash cards.
Artofwar420
Member
Going for the Bio bachelor, what should I do before I graduate to prepare myself? In other words, how do I doctor?
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Do volunteer work. Not only in medicine.
Patrick Bateman
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I used some videos in my schools library. Can't remember his name but he had a British accent and had a very strong Hannibal Lector vibe going on. Sort of creepy but extremely well done. Got through the somatic body section of anatomy quite easily with those videos. I also remember that he did a particularly good job with the circulation and innervation of the pelvis, which is usually included in the visceral body section of the course, and it's pretty rough.
To above poster (I can't quote for some reason!): if your lab has multiple cadavers for the class to dissect, make sure that you look at as many of them as possible so you won't be tricked on the exam.
To above poster (I can't quote for some reason!): if your lab has multiple cadavers for the class to dissect, make sure that you look at as many of them as possible so you won't be tricked on the exam.
I would say research w/ publication and spending as much time in a hospital whether that is volunteer, scribe, or shadowing. The idea is that you are willing to contribute back to the field and you have spent enough time around doctors to be sure this is the right career for you.
You also need mnemonics, every medical student needs mnemonics. I was taught a much more perverted version of the cranial nerves one though...
Perverted mnemonics are the BEST mnemonics! Seriously I can quote every dirty one I was taught and I don't think I remember even one that wasn't sexual in some way.
Kind of random, but why are a lot of doctors in hospitals complete jerks to outside people, non-patients, other employees that arent doctors etc? I work at a hospital in IT and they just seem so anti social sometimes as well, its not every one of them, but a lot. Seems like some sort of personality thing.
hockeypuck
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80 hours a week, 49 weeks a year, can do that to you. Doesn't excuse it, though.
Two features of a doctor/med student: dirty mind and god awful handwriting.
Can't say I've really noticed this outside of a few old, very traditional doctors.
Did I post in here before? I don't know, so I'll just go "Woot, woot, 6th semester, I'm a cand med, bitches!", now that this thread pops up on the first page all the time.
I'm studying in Tübingen, I finished my first Famulatur last week, I can now get blood out of veins people swore others stabbed half a dozen times on the first try (I only failed twice on the first try, all that fine motor skills development with tabletop miniatures seems to pay off) and I'm even mostly over the fact that I could've finished my PJ last year of I had stuck around the first time instad of dropping out and starting studying law.
I'm studying in Tübingen, I finished my first Famulatur last week, I can now get blood out of veins people swore others stabbed half a dozen times on the first try (I only failed twice on the first try, all that fine motor skills development with tabletop miniatures seems to pay off) and I'm even mostly over the fact that I could've finished my PJ last year of I had stuck around the first time instad of dropping out and starting studying law.
All I gotta say is fuck orgo. Does anybody have a good resource for alkene/alkyne reactions from orgo I? I have an exam on Friday and I think I've got it down but stereochemistry fucks me over (professor really rushed through syn/anti addn) and I'm having trouble visualizing the unraveling of cyclic molecules during ozonolysis
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Tübingen? wtf i studied there too but that was a few years ago (god time flies).
what are our courses this semester?
Can someone explain how this is acceptable? Failing a single exam in my school meant repeating the entire year.
hockeypuck
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I think he's referring to phlebotomy.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Too fatigued and burnt out to be nice. They're jerks to each other too, unless they need each other.
Patrick Bateman
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How did you guys learn nerves? Especially what goes into what and what innerves what?
A chart and flash card. You have to brute force this. Mnemonics help.
As you learn the physiology, you'll encounter the CNs over and over (e.g. vagal for GI) and it starts to sink in.
Dentists always seem happy lol
Patrick Bateman
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Oh man, I was never this close to fail a biochemistry test like I was today...
I was like "Hormons and G-proteins, how do they work?"
I was like "Hormons and G-proteins, how do they work?"
SilentSoldier
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Head and neck in anatomy. Dear god the horror.
Renal physiology, med school pls
Metabolism in biochem, I don't even..
yeah med school
Renal physiology, med school pls
Metabolism in biochem, I don't even..
yeah med school
Lmfao. Renal physiology was so messed up.
All dem uptake mechanisms 'n microcirculations 'n hormonal regulations.
Blargh.
Yeah Renal can go right to hell. We had 63 lectures on one exam for renal, the course director refused to split it into two exams like every other second year system. That was awful
Patrick Bateman
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Physiology is the weirdest thing here. Nobody goes to the lectures, because most people concentrate on the tests for BC and Ana in the semester. The practical courses are quite intersting and very easy, yet the physiology exam at the end is said to be the hardest of the whole semester..
I'm so glad when I passed everything and this semester is over....
I'm so glad when I passed everything and this semester is over....
D
Deleted member 80556
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Renal physiology ain't that hard you guys. Although the professor from my uni gives amazing classes.
Pulmonary physiology and related diagnostic exams, now that sucks.
Pulmonary physiology and related diagnostic exams, now that sucks.
Patrick Bateman
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Passed the 2nd macro test. Goddamit...
MegaMelon
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Figured this is the best place to ask. For any UK Gaffers, hows the prospects looking for entry into post-graduate entry medicine (4 year accelerated degree)? I'm doing my a levels and unfortunately, the only thing I want to do is medicine but due to circumstances I'll need to do a degree then apply for post grad entry afterwards to stand a chance of getting in. Also, how much of an advantage does a first over a 2:1 get you? Thanks in advance.
hockeypuck
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FTFY. Besides, zebra quote doesn't work in Africa.
Tarkus
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Funny, the patient that brought about that adage to me was S/P kidney and pancreas transplantation (2013) with 8/10 midline epigrastric pain.
It was a fucking peptic ulcer
hockeypuck
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Transplant surgeons didn't fuck with his pancreas.
Tarkus
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Yes I know, but I was "certain" the pain was because of inflammation from graft rejection. Pt had N/V for 3 days and couldn't keep down his immunosuppressants (Prograf and cellcept). This was only the 2nd pt I had seen. Gave presentation with assessment after a 30-minute history...got pimp slapped.
233 point PE? Jesus, does that include a gyn and complete psych eval?