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Last week I noticed a deep sense of calm in me. I was smiley happy all week from a combination of small things: the fact my shoes click when I walk in the office (when I was little I couldn’t wait to be grown up and wear shoes with heels that clicked like Mummy’s shoes, and now I do ), I bought a new cardigan from Topshop the weekend before and it has a waterfall front which swishes nicely when I walk and I had a quiet week where I got to solve a lot of people’s small IT issues as it’s like ...

An ABG is where a needle is stuck into the wrist at a steep angle to go and pierce the radial artery (the one you can feel with your fingers at your wrist). This is needed to see the levels of oxygen, CO2 and the pH of the blood. You need to get this information from an artery, as you want to know how much oxygen is getting to the tissues, not coming away from it. I have to be honest here, I don't think I have ever seen an ABG carried out in real life, but I have read about them (Wikipedia) and ...

Originally Posted by halfadoc

Crash call!
Here is the start of my latest blog...

On friday (two weeks ago!) had the most awesome ward round ever! Literally! Reading the title of this blog you might think I'm a bit weird for saying that but I'll tell you now (spoiler alert..) that the patient was ok at the end so I think I can say legititmately say that it was awesome. So heres what happened...
I was on a ward round on CCU (cardiac care unit) with one other student and a lot of doctors (3/4 registrars,

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Last week at work went really quickly. Partly because I was looking forward to my interview (perhaps looking forward to is the wrong word, more anticipating the interview) and my boyfriend coming down for the weekend and partly because of a photo frame on my desk.. For Valentine’s Day my boyfriend gave me a digital photo frame and filled it with photos of us, him and my Facebook photos. It was lovely of him, because I really like photos - my screensaver usually cycles through all my photos on ...

Hi,

Ok, so my first week on my medicine rotation, which is based around the GI system (top to bottom, including associated organs such as liver, pancreas etc.) and I get back to the 'proper' hands on medicine. Nurses, endoscopies, cardiac perfusion scans, X-ray meetings, hepatitis, a patient who has severe intestinal bleeding, seemingly from switching to a purely raw food diet (not healthy), 'on take' and ERCPs topped off with an upsetting surprise finding that a patient only had ...

So last week was a nice and quiet one at work, which was good. Oh, and I won our weekly Thursday lunchtime game of cards, which was awesome It got crazily busy December/January time as I was trying to get around 80 data analysis reports done to an external deadline, whilst trying to find people to confirm I should do them and then check them once I’d done them. Since then, I don’t take the quiet weeks for granted anymore! I work for a pension’s administration company. It wouldn’t be my first ...

I did the International Baccalaureate instead of A levels, so when I was offered a place at University of Southampton for Med with 36 points and 666 at higher, my 32 with 644 at higher (4 ½ A’s at A level equivalent) didn’t get me very far. It did however, get me into a Biomedical Science Degree at Southampton Uni, which I absolutely loved (apart from neuroscience – very interesting but I appear to be rubbish at it, plants and molecular which are just dull and complicated and filled with three letter ...

Hi. Over the last couple of months I’ve been reading some blogs and it’s kinda given me the blogging bug. I’ve always been one of those people who start a diary as a New Year’s resolution and then get bored and stop by about February. Hopefully this one will last a little longer!

The reason I’ve been looking for blogs is to get an insider’s view on medical school. See, I’m one of those crazy people who has decided to put themselves through the hell that is UCAS apply to med schools: ...

Hi,

It was a very short week last week because being the last week of the rotation there were exams instead of ward rounds. That said, there was a single day in the psych hospital, which I really enjoyed. It is a shame that at the end of the entire psych rotation it starts getting good. A good combination between a proactive and interested consultant and seeing about 4 (yes four!) patients in a day showed me what psychiatry can be like.

Two of the patients we saw were ...

I started writing this blog about a month ago and apparently NMM has deleted all my posts which is a bit of a shame, something to do with the updates me thinks. Anyways I havn't posted anything new simply because nothing much has happened in recent weeks in my final year biomedical science degree. I guess in a brief description about my blog; i'm a final year biomedical science student applying to medicine and in this blog hopefully ill be able to describe what happens and hopefully give some advice/tips ...

Hi,

Ok, A better week than last, saw a student who seemed to be trying to persuade the doctor to prescribe him some Ritalin to help him study, a very activly suicidal patient, a 25 year old with aspergers and an actor with grandiose delusions who was bought in after going to a nursary and threatening to kill himself violently in front of the children.

While from that list above it looks like I was kept busy last week I can assure you that this is not the case. Hours ...

hey

just doing my Highers this year but wondered if i could get any advice from students applying or already in uni. I think i've got the grades covered but i'm told u need a lot of work experience. I want to be try get work experience in a lab somewhere, maybe at hospital or research company. any advice?

Hi Everyone,
I was hoping for a bit of advice.I am planning to study A'Level in Biology and 4 G.C.S.E's in French, History, Psychology and Single science.Has anyone ever studied A'levels and G.C.S.E's in one go before and sat the exams.Any constructive advice would be welcome.
Thank you

Originally Posted by halfadoc

Start of this last weeks blog:

Patient stealing and the end of my general medicine rotation
Been a bit overdue in posting this as have been a bit busy over the last week and a bit, for once this was mainly in a social way as its been my 21st this week - yay for legal USA drinking should I ever go there. Medicine has also been busy as this week is my last on general medicine so have been trying to complete my logbook (logbooks are the bane of a 3rd year medics life at my medical

...

Interesting video I found via iMedicalApps.com:



(The CPR iPhone bit is about 18 minutes in but the rest of the presentation is also interesting)

More info at: Pioneering Ideas: How Can Health Data Transform Health and Health Care?

Hi,

A shorter blog this week, partly because of all the work that is going on a the moment limiting time, and partly because not as much seems to be going on in psych meaning I have less to write about. Law plays an large role this week, I meet a psychiatric prisoner and someone under the witness protection programme. I also meet an androgynous feeling male.


Psych seems to be a very laid back speciality, with outpatient doctors having about 5 consultations per ...

We've finally got the new website for New Media Medicine up and running. It's taken a week of late nights but most things are functional now. We'll be adding some interesting new features over the next few weeks so keep your eye on this blog for updates.

In the meantime, check out the new features already available:

1. Medical News section. Tim Robbins, a Medical Student at Oxford University will be posting daily news stories.

2. Upgraded Blogs section. ...

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I have lots of prep GAMSAT material for sale. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send on the details and prices.

OMG!! The size of it! I didnt realise how ridiculous it was until i saw the mri scans!! :O

And it apparently has to be removed :S Fun stuff!

But yeah lol

Hi,

Welcome to my blog. I am just about to start medical school and will be documenting my experiences here!

Ok so currently at home-ill- not the best start and filling out the masses of paperwork for med school and trying to decide what to take- its so hard being a girl with so much stuff! Should pack useful things such as stationary, files, kitchen stuff- not my many pairs of shoes, bags, clothes and jewellery!

Well i guess I should pack some useful ...

any good tips on taking the UKCAT?
im really rubbish at the verbal reasoning and the quantitative reasoning!¬
i really need help!!
please!!!!!!!!!
i need to take my test before the 10th of October!so any help will be appreciated!
p.s im new to this forum so please excuse any mistakes!

hi, im applying to medical schools this year and i really need help with my personal statement. i mean i have all the experience n things but its just a matter of starting it off and concluding it.
can anyone help?

I HAVE RECENTLY FINISHED MBBS,result expecteD in nov this year.plz can anyone tel me of any hospital in jeddah saudi arabia where i can apply for electives,INTERNSHIP IN MEDICINE OR ANY OTHER SPECIALITY.

hello
i had applied to study medicine for 2008 but couldnt get in.i had applied to liverpool,leicester,birmingham and cardiff.liverpool had called me for interview but they said they wanted more work experience and 3 direct rejections.My results are
chemistry B -478
biology B - 475
History B - 453
and AS physics B - 226 ..most of the universities need AAA which i can do by next year.but the problem is..how do i improve my application and not get rejected even ...

hi,
ive just started year 12 and am thinking of studying medcine in 2010 entry,
i just wanted to ask whether universities mind if you have a practice go at the UKCAT exam in the test centre in year 12 and then, do it once again in year 13 when im in my A2's,
im just confused on whether i should have a go at it this year and see how i do, and am worried that med school's might think that its a bad idea.
Please advise

thanks
FR

As a youngster I never dreamt of becoming a doctor. A doctor was all just a bit too establishment and for clever people, science nerds in particular. Certainly not for academically lazy and fluffy humanities-types like myself. And yet here I am, about to take on another four year installment of higher education, on the threshold of that most painful of initiation ceremonies, a medical degree.

An intellectual inferiority complex and a streak of masochism nestle amongst the more conventional ...

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15/07/08 - Grand Rounds 4.43

EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT! That’s right folks, this week I shall be dishing as much dirt on the latest rumours, gossip and scandal that the blogosphere can handle, and all from a rather slanderous angle!

DEATH ON DIALYSIS: IT TAKES THE PISS – ABOUTANURSE grapples with the concept of self-doubt surrounding sudden and unexpected death on the wards, in this touching, heartfelt recollection.

THE REAL DEAL – THE DAILY RHINO ...

Hi I was jus wondering if my AS results tomoro come out as AABB (or something like that) would I still have a good chance of getting an offer from med. school? My GCSE's : 3A*s 6A's 2B's n quite a lot of work experience, still to do UKCAT tho....some advice!!

Okay, so I have always wanted to be a doctor, but messed up first year of college and didn't get the A-levels to apply to medicine. Decided to do a degree in Biomedical Science with the aim of applying to graduate medicine afterwards. Hated most of my time at uni and couldn't get motivated, which resulted in me graduating this July with 2.2 - not many options for graduate medicine, but I thought I was going to fail completely so I was ecstatic that for the first time I actually had the entry requirements ...

Well, been up to Newcastle for the weekend to sort out my house and get things organised for September 1st! Was interesting! I had my first experience (despite living in the city for 2 years) of a Saturday night in Bigg Market…to make it worse we went to the Bam Raz (Blu Bambu!). It felt like Newcastle but not like I know it, and for once I felt like a visitor instead of a resident! I can’t believe how different it is when it isn’t a student night!

Other than that, saw my mates ...

I was just wondering, does the UKCAT change from day to day or do all the applicants sit the same test?:

I apparently have elongated vertebrae

I mean seriously, what kinda freak has elongated vertebrae?!

Hahaha

And now they tell me i might be anaemic, and my arm kills from blood tests

Yesterday I moved out of my beloved old house in West Jesmond and moved into the new one, also in West Jesmond, but across the Metro line because it’s cheaper. I’m afraid to say, it’s not half as good as my old house.

So the new house has a bigger kitchen, minus any appliances such as even a kettle, so that’s something to buy. No pans or mugs or glasses or plates or anything. On the plus side, there is a dishwasher that I didn’t know about! The bathroom isn’t as good as the old one, ...

Well its probably half way through the holidays now (6 weeks before the new semester starts). Wish I had gone to some far off land like most of my friends but, quite frankly, I can’t really afford it, and thought I’d save my money to spend on the elective. I’ll already be in about £40, 000 debt as it is!

Today I passed my PADI Open Water Diver course and my Dry Suit Diver Speciality course. Diving is a new found love of mine and it is absolutely amazing. I hope to go to Australia ...

Seen as I have now finished my second year, I thought I would start by getting things up to speed.

I am from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. I went to my local secondary school, The Foulstone School, gaining 12 GSCEs (5 A*s and 7 As). Post-sixteen, I went to Wath upon Dearne Comprehensive School – A language College, Rotherham, to study 5 A levels in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Geography and General Studies. I passed with 5 As.

I started Medical School in September ...

My Blog is online at

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Hi,

How do i do to see your blogs? Thanks

Hello peeps,

Nice to be here...

GP locum website has just been set up

Hi,
can anyone answer my question?? i'm just wondering if anyone has got on to the foundation course with an access in science course rather than the 5 A-C they ask for?? thanks.

Hi,

this is a message for polly savvy. I read on your blog that you've just completed the medicine foundation at St georges uni. I wanted to apply I have already done an access to medical and paramedical science but it was 3 years ago. I'm close to 30 now and until now been busy with bringing up my children. Do they allow you on or do you know anyone being accepted with my course? I done it at City and I slington college.

Thanks so much!!

04/06/08 - Gone phishin':

This post is totally reactionary, but hell is it ever justified...

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20/06/08 - OSCE:

In about 1hrs time I'll be sitting my first OSCE.

Not sure what to expect, who knows it may be even vaguely enjoyable?...

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23/06/08 - OSCEs Episode I - A Phantom Menace:

After the final end of year exam ...

Ever feel like yur watching the world pass yu by, but thers always sumthin 2 prevent yu from takin advantage of it?

I cant stand it any more! I need an opportunity 2 turn my life upside down just 2 break the monotonous weekly routine. I need a challenge.

So BORED!!

Dont ever move 2 the Borders guys, its crap ther is nothing 2 do!

In the past, a caterpillar fell down from branch because of carelessness, a boy just took from here at this moment, whom caterpillar fear contract, stay body roll, fear that boy steps on from her body, the arrival of her silent wait death, however, when she opened eyes, she found she has been already on the branch, her falling in love with him slowly since then.

She thinks it will be better that if I could meet one side of his again, even if it is worthy to die, then her waiting ...

Meh!! Really need some textbooks

The department is still waitin 4 them 2 b returned, but i dnt think they have enough! Need help!!!! Urgently need some resources!

:O

Wooooooo
so I've swapped jobs!!!
I'm now in a main stream school where children both adore and fear me. Its odd having such small creatures give you there undying unquestionable adoration.

I was playing baseball with a group of them at lunchtime and it turns out small chirldren cheat like there is no tomorrow. Okay so I hit the ball and it went quite far. Yay off I ran with 20 or so 7/8 year olds screaming. Next thing I know 10 7/8 year olds descended on me, holding ...

20/04/08 - Suture Self?:

The other week a friend and I ventured into the basement of the Royal London for a guest lecture. It would seem that the silent corridors and rooms of the hospital basement are for three things; the MRI, the morgue, and the medical students. Sat in the dingy and dated lecture theatre, most likely surrounded by radioactive dyes in storage through one wall and cold dead bodies through another, we ponder as to what dramas are playing up on the floors above... ...

09/03/08 - A little out of hand:



I’m loving the new PBL, especially the way it’s tailored to make it relevant to us.



“Bartek is a 23 year old Polish labourer working on the Olympic site at Stratford. He is involved in an accident with a band saw which results in his right hand being completely severed 4cm proximal to the wrist.”...



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13/03/08 ...

So Im onto studying "Microbes and Diseases", or as AQA affectionaltly calls this module, "BYB7". Can you feel the love?

Im kidding I love this subject really, and can only hope it stays this interesting for the next 5years, here's hoping!
Today we learnt about Influenza (which unbeknownst to me was acctually the flu, stupid of me I know ) and then about HIV and the structure of Viruses. Apparantly they're neither dead nor alive, and have capsids surrounded ...

Ok so this should have been done april 1st, when i actually got the offer but what th heck.

So I acctually got somewhere, i got an offer from birmingham, have accepted them and now have the heady taks of choosing accomodation to spend at least the next 1 of my next(hopefully) 5 years in. I was never that good with decisions, still its not like I'll have to make decisions on a regular basis as a Doctor is it? .......
Oh and know I acctually have to do revision for my exams. ...

So I've been thinking of starting blogging for a while, In a similar way to the recent(ish) BBC series "doctors 20 years on" I thought it would be quite fun to try and catalogue the triumphs and failures to my hopeful eventual entry into med school.

So a a bit about me to start off with. I did a law degree, I'm now doing the legal practice course (LPC) this is a one year boring course teaching me how to fill in forms and draft contracts. Pretty boring!
Thankfully ...

1) Africa is NOT a country, it is a continent.

2) theres no one common african language, so pls dont say do you speak african?

3)Yes, you can have your medical electives in one of the many teaching hospitals in nigeria.

So for all of you who want to have a tropical electives, is 27-31 degrees tropical enough, why go to bahamas or guyana when you can come to mama africa?.

let me know if you are interested ehn. i have more details,

Hi,

Is there any one there who has O+G, paedo MB this year?.

How are you preparing for the exams, in Nigerian schools its said to be the most difficult MB.

...I won't be on here much from now on. My visit back home is over and unfortunately my flat currently doesn't offer the comforts of internet connection

Take care

Right Suppose I'd best use this space for something.
I'm in my second year of college in good ol' Hereford and I am hanging in there. Not that It's bad mind you, it's just that offers are starting to trickle through and I'm not getting anywhere. Oh well i suppose.........
If only my teachers had warned me of the massive amounts of stress simply waiting can put you through, as Im not the only one you'd have thought they'd have mentioned it, right? But oh no, they simply smilled on the ...

My blog address is

http://thisdancewedo.blogdrive.com

So I decided to write a blog, after what the past week has been I think I really need to.

So past few months have been hectic at best but here I am now, on my way to medical school....but not until next September. That's five months away?!?!?!?

What the hell am I going to do for 5 months?!?!

My intial plan didn't work out, turns sleeping all day and doing nothing all night isn't what my mother calls "productive".
So I got a job, I'm now ...

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Nowadays there are many ways to get rid of this pain temporarily or for good.

I represent online drugstore MedKant Software. The drugstore represents wide assortment of medical preparations popular with a lot of people. ...

17/02/08 - Feel lucky, punk?

Friday’s exams proved on the whole to be much more challenging than the FunMed cohort, as you can see:

FUNMED

What type of image is this?

A. CT
B. X-ray
C. MRI
D. Contrast media X-ray
E. Ultrasound

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19/02/08 - Dissection:

Just a quick request to start with, that is if you are ...

Each person is capable to develop the muscular power. The research took place in the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 where the effect after trainings with a raising of weight among elderly men was studied. The 96-year-old dentist who lived in the neighborhood was oldest in group. Participants of experiment have increased their muscular power by 200 %.

When research has come to the end, the dentist continued to train 1-2 times a week during 4 or 5 years more. This person was engaged ...

Interviews are fine. It's the anticipation beforehand, and the wait afterwards that are the killers.

*twiddles thumbs until mid/late march...*

I used to love catchphrase - Roy Walker with his pazaz and that particular brand of 'charisma' which is the special reserve of daytime quiz show hosts.

Ahhh those were the days. I have even resorted to desperate measures and have the catchphrase booowaaaannnng as my text message tone... maybe that isn't something i should publicise.

I was always fascinated with how a simple picture could hold complex meanings. (and also mr chips was a bit of a favourite!)
...

UNIVERISITY OF SOUTHAMPTON- rejected
BSMS - rejected
BARTS AND LONDON - INTERVIEW ON 28TH feb 2008

PENINSULA - NO RPELY YET

mrcog pastpapers solved

at

www.mrcog1guide.tk

www.mrcog2.tk

why, 'allo there!


macca iz bacca.

17/01/08 - Blue Bloaters:

General practice, only for the rule breakers apparently. You see, bespoke treatment can only be provided by the most defiant of doctors. Not like those hospital specialists, those conformists whom must fall in line and follow protocol. These are the words of our practice doctor whom I have great admiration for, though I do not necessarily agree with that statement. Smoking was the topic for the day, which turned out to be a real revelation...

...

any one know if UK applicants to Trinity, will be treated as an overseas?
please let me know when they will be interviewing applicants
aim

Well I decided I might start blogging it a bit so that when it hopefully *fingers crossed* comes to accepting offers, I have something to look back on

Durham was the first Interview, November, went pretty well, the interviewees were really nice, just got stuck on one of the scenarios because I muddled my words up

Keele secondly, December, like the campus, hated the interview and am not too sure about going there anymore.

And most recently, ...

See above

04/01/08 - New Years Absolution:

Another substantial interval with relatively few blog posts, apologies for the neglect and I know, a blog is for life not just for Christmas. Truth be told, there is either very little to...

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08/01/08 - New Year, New Unit:

The term kicked off with a 2-hour anatomy lecture extravaganza, which did not disappoint. All new material in vast and intricate detail, promises an ...

Hello, I'm new to this board.

As a mature student (currently 37, looking at entry this year 2008 or, failing which, 2009 to a BM5 course) I'm hoping that this blog will keep updated with my attempts to get in thus far.

I'm busily beavering away at (in no order):

1. 4 A-levels (physics/chemistry/biology/maths)
2. the day job (to pay for 1., above)

I've posted on the maturestudents subsection about a study group - if anyone's interested, ...

2008 has come eventually. During this year, 29 Olympic game will be held in Beijing, and I will still continue my works with HIV. It is doomed to be a prosperous new year.

i am applying to the uk for residency. i have the option to choose from england or scottland. does anyone have advice of which place is better? any other advice....?

First of all forgive my writting, begause I am not used to write in this language.
So....
On July 2006 my father (after a saizure) diagnosed suffering of brain tumor (astrocyttoma+oligodendrocyttoma grade III). Tumor extends in almost his whole left frontal lobe, and doctors said to as that he could live max 6 months. They also said that it was worthless to operate because tumor was not solid. So he started radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

My father is still in life ...

Dec. 1 marks the 19th World AIDS Day. Here is a brief chronology of some of the major HIV/AIDS developments in China.


1984 -- Zeng Yi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, starts HIV serum testing and confirms that the virus has entered the Chinese mainland in 1982 and infected first Chinese in 1983.


1985 -- China records first death of an AIDS patient.


1986 -- Four Chinese hemophilia patients are found HIV positive ...

These days, I am too lazy enough to leave words here. It's my fault. There are so many great events happened about HIV research, even something interesting, and I should paste them to update my Blog.

According to China's Ministry of Health, the growth rate of HIV infection in the country is slowing down. Although with the report HIV/AIDS carrier over 223,000 people, Health Minister Chen Zhu summarized the characteristics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in China.
"First, the growth rate is slowing down. Secondly, sex has become the main channel of spreading the disease. Thirdly, distribution of the disease varies greatly in different areas. Lastly, the factors contributing to the spread ...

Hi all,

I am in the process of developing an on-line revision tool that will give medical students access to UMAP style MCQs and EMQs as currently used in the following UK medical schools:

University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Sheffield
University of Birmingham
University of East Anglia
Hull York Medical School
University of Keele
University ...

HIV, as a retrovirus, causes the panic worldwide. Furthermore, its pandemic and cunning transmission among the population enhance the dominant prevalence in commercial heterosexual events, and homosexual events. Useful drugs would rein the transmission and epidemics of HIV infection, yet, currently, we were frequently frustrated by the poor therapeutic effects and prompt transmission.
The phylogenetic analyses, with the help of HIV biology characteristics, would give some hints to control ...

The first time to come here for a Blog. And I am fresh to it, hope the naive issues will be of some use to the control or understanding of HIV.
Welcome all comments or suggestons!

16/11/07 - Freudian Quip:

Yesterday’s cultural diversity workshop wasn’t as bad as I’d anticipated. Those things on the whole tend to be a nonsensical, open-ended, waste of time. I hate the whole overly politically correct verbatim that accompanies those workshops. Now, I’m not saying I would advocate the use of offensive terms by any means but when...

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20/11/07 - In Vain:

I finally reached the most dreaded ...

I am a stroke/int med physician just north of london. When I am not doing that then medical education is my thing and have spent the last few years writing and editing and updating as an adid for medical students to assist them and help them learn as they try to get through med school and beyond. Its what I would have wanted.

www.medexam.net

There are a huge quantity of news, articles and resources internet sites for the Medical community where updated information is a high requirement. Sometimes is even difficult to manage such a quantity of information.

By other hand, Internet is changing to new Web 2.0, perceived second generation of web-based communities and social-networking sites. In the new Web 2.0, the users actively participate into the content that is seen in the constantly updated web pages by voting, commenting, ...

i would like to know in which university someone could do a program of life sciences like biomedical sciences and after the first year be transfered in medicine if he has good marks.

25/10/07 - You know it's a long way off when:

You’re not even half way through FunMed

You are yet to meet a patient or set foot in a hospital

Your uni swipe card expires in 2012

There’s an entire Olympics before London 2012

...

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26/10/07 - The Mendelian Bunch:

This week we have been covering genetics, and in particular inheritance of the Mendelian variety. ...

The following takes place between the hours of 5pm and 6pm.

5:01pm - Whitechapel

“Unfortunately due to a signal fault at Tower Hill there are no westbound services running at the moment”

…

“Argh, typical, I’ve got to get back to eat dinner and meet my friend”, I groan.
“Well that’s the Hammersmith and shitty line for you…”
“I know, well nothing we can do might as well wait it out”
“We could get the bus?”...
...

30-09-07 - Prosection Introspection:

As a child I would occasionally daydream on long car journeys or before I fell asleep at night, pondering what death is like. Back then as a naïve child with an overactive imagination I used to think that although you were dead, you could still feel what happens to your body on some spiritual level. Because of this I thought the idea of cremation was horrific, that you would feel the intense burning of your remains somehow. The same superstitious ...

I'll be honest. I've had a really shitty, unproductive week which has got me thinking that all of this tiredness is in fact psychological, and that I do have some 'residual traces' of depression. When I'm feeling like this I tend to do something fairly drastic and impulsive. Hence I'm sitting here with peroxide in my hair, in attempt to change my image.

It's looking scarily orange at the moment (think Toyah Wilcox when she had her hit single in the 80s for those of you old enough ...

how soon will i get news from the unis? do edinburgh answer back straight away? do they send emails or by mail? i really havent got a clue guys, plz help out, really appriciate it...

did anyone get interviewed by st andrew's? i really want to go there, but i have no idea wat's the interview like, and i dont kno anyone who's actually got in. so plz help!!!

Nottingham sent me their questionnaire yesterday. I have finished it and sent it back to them and I can't shake the feeling that I screwed it up. Should I have given myself a week to do it instead of a day? After all we've not even past the ucas deadline yet. I think I answered the questions to the best standard that I can but I still get unnerved when I think of some of the selections I made.

I think that they use it to select for interview, so I hope I haven't messed up my chances ...

Hi Chrisandra,

Thank you for your advise. Actually, I have been to Australia, and very recently in June, I spent a month in Melbourne with my sister. Well, I guess I know Melbourne pretty well already. And, I can tell you love chocs too...
I went to Cairns for 2 weeks too, with my new friends, initially my sister's of course.

Are you studying in Melbourne University ? Also, I hope you don't mind me taking that you are Australian ?

Thank you anyway ...

I just wrote the most enormous, epic blog post, clicked on post, and my computer went offline and lost it

Trust me, it was a riveting read.

It's just occured to me I haven't seen another living being since Thursday morning. Unless you count the mosquito that bit me last night or the woman on the checkout in Tesco today. Come to think of it they were about equal in manners and I actually spoke (swore) more words to the mosquito right before I killed it. Obviously, living alone and not getting out much has made me a little -ahem- eccentric.

Anyway, I have just returned from the supermarket heavily laden with plant matter ...

OK, maybe project normal human might be a more appropriate title, but it's just not that catchy...

Anyway, for those of you who are in the least bit interested, this is my first ever blog and I'll be using it to comment on my attempt over the coming 12 or so months to transform myself into someone who might stand a chance of becoming a medical student.

So, a bit of background: I'm coming up for 28, I have a first class degree in Sociology and I'm currently studying ...