What not to do...in your first year

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 planning on donating your body to medical science then it would help a great deal if you could end your days laying in the anatomical position, arms supine.

One of the hardest things about dissection is trying to move a body into the necessary accessible positions. A fair deal of force is required that, for a first year medical student with limited exposure to death can prove exceptionally tough to overcome...

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24/02/08 - Bad to the bone:

As the week drew on, the nature of dissection changed. In the beginning, after the initial shock was overcome the cutting process became fairly routine. By Thursday, things started to get a little messier. In order to fully dissect the joints, we ended up doing what can be described as effectively skinning the arms. Needless to say, the week ended on a fairly drained note, most of us glad for the weekend.

I think the best part for me was dissecting the palm...

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27/02/08 - Feet:

The lower limb is a little easier to dissect. For one, the face is out of view allowing for us to slip into a less personal sense of thought and just get on with the task in hand… or foot. Secondly, the muscles in the leg are much larger and easier to separate than those in the arm. Finally, there is no need for twisting the limbs into place, as they have been fixed in the anatomical position. Needless to say, the lower limb has proved a little easier to deal with...

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28/02/08 - Dissection Recollection:

The final day of cutting is over. We spent it looking at the hip, knee and ankle joints. I eagerly jumped in at the start, keen to find and remove the head of the femur from its socket. With what seemed to me like a rather careless approach I managed to do so in ‘record time’ according to the instructor, and apparently not a bad job either. Synovial fluid spat...

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02/03/08 - Goin' loco:

Tomorrow marks the start of two new modules, one of which is supposedly the hardest element of the first year. Welcome to ‘brain and behaviour’ and ‘locomotion’. I’ve heard dreadful, awful things about B+B, alas, I am actually looking forwards to it. In biomed, neuroscience...

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04/03/08 - What not to do...in your first year:

Telling everyone you’re a medical student

As a first year, you are bottom of the pile. You’re not special like those finalists and you know **** all medicine. If you try using it as a chat up line, you can bet the locals will have heard it before.

Telling everyone you’re going to be a surgeon

Or obstetrician, or cardiologist, or gastroenterologist, or whatever...

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