Studying med (1 Viewer)

[sladehk]

is anyone finding it hard to study med or is it just me... i don't get anything and making notes when you don't understand anything is =.=

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

its ok... r u sure its hard?.. or ure just not in the right state of mind..

right now im typing my research papers... and reading about psychiatric diseases..

and i thnk u need to think about how u will approach a patient when ure studying.. like imagining..
patient had chest pain..
what could this be?... what is the pathology?.. what does it look lik under their skin and also at a microscopic level?..
how do doctors fix it?... what would i do?..

and this is realli how u should think... make the work useful

 

[KFunk]

I find it painfully boring. I was expecting a lot more... bombardment. I think I'm a "pummel me with information and expect me to absorb every last word of it" whore; because I tend to remember a lot of it. Stupid PBL and its "Self-directed learning" ruins my lazing days though.

Haha, your time will come. Visit one of our A&E neuroanatomy pracs/lectures if that's what you crave.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

u crave it in 1st yr.. but after a while.. ure lik.. wow.. i wish i was still in 1st yr.. its very cosy.. ENJOY it..

4th yr... and stuff is very different..

 

[sladehk]

nonononono as in
i just end up sleeping every single lecture and sometimes in the pbls and i realllllly don't wanna do that
but i do =(
anywayz, am i supposed to research all the cases we learn or something coz ive done absolutely zitch this whole ... weekks and im kinda scared coz everyone else is so serious and have mummy/daddys as doctors =.=

yea i dunno how to study =/

 

[diametric]

well... you are in UWS.

I'm sorry. Real constructive critisicm. Frak all the superior students, and make it your goal to beat them. Works for me in school. Vow to beat the smarter kids, and you become a tad more motivated. And studying, depends on you, honestly, you have to figure out the way that suits you best.

And. Just an observation, if first year is this hard for you.. maybe a different career choice would better suit you...?

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

caffeine.. nicotine.. *shrug*

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

Vow to beat the smarter kids, and you become a tad more motivated.

i remember someone said that on average 4-5% of the grade will get a PhD.. about 95% will get a specialist fellowship too.. and a couple of ppl will be professors of medicine..

yeah just aim to do ure best.. the smart kids are prolly a bad idea.. or ull be depressed for the next few yrs..

wait till clinical.. it does gets more practical and better.

I find the only way to make it interesting is to find the good bits.. and end points.. like think.. "why is this important?"

 

[aussiechica7]

well... you are in UWS.

I'm sorry. Real constructive critisicm. Frak all the superior students, and make it your goal to beat them. Works for me in school. Vow to beat the smarter kids, and you become a tad more motivated. And studying, depends on you, honestly, you have to figure out the way that suits you best.

And. Just an observation, if first year is this hard for you.. maybe a different career choice would better suit you...?

i don't think this post is very helpful at all.

its your first semester, of course its overwhelming. don't compare urself to others, compare urself to your own potential. talk to academic staff (lecturers, tutors, etc.) about how you're feeling.

and don't give up on med just yet. at least wait til u've done ur first yr exams for goodness sake.

o and btw, med is completely different to high school, especially if u r at a uni with pbls (i.e. no real measure of just how much ur supposed to know). most meddies have >90 UAIs, in fact most have high 90s, and quite a lot of them r struggling/feeling overwhelmed in first yr. so its a completely different playing field to h.s.

 

[aussiechica7]

oops double post

 

[liverpool3k]

nonononono as in
i just end up sleeping every single lecture and sometimes in the pbls and i realllllly don't wanna do that
but i do =(
anywayz, am i supposed to research all the cases we learn or something coz ive done absolutely zitch this whole ... weekks and im kinda scared coz everyone else is so serious and have mummy/daddys as doctors =.=

yea i dunno how to study =/

why are you sleeping?? not enough rest or what... maybe you could go see one of those counsellor people that are meant to help you settle in? or ask some students in the years above how they did it/do it?

**guess you are asking how they did it, sorry**

 

[ViRtUaL]

personally i'm feeling pretty pissed off about this whole self-directed learning concept as well, i just loved high school where u rock up, and teachers teach u everything, then u go home and consolidate. now u've gotta rock up to lectures already knowing everything, and the lecture's just there to consolidate and put it all into perspective.

 

[circusmind]

well... you are in UWS.

You should probably save the uni-snobbery up for that far-away day when you are actually accepted into a uni yourself....

I'm sorry. Real constructive critisicm. Frak all the superior students, and make it your goal to beat them. Works for me in school. Vow to beat the smarter kids, and you become a tad more motivated.

Works well at school, but at uni perhaps not so much. A med/law/rocket science course is entirely composed of those smart kids you used to try and beat at high school.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

personally i'm feeling pretty pissed off about this whole self-directed learning concept as well, i just loved high school where u rock up, and teachers teach u everything, then u go home and consolidate. now u've gotta rock up to lectures already knowing everything, and the lecture's just there to consolidate and put it all into perspective.

you will love clinical school lolz..

i had to rock up and know about 60% of what i was going to learn.. then do the other 30% at home... and the other 10% is taught

 

[rusty_rouge]

nonononono as in
i just end up sleeping every single lecture and sometimes in the pbls and i realllllly don't wanna do that
but i do =(
anywayz, am i supposed to research all the cases we learn or something coz ive done absolutely zitch this whole ... weekks and im kinda scared coz everyone else is so serious and have mummy/daddys as doctors =.=

yea i dunno how to study =/

Heyy..! My mum's a teacher and my dad makes rubber for a living. I think I'm kinda serious about it, but I'm also enjoying the social side. You should probably get some more sleep if you're tired all the time, and active note-taking in lectures helps you not to fall asleep (haha, that's how I manage it - second lecture I was embarassed in front of everyone coz I fell asleep, and the lecturer told me off, haha).

How has no-one noticed you don't do the work for the PBLs? In my group everyone talks constantly, it'd kinda stand out if you did nothing. Perhaps talk to Professor Wilson, haha, I like him, he's like Santa Claus but funnier.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

and drunker..

its ok.. i have done some very stupid things and still managed to pass and do ok

so just stay awake it gets better lolz.. CAFFEINE, nicotine... dexamphetamines.. .. lol wateva works for u i guess

 

[Skywalker]

I personally found PBLs a massive waste of time and don't remember anything from them except flirting with the pretty girls in class.

But all jokes aside, the work in 1st and 2nd year is the building blocks for the clinical stuff you get in the later years, and it really really really helps if you understand it the first time round. You don't need to memorise the pharmacology of bisphosphonates or the exact mechanism of K-RAS activation in colorectal carcinoma, but make sure you don't go through not understanding the important things they're talking about.

And this happens to be my first post in what...a year? Awesome stuff.

Oh and I'm in 4th year now if that makes the above info any more qualified.