behavioral science C+ general anatomy A general physiology A medical biology and medical nutrition B+
sept 2017 - dec 2017
sept 2017 - dec 2017
what i learnt from med school other than everything academically related:
One semester has passed and I'm actually still surviving.
I shall say it's a long journey, but like what they say, time flies. As we are going through it, I swear whenever it's the start or even the middle of the week, I will always be hoping for Fridays to reach faster. Simple because weekends are approaching, which indicates my temporary getaway from books and yes it's time for me to go out with him.
Maybe it's because my university uses this block system for medic course where every month we just concentrate on one subject but we learn that subject for hours everyday, that's why I felt that time is slow for us when we are going through it but it's very fast when I have finals for every subject at the end of the block (usually takes around 4 weeks, except for behavioral science that takes two and medical biology and medical nutrition MBMN that takes five).
So basically, it's a torture, a great torture, for each day to pass but i come to realize how time flies immediately when there's finals or even when I've ended each week. By that said, with block system, it indirectly forces us to never stop our footsteps, there isn't any time for us to rest or anytime when we gets extremely busy, there isn't any extremely huge contrast in our life. It's always busy for us, whenever wherever. We have quizes and midcourses and finals which is also equivalent to having tests every single week. Life is tough like that. I would say medic isn't that hard like it's hard but what tires us more is that it's a constant and continuous process of stress. I could even say I don't have extreme, like real extreme adrenaline rush for finals now. OSPE YES, I always feel stress for OSPE (maybe because I don't have practical test every week). OSPE basically stands for Objective Structured Practical (Preclinical) Exam where OSCE are for Year 3 onward where the C represents Clinical. It stresses me out because there is time restriction for us to answer for every question, and it's like we have to move from one station to another which means that if we don't finish on time, that's it. It's basically something that makes us work our brain juice out under stress, ya know what I mean?
So basically, it's a torture, a great torture, for each day to pass but i come to realize how time flies immediately when there's finals or even when I've ended each week. By that said, with block system, it indirectly forces us to never stop our footsteps, there isn't any time for us to rest or anytime when we gets extremely busy, there isn't any extremely huge contrast in our life. It's always busy for us, whenever wherever. We have quizes and midcourses and finals which is also equivalent to having tests every single week. Life is tough like that. I would say medic isn't that hard like it's hard but what tires us more is that it's a constant and continuous process of stress. I could even say I don't have extreme, like real extreme adrenaline rush for finals now. OSPE YES, I always feel stress for OSPE (maybe because I don't have practical test every week). OSPE basically stands for Objective Structured Practical (Preclinical) Exam where OSCE are for Year 3 onward where the C represents Clinical. It stresses me out because there is time restriction for us to answer for every question, and it's like we have to move from one station to another which means that if we don't finish on time, that's it. It's basically something that makes us work our brain juice out under stress, ya know what I mean?
Life isn't that tough but I would say that you could see disappointment and depression in many students. It's really hard for us to swallow 200 slides everyday filled with tiny words and it's definitely not easy for us to memorize all the medical term just to prevent the patients from understanding us when there's ward rounds and to feel depressed (like how bloody sputum are hemoptysis and cancers are mitotic lesion) it's actually sad how even hemoptysis is underlined in red indicating a typo or grammatical error when I'm typing this. It's hard for us to remember all 100 over types of microorganisms and all the disease, cause of disease, lab test, virulence factor etc. related to it when we are only given less than two weeks, sometimes it's hard when the name sounds so glamorous and unrelated to the disease. Like how Crytococcus neoformans are caused by bird droppings and can cause lung related disease and meningitis and how Staphylococcus aureus can cause pneumonia and are sensitive to coagulase, catalase test and oxidase test but not Indole test. The name itself really shows no clue. Don't underestimate a doctor if he/she don't achieve high GPA because there are many semesters that a whole batch of cream de la cream couldn't even score any As. At first, I didn't quite 100% understand why they said that there is a high percentage of medic students being depressed, but now that I had finished semester 1, I don't understand why not 100% being depressed . I swear we, every single one of us had times when we feel so depress and to doubt ourselves and our potential.
All the expectations we give to ourselves just to be a good doctor.
It's hard for us, please don't blame a doctor if he/she can't remember everything.
It's hard for us, please don't blame a doctor if he/she can't remember everything.
the feeling of getting every paper, it's like a roller coaster for me. In medic, some believes that we sow what we reap, but actually it doesn't happen all the time. There's time where we can study so hard but end up not getting what we want. Behavioral science started off with a really disappointing result - C+. It was hard for me to accept it also, but I have no time to stop there and feel extremely sad and to stuck there forever. I just had to move on. Everything went well later with the hard work put in. With a number of A(s) and some B+(s). I'm really glad with who I am and what I've achieved. At the end of the day, if things don't work out for me, at least I've tried my very very best.
3.51, Dean's list. I thank God for all the blessings and wisdom from above. 9 more semesters to go :')





