The weather is finally turning warmer. I can't wait till I can go out on the street without wearing all these thick jackets and boots. Since the semester has started for quite some time. The major controls are just around the corner.(actually I just had one today and will be having one tomorrow)
Anyway, I was very careless about a week ago and I ended up losing my ATM card. So now I am rendered with a very small amount of cash while I am waiting for my new card to arrive. Although I can always borrow some money from my friends for the time being, I still hope that I can make it without doing so. Hence I am carefully budgeting everything I buy, every move I make.
Today, we had our Microbiology major control. It is our second semester studying this subject and had been under the current teacher since the last semester. Our teacher like us very much and has always called us her "best group". Funny eh?
Anyway, she came into class today and ask us for a favor from us which is for us to help us type out the variants of controls for normal classes as she mainly uses Russian normally so she can't write in english that well.
In the end, we ended up negotiating and we didn't have a written test which is normally done after the computer test. So, we were able to go home after we finished the computer test and did a little translation for the test questions.
Gotta go eat now, update soon
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Propa classes
Today i just had my propadeutics classes. It was really really fun. Even though I didn't really study much for the classes and was very afraid of the class due to being under prepared, I had a nice time in the class.
First of all, while I was studying for the practicals that took place today, I went to youtube to look for clips regarding the general inspection(last weeks theme which we are supposed to repeat for the class). It actually feels nice to use the internet not only for entertainment purposes.
Then during the class it was quite fun. At first, upon reaching there teacher asked us to sit down and brought a patient in and ask us to observe her asking the patients. Ask us to listen to how she does the general inspection and interview of the patient. I found it very exciting as it was very challanging due to the fact that they were conversing in Russian language and we had to try our best to understand what they were saying. At this moment, I was very happy to have such a good Russian Teacher that gave us a lot of training in the clinical terms which made me understand most of the conversation.
Next she examined the patient physically and allowed us to listen to the patient's heart sound though I couldn't really make out much from it.
Next, I was the patient of the day and teacher started explaining the day's materials and show us the techniques for the examination on me. Since it was still the winter/spring duration most of my classmates and the teacher's hand were cold and while they were palpating and percussing(in short their fingers and palms were on my skin) I shivered.
All in all I find it quite a nice experience. I am currently looking forward to the next few classes. I am beginning to like my studies more now.
First of all, while I was studying for the practicals that took place today, I went to youtube to look for clips regarding the general inspection(last weeks theme which we are supposed to repeat for the class). It actually feels nice to use the internet not only for entertainment purposes.
Then during the class it was quite fun. At first, upon reaching there teacher asked us to sit down and brought a patient in and ask us to observe her asking the patients. Ask us to listen to how she does the general inspection and interview of the patient. I found it very exciting as it was very challanging due to the fact that they were conversing in Russian language and we had to try our best to understand what they were saying. At this moment, I was very happy to have such a good Russian Teacher that gave us a lot of training in the clinical terms which made me understand most of the conversation.
Next she examined the patient physically and allowed us to listen to the patient's heart sound though I couldn't really make out much from it.
Next, I was the patient of the day and teacher started explaining the day's materials and show us the techniques for the examination on me. Since it was still the winter/spring duration most of my classmates and the teacher's hand were cold and while they were palpating and percussing(in short their fingers and palms were on my skin) I shivered.
All in all I find it quite a nice experience. I am currently looking forward to the next few classes. I am beginning to like my studies more now.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Pharmacology Classes
Finally I get to come back earlier(at 3pm), after having such a heavy and tiring week, I couldn't be happier to finally get some rest before studying. Classes on the 3rd year is really tough, materials that we need to study for each classes are also in large amounts.
Pharmacology is one of the more important subjects in my 3rd year of studies as it teaches us the actions of drugs on our body and what each kind of drug helps to cure the diseases.
Though, everything turn south when the teacher we got for our practical classes were the ex-Rector's daughter(he retired only this year). Not to be rude or anything but I really think that she isn't fit to be teaching and to make matter worse she is our lecturer as well.
Let me give some examples on how she is like.
Last week while having lecture, we had a definition for the word "addiction", but instead, in the slide it was written as "addition". when one of us asked her is it addiction or addition, she said it was addition and look back into slide and read the definition out. She didn't even know what she was reading as if she knew it would have been obvious as the definition given was about addiction and not addition.
Furthermore, on the same lecture, for the last slide she was giving another definition. Let me show you what was written on the slide. The definition for drug dependence is "due to repeated administration, certain drugs may make the individual both"
This is what that was written on the lecture slide and what she said. She didn't even realize that the definition was awkward and incomplete. After referring to senior notes, I found out that the definition was incomplete and was supposed to be "due to repeated administration, certain drugs may make the individual both physiologically and psychologically dependent on them."
Furthermore, on classes, we are supposed to start class at 8am but she said we could come at 8.30am (no complaints here) but she only comes in at around 9am and for example today, after she came in she asked us to do the independent work according to the methodicals, left and came back 30min later only to say "ok, now break".
Then she came back in at 10.05am and gave us a written exam and after the exam we were dismissed!
How am I supposed to learn stuff when she gives lectures of this standard and conduct classes like this ? Self-study is needed I guess.
Pharmacology is one of the more important subjects in my 3rd year of studies as it teaches us the actions of drugs on our body and what each kind of drug helps to cure the diseases.
Though, everything turn south when the teacher we got for our practical classes were the ex-Rector's daughter(he retired only this year). Not to be rude or anything but I really think that she isn't fit to be teaching and to make matter worse she is our lecturer as well.
Let me give some examples on how she is like.
Last week while having lecture, we had a definition for the word "addiction", but instead, in the slide it was written as "addition". when one of us asked her is it addiction or addition, she said it was addition and look back into slide and read the definition out. She didn't even know what she was reading as if she knew it would have been obvious as the definition given was about addiction and not addition.
Furthermore, on the same lecture, for the last slide she was giving another definition. Let me show you what was written on the slide. The definition for drug dependence is "due to repeated administration, certain drugs may make the individual both"
This is what that was written on the lecture slide and what she said. She didn't even realize that the definition was awkward and incomplete. After referring to senior notes, I found out that the definition was incomplete and was supposed to be "due to repeated administration, certain drugs may make the individual both physiologically and psychologically dependent on them."
Furthermore, on classes, we are supposed to start class at 8am but she said we could come at 8.30am (no complaints here) but she only comes in at around 9am and for example today, after she came in she asked us to do the independent work according to the methodicals, left and came back 30min later only to say "ok, now break".
Then she came back in at 10.05am and gave us a written exam and after the exam we were dismissed!
How am I supposed to learn stuff when she gives lectures of this standard and conduct classes like this ? Self-study is needed I guess.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Medical Check up
Sorry for not posting anything for such a long time. The main reason is because I have been very busy. As I said in previous blogs, the 3rd year is one of the most important year in a medical student's life as it is here, where we learn all the basics for our clinical life later on.
Life have never been more hectic than the last few days. Classes in random hospitals out of town, lectures in the university, heavy subjects everyday, long duration of classes, all of these added up, they really make life in my 3rd year a living hell.
Actually it is not too bad. I am starting to like the stuff i am studying as we are begining to learn more about the pathological conditions and medical procedures.
Since we were going to be in contact with patients more often, the university decided to ask us to go for a check up in order to examine our health condition.
Let me tell you now about the shocking and traumatic experience.
First, we were told to collect our stool samples for examination. At the begining, I was laughing at my friends who had collected their samples before me as they were disgusted about it. I wanted to take a picture of the samples of me and my housemates but little did I know that after I collected mine, I was so disgusted by the thought of it that I almost vomit when I was holding my sample(which was in a container).
Next, for the examination itself, we had to give our blood sample, get checked in our ear, nose and mouth. Then we headed to a general therapist who asked some general questions about our health and measured our blood pressure. I was so shocked when she told me my Bp was 140/70 !!! Later, when I asked my friend to measure mine, she told me that my Bp is indeed high. I was so shocked by this news as I do not eat very salty food(except if you count taking a lot of sauce from dishes) and I am quite normal in weight and I do exercises weekly. Hence, now I am trying to eat more healthy food and try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I hope I would get my Bp back to normal.
Now about the climax of the examination, we had to do both rectal swabs and penile swabs ! All of us were so traumatized at this news. After the examination, all the guys were complaining about the pain that each of us were feeling. I was even walking with my legs wide open in order to decrease the pain(my friends were laughing at me for that). Talk about pain in the ass? Try pain in the urethra.
Life have never been more hectic than the last few days. Classes in random hospitals out of town, lectures in the university, heavy subjects everyday, long duration of classes, all of these added up, they really make life in my 3rd year a living hell.
Actually it is not too bad. I am starting to like the stuff i am studying as we are begining to learn more about the pathological conditions and medical procedures.
Since we were going to be in contact with patients more often, the university decided to ask us to go for a check up in order to examine our health condition.
Let me tell you now about the shocking and traumatic experience.
First, we were told to collect our stool samples for examination. At the begining, I was laughing at my friends who had collected their samples before me as they were disgusted about it. I wanted to take a picture of the samples of me and my housemates but little did I know that after I collected mine, I was so disgusted by the thought of it that I almost vomit when I was holding my sample(which was in a container).
Next, for the examination itself, we had to give our blood sample, get checked in our ear, nose and mouth. Then we headed to a general therapist who asked some general questions about our health and measured our blood pressure. I was so shocked when she told me my Bp was 140/70 !!! Later, when I asked my friend to measure mine, she told me that my Bp is indeed high. I was so shocked by this news as I do not eat very salty food(except if you count taking a lot of sauce from dishes) and I am quite normal in weight and I do exercises weekly. Hence, now I am trying to eat more healthy food and try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I hope I would get my Bp back to normal.
Now about the climax of the examination, we had to do both rectal swabs and penile swabs ! All of us were so traumatized at this news. After the examination, all the guys were complaining about the pain that each of us were feeling. I was even walking with my legs wide open in order to decrease the pain(my friends were laughing at me for that). Talk about pain in the ass? Try pain in the urethra.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Experiment and Regrets
It has been more than a week since the university resumed it's classes. Though, my mood to study still hasn't improved, I have been scraping through all the classes and every time when I see the results I tell myself "I need to gather up my emotions and mood and stop finding reasons to not study!". I hope this will be the last time I will be doing this. I am sorry for making you guys sad or worried upon hearing this. I promise to concentrate on my studies and do better in the future. I really do.
So, today I had my practical classes in Pathological Physiology. Today's topic was on disease, dying and reanimation. For the experiment of the class, we got a rat and did an experimental asphyxia on it. Let me give a little bit more details on what we did.
First we, narcotized the rat and saw the stages of narcotization. Then when the rat was asleep we cut open the skin on the neck to expose it's trachea and did a section on the trachea. Then, we inserted a glass tube into the section. Then we closed the tube with our fingers blocking the air from going in and out from the tube and it's lungs. Hence, the rat was in hypoxia (shortage of oxidation) until it was in clinical death. After it's last breath we immediately did the reanimation techniques on the rat (artificial respiration and heart massage). Eventually the rat came back to life. Though we repeated the experiment again and prolonged the time between the rat's last breath and starting of reanimation technique.
The picture above is after the rat was revived after the 1st experiment.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Lecturers and Teachers
Yesterday, I had my first lecture in General Surgery. The lecture was given by the teacher, Dr. Mikheal. The lecture he gave was very interesting, informative and entertaining. This was the first time I had such an lecture.
Out of all the lectures that I have been through while studying in my current university, never have I seen such a cool lecturer. He came in and said, its up to you to come to the lecture, I won't be checking the attendance. Then he went on and said about the organization of the department and how the lecture will be conducted. He said, there will be no need to write down most of the notes as they can be found on the university's website. For further information, just look for it in the Google Book search. For videos on how to do the procedures, just type the procedure name on youtube and you'll be able to find a lot of variants.
I know this might seem normal to people from other universities, but over here, there isn't any teacher nor lecturer that does this. They always wants us to copy the notes from the lecture. The way he gives the lectures are like those I see in the movies. This is the first time I felt like I was studying in the universities that I have always seen in the movies.
Today, I had my first practical class in Immunology which is in one of the Hospitals. Our teacher was the lecturer which we just had lecture in the university before the classes. I do not remember her name (I think it is Tatiana). Classes were supposed to start at 12 noon but she said to start at 12.30 and when we reached there, after she came in and give us the general information of how classes are conducted and stuff like that, she said we could be free. We went like "What ???" as it was only like 5 or 10 minutes since she came in. That was the shortest class I ever had. Though I have no complaints.
Out of all the lectures that I have been through while studying in my current university, never have I seen such a cool lecturer. He came in and said, its up to you to come to the lecture, I won't be checking the attendance. Then he went on and said about the organization of the department and how the lecture will be conducted. He said, there will be no need to write down most of the notes as they can be found on the university's website. For further information, just look for it in the Google Book search. For videos on how to do the procedures, just type the procedure name on youtube and you'll be able to find a lot of variants.
I know this might seem normal to people from other universities, but over here, there isn't any teacher nor lecturer that does this. They always wants us to copy the notes from the lecture. The way he gives the lectures are like those I see in the movies. This is the first time I felt like I was studying in the universities that I have always seen in the movies.
Today, I had my first practical class in Immunology which is in one of the Hospitals. Our teacher was the lecturer which we just had lecture in the university before the classes. I do not remember her name (I think it is Tatiana). Classes were supposed to start at 12 noon but she said to start at 12.30 and when we reached there, after she came in and give us the general information of how classes are conducted and stuff like that, she said we could be free. We went like "What ???" as it was only like 5 or 10 minutes since she came in. That was the shortest class I ever had. Though I have no complaints.
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