Total Recall
I did some thinking about the semester gone by today and here are some of my thoughts on it.
Semester 1 of year 2 seemed like ‘real’ medicine compared to first year. We learnt more about the CVS and the respiratory system. We also touched on renal medicine and covered a bit more neuroscience.
I had a few projects like the Student Project Case on Asbestos, Health Promotion and Knowledge Management and the Rural Placement Case Report. These were all quite interesting projects to research and write.
For the SPC, we actually did some creative presentation: a House M.D. like skit, describing asbestos related lung diseases. I hope we got a good grade for that because we practised and prepared quite abit.
There were a few setbacks as well – I didn’t get a good grade for the HPKM ethics proposal, not because there were blatant ethical flaws in our project, but because we didn’t read the guidelines and attend the lectures pertaining to the submission of the ethics proposal and the whole group mucked it up badly. The other setback was getting ‘poor rapport’ commented in a few stations of my OSCE toward the end of semester 1.
Also, the semester 1 exam was postponed much to my dismay – I was ready to study hard for it and do well. Now I’ve lost my momentum of study and struggling to cover 2 lectures a day. I hope I still manage a respectable grade although it’s a meagre 5% of the year’s grade.
Out of school, things went pretty well I think. Other than a plan to moving out with a friend falling through. I bought a new MacBook Pro, the one I’m using to blog this entry right now. I also made some new friends, and strengthened other ties.
Overall, I must say it’s been a good first semester for me! Expectations and resolutions for the next semester to come along soon.
