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Year 106/12/201708/02/2019

A Week in The Life of a First Year Medical Student | Wednesday

8:00am I wake up. I have half an hour to quickly get ready and head out for today’s 9am start. Advertisements

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So this week I’ve been busy working on my PEP, which for this year is a 5,000 word literature review. The topic I got was “Environmental Causes of Birth Defects”, but my tutor and I decided to fine tune that a little so I’m just focussing my report on Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate. Here’s me drawing some figures showing the embryological development of the palate (using my sister’s Apple Pencil) that I’m going to be adding to my report. ✍️
I’ve recently switched my morning tea to black coffee (not very strong though, mind you) and I’m pretty much obsessed - it’s suddenly become my go-to hot drink which is a bit weird since I hardly used to drink coffee before. What’s your go-to hot drink? ☕️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I’m chairing this week’s PBL case on hepatitis. It seems like quite a long case with quite a lot of pharmacology. This case is also a little bit different because we have a couple of pharmacy students with us in our PBL session to get to help us out with pharmacology aspect. 💊 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #planner #notes #studentlife #studynotes #studying #blogger #medlife #medicine #medstudent #medschool #medicalstudent #medblogger #flatlay #medschoollife #planningcommunity #organisation #motivation #studying #studyspo #studygram #studyblr #organised #student #medicine #medicalschool #inspiration #stationery #stethoscope #plannerlove
We had a Q&A session yesterday about starting 3rd year with a presentation of what it’s going to be like from current third year students. It seems so exciting, I’m definitely ready to finally get into more clinical learning! Just this one last semester to pull through...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #anatomy #notes #studentlife #studynotes #studying #blogger #medlife #medicine #medstudent #medschool #medicalstudent #medblogger #flatlay #medschoollife #medicalart #organisation #motivation #studying #studyspo #studygram #studyblr #organised #student #medicine #medicalschool #inspiration #stationery #pens #life
The weather has suddenly become so warm (maybe even too warm). ☀️ Amidst the daily grind, insane workload and endless to to-do lists it’s so easy to caught up in your own little world. We get so bogged down with trying to make it to the end that we forget to enjoy the journey. It’s super important to stop and appreciate all those little things around you whilst you’re there. Let’s make a little thread of happiness. What is something you’re grateful for or something that makes you happy? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Speaking of gratitude, this gorgeous floral print is from @codexanatomicus so thank you to them for sending it over. It’s formed the perfect addition to the big blank wall in my study room. 🥰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #anatomy #notes #studentlife #studynotes #studying #blogger #medlife #embroiderylove #medstudent #medschool #medicalstudent #medblogger #flatlay #medschoollife #medicalart #organisation #motivation #studying #studyspo #studygram #studyblr #organised #student #medicine #medicalschool #inspiration #qotd #happiness #life
The more colourful, the better that’s my little philosophy for writing notes. Quite often when I’m trying to recall something (e.g. in an exam) I can remember the colour I wrote it in and that helps me to remember what it actually was that I wrote. Are you a colourful note-taker? 💖💚💛
How’s your week going so far? This week our case is on the Pancreas and the accessory organs of digestion. We’ve got a couple of lectures on the impact of alcohol on the pancreas coming up too. Tomorrow we have a lecture called “Preparing for Year 3” which is completely blowing my mind. Where on Earth did all this time go, how am I thinking about going into THIRD year already?! 🤯
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This what my planner looks like at the end of the week. I use ticks for tasks I’ve completed, crosses for things I’m no longer going to do and arrows for things that I’ve carried on to the next day. 😊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Yet to start some work this weekend...😫😭 How do you all motivate yourselves to work during what seems like should be a break?
Here’s the completed embroidery piece I did and I can’t believe how much I enjoyed it! I’ve done bead embroidery before, but never just with thread so that was really interesting to try! I’ve now ordered a whole variety of threads to add to my miniature collection so I can try some more! 🧵 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I just love how relaxing it was! Nowadays I can’t even read a book because my mind wanders and thinks about this, this and this I’ve got to finish off doing, but it was so nice sitting down with the embroidery because I really felt as though I was able to truly switch off (for once!) 😅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Can anyone else relate with that feeling with anything? Anyone tried any embroidery before?
The direct dopamine pathway normally allows you to make desired movements, whilst the indirect pathway inhibits unwanted movements.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In disease X, the direct pathway is underactive and the indirect pathway is overactive so you’ll get less voluntary movement, but more involuntary moment. What disease is this?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Notice how my cup is always drained in these photos - can’t let it go cold 😅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Are you more of a tea or more of a coffee person? ☕️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Start of Semester 4 today! I’m determined to make this semester productive and start it on a positive note despite last semester ending a little pear-shaped.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ _⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And yes, that’s Harry Potter in the background because I’ve finally decided to start reading it. I’ve watched the movies, but never got round to reading the books. Have you watched the movies, read the books or done both... (or none)? ✨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ _⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #motivation #medlife #plannercommunity #medstudent #medschool #medicalstudent #medblogger #medschoollife #stationerylove #study #organisation #inspiration #studying #studyspo #studygram #studyblr #organised #student #stationery #univeristy #plannerlove #flatlay #notebook #desk #notes #studentlife #studynotes #notebook
Only 2 days till the next Semester starts. At least we’ll be going back to having normal levels of Anatomy to do this semester - we’re going to be doing the abdomen area. I still can’t believe the volume of Anatomy we had to cover last semester: all of the head and neck and all of the lower limb! The app pictured above is called “Visible Body”, it’s really helpful to help visualise the structures and see them in relation to each other, especially muscles and blood vessels. It allows you to see landmarks on bones and actually see all the movements of each muscle. I keep forgetting that this app exists, so I haven’t used it an insane amount, but when I do use it, it does really help!
Exams are over now so I can take down my unfinished to-dos and relax for a few days before it’s time to get back to the grind on Monday (only 5 days of freedom)! _ After exams there’re 2 types of people (1) those who just want to keep talking about the exam, work out all the mistakes they made up to the point that they calculate the exact grade they got; (2) those who have the “what’s done is done” attitude and just want to forget about it. I have to admit I used to be a (1), but now I’m definitely a (2), I don’t even want to think about the exam at all or be reminded that I even sat some exams! What type are you?
Let’s just say my motivation to keep revising has completely gone...I just want to sleeeeppp! 😫 I’ve got my OSCE this Tuesday and then after that I’ll finally be over with exams (for now anyway)! I feel as though this exam season has just dragged on forever and yet I still have so many things left to do! 😭😭
I’ve got exams starting in 3 days yet I’ve been consistently waking up after 12 - I have no excuses, just so tired all the time 😂 What time did you wake up today?
On a scale of 1-10 how ready are you for your exams (10 being ready to ace it)? 👀 Are any of you lucky enough to have already done them - how did they go?
Seeing as a lot of you enjoyed guessing last time, here’s another one. Can you guess which part of the body these muscles are from? Bonus point if you can guess the combined function of all these muscles... 😊

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