Cheers. 
How was MCB?
Apparently there were heaps of new lecturers...
Terry took biochemistry.
There were three lecturers for Genetics (Brendon Monahan, Trent Perry, Marnie Blewitt).
Two for Cell Biology (Robb de Iongh and Gary Hime).
Three for Immunology and Microbiology: Odilia Wijburg, Roy Robins-Browne and Lorena Brown.
Two for Pathology: Vicki Lawson and Tom Karagiannis.
This subject in my opinion was hard (I would say mainly the speed is why - if you slacked off for a week you'd be 6-7 lectures and potentially a practical behind), but I enjoyed it a lot. They made some parts harder and some parts easier. For example, apparently the in-semester tests (not sure about the second but was true about the first) were too easy last year so they made it harder this year - for the first one, 23% got below P. But in terms of the lecture content, they have reduced it down - Robb says that he has cut out a few lectures that go after Wnt signalling, and the genetics department have had a radical change of tact relative to the previous ones, so they have pretty much done none of phage genetics/gels which Alex and Dawn seemed to like. It was moreso about the concepts about genetics, hence we got relatively broad questions and were practically never asked to memorise anything in super detail. They also gave us quite a few lectures that were never tested, so I think it's just another part to reduce the load. From my understanding Biochemistry, Immuno/microbiol and pathology are relatively similar judging from their questions. The exam I felt paralleled previous years with exception of genetics. I don't know how you managed to survive last year with the extra material/things you had to remember and still shoot out an amazing score!
I found:
Generally the lectures were great.
Biochemistry was fun, but lots of work.
Genetics was referenced above.
Cell Biology had really good resources and Robb is easily capable of lecturing about various things such as answering integrated questions, material from other departments lol; things that replaced the lectures that they cut out on.
Microbiology and Immunology had content which I personally liked but I found it hard to piece together the concepts; Roy had some really funny questions that were at times hard to answer. Good times.
Pathology had content which I felt was the hardest to learn and hardest to put together; I spent half of SWOTVAC on this alone, and the other half on all the others. But their questions were within the nicest.
Overall though the content isn't that much memory work as people tend to make it. You can get lots of the information covered by considering the big picture.
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