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Quantum44’s Medical Journey
Quantum44:
--- Quote from: K888 on February 26, 2018, 07:59:52 pm ---Sounds great, Quantum!
I remember my first practical anatomy session. You really appreciate how people donate their bodies to science to educate future medical professionals. You get desensitised to the cadavers after a while, so it's nice for me to have a reminder about this!
I reckon it's really cool that they do a memorial service.
Good luck for the rest of your week! :)
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Yeah, I think it’s always good to realise how normal people feel about seeing the kind of things that health professionals deal with on a regular basis. I’ll be interested to see what the service is like, but definitely amazed at the people who have actively volunteered to donate their body for medical students.
--- Quote from: vox nihili on February 26, 2018, 08:54:22 pm ---Wasn't even aware that you'd started Med at Adelaide! So glad to see you kicking goals, mate. Not in the slightest bit surprised that you made it, but still great to see you have.
Looking forward to hearing about your experiences—Adelaide Uni is fantastic (have some friends there finishing their final year) and I am sure you will enjoy it a lot :D
Also, crazy that you had your first Anatomy Lab on day 1! As K888 said, a really full on experience. Hopefully down the track you'll reflect on how you felt at that point and how foreign, and indeed bizarre, that experience was.
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Yeah I really like how the course is structured so definitely looking forward to the next six years.
Anatomy on first day was very full on, I was expecting at least some kind of buffer period beforehand. I think the whole cadaver thing will become frighteningly normal very quickly, so I’m keen to hold onto this experience.
--- Quote from: carolinsale-17 on February 26, 2018, 10:25:57 pm ---Anatomy sounds super cool! I know at Monash they have some sort of 3D printing machine for body parts, do they have that in Adelaide? At what point during the course do you start dissection?
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I think we have dissection once a term, not sure exactly when. The anatomy labs are actually in the old med school so there isn’t any crazy tech. All the other classes are in the amazing AHMS building, which has a lot of tech and some really cool simulation facilities that are designed to replicate the environment of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. There are quite a few sessions where we do integrated learning with nursing students and get to practice teamwork in the context of responding to clinical scenarios, which is really awesome.
K888:
--- Quote from: carolinsale-17 on February 26, 2018, 10:26:17 pm ---Anatomy sounds super cool! I know at Monash they have some sort of 3D printing machine for body parts, do they have that in Adelaide? At what point during the course do you start dissection?
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Just on the Monash 3D printing - what's even cooler is seeing the 3D printed model next to the specimen it was modelled off. Really cool. The anatomy lab is awesome!
It's a great learning tool, but still also not as good as the real deal.
Quantum44:
Now that a few weeks on uni have passed by, I thought it would be talk a bit about my experience. The primary mode of learning in the preclinical years is CBL, which can often be infuriating. We just finished our first case, which was about someone coming in with chest pain due to ischaemic heart disease. Having to learn all the anatomy and physiology of an organ while learning pathology and pathophysiology at the same time is quite overwhelming, particularly since you have to teach yourself with minimal direction. Despite this, I’m getting the hang of it, and I can see the usefulness of having the skills to teach yourself in a career that is continually evolving. My CBL group is also really cohesive, and I’m finding the content of medicine incredibly interesting.
This Tuesday, they have simulated patients coming to clinical practice so we can test our history taking skills. I’ll admit it’s pretty intimidating as everyone in my clin group will be watching and judging me but I’ve been practicing quite a bit and have a good structure ready, so hopefully everything goes well. I’m also doing a practice SJT on Tuesday for research purposes. Apparently med admissions at Monash, UNSW and UAdel want to incorporate a SJT into the process. They’ll correlate the SJT scores with ATAR, UMAT and interview and also test the validity by seeing if SJT performance can predict academic performance in med. I guess if anyone reading this in high school is interested in doing undergrad med, the SJT could be something to bear in mind.
K888:
That first paragraph resonates with me so much, Quantum - story of my life 😂 my most recent CBL case was also ischaemic heart disease haha.
Quantum44:
--- Quote from: K888 on March 18, 2018, 07:42:50 pm ---That first paragraph resonates with me so much, Quantum - story of my life 😂 my most recent CBL case was also ischaemic heart disease haha.
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Makes you wonder why you pay the university so much when you have to teach yourself everything :o
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