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The slides from the MSA What I Wish I Knew in First Year lectureTRANSCRIPT
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What I Wish I Knew in First Year
Advice for students from GKT MSA
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Welcome to Medical School
• Congratulations! • Very different way of learning at university • All about striking a balance
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What we will discuss
• Brief overview to Year 1 • How to organise yourselves • Useful resources
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How Year 1 Works • Lectures (main bulk)
Phase 1 – Until December Mid Sessional- Early January
Phase 2 – From January • Tutorials • Dissection and Histology • Clinical Placements • Learning At Home
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Lecture-based teaching
• Phase 1 (Sept-Dec): THEMES – Good for grouping concepts/revision
• Phase 2 begins (Jan-April): SCENARIOS
– Clinically relevant, easier to picture – Scenarios continue into 2nd year (35 in total)
• Lecture capture • Last-minute changes
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Getting Started : A note on the…Virtual Campus
• Explore the VC, get to know where everything is
• Sync your calendars with your VC timetable if you haven’t already done so – Remember to make it specific to your tutor
group (select iCAL export calendar, tutor group and where to export to)
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Group teaching • Tutorials
– Consolidate learning
• Workshops – Ethical case-studies
• IPE – Nurses, dentists, midwifery, nutritionists, physio
students – Keep a diary as you go
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Lab-based teaching
• Histology from lectures, read/take notes • Don’t get too bogged down with it • Sessions end with a quiz
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Dissection Room
• After lectures, read through before your DR session
• Some people get a lot from dissection, some don’t, it doesn’t really matter because you have to do it regardless
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A note on… Dissection
• Do eat beforehand • Don’t wear your best clothes • Don’t come in hungover/ill • Brush up on your relevant anatomy before
each session
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Clinical Placements
• GP placements • Take advantage of this opportunity
– Communication – Self-confidence – ‘Bedside manner’
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Assessments • Phase 1 (Sept-Dec): THEMES
• ICA – Midsesh: 6th January 2015 – Numeracy: November 2014 – Clinical presentation: 19th March/2nd April – IPE essay: over two semesters
• Phase 2 begins (Jan-April): SCENARIOS – Formative test – Finals (May): 80%
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Things to look out for… • Clinical references
– Practical skills – Surface anatomy – OSCEs
• The ‘non-medical’ lectures (PoM) – Professionalism, ethics & law; health; psychology
& sociology; clinical communication; IPE – Research and statistics
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Working at Home
• Everyone learns in a different way, find out what works for you early and stick to it
• Flashcards, long notes, diagrams etc all work well
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Preparing for exams…
• Get a good set of notes from the get go • Phase 1 isn’t the most scintillating thing
you’ll ever experience, but it consists one paper and is very content heavy
• Don’t get too hung up on the mid sessional exam, it’s a good measure of where the gaps in your knowledge are
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Useful Textbooks • Lecture slides are comprehensive and that’s
what you will be tested on
• However, people find the following useful, all available in the library:
• Gray’s Anatomy for Students • Wheater’s Histology • “At A Glance” series
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Useful Resources
almostadoctor.co.uk geekymedics.com The older years (!), can tell you what it’s really like
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Finding everything tough?
• You wont be the only one • Medicine is hard and demanding, but the
best degree (no bias) • Talk to someone early!
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Questions?
• Thank You For listening!! • Any questions, don’t hesitate to get in contact:
[email protected] [email protected]
• Follow us on twitter: @gktmsa • www.gktmsa.co.uk