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15 November 2009
Sonal's Web Diary
Oh my how time flies! Somehow the one month mark before exams which I use as a motivational marker to buckle down and revise has come and gone!
3 weeks are left before my first exam now and I am starting to prioritise my revision in such a way as to cover the “big topics” first. I hope that the small little details somehow stay stored away at the back of my brain to be recalled at a later time, but this year I honestly feel overwhelmed at the amount of knowledge and general medical skills I have to know. To revise general practice, psychiatry, neurology, care of the elderly, paediatrics (which is general medicine for children really) and obstetrics & gynaecology and the previous 3 years worth of general medicine is very daunting.
Somehow with reading, chatting with friends and planning revision with colleagues I don’t feel as if I am losing it yet. This year we are also lucky enough to have a revision lecture for at least an hour or more on every speciality topic. This is good because it helps me realise what I thought I knew, but need to look at in more detail, or revise things which I may have thought were not so important.
I also have 2 weeks of obstetrics & gynaecology left in which I have to finish my 2 short cases, my long observed case & my written paper SSC. The short cases are designed to test what the student has learnt so far in O&G and is done in the 4th or 5th week of placement.
One short case is an antenatal history and examination, one short case is a gynaecological history, and the observed long case is another gynaecological history, but with examination findings, investigations, management & treatment options and differential diagnoses considered. The point of the long case is to help take the students knowledge one step further and consider the possibilities available to the patient. The written SSC is specific to one obstetric or gynaecological condition in which the student not only takes a history, looks at investigations & treatment but goes off and reads papers on the specific condition to form a deeper understanding of the condition.
With all this left to do and not much except revision in my plans, you will be hearing back from me probably when the exams are over and the holidays have finally started.
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