MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

[Agent Splat]

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Don't they have pharm flash cards?

yes. Andy doesn't know that...so don't tell him.

 

[Gimlet]

yes. Andy doesn't know that...so don't tell him.

I've heard they aren't that great, and are a pain in the ass to sort through to find the cards you need for each unit. Can anyone confirm/deny?

 

[donnyfire]

The best note cards are custom made for the course. Even better is when you can get them from someone the year ahead of you (which I did), so you don't have to spend the time making them yourself. I tried to have them memorized before the next lecture (my personal favorite time to memorize was the mornings before class), and reviewed them on the weekends.

A good (but intensive) format for the cards is:
Front:
Drug Name
1)Class?
2)Mechanism?
3)Effects (x)
4)Side Effects 👍
5)Special Info

Then on the back of the card, you answer the prompts from the front. The prompts help to organize info you want to review as you memorize the cards. (x) and 👍 are numbers for the number of important things you feel you should recall for each given drug. Special info was always for specific things to know about that particular drug.

As far as remembering names, in addition to memorizing the cards, I wrote them out by hand nightly, and on weekends once or twice. As I wrote, I tried to remember something specific for each drug. I also tried to visualize something relevant too (such as the heart, brain, NMJ, or wherever they worked) This gave me a word and image to draw from when I tried to recall them during the exam, as well as muscle memory for spelling.

 

[Ashers]

The best note cards are custom made for the course. Even better is when you can get them from someone the year ahead of you (which I did), so you don't have to spend the time making them yourself. I tried to have them memorized before the next lecture (my personal favorite time to memorize was the mornings before class), and reviewed them on the weekends.

A good (but intensive) format for the cards is:
Front:
Drug Name
1)Class?
2)Mechanism?
3)Effects (x)
4)Side Effects 👍
5)Special Info

Then on the back of the card, you answer the prompts from the front. The prompts help to organize info you want to review as you memorize the cards. (x) and 👍 are numbers for the number of important things you feel you should recall for each given drug. Special info was always for specific things to know about that particular drug.

As far as remembering names, in addition to memorizing the cards, I wrote them out by hand nightly, and on weekends once or twice. As I wrote, I tried to remember something specific for each drug. I also tried to visualize something relevant too (such as the heart, brain, NMJ, or wherever they worked) This gave me a word and image to draw from when I tried to recall them during the exam, as well as muscle memory for spelling.

I completely agree.

Andy, I can show you exactly what Don's talking about when you're in lecture. I have my pharm cards with me all the time.

 

[pratik7]

I've heard they aren't that great, and are a pain in the ass to sort through to find the cards you need for each unit. Can anyone confirm/deny?

I have them and love em. They are sorted by unit and come with a clinical case on each one.

 

[indo]

How expensive are those flash cards? I wonder if it would be more productive to create your own...but I do like convenience.


About these neuro lab tests... Is Dr. Krippendorf going to blindside us with obscure staining techniqes and oblique angles of the brain or is everything pretty standard from the BrainStorm program?

 

[Ashers]

How expensive are those flash cards? I wonder if it would be more productive to create your own...but I do like convenience.


About these neuro lab tests... Is Dr. Krippendorf going to blindside us with obscure staining techniqes and oblique angles of the brain or is everything pretty standard from the BrainStorm program?

Not staining techniques. Know the pictures in the lab manual and some of the information in it too because she can test on that. The test wasn't bad at all.

 

[DoctorFunk]

About these neuro lab tests... Is Dr. Krippendorf going to blindside us with obscure staining techniqes and oblique angles of the brain or is everything pretty standard from the BrainStorm program?

Naw, I remember everything being pretty straightforward on the lab exam. It had to be, as it was the beginning of my furious counterattack on that course last year.

 

[45408]

How expensive are those flash cards? I wonder if it would be more productive to create your own...but I do like convenience.


About these neuro lab tests... Is Dr. Krippendorf going to blindside us with obscure staining techniqes and oblique angles of the brain or is everything pretty standard from the BrainStorm program?

there was one on there, that I completely didn't recognize from earlier material, but overall, I'd say it was pretty fair. I did misspell one word though 😡

 

[DoctorFunk]

Hey M2s, have any of your looked at Ho's old path exams? I was just wondering if he had actually covered like 90% of his questions in lecture, because I sure ain't finding the info in his ridiculously comprehensive notes.

 

[Ashers]

Hey M2s, have any of your looked at Ho's old path exams? I was just wondering if he had actually covered like 90% of his questions in lecture, because I sure ain't finding the info in his ridiculously comprehensive notes.

I heard last year he asked how many neurons are in the average human's brain.

 

[45408]

I heard last year he asked how many neurons are in the average human's brain.

um, a few billion, right? and men have 10% more? 😛

oops, it's 100 billion.

The number of neurons in the brain varies dramatically from species to species. The human brain has about 100 billion (1011) neurons and 100 trillion (1014) synapses. By contrast, the nematode worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) has just 302 neurons making it an ideal experimental subject as scientists have been able to map all of the organism's neurons. Many properties of neurons, from the type of neurotransmitters used to ion channel composition, are maintained across species, allowing scientists to study processes occurring in more complex organisms in much simpler experimental systems.

@ C. elegans.

 

[Xandie]

I don't remember that question.... doesn't mean it wasn't there though.

 

[DoctorFunk]

I don't remember that question.... doesn't mean it wasn't there though.

How's my little ninja in training holding up after a hard day's work? 😉

 

[donnyfire]

I remember the neuro/optho exam being the easiest of all the path exams, with a significant number of repeats.

 

[Ashers]

I remember the neuro/optho exam being the easiest of all the path exams, with a significant number of repeats.

This is the kind of stuff I like to hear/read.

 

[Agent Splat]

This is the kind of stuff I like to hear/read.

no, this can't be true. what about my pattern of "do badly, do well, do badly, do well?"

I did well on the last one, so this doesn't make much sense.

 

[Ashers]

no, this can't be true. what about my pattern of "do badly, do well, do badly, do well?"

I did well on the last one, so this doesn't make much sense.

What about my pattern... no matter how much or little I study, I do exactly the same.

 

[Agent Splat]

What about my pattern... no matter how much or little I study, I do exactly the same.

as long as "the same" implies "satisfactory" you're golden.

 

[Ashers]

as long as "the same" implies "satisfactory" you're golden.

I've gotten used to it... now I'd like to improve that score. 😉

 

[DoctorFunk]

I've gotten used to it... now I'd like to improve that score. 😉

Status quo all the way over here. I'm all about getting the same old score while watching more episodes of Scrubs, The Office, and Grey's Anatomy (wifey's choice) than any neuropath-fearing med student has any right to.

 

[Ashers]

Status quo all the way over here. I'm all about getting the same old score while watching more episodes of Scrubs, The Office, and Grey's Anatomy (wifey's choice) than any neuropath-fearing med student has any right to.

I somehow managed to pull it off with lung path/micro final while watching all three seasons of Arrested Development. Scrubs in 30 min.

 

[Xandie]

How's my little ninja in training holding up after a hard day's work? 😉

She's alright. She didn't get pimped too hard today, so she's happy. 😀

 

[indo]

She's alright. She didn't get pimped too hard today, so she's happy. 😀

Just so we're clear, can you describe what you mean by "pimped hard"?

 

[Xandie]

Just so we're clear, can you describe what you mean by "pimped hard"?

I could... but then what would you spend your days imagining? 😛

 

[DoctorFunk]

I could... but then what would you spend your days imagining? 😛

I still can't believe I'm older than you. Not that you look old, you know, but I have this naive idea that lower-ranking, dumber students should naturally be younger.

Might be time for a pre-midlife crisis.

 

[indo]

I could... but then what would you spend your days imagining? 😛

Dr. Krippendorf.

 

[Gimlet]

Someone in the library set the channel on the VCR underneath the monitor of this computer to 69. Gotta love the sophmoric humor in med school. I've always wanted to load up the print queue with jobs that have inappropriate names to see the reactions of people when they go to print something and see something like "poopchute avenger" queued up next.

 

[akpete]

Someone in the library set the channel on the VCR underneath the monitor of this computer to 69. Gotta love the sophmoric humor in med school. I've always wanted to load up the print queue with jobs that have inappropriate names to see the reactions of people when they go to print something and see something like "poopchute avenger" queued up next.

I say go for it.

 

[Ashers]

Just so we're clear, can you describe what you mean by "pimped hard"?

Xandie gets to pimp the applicants today.

 

[indo]

Pizza for free lunch again today. ****ers! We have to have 400 wheel chair parking spaces and wheelchair ramps everywhere but nobody gives a rat's ass about the fact that 80% of native american people and certain African populations are lactose intollerant! Travesty

 

[Agent Splat]

Pizza for free lunch again today. ****ers! We have to have 400 wheel chair parking spaces and wheelchair ramps everywhere but nobody gives a rat's ass about the fact that 80% of native american people and certain African populations are lactose intollerant! Travesty

i urge you to write you congressman or woman.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Pizza for free lunch again today. ****ers! We have to have 400 wheel chair parking spaces and wheelchair ramps everywhere but nobody gives a rat's ass about the fact that 80% of native american people and certain African populations are lactose intollerant! Travesty

Maybe if we all chip in and pay more student service fees the clubs will all get their act together and provide us with the 5 star cuisine we so richly deserve.

Or, you know, they'll just waste the money on printing up lousy t-shirts and throwing even more "useful" pizza lunches.

 

[Agent Splat]

Maybe if we all chip in and pay more student service fees the clubs will all get their act together and provide us with the 5 star cuisine we so richly deserve.

Or, you know, they'll just waste the money on printing up lousy t-shirts and throwing even more "useful" pizza lunches.

that reminds me I still gotta contact the Flight for Life nurse about doing a lunch talk. we'll probably serve pizza.

 

[Ashers]

that reminds me I still gotta contact the Flight for Life nurse about doing a lunch talk. we'll probably serve pizza.

Can you get a 4 cheese pizza?

 

[indo]

Ashers, I'm not 100% in love with your tone.

 

[Xandie]

I still can't believe I'm older than you. Not that you look old, you know, but I have this naive idea that lower-ranking, dumber students should naturally be younger.

Might be time for a pre-midlife crisis.

I'm younger than everyone... it's kinda odd. I'm practically still in the single digits over here.

 

[samenewme]

Dr. Krippendorf.

That's creepy. She's old enough to be my sister.

 

[samenewme]

Pizza for free lunch again today. ****ers! We have to have 400 wheel chair parking spaces and wheelchair ramps everywhere but nobody gives a rat's ass about the fact that 80% of native american people and certain African populations are lactose intollerant! Travesty

I've been thinking about writing to Dr. Haldeman to ask her to encourage clubs that are ordering more than 10 pizzas to order one cheeseless. I've never encountered a pizza place that won't make a cheeseless pizza, and it doesn't add anything to the hosting group's costs.

 

[Ashers]

I've been thinking about writing to Dr. Haldeman to ask her to encourage clubs that are ordering more than 10 pizzas to order one cheeseless. I've never encountered a pizza place that won't make a cheeseless pizza, and it doesn't add anything to the hosting group's costs.

Do it then... If she brings it up at COPS, there isn't that great turn out though. She'd probably send an email out to all of us, and those are painfully long.

Especially have her bring it up for next year.

 

[indo]

That's creepy. She's old enough to be my sister.

haha, are you even 21 yet?

 

[indo]

Maybe if we all chip in and pay more student service fees the clubs will all get their act together and provide us with the 5 star cuisine we so richly deserve.

Or, you know, they'll just waste the money on printing up lousy t-shirts and throwing even more "useful" pizza lunches.

Wait, so you're saying that even though I don't eat the pizza I've already paid for it with the student fees? Son of a bitch!

 

[DoctorFunk]

Wait, so you're saying that even though I don't eat the pizza I've already paid for it with the student fees? Son of a bitch!

Not yet, but you probably will be next year when those fees everyone voted for earlier this year go into effect.

Voter's remorse yet, anyone? 🙄

 

[Ashers]

Not yet, but you probably will be next year when those fees everyone voted for earlier this year go into effect.

Voter's remorse yet, anyone? 🙄

I got chastised at the COPS meeting once for saying I voted against it last year. I still don't want the increase.

 

[indo]

What was the reason for the increase? Please tell me that they said the price of pizza and subway sandwiches had increased due to inflation...

 

[DoctorFunk]

I got chastised at the COPS meeting once for saying I voted against it last year. I still don't want the increase.

Glad to hear there was room for open dialogue about the necessity of the fees in COPS. 😉

MCW is so not a gulag.

 

[DoctorFunk]

What was the reason for the increase? Please tell me that they said the price of pizza and subway sandwiches had increased due to inflation...

Takes a lot of money to pad residency applications these days...

 

[akpete]

I gotta say, as someone who spends the SA money and organizes stuff, I'm feeling attacked right now. If you don't attend the events, it's your own damn fault for not getting anything out of the activity fee.

And really, what's an extra $20 increase. I don't think it's gonna put me over the edge on my >$200,000 debt.

Everyone bitches that everything sucks, but it takes money to do stuff. And it takes a lot of money to do it well.

 

[arsenewenger]

Are you guys really happy at MCW? how come you guys find the time to post on sdn 24hrs...since it is a general mantra that medical school is tough. just curious about how you guys survive!

 

[samenewme]

They haven't had an increase in a long time, there are a lot more organizations, and they want to continue funding the Black Bag ball and the $10,000 YEARBOOK (but I'm not bitter).

I don't really need fancy free lunches, but I do appreciate much of the programming (the procedures fair and the Aging Game come to mind), so in a way I don't mind the fee increase. But I voted against it because I did see some fat in that budget they posted. A printed yearbook is right up there in the budget fat for me. I don't object to the cheap pizza lunches instead of the pricey subs, but I do get a little tired of picking the cheese off my pizza slices.