Am I crazy or did Dr. Dixon say that our last test would only include "up to 25% of the questions from Week 5" material only? The email from Dr. Bryant says 25% from Sept 4th all the way up to the 21st! 
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Man screw that crap. Why do they have to do that. I think they are scaring us. Last exam didn't have any old stuff and they said it would. I think this next exam will have some repeats and stuff from week 3-4-5 (mainly 5?) on it as well as the new material.
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I hope they fix it before the end of the weekend but I have a feeling it wont be. I missed a lecture b/c of ICC and haven't had a chance to stream it yet. Hope there aren't too many questions on the quiz.
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Am I crazy or did Dr. Dixon say that our last test would only include "up to 25% of the questions from Week 5" material only? The email from Dr. Bryant says 25% from Sept 4th all the way up to the 21st!
no, dr. dixon said up to 25% from the last test, focusing on (but not only) week 5.
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I have a few that help me. For collagens that make up cartilage, I use a date: 9/11/2006. Which stands for collagens 9, 11, 2, 6. For net-forming collagens. I think of basketball. 8ft players and a ten foot hoop. Collagens 8, and 10. For sheet forming collegens, a sheet of paper has four courners. Collegen 4. This is what I have come up with so far. Hope it helps you.Hey guys...
Did anyone devise a good way to memorise all the 20 collagen types and what they do and where you find them etc?
I cant seem to find an good meaningful connections.... HELP MEEEE 🙂
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collagen 7 is an anchoring collagen (think laminin and integrin) while collagens 8 and 10 are the network forming ones. but i like your memorizing tricks 👍
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Nice trick. Thanks for sharing.
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for 1 and 12 that are tendons and ligaments: T12-L1 vertebrae
for the fibrillar collagen: 1,2,3,5,11: add each one to the number before it: 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5 and then 5+all the others=11 - alittle confusing, but working for me
connecting collagens: Louis 14 and 18 want to (1, 2: want to sounds like 'one two') "connect", or 69 - 14, 18, 12, 6, 9
maybe not helpful for anyone else, but they work for me, so i thought id share
for the fibrillar collagen: 1,2,3,5,11: add each one to the number before it: 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5 and then 5+all the others=11 - alittle confusing, but working for me
connecting collagens: Louis 14 and 18 want to (1, 2: want to sounds like 'one two') "connect", or 69 - 14, 18, 12, 6, 9
maybe not helpful for anyone else, but they work for me, so i thought id share
man, all i gotta say is that theres an all nighter coming up for this quiz....
There is just way too much football, college football, and october baseball madness going on for me to be reading about all the wonderful flavors in mcwhinneys lecture....grrr,
im contemplating whether or not to even start studying, cause i mean, what is 2.5% anyway? haha oh boy......any other fellow delinquents out there??? hollaaaaaa
There is just way too much football, college football, and october baseball madness going on for me to be reading about all the wonderful flavors in mcwhinneys lecture....grrr,
im contemplating whether or not to even start studying, cause i mean, what is 2.5% anyway? haha oh boy......any other fellow delinquents out there??? hollaaaaaa
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Just to clarify, I've never pulled all nighter before. The least sleep I had in med school so far was before the second exam. It was about 3 hours of sleep.
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eventually you will have no choice=clinical years and beyond.
Hey HG, Are you going to be at Osteoblast? 👍
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I have family obligations so can't make it to most functions. I will definitely be at Osteoclast at the end of the year!
So is biostatistics 3 on or not on the exam? Haha, i dunno, i kinda would have preferred studying everything because I'm wasting soooo much time NOW trying to figure out what Dixon said is on and is not on the exam, since it changes everyday lol
if theres is a kind soul out there that maybe compiled a list, updated from today, that they would like to share, it would be greatly appreciated 👍👍
if theres is a kind soul out there that maybe compiled a list, updated from today, that they would like to share, it would be greatly appreciated 👍👍
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So is biostatistics 3 on or not on the exam? Haha, i dunno, i kinda would have preferred studying everything because I'm wasting soooo much time NOW trying to figure out what Dixon said is on and is not on the exam, since it changes everyday lol
if theres is a kind soul out there that maybe compiled a list, updated from today, that they would like to share, it would be greatly appreciated 👍👍
This is what I understand as of today. There will be no questions from week 5.
10% will be from week 3 and 4.
90% will be from week 6 and 7. (Biostatistic 3 is excluded)
Hope it helps!
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Its would be about 5 questions (probably less) from the micro stuff... so.. 😀
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So is biostatistics 3 on or not on the exam? Haha, i dunno, i kinda would have preferred studying everything because I'm wasting soooo much time NOW trying to figure out what Dixon said is on and is not on the exam, since it changes everyday lol
if theres is a kind soul out there that maybe compiled a list, updated from today, that they would like to share, it would be greatly appreciated 👍👍
Week 3-4:
Case Presentations
Cytogenetics
Pharmacology
Medical Terminology
There will be 8-9 questions....which is 10% of the test depending on if there are 80 or 85 q's. Elkowitz has 20 Qs. Thats what I got from her... but beware of tomorows changes. Goodnight 🙂 😴
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Micro questions have been pretty clinically based on our last few exams. They're normally something like "A 47 year old figure skater walks into your office with a complaint of fatigue and elephantitis of the scrotum. He states that he was recently filming a video for national geographics in Belize and noticed the swelling 2 months after returning home. At first he thought the swollen scrotum was due to his wife staying in Belize with a Mexican soap star (he has become completely abstinent), but now his neighbor's 4th cousins son who saw a tv show on the discovery channel about flying ferrets thinks that its unrelated. You culture his swollen scrotum on Agar XX and see XX shapes that appear purple/blue after you gram stain them. Which of the following organisms is your patient most likely infected with...."
Know what agar goes with what organism, what stains you use to ID it, what the clinical symptoms are of a patient infected with that organism, where the organism is found (in the body and geographically), whats the natural reservoir of the organism, etc. Basically you will be given a list of organisms as answer choices and a clinical scenario and you have to deduct what organism is the cause. You need to be able to figure out what organism has what affect on what. Pull up some of our old exams for some better examples!
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How awesome is it that the professors covering the densest, lease clear material and a history of obscure questions didn't show up to review? Just want to put it out there. Props for that.
Holy crap ... I just took a 30 min power nap and had a frighteningly-realistic dream where I was running through the forest and Elkowitz was chasing me. I woke up in a sweat and with a pounding headache. Oy vey.
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The written reviews are worthless; OMM reviews on the other hand are worth attending.
alright, you must have slept right through the anatomy practical if you think -that- was painless.
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I just check the answer keys for anatomy. I can't believe I only get 3 wrong. I was guessing a lot during the test.
go you
The anatomy practical was challenging but if you run through the mock practical a few times it was definitely doable. If Dr. Hill + company wanted us to fail anatomy they could make our lives very hard (i.e. ask for innervations and supply, origin, insertion etc.), but they don't. So yes it really was relatively painless if you do all the work assigned to us during lab + mock.
I freaked out when I had 2 inferior epigastrics, 2 obturator nerves, 2 psoas majors and 2 left renal veins on my answer sheet. Now that I see the answer key this anatomy practical could have been much much much worse
Listen, I think we all know that the anatomy staff is probably the nicest and most helpful of all the departments. In fact they felt horrible about the way the practical actually went down. The long lines in the hot hallway and then having to run to the test afterwards...
The bottom line is the mock practical last time was a better predictor then this one was, and we really were misled. In general it wasn't hard, we just were not prepared enough from the 100 or so pins.
To say the day was painless might be accurate, as I was already numb. The painful part were the days leading up to Tuesday, and the cute little pounding headache during OMM.
Alot of things went wrong that day, and should be fixed in the future.
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I freaked out when I had 2 inferior epigastrics, 2 obturator nerves, 2 psoas majors and 2 left renal veins on my answer sheet. Now that I see the answer key this anatomy practical could have been much much much worse
That's exactly how I felt. I was freaking out yesterday. 😀
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Listen, I beg to difer. How were we really misled? Because they couldn't pin all 250 bolded words from Grant's Dissector? If you paid attention during class or during the quizzes there was nothing new in the cadavers that they tried to pull on us. Occasionally they will pin an obscure structure (Trigone of bladder), but if you only review the mock practical (which is what I did) you will easily pass (which I did, I got 4 wrong).
Out of the mock practical and looking at the yellow answer key the only ones that were not given as practice were 1. Trigone of bladder, 2. Fundus of Gallbladder, 3. Suprarenal vein 4. Renal vein, 5. Splenic vein. The vein structures were easy enough to figure out if you followed them back to the vena cava.
I had the practical at "12:45" but really took it at 1:15 and I still had an hour for lunch afterwards, so there was no rush to get to the written part at all. You are just complaining about things that can go wrong, and it most likely did not affect your performance. Things happen, days are never perfect or go as scheduled as planned. The anatomy department did a great job for this practical and the last practical, both in preparation and in giving the test.
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