Just asking.
Is there currently controversies or negative sides of the Irish medical programmes, especially the Royal College?
Any inflations, or downside to it?

You're right, actually we 'met' here before reaching Tas. Our year was about 15-20. So I assume it's about there. Not to be ungrateful to my home country, but I am overseas for a reason, to learn. It would be way better if I could secure an internship here =). Just hope for the best by then. Right now, concentrate in facing the darned exams.

Around 15-20 international students, sometimes a lil more than that, and around 110-120 per batch including repeats. really hope that they'll open up more intern spots soon.

If internship spots are not dealt with, then I would think Australia will lose out in medical tuition fees from international students, fees which are really partially funding aussie and aussie pr medical students.

thanks....i might need to sought help from the two of you later......

Me too!

Can this thread be pinned? Or a new one titled "Almost everything about Medicine" or something...someone else suggested this as well, in a related thread.

This post has been edited by podrunner: Sep 25 2011, 09:49 PM

i take that to mean son also has conditional offer then.....

Yup..just grit teeth and pay first..

sorry, bit random here. Im in 3rd year now. currently find it hard to relate the pathophysiology of diseases to every symptoms of it ... and had a tough time finding it on the net.

eg. in molar pregnancy,one of the symptoms includes symptoms of hyperthyroidism, WHY is it so???? ..

N in things like this, how do we actually go search for the pathophysiology of this kinda tiny biny symptoms related to the huge disease? are we doctors supposed to know about it???

I would suggest spending a bit more time searching for the right sites on the net.

since u are in clinical already why so fuss about this tiny biny pathophysiology stuffs!! =D

This post has been edited by tqeh: Sep 29 2011, 02:14 PM

You can't possibly explain everything that you learn the 1st time, none of the books does that. I suggest you to memorise the facts 1st and along clinical years you can get the explanations for most of the facts you learnt previously. doctors are supposed to know the diagnosis and treatment, but knowing the pathophysiology makes learning more fun, and can be useful to answer your prof's questions during ward rounds.

anywhere, the explanation for the example you brought up is
Human chorionic gonadotropin bears structural homology to pituitary thyrotropin. The extremely elevated levels of human chorionic gonadotropin in patients with molar pregnancy or other trophoblastic diseases can lead to hyperthyroidism.
http://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0014/ea0014p443.htm

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Added on September 29, 2011, 3:28 pmon a side note, i always remember molar pregnancy as having 2 hyper and 2 PE. Hyperthyroidism, Hyperemesis gravidarum, Pulmonary Embolism and Pre- Eclampsia. Hope it helps.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 29 2011, 03:28 PM

hi

can anyone help me here
I always get head pain/headache whenever i swim
the headache only relief by bend foward/lower my head down

everytime, I have to lower down my head for a while before can walk from the pool to changing room otherwise I feel like wanna fall down

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@podrunner & @tqeh, thanks.

@wgy589
great input! thank you so much, it does help !! =)
will needa strengthen my basics... =P

This thread is no longer on the first page!
@limmeu, any action on the oct 7th deadline?
Having hols now, back to the grind next week, eugh!

i believe the relative have decided to hedge their bets, and pay up, knowing full well they will loose some money should they reject, either to take another offer, or to take another course...I make sure they understand the implication of paying....

have you?.....

As recently as yesterday! Should know about monash interviews later this month, and 7 more weeks to finish high school! Hooray! Anyone else doing an on shore aussie pre-uni program? Good luck for finals!

i believe podrunner's son is......

hi guys, im new here. just noticed this thread today.

btw, need ur opinion and advice guys. is it normal for medical student to fail their exams? i'm studying in egypt in 2nd year.recently i got my exam results, and i failed two paper which are anatomy and histology (fyi, for the 1st and 2nd year, we studied basic anat,histo,biochem,and physio. starting from 3rd year we'll study the pharma, patho and so on.). that means i have to repeat my 2nd year again in my 3rd year in egypt.

i can say maybe i didnt study well because of the pressure knowing that i only got 6-7 days only to do all the revisions (and im kinda last minute too.) i love studying medic subjects as its not really hard for me to understand, its just, the last minute studies ruin all my hardwork attending classes for a year.

and also, the things that kinda haunted me right now are, i always think how to face my ex-classmates after this. im too ashamed with my rsults, and i feel like wanna give up. any advice?