I've got a few friends in 2nd year in UWA too =P I failed to get in last year =( boohoo.

Exams lurking around the corner =/ All the best peps =)

I reckon it ain't really ideal to disclose names on a public forum =P but both of them were doing UWAFP with me. Are you all doing musculoskeletal this semester?

i came across this memory method from a hk drama. it works well for me.

http://litemind.com/memory-palace/
http://litemind.com/improve-memory-speaking-minds-language/

in order to memorise something, we need to understand it. however, there are some facts or numbers that we just have to memorise by heart.

DM will be a good example.

in order to remember the different hypoglycemic agents used in DM type 2, we have to understand that it needs to reduce the blood glucose level and insulin can reduce blood glucose. so the drugs can increase insulin secretion (insulin secretagogues) or increase insulin sensitivity (insulin sensitisers) to reduce the blood glucose. the drugs can also act directly to reduce glucose absorption into the bloodstream (insulin sparers).

so in this case our memory is based on understanding. However, we also need to know the range for impaired glucose tolerance in 2hr oGTT, which is 7.8-11.1 mmol/L (anything below is normal and above is DM)

obviously i can't understand anything to memorise the range 7.8-11.1  So in this case we can relate the numbers to something else.

you can imagine 7 looks like an open jaw from the side, and this is the jaw of a snowman (8), and this snowman is holding 3 candles (111). and this snowman is so fat to have DM. then the numbers 7.8-11.1 can be easily memorised.

U can also put this snowman in a room, and subsequently put other pictures in other rooms. and you can then visit this house full of pictures when you need the figures.

this memorisation method can also make study more interesting.  really hope it helps.

they are already reluctant. this year they will only give those who managed to enter Ivy league equivalent medical schools if i read correctly.

hi, how do med students in developed countries find clerking and physical examination ?

i presume it'd be harder for you to get the patient's consent because
1) it's a developed country, people don't view doctor like God compared to a developing country

2) you're a foreigner there, and an Asian. i dunno, but perhaps there's some form of discrimination?  at least if you're studying in Indonesia etc you're still in an Asian country.

That is just plain stupidity! Obviously, you cant find such smaller institutions in Malaysia and even overseas, it is more an exception than the rule.

No funding, no grant, what can one do?

quite a few well known, and well regarded and established med schools are 'small'.....

utas takes only 120 students...

even cambridge takes only 200....of which only 100 stays on for clinicals.....

size does not really indicate quality....

i am not sure what that writer was referring to, when he says 'small'.....but if it is the number of students they train, then i agree there are lots of good small med schools.....

how come only half of cambridge pre-clinicals go on to do clinicals? is it because the assessment is super tough?

IMHO while it is bad to have lax exam standards, there is no point in having super tough exams to the point where it goes beyond being a test of  competency. except maybe to uphold the elitism

i have wondered why uwa have decided to go graduate entry, in the light of the experiences of uq and umelb......

you exchange more matured and perhaps more motivated students for the academic best students....

uq had to restart a double degree undergraduate entry pathway to attract the top students from year 12....

studies do indicate the best predictor of good outcome of doctor training is still academic ability...

it doesn't matter in the us, because ALL med schools are graduate entry.....but in oz, with an even mixture, natural selection and human behaviour will result in skews in the 2 cohorts....