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14 Feb 2009 01:22 amSo anyway, to those of you who's been gloating since two weeks ago, yes, I had my first day of uni today. A total of 2.5 not-really-useful hours.
The first was an introductory lecture. I'm glad they skipped all the pomposity afforded the dentistry students (apparently they had four days of introductory lectures, in their second year! That's more than this year's first years!) It was basically 50 minutes of scaring us into studying our asses off starting from day one, but, don't forget your yoga sessions either, because we don't want to be accused of brain murder. Harhar, neurology block, who said it was going to give you neurological problems studying it, nooo, that's just a myth, harharhar.
Our subdean (the multiple interlocking strata of bureaucracy in this faculty confuses me and I don't think I'll get my head around it before I graduate) threw out a number of "indicators for failing the barrier assessment", which included the usual poor attendance, lack of punctuality, failing any of the formative assessments (in normal speech - exams that don't count but you must do, so it's really just there for you to get your half-yearly adrenaline rush), and not having your photo up on the website.
Umm. Can I put my hands up for the last one?
I think I acquired a magical camera repelling ability last year. I had my student photo (for the med faculty) taken at both the main campus and the hospital, BUT NEITHER OF THEM PROCESSED and so I'm faceless. Completely faceless! Woe for non-identity!
On the other hand, I must learn to harness this newly endowed power. Or perhaps it activates on its own? Considering that two of my student ID cards...taken, yes, both at the main campus and at the hospital, turned out just fine, if rather unsurprisingly unflattering.
The lecture after that was about a new addition to our course: a compulsory autopsy observation session some time this year. They cite that the first experience is typically confronting and raw - which I'm sure it is - and they want us to get that first experience out of the way before we can embarrass ourselves as interns, but I have a sneaking suspicion someone's also laying wagers on the number of students to swoon at the scene.
It'll be at the Forensic Medicine department next to the State Coroner's Office in Glebe, which has some pretty personal memories for me, especially "the back door". Hence, I'm having rather mixed feelings about it, though I think I'm excited about it being a rewarding experience.
In the sense that you'll have had that experience. And as Bond says, the second is then..."Yes. Considerably."
I wonder if we do any psychiatric medicine? These days neuro overlaps quite a bit with psych, especially since with all these molecular methods they've been able to identify protein changes in previously "psychiatric/psychological diseases" like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. Although I wonder which one's the chicken and egg here?
The first was an introductory lecture. I'm glad they skipped all the pomposity afforded the dentistry students (apparently they had four days of introductory lectures, in their second year! That's more than this year's first years!) It was basically 50 minutes of scaring us into studying our asses off starting from day one, but, don't forget your yoga sessions either, because we don't want to be accused of brain murder. Harhar, neurology block, who said it was going to give you neurological problems studying it, nooo, that's just a myth, harharhar.
Our subdean (the multiple interlocking strata of bureaucracy in this faculty confuses me and I don't think I'll get my head around it before I graduate) threw out a number of "indicators for failing the barrier assessment", which included the usual poor attendance, lack of punctuality, failing any of the formative assessments (in normal speech - exams that don't count but you must do, so it's really just there for you to get your half-yearly adrenaline rush), and not having your photo up on the website.
Umm. Can I put my hands up for the last one?
I think I acquired a magical camera repelling ability last year. I had my student photo (for the med faculty) taken at both the main campus and the hospital, BUT NEITHER OF THEM PROCESSED and so I'm faceless. Completely faceless! Woe for non-identity!
On the other hand, I must learn to harness this newly endowed power. Or perhaps it activates on its own? Considering that two of my student ID cards...taken, yes, both at the main campus and at the hospital, turned out just fine, if rather unsurprisingly unflattering.
The lecture after that was about a new addition to our course: a compulsory autopsy observation session some time this year. They cite that the first experience is typically confronting and raw - which I'm sure it is - and they want us to get that first experience out of the way before we can embarrass ourselves as interns, but I have a sneaking suspicion someone's also laying wagers on the number of students to swoon at the scene.
It'll be at the Forensic Medicine department next to the State Coroner's Office in Glebe, which has some pretty personal memories for me, especially "the back door". Hence, I'm having rather mixed feelings about it, though I think I'm excited about it being a rewarding experience.
In the sense that you'll have had that experience. And as Bond says, the second is then..."Yes. Considerably."
I wonder if we do any psychiatric medicine? These days neuro overlaps quite a bit with psych, especially since with all these molecular methods they've been able to identify protein changes in previously "psychiatric/psychological diseases" like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. Although I wonder which one's the chicken and egg here?
