Hello lovelies, welcome to another blog post from me, Aisha. It's been a while.
This is detailing what I get up to in a week as a second year medical student. It's basically a secret diary on the internet- so not so secret... But, I hope you enjoy. I put pictures of the outfits I wore too.
This is detailing what I get up to in a week as a second year medical student. It's basically a secret diary on the internet- so not so secret... But, I hope you enjoy. I put pictures of the outfits I wore too.
I just want to start off by saying I am a MuSlAmIc Muslim and I pray 5 times a day this isn't mentioned later in the blogpost and read the Quran most mornings- also not mentioned later on.
Okay, bye.
Okay, bye.
Monday:
Woke up: 7am
Breakfast: 8:30am
I thought I had a lecture at 9 and was ready for 9am but that was not the case so I had an hour to spare. So, I should do some work, catch up on work right? Nah, I decided to take an outfit pic. Keep reading to see it.
I then had 3 lectures back to back from 10am to 1pm. I found that tiring as we haven't had that in a while and we usually have breaks between the lectures. They were on screening and surveillance, metabolism of alcohol and liver disease and failure. For a bit of context, we're currently doing the gastrointestinal system/block.
I thought I had a lecture at 9 and was ready for 9am but that was not the case so I had an hour to spare. So, I should do some work, catch up on work right? Nah, I decided to take an outfit pic. Keep reading to see it.
I then had 3 lectures back to back from 10am to 1pm. I found that tiring as we haven't had that in a while and we usually have breaks between the lectures. They were on screening and surveillance, metabolism of alcohol and liver disease and failure. For a bit of context, we're currently doing the gastrointestinal system/block.
I got a Greggs three cheese pizza with a friend - yumm.
At 2 - had a debrief session and this is where we talked about our 2nd week at hospital and reflected on it. We also did a patient-doctor practice with history taking focused on Urogenital and Neurosensory systems.
At 4, we finished that and went to last lecture of the day.
Relaxed till about 6.
I then planned out my evening.
- cook and eat dinner
- prep for CAHR tomorrow
- lecture notes
- lecture notes
- do this blogpost
- make a poster for an event my society is hosting
I need to go to bed early becauseeeee your girl is tired. Hopefully be done with everything by 10:30.
Hey, it's me from Tuesday: I went to bed at 11.
OOTD: 'Casual But Cute'
Tuesday:
Woke up at 7:15
Ate 8:30- ish
Had CAHR ( Critical Analysis ....don't know what the H and R stand for to be honest) from 10-12. The main focus was analysing a case control study about Colo-rectal cancer screening as a small group and presenting our thoughts to the rest of the group (30 people).
It was a cold room. Quite boring at times.
But, I did learn some things about screening (Wilson-Jungner) and how to check how reliable studies are in translating to real life situations.
At 12 - lecture. Not bad. But long. Title was Inflamatory Bowel Disease.
At 1 - escaped from this lecture. Shh. But the slides were up so I will go through it on my own. Had lunch- some pasta.
Got a choc muffin from Lidl. I'm oBsEsSeD. OMG.
At 2:30- had a driving lesson till about 4. I'm an... interesting driver. Only just restarted from not having driven for nearly 2 years- so let's go easy on me okay? cool.
Got home at like 4:30.
Did some lecture notes from then till about 6.
I found out that my team made it to the final of a medical ethics debate competition. It'll be taking place in March and I'm pretty excited. I'm proud of us for making it!
Ran through a PowerPoint presentation with my friend- for first year teaching. Took us about 2 hours because we were relearning the things on the slide.
From 8 to 10 - literally did nothing and just chilled - jammed to some great toonz. Had dinner- frozen pizza and chicken nuggets- basicallyyyyyy New Year's Resolution is out of the window.
Taking 10 minutes to write this blogpost.
OOTD: This one is called 'Let Go Of The Festive Season Aisha'
Wednesday:
Woke up 7-ish again
Went down to do laundry.
Had shower
Put clothes in dryer
Had breakfast
Did some quick prep for HARC & took outfit pics.
At 10 went to HARC. HARC stands for Human Anatomy Resource Centre- where we learn anatomy using prosections of people who donated their body to science- pretty amazing.
At 12 - went to lib for half an hour
Got pizza slice from Greggs again. yum.
Went to lecture at 1 - about intestinal failure
Came home and chilled
Had lunch.
I did lecture notes- watched YouTube videos to help.
I've been procastinating RS2*.
I quickly ran through the PowerPoint again with my flatmate and then did more lecture notes.
Watched 3 episodes of Hollyoaks - I went from bashing the acting one year to getting hooked this year lol.
OOTD: This one is called ' Teddy Bear But It Was Raining So I Had To Change Coats'
Hey, it's me from Tuesday: I went to bed at 11.
OOTD: 'Casual But Cute'
Tuesday:
Woke up at 7:15
Ate 8:30- ish
Had CAHR ( Critical Analysis ....don't know what the H and R stand for to be honest) from 10-12. The main focus was analysing a case control study about Colo-rectal cancer screening as a small group and presenting our thoughts to the rest of the group (30 people).
It was a cold room. Quite boring at times.
But, I did learn some things about screening (Wilson-Jungner) and how to check how reliable studies are in translating to real life situations.
At 12 - lecture. Not bad. But long. Title was Inflamatory Bowel Disease.
At 1 - escaped from this lecture. Shh. But the slides were up so I will go through it on my own. Had lunch- some pasta.
Got a choc muffin from Lidl. I'm oBsEsSeD. OMG.
At 2:30- had a driving lesson till about 4. I'm an... interesting driver. Only just restarted from not having driven for nearly 2 years- so let's go easy on me okay? cool.
Got home at like 4:30.
Did some lecture notes from then till about 6.
I found out that my team made it to the final of a medical ethics debate competition. It'll be taking place in March and I'm pretty excited. I'm proud of us for making it!
Ran through a PowerPoint presentation with my friend- for first year teaching. Took us about 2 hours because we were relearning the things on the slide.
From 8 to 10 - literally did nothing and just chilled - jammed to some great toonz. Had dinner- frozen pizza and chicken nuggets- basicallyyyyyy New Year's Resolution is out of the window.
Taking 10 minutes to write this blogpost.
OOTD: This one is called 'Let Go Of The Festive Season Aisha'
Wednesday:
Woke up 7-ish again
Went down to do laundry.
Had shower
Put clothes in dryer
Had breakfast
Did some quick prep for HARC & took outfit pics.
At 10 went to HARC. HARC stands for Human Anatomy Resource Centre- where we learn anatomy using prosections of people who donated their body to science- pretty amazing.
At 12 - went to lib for half an hour
Got pizza slice from Greggs again. yum.
Went to lecture at 1 - about intestinal failure
Came home and chilled
Had lunch.
I did lecture notes- watched YouTube videos to help.
I've been procastinating RS2*.
I quickly ran through the PowerPoint again with my flatmate and then did more lecture notes.
Watched 3 episodes of Hollyoaks - I went from bashing the acting one year to getting hooked this year lol.
OOTD: This one is called ' Teddy Bear But It Was Raining So I Had To Change Coats'
Thursday
Woke up at: nearly 8 due to having a late night :/
Had CBL* at 10 - 12.
*CBL stands for Case Based Learning and it's a group session (there's like 7 of us) and we answer questions based on patient cases/ case studies linked to the system we are studying. (E.g. Mr X has so and so symptoms. On examination, xyz... What is his condition? Answer some questions about his condition.)
Radiology lecture at 12-1
1-3 was in the library catching up on some notes. Printed off some papers for my RS2* in hopes that it will be easier to read the papers.
3-5 made rice. read the papers - success
5-8 prep for and presenting the endocrine system to 5 groups of first year students.
Just chilling till its bed time :D
OOTD: 'Monochrome Moods'
Friday:
Woke up, ate at normal times.
At 10-12 Clinical Skills. Here, we learn how to do clinical examinations and procedures. This session was about thyroid gland examination and lymph nodes examination.
At 12- there was a picture quiz. I won. Only kidding.
Went to the library to do work/ notes/ read and annotate my articles for RS2.
Went home at 3
Went to my RS2 meeting at 5
TGIF!! Just chilling and watching lots of youtube. Doing today's blogpost.
OOTD: 'Med Student Chic'
Wearing scrubs because we have to for clinical skills.
*
RS = Research and scholarship. 2000 words reviewing medical literature based on a specific topic. My topic is the use of PET-CT for Follicular Lymphoma prognostication.
