#MedBlog

[obakanosandoitchi]

9-09-2023

loving today's view ⛰️🌲

wish me luck being productive today 🤞🏻

[azacello]

4 years of med school in drawings

[anattempttostudyharder-blog]

6/7/23 (Day 75)

Studied psychiatry, pediatrics, epidemiology

Solved flagged questions of the same

Studied my flash cards

Did a mobility workout

//Studied 7 hours. My sis made me Vietnamese ice coffee and honestly it was so good.//

[alfalfaaarya]

12.12.2024//Thursday

Hello !

Studied pharmac : Androgens

Ortho posting :class on osteomyelitis

Patho : Acute appendicitis , video on wound healing , gotta read more.

OK byeeee

[tmedic]

A day well spent at : Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England :)

[medsurvival]

Today, we were supposed to learn about clinical presentations of hematologic disorders. The teacher came in, looked at us and told us he was not going to teach that. We were really confused until he opened a slide labelled clinical reasoning. He then explained that as 4th year medical students 7th week into our internal medicine attachment, we were not ecxpected to know a lot.

"Just the principles," he said. He also told us the feeling of inadequecy and lack of knowledge we feel when our peers answered a question we were struggling to grasp or find the answers for was completely normal. "It's because they read a section you haven't read, there might be sections you read they haven't. Think of it that way."

The fact that he said that quelled my imposter syndome just a little. I felt as if I knew nothing when my classmates answered real head-scratcher questions on bedsides, rounds and classes. And that feeling had affected my study sessions because they made me feel it wouldn't bring any change in my knowledge and I wasn't smart enough for medical school. Maybe these things were also felt by them no matter how much I thought they were confident in their knowledge.

Anyways, he taught us how to take history, do a focused physical examination and form our diagnosis based on the pertinent information from that.

I only wish that we learned this at the start of the attachment because it would've been a great help back then.

[delusionalnerdt]

22 June 2025

Well, the last few months have been hectic. Classes, clinical rotations, practicals, tests, model making assignment and some other assignments. Moreover, our exam datesheet was out. We have our pre finals from 14th July and finals from 14th August. We are getting gaps between exams in finals but pre finals is back to back, literally everyday. I was focused on completing the syllabus once and got done with journals and logbook shits. I somehow was able to touch maximum topics of all the three subjects till yesterday and I have started revision from today. I aim to thoroughly revise once, rapid review twice before pre finals and rapid review and solve previous year questions before finals. And whatever topic is left, I'm going to study while revising.

I'll probably disappear again from here till my finals, lol

I went home twice because it was getting too much here 😞 Had good food, painted, listen to music and slept. Ah breakssss.

Also, my favourite boy band is back and life is worth living again.

📷 music, art therapy

microbiology (Rhizopus, Candida)

exam survival kit, good food

pretty sky therapy

[mariagoesmed]

haven’t been doing any work in the past few days but got these new notebooks i can’t wait to use and I have rested quite a bit so that’s good!!🌸🎀🩷 also if you add a little honey, cinnamon and vanilla extract to your soy milk before pouring it in coffee it tastes like psl and even better I think😍wishing everyone the very best and gentle day wether it is a day of work or a day of rest🫶🏻🩷

[thegentlegrind]

White Coats and Burnt Souls

One thing that I never thought would be a part of this medical field was toxic culture. Because back then, my 15 year old self couldn't fathom how toxicity can coexist in the same place where healing and caring are due.

Now everyday I see myself and hundreds of other students go through this crumbled system in the hopes of one day escaping but we know-- there's no escape. We become the system.

Our tired hearts need to save enough energy to have tender hands.

A field which stands on the grounds of hierarchical discrimination and gets a kick out of students' and residents' misery is the field that needs the most compassion.

The gentleness it requires to serve yet the iron shield we need to build around our souls is truly astonishing. How am I supposed to do that? Why aren't we being treated as human beings while we are being trained to treat actual human beings?

Apparently my teenage self had a very roses-and-daisies kind of expectation from this profession. But the reality? Far from it. No real friends, no personal space ( because hostel life), no reassurance that tomorrow would be better, deal with such toxic people on a daily basis, being away from home, no matter what you do, you would be never doing enough.

My iron shield is still not built. There are still moments where I stop and take a step back in fear of what I have just experienced. And then I quickly rethink why am I here? Have I made a wrong choice afterall? Is this what i have spent countless sleepless nights for?

But the I have to remind myself that I am already in way too deep to go back now. The only way out is through it.

One day at a time.

[medstudy09]

Done with pathology of heart only to realise that it won't be on the paper.🙃

Still I guess there is nothing wrong with studying (not like my exam is 18 days away) something that ain't on the syllabus😭. My headache hasn't gone away. I'll start on microbiology now cause if I don't finish 2 systems per day(feels impossible) I will not be able to cover all the portions.

Best of luck to me.

Also does anyone have any tips on how to study microbiology

[obakanosandoitchi]

13-09-2023

pulmonary Hypertension is kicking my ass.

but hopefully today is the last day of cardio🤞🏻

[lavendermd]

Hi there!

I'm Lavender. I'm a medico with a penchant for writing. This blog will be filled with my study journey and lots of other academic things.

I'm new to the studyblr community, and looking forward to interacting with other people who are on the same wavelength.

Please keep in mind that I will not be giving any medical opinions. In case of any health emergencies reach out to your doctor or the concerned professionals.

[anattempttostudyharder-blog]

4/7/23 (Day 73)

Studied obg, urology and breast surgery

Finished flagged questions of the same

Went through some ethics questions too

//Studied 6.5 hours. Was feeling really unmotivated but I pushed myself to study as much as I could.//

[alfalfaaarya]

19 Jan 2024

Hola!

Today was good.

I reached college at 8 am but found out that the lecture was canceled, it was informed on our what's app group but I hadn't read it , I would've slept some more if I would've read it . We had our first pharmac lecture today , it was nice. Then we went for clinics , today in the neurology ward. Went home after cause lectures and pracs were cancelled !

Came home and studied pharmac.

Went for a run in the evening.

Adios!

[justkidneying]

Poisons: Cyanide

Cyanide poisoning is really fun in media, but chemistry is more fun, so I'm gonna explain how it works. Cyanide is a carbon atom triple bonded to a nitrogen atom. Nitrogen is more electronective and likes to have three bonds plus one lone pair of electrons. Carbon likes to have four bonds. Since cyanide has the triple bond, carbon is stuck with a lone pair, which makes it unhappy and negative. to fix this, it wants to bind with something else. This is very bad when it is something inside your body.

The negatively charged carbon has a large affinity for complex IV of the electron transport chain. The ETC is the way your mitochondria make ATP (the nucleotide your body uses as energy). Complex IV uses oxygen to create a proton gradient that is also an electrical gradient (very useful and is also the entire reason you breath oxygen). With complex IV inhibited, you cant use this method to make ATP. you have other ways to make ATP, but they suck. Cell death results.

Cyanide poisoning can best be remedied with hydroxycobalamin. This substance has cobalt, which cyanide loves to bind with more than complex IV. This makes cyanocobalamin, which is better known as B12. Most of the time, if you get a B12 injection, cyanocobalamin is what you get. Like every other water soluable vitamin, you pee it out if it is in excess.

Cyanide poisoning can present with headache, confusion, agitation, seizures, coma, bradycardia, hypotension, nausea, vomiting, and red skin color.

[enigmaticmoonchild]

Another study night