Full Course Exams!!!! :D

Pre-Finals weeks just ended :D yup, it was Pre-finals from March 12-16th :D I must say that March is an Exam month for medical students :D Just last March 8, 2007, we had our Gross Anatomy Grand Practicals! Yes, it was GRAND! Everything that we dissected from the start of the school year, we took it up again, in ONE practical exam! It even coincided with our NeuroAnatomy Practicals. The Grand Practical was a "fun" experience hehe. Doing it the first time, was nerve-racking but also a little exciting. Yes, i'm weird, but it was a nice experience. I didnt even know what to study for the grand practicals. There were 6 stations, 5 items to identify in each station, giving you only 2 minutes to answer. It was hard. The muscles were ROCK hard.. it was hard to identify them. The organs were deteriorating, the stomach didnt look like a stomach anymore. The nerves looked like muscles already, the blood vessels too. It was a nice new experience!

The next day, March 9, 2007, we had our Histology Grand Practicals. Just like Anatomy's, only in microscopes! We have to identify 30 slides too, 4 5 seconds for each slide!!!! Nerve-racking again! What was even scarier was that this will serve as our Pre-finals exam! Unlike Anatomy, the 30 points in the Anatomy grand practical is part of the FINALS exam.

after that, Pre-Finals Week! Everything we took up during the fourth shifting period. Which is lighter. This week is done. It's the Appetizer! hahah

For the FINALS week... EVERYTHING we took up from the start till the end of the school year. All in one exam, for everything subject! Physiology, Anatomy, NeuroAnatomy, Histology, Biochemistry, and Psychiatry. the Main Course of the Exam Month. Hope we can get through this week. Grabe, i can't imagine myself trying to "cram" everything, reading them all over again, from the very start. I guess this is the test of memory recall, how much have retained throughout the year. It's like a mini-revalida for us!

And this doesn't end there. There is a dessert! The last of the series of exams! The COMPREHENSIVE EXAM, on March 26! This is like taking the boards, all the subjects we took in first year in ONE exam! Sounds like fun huh!?

So.. i guess EXAMS are really part of a Medical student's life! We live for studying and exams!! :D