Home sweet home :) i've been at home on holidays for a week now with 3 weeks to go... sounds great and long but i know it will go quick! so much has happened in the last semester but now i can call myself 1/12th of a doctor! lol still a while to go but it is exciting finally shortening the years to go! we just had three weeks of exams been, studying around 12 hours a day with dinner and exercise breaks gets to after the first week but thankfully with the help of freckles delivered from home ;) i got through my 6 exams! so thats the last of italian and medical chemistry... i haven't come across anyone who is sad we've finished chemistry! our lecturer i think its safe to say was the joke of the semester and the worst teacher, he did do a very interesting experiment at the end of the lectures though! without any results atm, we get them in over a week, i could say the best part of exams that i was proud of was covering my door in a primate tree for animal and human biology! when i get sick of sitting in my chair next time i'm decorate my room with posters and diagrams more to keep me motivated. The FAHB practical exam was one of the hardest, we had images of pigs in black and white which were hard to distinguish the different tubes shown, i feel like some parts i was confident about and others i had no idea, its a different feeling for me, i like to at least have an idea, but as they kept telling us the exam is easy to pass and hard to do well in. That was our last exam and i could tell i was mentally worn out, i look back now and i could have studied more effectively for the prac and my italian which was in the morning before the FABH prac but it was so hard to. The italian i found difficult mainly because although i could conjugate words i couldn't construct good sentences because most joining words i didn't know, for example to say 'i sat at the table' i could say 'i sat' but did not know the word for table, so the 2 lots of 150 words of writing at the end wasn't the best but i hope i did well enough for those credit points! its a shame not to be continuing italian because i only needed it for a semester as an elective after having done physics on year 12. I am hoping to keep it up and teach myself more and even do private lessions when chances come. i would love to be a doctor who can speak multiple language and relate to a wider range of patients.. it just seems too impersonal for a doctor to have confidential and personal communications through an interpretor. And with many refugees and in our expanding multicultural community how will everyone understand each other if we don't try learn new languages as well as people from other cultures learning english? then travelling would be a more rewarding experience! If you went to countries where you spoke the language you could learn even more of the culture! so yes i can see myself keeping up italian :) there is the combined medicine and arts course we can do where we overload for three years and take our fourth year as full arts so the course is seven years... i originally wanted to do this but six years is already a long time. I mainly just want to learn languages but there are other ways, i just wont have the piece of paper saying i learnt the language for years at uwa!
i can't wait until next semester.. we get our stethoscopes and learn how use them :) plus we do surface anatomy... paint pretty pictures on the guys, this is the time they all go to the gym to buff up for us! i really hope we can do more clinical placements, especially after mine at bentley didn't go as planned, but i would really love to have some experience in hospitals and with children! even just to watch and see what its like! i'm so keen for experience. At least next semester i can finish my working with children check and can go on teddy bear hospital visits! Most of these events probably sound confusing but next entry i'm going to highlight the main things we did through the semester from our daunting 8 minute doctor patient interviews to fainting having blood tests! yes i did faint, i'm hoping i had low blood pressure that day lol but if not i will get use to blood and needles, afterall nothing really worthwhile achieving in life will ever be easy!
