lmbebo
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got situated with the local med school library and did some goljan - all of the cell path.
did a few other errands.
slow day.
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| arbend
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Hi
how is it going, is it getting any better for you,
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| lmbebo
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hey
funny you should say that, yesterday was pretty much a wash of a day.
I woke up early to head to the gym to meet someone there. When I got home I thought I should take a little nap before I go study. Well my little nap became a looong nap, something around 4 or 5 hours long.
So, i ended up watching some basketball last night and organizing my stuff finally since I had books everywhere. Kinda scary to see all the books I have ....
anyways, Ive decided to switch up my schedule now. Study first thing in the morning then go to the gym later at night.
going to have to now since the library will be closing earlier as we get into the holiday season anyways.
hope to do some qbank questions, bss questions and get through at least inflammation on goljan, if not more.
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| lmbebo
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day is mostly over.
got through the inflammation 2 mp3.
got notes on it all except that i haven't copied them all to my printed notes yet. Taking a lot longer than I would have imagined.
Went through about 30 questions in bss today. I did the path questions in the basic principles book and doing alright with them. Not much questions on what I've studied thus far.
recieved my USMLE cd today finally. Loaded those programs up.
oh and I finally bought a bookshelf for all my med school books and review stuff.
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hi imbebo :lol:
its going same with me.its taking a lot of time to write notes while listening to the lectures.....but i feel its the most efficient way of learning goljan.anyway continue what u r doing.its worth it!!!. :wink: 8)
yesterday i cud complete the heme part of goljan's lectures.hmmm left with many other things....probably i may do them now.
HAPPY STUDYING!!!! :lol: :lol:
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| lmbebo
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hey
thanks.
Last night I did the first block of the blackwell exam. 50% right....
It just doesn't seem like the questions are very hard. Just stuff I used to know but haven't applied in ages it seems.
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wow 50% for the first time is good...
keep it up!!!! :lol: :lol:
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| niti
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Hi lmbebo
Yes,50%..first time.. its very good infact..
Good Job..u started Qs at least ..
KeepUp..
niti
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| lmbebo
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thanks for the encouraging words
did 45 questions on IV qbank. Got in trouble at the library for using the computer for longer than 30 mins (oh well).
started transcribing more notes to my goljna notes and then I got side tracked witht he cell cycle and the anti-malignant drugs.
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| Moctopod
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Hi Imbebo
You're doing well, my friend! And it's good to hear that you're starting to do questions as well - I find them really important to help reinforce concepts in my mind. Sometimes when I'm studying a topic I don't find particularly inspiring (like scary biochem pathways!) I tend to gloss over things, and only realise how lax I've been when using Qbank.
Good luck
Moc
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| lmbebo
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hey, thanks for the reply moct.
I finally figured out which bss book has the questions relating to what Im doing in path now. Hopefully it'll reinforce stuff. I've been doing questions randomly (when I do them) on IV qbank.
A friend said she could get me some kaplan lecture notes, so I think I'll be relying on those for most of prep now.
Plan to finish listening to fluid and hemodynamics today. 1/2 through the 2nd lecture and then got 1 more until I finish the day out. Then I'll see about doing the nutrition lectures.
I think I might try and start with biochem as well, since its more of a memorization thing.
Debating if I should bother with lippincott's review of it or just do HY biochem.
good luck everyone.
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| niti
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Hi Imbebo,
How r u ? For Biochem. HY is very good....but,if you need to go in for more details then Lippin and Kap ..any of one is good.But,instead of HY ,u can also choose ONLY FA for Biochem...its enough ( I am saying this after finishing Kap D )
KeepUp
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| lmbebo
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thanks.
got a good deal done today.
went through goljan on fluids and hemo dynamics and his audio for most of nutrition. Hopefully I can finish up the general path lectures tommorow for him.
Did a little bit out of HY biochem.
Did some chatting tonight on cvs pharm (been awhile ...).
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| Moctopod
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Keep going, Imbebo, keep going!
Good luck.
Moc
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| lmbebo
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hah,
sounds like "Run Forest Run!" Moct.
Well, I woke up at 6 am today. Decided I was too tired to wake up then, so I slept till 9:30.
Ive gone through the rest of nutrition and about 1/2 way through neoplasia. Should finish it up this afternoon.
I broke down and bought another book. YESH. I bought the USMLE Step 1 Secrets book. I really liked Pathology from that series and the physical diagnosis secrets book as well (never did finish it though).
I started reading through the Neuro part during lunch.
not much else
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! :lol: :lol:
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| lmbebo
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its been awhile since Ive done anything.
crazy weekend with thanksgiving, wedding, weird library hours and whole bunch of other social engagements I tried to weazle out of it but failed.
Anyways, today after a brunch I had to attend to, I was able to sneak out to the library for the first time since wednesday. By saturday I was already feeling guilty about my lack of studying.
Today I managed to finish transcribing the audio to the general pathology section of goljan and I've copied my notes into his notes through most of fluid and hemodynamics.
I read through neoplasia in FA
I also did DNA/RNA out of FA, did chapters 1 and 2 in kaplan biochem.
I did 52 questions in IV qbank.
not sure what else I did today, but at least I felt like I accomplished something.
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wow imbebo 8)
you have done a very good job.....keep it up!!!! :wink: :lol:
happy studying!!!! :lol:
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| niti
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Hey Imbebo
You are really doing great..best thing..52 Qs from IV QBANK 8) Wow..its really an accomplishment..and a real inspiration for me...( bec.I feel so lazy about doing Qs wink )..
Keep Up..
niti
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| lmbebo
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thanks.
long day today, in more ways than 1.
slept like crap last night, but I still forced myself to get up and get to the library by 9 am.
I found out that I still had a ways to go in the fluid dynamics chapter in goljan in terms of copying over my notes. So that took me till lunch.
After lunch I read chapters 3,4,5,6 and 10 in kaplan biochem.
After dinner, I read some of the corresponding info in FA.
I started (have 3 pages of notes still to copy over) on the nutrition notes to my goljan notes.
After i got too tired from writing all day, I did some more IV qbank questions. I went down about 10 percentage points from what I had been averaging of late (65 to 55). I screwed up a block of questions concerning an abdominal aortic aneurysm and then some questions related to irritable bowel disease. Mostly pharm related questions and some path related questions.
Surgery for aneurysm is at 6cm dilation, not 10cm. I think the person is dead by 10cm....
oh well.
I've completed 25% of IV qbank now. Averaging a 62%.
Oh, and hit the gym for about 90 mins tonight. Felt gooooooooood. Have too much pecan pie to work off now.
plan for tommorow.
1. finish nutrition notes
2. do about 1/2 of the neoplasia notes (maybe finish it at night if i get enough done during the day).
3. read chapters 11, 12, 13 - energy metabilism, glycolysis and PDH, and TCA + Ox Phos. + FA
4. Start, time permitting --> chap 9 - AA, Proteins and Enzymes, Chap 9 Hormones (I think I should be able to get through this).
prob do some questions later at night.
(gym?)
Rest of the week - would like to finish biochem by wednesday, do genetics on thursday and friday and hit up the HY moll cell bio too in those days.
Saturday - I'll prob spend the day re-reading my biochem FA + notes I make, and the goljan notes.
Sunday - begin Physio. I'll be doing Physio systemically with goljan systemic path.
thanks for the support and good luck to all!
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wow imbebo.....
doing great work....really inspired by ur studying
keep it up my friend!!!!! :lol: :lol:
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| Moctopod
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Hi Imbebo
Yeah, buddy, things are definitely starting to move! And your Qbank results seem decent. I haven't looked over most topics once yet, but decided to test myself yesterday. So I did the Online Blackwell USMLE exam, and though it's meant to be slightly easier than the real thing I only got 46%. Gulp.
Keep running,
Moc
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| lmbebo
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post this now and then hit the gym.
got up a bit late this morning, was really tired from yesterday. Made it here by 10am. Finished all the nutrition notes by lunch.
Read chapters 8,9 (Proteins, AAs, Hormones, Enzyme kinetics), 11, 12, 13 (energy metabolism, glycolysis, TCA and PDH...Ox Phos) out of kaplan.
Did like 80% of my neoplasia transcribing, so it should only take me 20-30 ,mins to finish that up tommorow.
Because of time constraints I only did 31 questions in IV qbank. Got 71% right. Which was suprising. I didn't do so hot on the GIT questions concerning the adenocarcinoma (had been a stronger subject of mine in the past).
Only didn't accomplish reading the chapter on gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis (on purpose) = chap 14.
plan for tommorow -
1.read chap 14 through 18? - basically read all of the kaplan chapters on biochem.
2. finish neoplasia notes
3. go back and add all the sig notes from kaplan into my FA (haven't yet..)
4. BSS and/or qbook questions on biochem.
mocto - don't worry about the score. Still early and its not the best predictor.
just keep studying!
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you are doing a real great job daily...inspired by ur work!!!
happy studying!!! :lol: :lol:
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| lmbebo
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hey
slightly less productive day.
I finished my neoplasia notes.
I did finish reading all of the biochem chapters in kaplan, but I really wasn't grasping some of the concepts or remembering what I was reading. I struggled with the stuff during the course as well. FA, purine/pyrimidines, glucogeneo, etc
so I think I might have to spend a bit of every day to look over some of this stuff, so i learn it a bit better.
I kinda hit a wall in the middle of the day.
(got tired of reading about biochem).
so I sat down and did some some more IV qbank questions.
Did them in smaller blocks today, but did 65 questions overall.
25 - 48% right
-- missed a whole set of questions concerning cruetzfield jakob disease (missed the diagnosis so all my other answers were off. I thought it was the variant cruetzfield jakob). --
20 - got 70% right
20 - got 75% right
overall, I think its around 63/4% ?
starting copying over the goljan HY biochem into the FA biochem section (hard to find the space ...)
I think I did the first 3 pages of his HY section.
I think for tommorow. instead of starting genetics like I had planned, Im going to start on physio. I need a bit of a change of pace on the subject material.
I'll do genetics after I do physio now. Hopefully I can knock out physio in about 5-7 days with related goljan systemic path as well (this will be the slower part).
I also read the first 12 pages of tommyk's HYs, but I dont think I will continue to do so anymore till closer to the end, if at all.
I think its too much and not a whole bunch of time to do it in really. And its all mixed up together.
would be amazing if someone had the time to make them into a real online q/a thing. Not the method employed by usmle.ca, it would really be a kick a$* study tool
but overall, I think I'll have to spend some time towards the end of this month going over biochem again. I think its one of my weaker subjects.
That along with genetics and anatomy (according to kaplan qbank breakdown - all below 60%, or 50% for anatomy).
So overall, while I accomplished most of what I wanted todo today, I don't think much of it was enriching.
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