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I love the way you plan and break things down.Very inspiring.I had a goo day off I shall be back tomorrow full throttle.
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| keepgoing
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hi edie..u are doing awesome job !keep it up...i like the way u r doing ur study ...!!!how were those immuno questions??how many questions in total this way????im also about to finish immuno read and thn onto questions..what read is this for u???
oopse noticed i have asked so many questions anyways enjoy study!!!!!
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| edie
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Good morning Journal, good morning all.
Managed to chip away at my laundry mountain yday. Left my drug charts up. I know myself, I'll forget that stuff so fast, like out of sight, out of mind. Got those books back on the shelves, except RR Path and FA, they have a permanent spot on the desk 
Hi, Keepgoing! Robbins review has 59 q's for immuno, WebPath has 44, and the end-of-chpt q's in Katzung review are fewest, 15 q's of immuno pharm. I only did 25 of the 59 of Robbins, want to save some for later on. I did 100% of the others, total about 100 or so immuno q's, including some I got from Qbook. Gogeta emphasized knowing immuno well, so hope the work pays off.
Hi Medock, thanks for your nice words. Hope you had a good day off, now let's get BUSY!!!
Hi Shwe, you are right, all those books all over did make me a little freaked out. I made a promise to myself to not let that happen again. Except for the laundry thing
So for today, I will do my UWorld q's on immuno plus all topics covered so far. If I don't, someone come kick me 
Edited by edie on 06/12/07 - 02:13 AM
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| edie
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Oh, KG, I forgot to answer, this is my first read for immuno. I plan on a second before I take the test.
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| acintya
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Good Morning! Happy Monday to all of us!
I think I set off a chain of rest days for the gang! But now will be back with the nose to the books...
Good luck!
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thanks edie for answering !!!..so that makes 49/45?+44+15=104/108? hmm2 blocks good really good!will try tom...u did around 90/94? questions,very good....keep it up...!
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| edie
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KG, more like 15 from qbook previously, + 15 pharm + 25 Robbins + 44 WP = 99. I added lamely, sorry for confusion 
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| medocuk
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Howdie? How is your day coming along? I havent started for the day but with a lil rest I shall get going.
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| edie
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Hi Medock. Am lagging behind. Went over my notes/cards earlier trying to prepare for my immuno+review 50 question set on World. Got sidetracked with some other issues, had to make/get a few calls, lots of being put on hold with terrible music and autorobot operators telling me how important my call is to them and please continue to hold. So that's over and now that I am free, just can't get started  So what do I do? Lurk around the forum, check/write mail, lurk around aonther forum, come back to this one....aarrrghhhhh! My momentum is gone, and I know if I attempt UW now, I will get a low score. I have got to get my mojo back
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| edie
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Studying or doing q's useless for me now. Am going to work out. Happy studying to all!!!
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| edie
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My mojo is back, yeah, baby!
Still aiming for the 70% on UW, still have time. Got to keep pushing. Updating:
WEEK 4
Reproductive
6/04: Road Map Physiology, pp.161-170; do questions on this and previous weeks' topics on UW.
6/05: RR Path Chpts 20 & 21; Reviewed weeks 1-3 w/FA
Immunology
6/06: Reviewed as yesterday. Started immuno section of FA. Referenced HY Molecular Chpts 18&19
6/07: Continue immuno w/RR Path Chapt. 3
6/08: Katzung immunopharm; Questions; Goljan cell injury lectures
6/09: RR Path chpts. 1-2 + audios
6/10: RR Path chpts. 1-2 + audios--finished
Week 5
Microbiology
6/11: Review and do Q's--> UW immuno: 65% and all subs: 66%
6/12: Medical Microbiology & Immunology, part VIII: "summaries of medically important organisms"; FA micro/immuno section
Shifting gears here. Doing subject-wise treatment of microbiology. This particular section of the Levinson & Jawetz book is totally on the money. Immediately following it is a section of clinical cases and questions, very good stuff. Planned on tying in the drugs' SE info, but perhaps tomorrow. My, how time flies when your'e studying. Off to bed. Good night
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| edie
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Good morning dear Journal, good morning to all!
Time to get it going. But first, breakfast: coffee + FA Just j/k...no I'm not :P
Happy studying to you all today
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| keepgoing
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thankst edie!!
wow great schedule--> multitask=multivitamin tab-->good review
have productive week 4&5
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hey edie, hows micro coming along, hope aiight, wanted to give u a bit of support, i actually find all those bugs interesting, they all find a way to live and survive and we try to kill them...now what does that remind u of?...anyway i know ull be fine so have a good day studying!
Edited by afrocaribb on 06/12/07 - 10:34 AM
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| edie
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LOL, Afrocaribb!!!
Ok, taking a lil break. Need to rant 
Took a stroll over to the SDN forum, and there was a recent thread on a rumor about step 1 being ABOLISHED. Done with. Not given. Not needed. HUH???? Some guy who says he's part of a think tank with the NBME are exploring the idea of putting step 1 at the end of med school, sort of like shmushing it together with step 2. Part of the reason for this is that residencies rely so heavily on step 1 scores as part of the selection process, even though the NBME says not to! But do they listen?
Now this just gets my goat. First of all, I think using a basic science test score as criteria for RESIDENCY is so ass-backwards, where no one, esp. your patient, gives a rat's ass that you know all the interleukins by heart! I mean, come on here!!! Utterly ridiculous. Step 1 is, and should be used to only, I repeat, only, show whether or not you mastered the first two years of medical school. PERIOD. So with that, the idea of combining basic science with clincial knowledge into a test to be taking after a student gains a bit of clinical experience, but taken in time for the Match seems like a decent proposal. So here's the part that gets me WHY NOW???? Why couldn't this have been done from the get go??? I mean, it's pretty common sense, an applicant for residency takes a test that shows his sciences AND clinical fund of knowledge, the latter being a much stronger indicator of a person's skill as a physician. Sigh...like my father always said, "Common sense...isn't common".
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| acintya
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Hello Edie!
Great to see you got your mojo back!
I totally agree with "Common sense...isn't common". It must be so frustrating for you but you know what, if you did have to take the Step 1 later at the end, before residency, you would have forgotten most of what you have learned in M1, M2... so it might be tougher to joggle your memory....like what we old grads face right now!
Sometimes I feel it would have been better to have gotten over with Step1 right during med school so we would have fared better!
So you see....grass is always greener on the other side!! I mean I do understand what you feel, but I am just giving my side ... if we HAVE to get tested on this material ANYWAY... I'd rather sooner than later....if we DON'T have to get tested on it...that's a whole different scenario ...of course patients DON'T CARE two hoots if we know a list of ILs or names of Syndromes etc etc...all they care about is if they get better!
But yeah doesn't it feel GOOOOD to rant it out.... and get it outta your system!!!
Well, I wish you have a productive day of studying my friend.... this soldier is going out to war today!!
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| edie
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H Acintya,
Thanks for the comments, you brought up some very good points. And another possible solution: get rid of the step 1 test altogether. Just make it a clinical test, something that works for everyone, you know? Fresh grads, older grads, US school, foreign school--for everyone. Or keep step 1 only for those with US or US-based curriculum. All others take step 2 CK, CS.
Anyway, I'm down at the frontline with you, AC! Let the skirmish begin!!!
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| medocuk
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Talk about lagging behind.I epitomise lagging behind.How is it coming along?
I am not GETTING into this discussion.I know I have paid 100s of dollars for this exam and have already started slogging..So they better take my exam...
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| ShweHope99.9998
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Hi Ed,
Hope rumors are true, like they get rid of TOFEL, then now st 1 for all graduated physician not needed, gone, only under grad of north america need st 1 .
That would be yahoo for all of us . In Canadian or Australian , no such a thing as st 1, may be in UK plab ??? not sure. But the rest still have all languge exm as English per say , so , all exm has flaw, good & bad.Like our exm is eassay than MCQ , patient exm is real & really alive at the front of the all examiner, not from your med schoool, mainly try to out smart the med student especially the best smart one of other med school , failing is great in each med yr due to that, not because of the student is dump .
But as Ac said, if need st 1 better be sooner , closer to early med yr than later .
Just study & we'll all conqure it.
I also keep RR & my current books only on the 2nd desk, & looking for 3rd one , so can set up one more pc on side, in case bored with the 1st laptop audio or cd or dvd or e book or online lecture , so can pause one, go to 2nd one at 2nd pc, laptop. Crazy, i know. Will see, so far , not get like one 2nd laptop yet.
GL GL GL happy success study to all of us
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| edie
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Good morning Journal! Hello, friends
Wow, I am up before 5 am. My hubby's pc in our room did an auto update at 2am, and the pc speakers were on turned all the way up. The pc went to restart, so it played that shutting down sound. I almost jumped through the roof, it startled me so! Couldn't get back to sleep. Today is going to be tiring for me. Will take it easy.
Am still doing the bugs/drugs summaries in micro. Hope to get to micro questions. Goals: Qbank micro 80%, UW micro 70%. With these scores,, I will be done with micro. At scores of Qb 70%, UW 60% I will read CMMRS. Less than 70% and 60%, I will read the L&J micro book's main bug chapters. Of course, will read FA regardless.
Thanks Ac and Shwe, for your comments. I like your desk ideas, Shwe, I miay have to imitate
Happy Humpday
Edited by edie on 06/13/07 - 04:10 AM
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| edie
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Medoc, I think I will be paying you a visit later 
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| ShweHope99.9998
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Good morning Ed,
Good plan micro, kap LN has alot micro & dvd has all slides. Still if can do , big text is good foundation .
Check Ac site , more desk lay out for good study , after all yrs, ages of moving all big furniture around, now find some routein spot way of desk lay out organize , study comfy way. But still thinking move desk around, same lay out , set up , but facing opposite side of wall, room, may be not to save time, since already , so used to the spot now.
GL GL GL happy success study to all of us
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| edie
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Thanks, Shwe
Guess what? I'm doing the "lay out" way Yep, am sooooo tired, did manage to get back to sleep, but only for a couple hours. I tried sitting at desk, not good. So I packed up my laptop, bookbag, and brought to my bed. My hubby goes "You going to do that here? In the bed?" and I said "Yep!" and he just shook his head and now considers me a lost cause, and told me to not make it a habit. But it's so comfy, to lie down and study. Eventually I will get back downstairs...eventually
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| ShweHope99.9998
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Good for you Ed, just stay in bed study few occasion, not so long, my another mistake in past few yrs ago till this yr. Study in bed room, in bed, pc reacachble, lap top on side of desk top.
yes, study good , all comfy , but I paid for hard to go to sleep , fall asleep & good rest full sound sleep . So lap top study is out of bed room now, still need pc to be out or not or just get another laptop as I said b4 to get 2nd laptop to play different subj on.
Cuase some time need quiet pc in bed room to stay away from week end, night noise of talking TV outside of bed room noisy room
Ok, back to study . Be have pitty on our poor hubby, with our stress letting out to them some times , so let them has good night rest sleep , so , do not study so often , I said so often , in the bed .But you may some times as it will make you study well
Lap top volume usually low, so get desk top 2 speaker or more to pllug in desk tiop then, owe, papi will be loud & clear to wake you & hubby , so be sure , listen in door close or bed room door close but you're out of the room with papi.
GL GL GL happy success study to us, & all
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| ShweHope99.9998
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edie wrote:Thanks, Shwe Guess what? I'm doing the "lay out" way Yep, am sooooo tired, did manage to get back to sleep, but only for a couple hours. I tried sitting at desk, not good. So I packed up my laptop, bookbag, and brought to my bed. My hubby goes "You going to do that here? In the bed?" and I said "Yep!" and he just shook his head and now considers me a lost cause, and told me to not make it a habit. But it's so comfy, to lie down and study. Eventually I will get back downstairs...eventually
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