Preperation for Uni

[Damien]

Okay, there is a good chance all of you will be studying medicine somewhere next year seen as you all ooze talent (and communication skills - you never shut up :lol ) so if I could go back in time and do something to prepare for the course I would begin with anatomy.

Anatomy is the most fun aspect of the course but it takes a lot of work. So I don't see why you couldn't start learning it right now while you are sciving away in '6th Year' at school. Its easy if you have a lot of time on your hands. You could learn a muscle and its function a day until you start uni and you would immediately be at an advantage. The book below is by far the best way to learn anatomy. I would recommend that you buy it (is about £18) and do it at your leisure. I have supplied the ISBN below incase you need to order it. Trust me, I think it would be well worth it. I wish I had know about it when I was at your stage (lazying around doing practically nothing - well, in comparison to what I do now lol). Anyway, give it a shot. I would avoid the other course components until you get there.

ISBN 0-8053-5086-1
"The Anatomy Colouring Book"
(Wynn Kapit / Lawrence M.Elson)

If I think of anything else useful for you to do before you get there I'll stick it up here. I'm sure there are a lot of things but my minds like jelly at the moment.

Damien :evil

Oh yeah, I know this is unrelated to the topic but if you are wondering about conditional offers for Aberdeen, from the people I have met up here, and including myself, if you get AAABB or AAAAC you will get a conditional - I haven't met an exception yet. And it can be as difficult as AAB (all Adv. Highers) to AAB (Adv. Higher and 2 Highers). They also seem to allow you to get a little less than the required grades. One guy I know was asked for AAB in his CSYS's (Adv. Highers now) and he got ABC but they took him in anyway.

[nicolacurrie]

i got AAABB + am doing only 2 Ahighers????? wot u think??

nic xx :p

[relliott]

trust me, by second year you are bored to the back teeth of anatomy! Just enjoy sixth year guys

[hugbug3000]

I think I'll take Ruth's advice, it seems like the least work - no i'm kidding, but as for the ENJOYING of 6th year, well, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,

let me ponder that one!!!

However, the colouring in Anatomy book does sound rather interesting - do the crayons come with that, or do you have to buy them separately???

[Mark Patek]

I think you need to chill out Damien! Subjecting students to incredibly boring and rather pointless anatomy may just put them off medicine (and colouring-in books) for life!

At most, read a very basic physiology book, but the best advice I could give would be to just enjoy school while you can. The anatomy can wait!

Mark P.

[Damien]

Hey wow!

I'm only recommending it to people who want to prepare for uni. No-one likes studying anatomy all the time but the more you do before you go, the less you need to do when you get there which means more time for pool :lol

Damien :evil

[DScollon]

I have to disagree with Mark. Much less of the anatomy you learn is pointless than you think. Most of it is essential to what you'll end up doing at work. This is often difficult to appreciate at the time when you're learning it. Yes, there was far too much of it previously but my own experience suggests we're now swinging too far in the opposite direction.

Recently, I've spent time teaching medical students a lot of basic anatomy which is absolutely essential for them to know and which nobody else has taught them. If I hadn't taken the time to teach them the anatomy first, they wouldn't have been able to understand the concept or procedure I was teaching them in the first place.

[Mark Patek]

I know that a thorough knowledge of anatomy is required in order to operate proficiently as a doctor, and although I wouldn't actively encourage students to spend their 6th year studying anatomy, I do have a certain respect for those who want to get off to the best start possible. However, my views are the product of my own experiences and, as such, I would place more store by them than I would the contradictory advice of others. In short, I'm sticking to my guns!

I would, however, agree that the anatomy colouring book is a valuable piece of kit, as is the Human Brain Colouring Book. Just don't use them in public places as you WILL attract funny looks!

[relliott]

I'm also speaking form experience of mental burn out. I'm barely into 2 out of 5 years and I'm finding things tough. For the first time I'm actually feeling challenged by education and I am very glad I spent sixth year dossing about, because the friends and social connections I made then are the only thing that is keeping me sane now. University is tough. Don't give yourself any more of a workload.

I see your point Damien though, I just don't think that work earlier necesarily helps later. It's not a personal criticism, so please don't get offended

[Adam Gilmour]

Hey Damien I just wanted to say thanks for the advice. I can understand your point and I bought the book yesterday it looks interesting and is an original concept to learning. It also looks as though it can be worked through at your own pace - so theres still plenty of time to enjoy yourself!!!!!:D :) :D






Thanks,
Adam

[nicolacurrie]

yup jo, i gotta agree with u....SAD!!! get a life is all i have 2 say 2 that one. Sixth year is totaly socially fantastic+i plan 2 make the most of his year cos next year an the many after that are gonna b tough!

nic xx :p

[Adam]

adam gilmour. How can u disgrace the adam name?? as if chat up lines and hair gel wasnt bad enough!!
sorry- im sure its a good idea, but i agree with nicola. weve got 5/6 years of hard study ahead, so we may as well enjoy 6th year as we put in the effort for 5A's and 4A's and a B, last year.

adam

[Damien]

I told you it was a good idea - just wait until next year Adam when you can have all the fun when everyone else is exhausting themselves over anatomy. As I said, a few muscles a day will save you loads of time at uni.

Of course you can still enjoy sixth year! - you'd think I was telling you to start the 1st year medicine course! I'm sure colouring in one page of the anatomy book each day won't have any affect on your final year at school.

Have fun.

Damien :evil

[jojo]

Soz Damien im with the majority here!!!Sixth year is a year thats not meant to be academic but for us to deveolp as people and give back to the community- AS MY TEACHER PUTS IT!!!AND of course socialise!!!!!!!!!

I realise that theres a lot to learn in Anatomy but if we start working on it now we may lose all sense of reality!!!!!:lol

Jo xx

[Adam]

yeah damien. Im sorry, jo's right.- what u say has a lot of sense, and is a good idea, if it werent for the fact that im gona explode throu AH bio and chem, and crash psy, when i dont wanna really b doin any of them.

Adam

[Adam Gilmour]

Hey I'd advise everyone to actually have a look at the book instead of making their judgements straight away. I mean its not as if Damiens advising us to read Gray's anatomy or something!!!!:lol :lol :lol









Adam

[nicolacurrie]

majority rules, Adam of th sane non hair gel kind+jo lead!

:lol

nic xx :p

[hugbug3000]

OK, people, people, let's play nice here!!

I still need my question answered, do the crayons come with the book??? It's an important fact that may mean the difference between buying the book and not (oh yeah, and between insanity and sanity, respectively)

HARRY POTTER ROCKS

[Damien]

Unfortunately, crayons are not supplied but I do suggest you buy a pencil set with at least 24 colours.

Harry Potter - don't tell me you have fallen for the biggest media-overhyping scam of all time too!

[Adam]

have u read the books. If u have u will see that the good people are talking mainly bout the books. If u havet, u have no room to judge.

adam

[relliott]

just to be controversial, but I don't think making the movie was a good idea, coz books are about imagination and what I had in my head was not the same as was in the film. That and I don't think they'll finish what they started... it will not work trying to make the whole series of books into films, coz people are going to get bored

I think the same is going to happen with Lord Of the Rings. That's why Tolkein never illustrated his books and never wanted them to be. Fantasy is all about imagination.

Anyway, that's more than enough HP on the board!

[Adam]

yeah, I quite agree with u. the film has ruined a lot of the imagination of the book. (i was once recorded on TV aying that books are better than films bcos they allow u 2 imagine. I wont tell u what programme i was on cos ull all laugh at me! :o)


Still, Im looking forward to see my alltime fave book (LOTR) on the big screen. Just as long as its better than the crap animated version. I have a copy on tape (they were bcoming quite popular with LOTR fans in london- copies going for £50+.) I was holding mine, hoping to sell it in a while (i dont want it- lets face it, its total crap!!). I waas in our price in hamilton (buying a copy of the beautiful handbags and gladrags- first person to buy it cos they got it just as i walked in) and what was on the shelf?? animated version of LOTR. Why buy it taped of the telly when u can get it for a tenner in our price!!

Adam

[hugbug3000]

IT IS NOT HYPE

Sometimes, you just have to give in to what the author's image of the book is (as with Harry)
Lord of the Rings, however, has been made without the author as a consulting force (seeing as he's dead and all) so, it's going to be a toss up as to whether it meets people's expectations.

HOWEVER, what's to say that it won't encourage people to actually go and READ the book once they see the first installment - I know plenty of folk who want to go see LOTR but haven't read it....

[Adam]

The LOTR is a special book. REally. Red is right, J.R.R did stop any illustrations cause he didnt want them to ruin persons view of the book. Marc (yes THE Marc) was writhing in agony as he watched the first ten minutes of the animated version bcos it was different from his imagination. Tolkein was directly opposed to the animated film, so i doubt he'd b chuffed with this film. (I will nonetheless go and see it- call me a hypocrite if u want)

Adam

[hugbug3000]

As much as I'm disturbed by the image of Marc writhing in agony, I think that we're all just being taken in by the massive hype surrounding the movie.

I'm going to go see it next Thursday! (yup, I truly am a sucker!)

[Bobbin]

Hello Geri you will be so proud of me as I have made a post !? I'm Robyn who Adam thinks is of no consequence to anything but I am trying to prove him wrong! Sorry if I have jumped in on a thread!

[Adam]

OK- people on the site think me and geri fight all the time. NOT me and robyn., U kknow why, cos u r oly mentioned by us. people never heard u speak, so I put u in brackets cos it was of no consequence to the people that write stuff to here that I bumped into u. But OK I apologise. Of course I think u r of importance, and I promise never to put u in brackets again. OK.

Adam

[hugbug3000]

ROBYN ROBYN ROBYN ROBYN


OOOOOH, YOU MADE THE EFFORT

You're right, I am VERY proud of you!!

do you see how mad we are, do you see, do you??

[hugbug3000]

oh, and don't worry about jumping in on threads - we do it all the time!!!

(sorry if we annoy people - that's not our intentions!)

[Adam]

Geri i dont see how it is humanly posibble for u to annoy anyone. im sorry if i have annoyed any1 by posting.

Adam

[hugbug3000]

Adam, was that sarcasm, hmmm, was it??

[Adam]

No that wasnt sarcasm. Why do u think i have something against u??

adam

[hugbug3000]

hmmm...... maybe it's because you're mean to me........

Ok, back to the point..

Has anyone actually gone out and bought the anatomy textbook?? I know someone said they did, but have they coloured in the pictures, and are they learning one organ (or body part) a day??

[Adam Gilmour]

I've got the anatomy text book. Hell its great its like painting by numbers only ur likely to learn much more!!! I take the book to work with me it passes the time really well already I know what ur crural, femoral, sagital planes, medial planes, orbital, mandibular, hey the list is endless. GREAT BOOK buy it. Either that or I'm sad but i find it interesting!!!:D :D :D











Adam

[Adam]

Im never nasty to u!!, only when u r to me.

ok, what do u work as??

Adam

[Adam Gilmour]

I work in a call centre so we have our quiet periods which allows me to get some colouring in done!!! Believe it or not we actually get quieter in the run up 2 xmas!!!:confused: :confused: :confused:











Adam

[hugbug3000]

NO FAIR

I wanna work where you do!!! It gets SO busy this next week, and I'm working Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, (not Tuesday cos that's christmas), Wednesday and whatever else they want me to!

That's like a whole week of dealing with smelly people. (I mean literally smelly)

[hugbug3000]

(Robyn thought perhaps you were joking about buying the book Adam - really being prepared aren't you!?)

[Adam]

Actually, how much is the book??


adam

[Adam Gilmour]

£16.99 in Waterstones Adam. And hey Geri I could make some "corny chat up line" bout bein prepared but I'm not gonna!!! U'll know wot I mean!!!:lol :lol :lol










Adam

[Adam]

Hey Adam.
did u see, me and geri are lightening fingers and thats our second promotion each 2night!!

adam

[hugbug3000]

ok, ok, so your chat ups aren't corny.... so can we play nice??

(a word of advice Adam, just smile and nod at blonde Adam)

[Adam]

hey, theres no need for that!! dont mock me to tall adam!! `Adam wants to hear what i have to say.
adam U r chat up lines are cornier than a very corny thing. like corn

adam

[Adam]

to summarise-
geri upset me
adam (G) is v. corny

adam (M)

[hugbug3000]

Pain, Pain, everywhere, bed, calling.......

[Adam]

just let urself b engulfed by the need for bed. just give in!!

c u l8r

adam

[Adam]

He scores the equaliser!!!!!

adam

[hugbug3000]

(get a life)

oooohhhh, did I just say that??

[Adam]

well i dont know. did u>? u certainly typed it!!

adam

[hugbug3000]

(stating the obvious)

Sorry, SO didn't mean it.

[Adam]

Ah geri, geri, geri. so sweet on the outside, yet so bitter on the inside. STOP with the sarcasm. U r no longer cutting or wtty, its bcming too normal.

adam

[Damien]

That's good you are enjoying the colouring in - you have no idea how much it will cut down your workload come next year!

Don't go in to too deep like knowing all 27 major arteries in the lower limb etc. (like I do lol) but just go at an easy pace as you have been doing. Learn a few muscles and bones, its great fun! (yes, sad but true).

Adios muchachos.

Damien :evil

[Damien]

[AWAITING REPLY FROM ADAM] in T-minus 30 seconds...29...28...

[Adam]

I know, i gettin slower. I had 3 PMs to read and reply 2 so gie me a break!!! If i didnt have any, I woulda had a post in between the dsmien post and the T-minus post!!

[Damien]

"You're powers are getting weak old man" Your losing your touch! Or is you mouse ball just wearing thin?

Damien :evil

[Adam]

once again, 2 PMs to reply 2.

ada,mthe force is strong in this one!!
ha, what mouse ball. i laugh at ur puny mouse ball. I have an infa-red laser thingy, so nananananana!!

:p :p :p

[Damien]

And is that infra-red laser attacted to your forehead and hot-wired directly into your brain too?

[Adam]

weeell the jurys stikll out onthat!! Ever time a post is made on a thrad on which I have posted on, I get an emai and my mail sign in the top corner goes red, so i can see who, where and stratihgt away when someone posts. ibasically live off the view new threads search. When im having a postng chat, i go back on forward to the posts there. quick, easy.

adam

[Adam]

the PNBS™ would like to suggest (in compliance with DScollon) that all chatty posts be kept in the general chat area. no chatting allowed in this boadwithout a leash.

thank u- spokesperson for PNBS™

[Damien]

Nice to see that the PNBS are finally working for the ANBS! Keep up the good work.

On that note: I will retire to my chambers.

[Adam]

ooohhh. We will never work for u!! we have our own views, and are wiling to sacrifice our complete domintion in order to appease DScollon. Just watch out damien, bcos we may not always b so civil. There is the PM system. A new uprising may begin at any time. blood, carnage.... and........ sharp pointy teeth!!
remember, we have the might of more members (OK- no members yet, but people WILL join). u will never stop us blethers. we will gro and grow. We may stay in our patch (by choice), but we are there. u can never stop us. U will never wipe us out. We will exist.

adam

[DScollon]

Yes, that's the best idea, confining chat to the chat forum.