It is Nov 22, a few more weeks to your MBBS finals. You have already amassed a vast amount of knowledge and hopefully, clinical experience, in the past 10 months or so since your Year 5 program started and soon, all those will be put to the test.
It is even more important now to
consolidate your learnings and begin to filter those extra knowledge from those
essential knowledge. Take note that not everything you have learned in your
daily clinical exposure will be tested in the finals. Understandably so because
the spectrum of coverage for everything in medicine is so broad and there is
only so much time allocated for each student during the examinations.
This is the time when the study list handed
out by your faculty at the start of Year 5 will be most valuable. Use that as a
guide for your revision. Narrow down your focus to make revision more
effective. Time is of the essence. You wont have time to digest and absorb the
entire Harrison’s or Guyton’s medical textbooks.
And with all that knowledge on hand (in
brain, actually), it is also equally important to know how to apply those on
the exam day itself when faced with the patient in the examination room.
For those who are easily anxious, it would
be good to learn relaxation techniques to keep your mind clear. Drawing a
comparison with our recently concluded GE15 on Nov 19, 2022 which resulted in a
hung parliament, you wont want to have a hung mind during the exam day. Keep
your nervousness in check, stay focused with a clear mind, speak the right
things (and not everything you see), and god willing (regardless whether you
are religious or an atheist, you need some amount of divine blessing during the
finals) you will clear the finals and graduate.
Over the next few weeks prior to the final
exam date, I will find time to post summaries of approaches to the short case
examinations for the major medical station systems and hopefully some spot
diagnoses cases.
Do read on and make this blog your revision
companion.
All the best.
CCE.
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