Hello All! You don’t
have to remind me that I am a little late in posting because I have been trying
to get myself to do so for a while now.
It has been a really awful week honestly. My dad was hospitalized for stomach pain but
unfortunately the doctors wanted to treat his high blood pressure. That is a conversation all in its own but
other than that, he went home on Sunday.
Thank God for that.
So continue on with the car situation, I only had to pay
$265 EC or $100 US to transfer the car to my name. So the rumors of it will be $500 US were
false. I must thank my step father #1
for that because I didn’t know how I was going to get that paid for. And I promise I will get that oil change you
told me to get. But now, no more
stranded at the library when it closes and I don’t have to stay until midnight.
On to new things, I need to describe the classes that I have
this semester. Well, there are some
students in my class that rely solely on watching videos of this professor but
that is not my style. I don’t even like
sitting through lectures of our teachers sometimes so why would I want to sit
through another? Whatever works for you
is how you should proceed through your classes.
Biochemistry seems a lot easier than it should be but I am
not complaining. It also may have to do
with the fact that we don’t have to know as much information as we had to learn
in undergrad. The course seems more of a
review from undergrad. The method I am
using to get through this class is reading the slides repeatedly as well as
redrawing the pathways and identifying rate-limiting enzymes because those are
the steps that heavily influence your reactions and where most pathology come
from.
Physiology is the hardest course that I have this
semester. It uses the anatomy on
steroids we took in the first semester and begins to tell us how the body
functions. Today we will start the
kidney and from what I’ve heard, it is NOT your friend. This class is all concepts. The formulas that you are given in class are
not usually for solving but more of explaining how structures work within the
body.
Genetics is very difficult to describe. It seems way too easy but I will not discount
it because it has some challenging things to remember as well. It is also review from undergrad if you took
this course.
Neuroanatomy is probably the most interesting class we have
this semester. The teacher uses a teaching
style that is different from every other teacher and I think it is the most
effective. He rarely uses powerpoint and
draws on the board. It is useful because
you can draw everything and not have to study as hard. This method of learning should be used in other
courses but I am not the teacher for these courses. Also, the professor commented that Caribbean medical
schools should have better teachers due to US schools employing teachers based
on how much research money they can contribute.
When the teachers do teach, it may be a teacher’s assistant or they may
do so while focusing on their research.
It is a valid point but who knows the truth?
CCBS is similar to what I had in the first semester except
this time it is primarily presentations this semester. It is mostly review from last semester in
combination with new information we are learning this semester. Still, it is mostly a review course for
repeat exposure to material.
Finally we have RHM or research in health and medicine. While we are on the island, they ask that we
perform research to ensure that we understand the importance of research. The research must be feasible for the budget
that they provide which is not a lot from what I hear. A lot of students usually continue research
that other students have done previously.
So those are the classes.
Since last week we finished our Block 1 exams, we had our usual Scilly
Cay party sponsored by White Coat which is a committee for the final semester
students to raise money for their white coat ceremony. This semester, I decided to partake even
though I would rather sleep. They also
had a beauty bar where you could nails, hair and make-up. I decided to let my
friends give me a makeover and I’ll let you decide on how I looked and you can
scroll through other pages if you want to see a difference. It was really nice to be dolled up and prance
around for a few. I didn’t get a chance
to take pictures a Scilly Cay because it was so dark. I should mention that it is another island
that just so happens to be used for partying.
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| My Attire for Scilly Cay |
Tribute for a Friend
One last thing to add before I close is that I have a friend
that would like some prayers and donations for her cousin. Her cousin who is in India is experiencing
some health issues where she will need a heart and lung transplant. She has a Go Fund Me page and I will provide
the link below. Any support would make
them happy and I am sure there are plenty of prayer warriors out there. Her name is Deepika and she is only 23 years old. There is more information about her condition on the link below.
Finally, I leave you all with:
“Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He
shall never permit the righteous to be moved.”
-NKJV Psalms 55:22
