New Books Rearranged

Hi guys,

I’ve recently managed to get my hands on a lot of medical books in electronic form. I’ve posted up some previously but I’ll post them up again, this time arranged in the order of the year you’ll be needing them.

1st year

• Pocket atlas of human anatomy
• Gray’s anatomy
• A guide to dissection of the human body

2nd year

• Cases on Microbiology
• Talley Clinical Examination
• Pulmonary Physiology
• Principles of clinical pharmacology
• McLeod clinical examination
• Harper’s biochemistry
• Guyton medical physiology
• CVS physiology concepts

3rd year

• Textbook of surgery
• Surgical Anatomy
• Robbins Pathologic Basis of Diseases
• Oxford handbook of clinical medicine
• Manual of Surgery
• Learning surgery
• Surgery Q&A
• Internal medicine facts
• Harrison’s
• ECG made easy
• ABCs of clinical ECG
• ebc pathphys

4th & 5th year

• Williams Obstetrics
• Upper GI Surgery
• The pregnancy book
• Pulmonary Therapy secrets
• Psychologist book of personality tests
• Oxford handbook of respiratory and pulmonary medicine
• Oxford handbook of psychiatry
• Oxford handbook of clinical diagnosis
• O&G secrets
• O&G at a glance
• Obstetrics by 10 teachers
• Neurology and neurosurgery illustrated
• How to examine the nervous system
• Essential neurology
• Cranial nerves functional anatomy
• Manual of nephrology
• Paediatrics Illustrated
• OBGYN lecture notes
• Essential OBGYN
• Paediatrics diagnostic exams
• Opthalmology at a glance
• Colour atlas of Ophthalmology
• Handbook of psychiatric drugs
• Handbook of fractures
• Current essential orthopedics
• GI and liver secrets
• ENT secrets
• Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis (New)
• Dermatology illustrated
• Dermatology notes
• Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Toxicology) — NEW

Paeds State (GOS) Exam

Yeah, we finally did our exam today. Here’s how it went.

We arrived at Morozovskaya Children’s Hospital (M. Oktyabrskaya) at around 9am and realised that it had already started. The hall is pretty small and can only accomodate roughly around 30 students at a time. The rest had to wait outside. As we went into the hall, we produced our credit books and got out seats.

First, it was the MCQ Questions. 50 questions. Take as much time as you need. Once you’re done, you call on a assistant and they will show you to an examiner who will correct your MCQs. If you pass (apparently, the passing mark is 30 correct answers), you will have to head to the stage, find your credit book and choose an envelope.

Within the envelope, there are 3 situational questions. You have 30 minutes to answer all of them and they actually state the time on your answer sheet. Complete that, then head to an examiner. It doesn’t need to be the same person as before. Be wise at this time, take a peek and try to judge the lenient ones from those who would fail you or give you a “3″.

The Dean and Vice-Dean were there today. I suppose their presences meant a lot because I don’t think anyone failed today. If this happens next year, try to go to the examiner whom the Dean is sitting with. They will be talking and won’t really focus much on you. So it’s a simple exit strategy if you’re not well prepared. On the other hand, if you are well prepared, then it doesn’t really matter who you answer to. Would it?

Oh and this was all I used to prepare for the MCQ part – Test. For the situational questions, I didn’t bother reading the “zadachis”, I revised through my notes.

Happy studying!

A Few Words About 5th Year

Fourth Year students, I hope you managed to find this blog useful. I’m trying to collect as much information as I can so that I can include them here as study material for 5th year students. Cycles have been pretty easy-going so far. Peadiatrics is the only cycle where there is an assessment at the end. During that assessment, you will be given an envelope containing clinical blood, urine, CSF analyses; a picture/ graph to conclude on the child’s rate of growth; and finally an X-ray (it could be an abdominal X-ray, cystogram or urogram).

At the end of your Psychiatry cycle, there is also a short test but the teachers don’t really bother much about it. I’ll post up the questions a bit later.

Right now, I’m busy collecting e-books which I will later publish here. So watch out for it.

Happy Studying.

Paeds Lectures

Hey boys and girls,

My Paeds teacher was nice enough to share her Powerpoint slides with us. They’re about Infectious Diseases. Hope they come in handy for you guys

Download here (167MB)

 

Happy Studying!

Paediatrics

Hi guys,

For those who normally follow Magic Palace for study material, I apologise for the slight change of topic. I’ve been so caught up with elections that my head is just so displaced.

I found a Paediatrics textbook and I want to share it with you guys. Hopefully it will be useful to those who haven’t done the cycle yet.

Paeds Textbook

Happy Studying!