Hello! This is me again, now this is just the continuation of the journey of me becoming the so called doctor :) yay !! **If you missed my previous blog better check it out first <3

I could say that time have taken its pace very fast. My first year in medical school has finally ended and I could not sum up everything that just happened in that one year of experience. However, I am enjoying and enduring at the same time hehehehe.

Truly, studying medicine is not a sprint, it is more of a marathon but I was not expecting that I have made this far but nothing to boast for I have never been this way too far I still have a lot of things to learn and experience.

BTW, second semester is the continuation of the syllabus of the subjects I enrolled. To all those interested, subjects in my medical school is taken every year but it is just divided into two semesters, some schools have trimesters but in my school we only have two semesters every year and no mid year or summer classes. Grades are also accumulated and given every academic year, so as they say you have a whole semester to dwell in if you failed in the first semester HAHAHA

Meanwhile, let us take away the context of grades here hehehe because I have always been very focused to passing my quizzes and exams and acing an exam is just a bonus if it miraculously happens :D

TEAM BLUE

Amidst the hardships of a normal medical student, we also had times when we need to smile and make the most fun out of it. Team building was really an excellent idea for us in the college. I observed sometimes that I less frequently meet higher years in our building, that is how serious and focused people in the college. Our population is just less than a hundred and I barely memorize their names and faces.

More Challenges and  More Fun

If you might be wondering what a first year medical student do? typically they would say we are just reading 24/7, but for real we also have activities like human cadaver dissection on thursdays, community surveys on Fridays, move exams in histology and gross anatomy and sleeping if we have time hehehehe.

In my first semester, dissection was a bit traumatizing but you have no choice but to beat your fears, the smell of death  and white flowers just to neutralize the strong smell of formalin has become natural for me when we had the succeeding sessions in my second semester.  It is too easy to fall in love in surgery but too early to decide what to specialize soon hehhehe but I really enjoyed it. I will miss those dissection  moments, tho it was gross #GROSSanatomy

Move exams are heart-pounding and heartbreaking at the same time. Aside from the pressure I get when I have to identify a slide in just seconds, those failing scores I had were devastating. But one thing I learned in medschool is to move on quickly to failures and never let the bad vibes eat you.  

Brains Brains Brains

Neuro-ana-physio is one of my favorites. I have learned and experienced so much in this subject however it has given me a lot of headaches because of its complexity. Though it was a difficult subject, it was a very interesting and interactive class sessions. We were taught to perform neuro examinations on patients, given real patients to assess and had the opportunity to study the real human brain in my hands.

I could not hide my amazement whenever I had the opportunity to meet neurosurgeons in my class because believe it or not we have very few neurosurgeons in the province. (I wish I could be one of them soon, if God permits )

Community pa MORE

If  you think we are just limited in our beautiful college building? you are wrong, we also have Community visits every Friday in our respective barangays. For me, this has made studying medicine a more fulfilling one because you have to meet real people and interact with them. Though it was a very tiresome activity, this is the very core and purpose of our study-- the people. Interviewing different people, different social beliefs, different lifestyles etc. , we needed to face these and include the very hot environment. Despite these, nothing compares to the revisions and stresses we had in our paper in this subject jkssss but we managed to finish it at the perfect time, kudos to my team Ka-PAS.

There are a lot of things I wish I could share to everyone but I have chosen those moments which are very significant to me and less vulgar :D.

PS: My vacation is almost over again and my first day being a second year medical student  will be on Monday July 23 :) see you mga classmates ko !!

Feel free to ask questions, suggestions and recommendations.

-lesterrific [07/19/18]