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  1. Function

    Anyone in favor of an (estimated) conception day instead of birthday?

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      No. Too many societies and cultures still stigmatize conception before marriage. It might be a way to try to minimize this prejudice but too many children and vulnerable adults would be hurt by the taunts to be worth the risk

    2. Raider5678

      Raider5678

      Agreed.

  2. Function

    Passed the entrance exam for med school! Guess I'll be spending the next 12 years on studying medicine (/o.o)/

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      WELL DONE!

    2. Function

      Function

      Thanks :)

  3. Function

    I've reached this strange point in my life - and I'm not quite certain whether it's a point more people reach, or a psychiatric problem - where I tempt to memorise as much as possible from any damn text I'm reading. And it's driving me crazy.

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      Nurse! Nurse! We have another one here. Take notes, compress, summarise, and condense; learn the final "essence". Although in Medicine (from my memory of my couple of years of it) just memorizing stuff is pretty much par for the course - just make sure you avoid looking for clinical diagnostic points when reading the newspaper

    2. Raider5678

      Raider5678

      Perhaps, while you're at it, learn the trachtenberg method. Use this stage to your advantage!

  4. Function

    1 last exam ^^ damn tough one though

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      My anatomy viva was possibly the hardest hour of my life. I hope all the exams went well

    2. Function

      Function

      Hi, imo, anatomy is one of the most fun parts of medicine (so far, we've handled skeletal muscles and their innervating nerves (although a full block of nerve system is given next year), osteology, artrology, ateriology and venology and the relations of all those structures to one another). The satisfaction of knowing what runs where and all the topographical anatomy is what makes it so fun ^^ Most difficult part, to me, stays stuff like molecular biology.

  5. Function

    I want to "upgrade" my waking-up experience. Ideally, I'd love to have an alarm clock which I can plug into my computer and transfer custom alarm sounds to (which don't give me a heart attack), and which has two speakers so I can put one at both lateral ends of my bed.

    My phone (iPhone 8) won't do it for two reasons: (1) I can't plug my speakers into this phone and make the alarm sound come from the speakers, (2) even if I got to accomplish this, every iPhone since the iPhone 7 has been infamous for not having a 3.5 mm headphone jack, which means that if I would use the lightning port to connect speakers to my phone, I couldn't charge it, unless I also buy an overexpensive wireless Qi charging thing.

    Does someone know if this even exists?

    1. koti

      koti

      You could buy an external bluetooth speaker and use your iphone as the custom sound alarm clock. Or you could use bluetooth to connect your phone to your PC. Both scenarios will let you charge your phone.

    2. Strange

      Strange

      There is a smartphone app that (it claims) doesn't wake you up until you are in the right phase of sleep. The idea being that being woken at that point is less disturbing. https://www.sleepcycle.com

      Have no idea if it works or is completely bogus!

  6. Function

    Passed all my exams ^^ Off to my 2nd year in medicine!

    1. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      enjoy your summer vacation

    2. Function

      Function

      Thanks!

  7. Function

    We moved last weekend ... Terrible how socially and professionally paralyzed and isolated we become in a few days without WiFi.

    1. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      At your age it must feel like you are on a desert island in the middle of nowhere.:)

    2. Function

      Function

      Especially knowing you're missing lots of high priority information since the new academic year started today ^^

  8. Function

    So there's this gene, IDH1. It's responsible for the production of the protein IDH1.

    An c.395G>A mutation in IDH1 leads to p.R132H IDH1.

    So if a tumour is IDH1-mutated, can I say IDH1 is mutated? Or is "aberrant" more preferable?

    What do I call "p.R132H" if it is not a mutation?

    1. hypervalent_iodine

      hypervalent_iodine

      I guess it depends on whether or not the mutation in gene sequence leads to a change in the amino acid sequence. In your example, yes, though I believe convention with proteins is to only capitalise the first letter, making it an R132H Idh1 mutant. I may be wrong in that though. Edit: just realised that the capitalisation is species dependant. I work with fungi, where you don't capitalise every letter, but I believe you do with humans. Go figure.  

  9. Function

    Very likely getting involved in a neurosurgical research project. Pretty psyched! :D

    1. Sirona

      Sirona

      Congratulations! Have fun with it :)

       

  10. Function

    Going to present some first results for my thesis at the European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging in Brussels! :lol:

    1. koti

      koti

      Eatem up during the presentation. And remember to engage people, provoke discussions, this way they will remember you as a star. 

  11. Function

    Never thought communication skills learned in med school would ever prevent a dramatic developments in a feverish home-situation ... I would figuratively thank my teachers in communication on my bare knees

    1. koti

      koti

      Sounds like a success, good for you.

  12. Function

    First full version of my thesis complete! To be revised by my supervisors, and to be printed :wub::lol:

    1. studiot

      studiot

      That must be a weight off your mind.

      :)

  13. Function

    Hard work's paying off! A professor of my university contacted me with the question if I'm interested in participation of statistical research ... He must've had a sneak peak into my paper of this year ...

    1. Sriman Dutta

      Sriman Dutta

      Wonderful opportunity.

      All the best.

  14. Function

    Seems like I can finally appreciate the whole allegro from Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3, and not only the beginning

    1. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      I appreciate the sentiment. In the 70's I blindly bought several Gensis albums which promptly did my head in because they left me confused musically but after a dozen or so listens I finally "got" it.

  15. Function

    Promotor (specialist in nuclear medicine) called my thesis literature review chapter on positron emission tomography "very sound and accurate" and was very satisfied with it. Made my day!

  16. Function

    Just returned from holiday in Spain, still got 1 week before start of new academic year ... Hope it'll be a good one

  17. Function

    Gotta love Science Forums :) ...and Fermat ;)

  18. Function

    Passed all my exams :) A bit frustrated, though: missed a cum laude magna with only 0,3%.

  19. Function

    I've got exams 11 and 27 January. "What? You've got only 2 exams?!" ... ... ... yeah. 'Only' "Nervous system and senses" and "Cardiovascular system, respiration, kidneys and urinary tracts" ... So I won't be available for a wile. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

  20. Function

    Penultimate examination period is upon us. I'm going to be so relieved once our internships begin in January. Welp, there we go!

  21. Function

    Hum drum la dee da... 4 exams down, 2 to go... >:)

  22. Function

    Anyone ever heard of PMOD for PET scan VOI determination and quantification of PET parameters? If so, know why it's such a pain in the ass?

  23. Function

    All exams of my first year in medicine finally over :')

  24. Function

    1 down, 1 more to go! "Cardiovascular system, respiration, kidney and urinary tract", here I come!

  25. Function

    Redemption!

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