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ladies and gentlemen, you’re now experiencing an emotional turbulence. please buckle up and relax; it will be over shortly. sorry for the discomfort you’re feeling and enjoy the rest of the journey called life. 

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20.05.26//

finding some solace in my readings in the middle of this pandemic

Music recs:

Zombie by Day6

Tired by Alan Walker

#medblr #studyblr #tea #day6

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For anyone that needs to hear it, I’m proud of you.

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Reminder to you, friend.

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If you’re reading this please be nice to yourself today because you do matter

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Life Update // 4.23.2020

I can’t believe its been 8 months since I’ve decided to blog through my second year life in med school. How pretty naive of me! I could barely stick through my skincare routine, now I expect myself to post daily?? AKLJFALFKJ lmao

Anyways, started off this post in a depressing way but I didn’t really had the time to sit down and discern or reflect on how the 8 months went. Well, one thing’s for sure, it was pretty hectic. I could barely hold myself up, there were certainly days that I felt really good, understand the topics and discussion, and on par with my readings however, there have been many, oh so many days, that I was just down, and sad and just a person going through it. 

I feel like I’m a person that never really gets motivated to do much in a short amount of time. I honestly believe I spaced out for the whole 8 months and I could barely even remember what happened lol. 

Lately, I’ve been into anime again, and it just reminds me back to my much younger years, where Slamdunk, Eyeshield 21, Special A, Dragonball, and One Piece were still part of my life. Now I’ve discovered really good animes, from Haikyuu (that took me almost 4 months to move on) and now My hero Academia, and Wokatoi. I think I’m quite picky with animes honestly, It will take me a while before I get to start something new again, and be thoroughly interested. I guess some animes just really set the standard. 

I don’t know how to stop this post, but yesterday we started doing some online activities already and it honestly felt good to hear from my friends again and do something productive lmao. I see alot of posts here and what they’ve been doing during the quarantine and it’s quite nice to see how motivated they all seem. I wish I got that energy. 

Anyways, here’s to a more better start in 2020. I’ll try to not pressure myself to much, and just do things one day at a time. x 

#personal #lifeupdate

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08.02.19

After a very gruesome first day yesterday, I decided to take a nap today during our independent study. And started working on my unfinished drawings during patho lab. I feel so productive tonight with the finished drawings (even though I got messed up with the labels 🤦‍♀️ ). I’m planning to finish reading chapter 2 and rewrite my notes in class to my notebook. (Hopefully, this study style works on me 🤞). Here’s to feeling productive the whole year!! (I’m reaching I know hehe)

#studyblr

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07.31.19

I just received our schedule for August and September yesterday, and scrolling through my finished plotted sched in the calendar gives me EXTREME anxiety. We will be having our first quiz immediately on monday next week and our first lecture on our first day of classes already, and here I am still not ready for it. I am so stressed out reading the chapter and I already get the overview but I just want to finish it but I don’t have the motivation to do it yet. I don’t know, I really hope I get to have my groove back. It’s so hard to shift from a vacationing-phase to school-phase ugh. I still have 4-5 chapters to read but I’m not in the mood for anything even if I’m forcing it already. It’s such a bad day with my low productivity rate. Oh well, let’s try again tomorrow.

#studyblr

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Time of our Life//Day6

My study table is finally sorted out and I’m slowly getting back to my study routine now that classes are getting near, but only had the chance to read 4 out of 38 pages (OOPS—coz my lazy bum ass gets too distracted and sleepy easily huhuicri). Here’s to hoping I get my groove back before classes start, finish this chapter, and have a more productive day tomorrow!

#studyblr #medblr #study #day6

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First Year Med Tips

What’s a more pleasing way to start again than posting something quite relevant to the community right? (hahaha) 

Anyway, are you an incoming first year med student? or do you have any plans to enter med school soon? well, you might have stumbled on the right post (lol, not really, but humor me please? hahaha)

To start off, I wanted to post something like this because I know how much of a stress it is to start into something without any idea on what’s totally going on. And because I was once in your shoes, struggling to have any some sort of information on what med school really is and just plain tips or advice from someone. 

Disclaimer: I may have passed my first year but it doesn’t mean that I’m in the top 10 of my batch. I’m just your regular struggling med student and in no way a genius (like some of my classmates) but I could offer you some advice or tips to cope up with med school here in the Philippines as an incoming first year student and to show you a glimpse on what to really expect. 

First Year Subjects:

Basic Biomedical Sciences

Gross Anatomy

Bring your reference book for your dissection just so you wouldn’t get lost along the way. I highly recommend Netter’s as an amazing reference. Also, if you can, invest in a 100 pcs glove box for your group, as well as masks it would be less a hassle to buy one every session (trust me, saves you more time to work ahead at the laboratory). Label your materials (it will be used for the whole year, label them so that they would not get lost and for you not to buy another one when you lost your scalpel or etc.)

Histology

Read in advance your laboratory exercise, it will be helpful for you. It would also guide you on what slides you’ll take. Research ahead on what the slides look like so you’ll have an idea on what to label and draw ahead. Don’t forget to bring your coloring materials. Color pencils, highlighters, fine liners help a lot in making sure your drawings look good.

Basic Neurosciences

Be familiar with everything, during laboratory, make sure that you know where the gyrus and sulcus are. Don’t forget to take a photo of everything and label on them. 

Phyisology

If you’re a visual and audio learner like me, it would be helpful for you to search up some videos in the internet after a lecture. NinjaNerd is a very helpful reference for your physio topics. (istg!! I owe 50% of my learnings from him)

Embryology

If you go to the same school as me, read on the chapter summary. It will help you have a general idea about it. Reading the whole chapter helps you familiarize but the summary is enough. 

Basic Radiology

Review the powerpoint slides by your lecturers! Take some time to actually read and review them not just during your exams, this will help you a lot since they are mostly diagrams and scans. 

Family and Community Medicine 1

- Go to class. Don’t take this for granted. The subject is really nice to keep you grounded on what are really the main issues in the community that are related to health. It will help you appreciate the work of a family and community physician. You will be mostly doing paper works in this so team up with classmates who are actually hardworking and that helps you in work load. 

Patient-Doctor Relations 1

- This is actually super fun. You get to have your first hospital exposure but only at the out-patient department. You will be taught on how to take a patient’s history. And if you are a socially awkward person like me (whose premed is biology and have no background on this) try to observe your classmates (especially the nurses) and if possible ask help if you have any difficulty. It will only be difficult at the first try but once you get the hang of it then you’ll be able to ace it. It’s not always that you get to take a patient’s history tho, it would only be 2-4 times this year, but hey it’s still good practice right? Try to follow the format given by your professor and do not just rely on your classmate’s history taking, make it your own so you’ll know how to make one. 

1. Don’t be absent. Attendance in college may not be a huge deal for some universities but in med school? it is HUGE. (at least in my school) Attendance is checked every activity and every lecture (trust me, I was the class beadle). The reason why I tell you this is that, it will help a lot on your image to your professors. It shows that you are serious enough to attend your classes. (Even if you think you’ve covered this topic in your undergrad, still attend your classes, you’ll never know what things will your lecturer emphasize and possibly where he/she get questions for your exams)

2. Take notes. Lectures in Med school usually span for 1.5-3 hours depending on what the topic is all about. To keep yourself awake, one tip would be to take down notes, (may it be in pen or paper / electronically with your ipad or laptop!) trust me, it will help you during finals or exams to know what were the things emphasized by your lecturer.

3. Participate and Perform in Laboratories. Most of the subjects under BBS have laboratories (except for embryology). Try to make sure that you know every exercise and that you would not waste your laboratory period. This is because this will help you during your OSCEs or your Objective Structured Clinical Examinations. 

4. Make your Small Group Discussions interactive. Use visual aids, like powerpoints, flashcards, quiz bowls, etc. Some facilitators may not be the fun type but most of the facilitators would appreciate on you simplifying the topic for your groupmates (BUT please make sure not to skip on important details). 

5. Plot your school activities and exams. Med School is very fast paced, you tend to have long quizzes every monday and sometimes it gets really draining.That’s why I highly suggest to take note and plot in your calendar when will your bimonthlies start, this would give you an idea on how many days there is left before you start reviewing for it. 

6. Always take a photo and label! I’ve said this once, and I will say it again. Don’t be a lazy ass (like me, who only do this when I feel like it TT)  This is applicable to your laboratories, especially in histology and anatomy. When you have your lab exercise, always make sure that you get the slide that your teacher emphasized, have a photo of every slide and label it on that night. trust me. this will help you in your practical exams. And don’t forget to ask for help especially to your professors and classmates. 

7. Find an outlet. It would get really suffocating at times when you are bombed with all these school works. And so I suggest to find an outlet, go to the gym, watch a youtube video or two every once in a while. So that you wouldn’t feel too choked by all these academic stress. 

8. Keep all your notes by Bimonthly. Trust me on this, buy a big envelope and place all your notes and transes once the bimonthlies are over. This would really help you for finals so that you wouln’t be looking for all your scattered notes and print them again. Save the environment. 

9. You don’t need to buy all your books. If you know someone from the upperclassmen, ask for a pdf copy of your books. The books really cost around 3-5,000 pesos each and it would be a pain in your wallet or parent’s wallet. (Or if you can afford it then it’s also alright with me tho hehe) But for me, you don’t really need to buy all of them, if you don’t want to. Befriend an upper classmen or two then ask for a pdf.

10. You are not alone. (oooh scary jk but you get me right?) You are still at an adjusting phase. First year brings a shock to most people on how med school really works. And I guess a good advice that I could tell you is that you are not alone. Your classmates and friends are also going through this. Everyone is struggling in med school (I still am) and that’s ok. You’ll find your groove soon enough (hopefully me too). Don’t be in a rush and don’t pressure yourself too much, just take things one day at a time. One task at a time. There will be days that you feel so bad that you don’t want to do anything and that’s ok, find someone to talk to, vent out what your feeling, contact your mentor, go to the gym, bake a cake, then move on. Make your bad day into good.

I’m not sure if these are enough but if you do have any questions feel free to dm me. And don’t forget that you are still a work in progress. Things will get really rough and that is because you are growing to become a skilled and good physician. If you’re not struggling then maybe you’re not really learning? (lol what? hahahaha idk) but really, just trust the process. You can do it! I believe in you! 

#tips for med student #philippines #medblr #study #studyblr

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fresh start?

So, it has been really a while since I started coming back in tumblr and I guess reading my past entries sparked back some motivation and embarrassment (!!!) but I’m too sentimental to delete them (whatever, just don’t go over them hahahaha)

Anyways, now I’m back. And just want to give you guys an update since I started posting here when I was still a first year bio student I guess? Wow. Time sure flies so fast. (Oh no. Haha)

Quick update:

I’m now an incoming second year med student. (JAKAJSJKsjsj) I really didn’t know how I did it. I guess I’m just here? (Hahahaha) actually part of the reason why I wanted to revive this, is for me to have some sort of outlet from my med school activities? Twitter is not really that much of a promising platform since I have in real life friends who actually know me and I’m quite shy with all my dramas (OOPS hehe)

So I guess that’s it? Here’s to a fresh start! (lol)

#random

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9:46 am // August 26, 2015 Midterms are finally over and the past 2 months and a half were really stressful. Last Saturday we had a field trip in the ocean to experience our marine ecosystem firsthand in our NSTP class. And it was a good avenue for me to actually release the pending stress that midterms had offered. Entering the program made me really realize more the importance of the environment. We tend to be very apathetic to our nature that we forget that this is the only home that we have now.

#biology #kaitalks

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6:18 PM // June 14, 2015 Classes has finally started last week, my schedule this sem is crazy had two laboratory classes in one day. And bio lab has started rough but it was still fun. And I guess my skills in photography are getting rusty with the new microscope and all. Here's to a fulfilling and fun bio 32 lab experience!!

#my photos #studyblr

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7:06 PM // April 11, 2015 

I was browsing yesterday for some inspiration to improve my “acads” since summer classes are starting on Monday. *sigh* Unfortunately for me and my sister’s major, summer classes are actually required for us to actually hit the 4 year-mark to graduate. Yet on the bright side, I actually stumbled on the “studyblr” community and was immediately hooked with it! 

And so here’s to our first step towards improving *hopefully* our Academic life and our first try in bullet “journaling” with our DIY journal. I hope it works out!

#bullet journal #studyblr #myphotos