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Hey guys welcome back to the channel if
you're new here Sebastian, a medical
student from Australia.
And I thought I'd pick up the camera
today to do some vlogging. I have an
upcoming exam next week which is going
to cover a heap of things. We're doing -
it's pretty much everything we've done
in the year so that's like neurology,
gastroenterology, they're even chucking in
some questions from last year on
research methods and population health
so it's gonna be pretty jam-packed.
Recently Australia has eased down a
little bit on their lockdown laws so
you're actually able to have more
visitors over visit your friends and
family so that's really good and I've
decided to get out of the house finally!
So I'm gonna go visit a friend we're
gonna do some group study and hopefully
it's gonna be really productive but
right now I'm gonna grab my things and
make my way over there.
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Alright guys I just arrived to Declan's
house. Declan's got all his lecture
notes printed out and he's got all the
sort of schedule for the block. There's so
many lectures there's like 10 per week
and then when you add it up across 15
weeks that's just like over 100 lectures
so there's a lot to cover. Right right now
Declan and I are probably going to try smash
out some practice questions. So what we
have here is a practice question sets.
We're not in block 1 right now. We are in
block 6 and 7 so we're gonna give the
set a go to set a go see how it turns
out hopefully we can score above a pass,
that'd be nice to start off with.
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so the exam that we have is a
multiple-choice exam our University
pretty much only exclusively runs
multiple choice exams but it's going to
be 80 questions and the tests will go
for two hours because of the whole
covert stuff right now it's gonna be
online so I'm sure many of you have used
something like a property use software
or something to make sure that you're
not doing anything naughty that you're
not supposed to with a hundred and fifty
lectures to review any questions like
trying to jam that in means that there's
gonna be a lot of lectures or a lot of
information that we can't be tested on
so that makes it pretty difficult when
it comes to revision knowing what you
have to study and what you have to
exclude start off with the most
important stuff start with the
high-yield stuff and for neuro for us
it's really knowing the the pathways the
anatomy behind it going into like main
pathologies to do in your degenerate
diseases or anything else like that and
then you can go into the niche things
like a question that we have for you
what IV for what is it the for rare
causes what cattle is unique to
Australia we have Melissa virus rabies
I thought we didn't have rabies in
Australia but we have like lyssavirus
whatever Declan and I then start our
second set of practice questions
continuing on neurology the questions
were given range on topics from anatomy
or physiology to more clinically focused
questions asking about the appropriate
management or drug for a patient for
example we might be given a question
like this which of the following drugs
is a central and peripheral acting
inhibitor of katak or methyl transferase
or compt a bromocriptine B and TAC apone
C toll capone d levodopa or eise
allegedly the answer is C and that just
requires a working knowledge of the
drugs involved in the dopamine pathway
the mechanism of action involved in each
of them toca ponen and tack upon they're
very similar they both are inhibitors of
comped acceptant a Capone acts more
peripherally whereas toll Capone can
accentually as well other questions may
present a patient history for example a
59 year old man presents with a history
of sudden onset dysphasia dysarthria and
gait ataxia he has a loss of pain and
temperature on the right side of his
body and a left side of his face he also
has a constricted left pupil and drooped
left eyelid which of the following
arteries is most likely to be involved
and from the list of options that you
see here we see that the answer is
actually a posterior inferior cerebellar
artery because the man is presenting
with the classical signs of lateral
medullary or Wallenberg syndrome as we
go through the quiz we make a mental
note of difficult questions or topics
that just don't make sense
and once we both finished we discuss the
answers and the thought process behind
each one when you get a mixed Wernicke's
lesion what's the tractor thing that's
down in between them it's two words what
is that call when you win its difficulty
counting this is calculator yeah oh my
oh this is the constriction yes
I don't know how so just having a quick
break before we go into the next
practice set and I'm not sure if you can
hear it but there's the calming soothing
lo-fi music in the background so if
you're feeling stressed upset angry
you're just trying to get through a
study session blowfly will be your
remedy so go work hard before our lunch
break so that's a thing always make
little rewards for yourself
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I've got my double-decker chicken huge
in fur face
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after lunch we decided a good idea to do
some self-study revising over any topics
that were really struggling with I find
that I need to touch up on my knowledge
of viral hepatitis and drug related
liver issues while declan revises some
lectures on CNS infections we ask each
other questions as we go along and bring
up any really important pathologies that
we should each know about for the exam
after doing this for a few hours we have
a break before it gets dark
clean
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alright guys so we've been doing some
self-study for a little bit declan's
been going over some of the stuff he's
week on I've been going on over some of
the stuff that I'm week on this week is
liver disease so we're gonna be going
over some little problems selling
alcohol or drug related maybe so we're
gonna try to do this pretest nail and
declan's next to me going through is on
key cards the Lord and Savior are key to
finishing the quiz on a good note we
start packing up our things and call it
a night
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all right guys so I'm with my girlfriend
now Deborah and we just finished meeting
up with your friends which I came late
to so I couldn't really hang out with
them but I'll probably call the end of
the vlog there thanks so much for
watching and following us along
definitely I eventually get a lot of
stuff done which is really good
but now just going to relax and kick
back for the rest of the day
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Sebastian stay sharp
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