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Medstuff has been relaunched for 2007!
Yes!!! Exciting isn’t it?
We are complete with new files galore…
there are many practise vivas questions uploaded (541 in total)… Kate’s guide
to 6th year Mark calculators and whatnot… but this is no excuse for
all of you to go geek and start studying already!!! Soon maybe… but not now! We
even updated the 5th year section… slightly but its there… so 5th
years have fun… enjoy bludging… also all the 4th year stuff is still
up here… some of it may yet come in handy… so its way down at the bottom of the
page… enjoy!
Please
6th year folk – keep sending us new information, past exam questions
and stuff that you get – sharing is caring and all that… especially OSCE’s
MCQ’s and the like… please? Hoarding is BAD! Really… if we find people
hoarding… we will let Chris Cao and his elephant loose on you… be warned…
-
Adam
and Vinay.
Any problems with
the files please email durbrain@optusnet.com.au
or vinay@doctor.id.au
ß VINAYK
6th Year
General
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Dr
Vinays Guide to passing 6th year in 24 weeks!
Ok I’ve done a new 6th year guide for you all –
hope it helps! Do remember to read Dr Kate’s guide below for good info on how
to get through those exams nicely!
Kate Crossley has once again kindly provided an
overview of 6th for us – beautifully written and complete with Gavin Andrews
style footers. She added to me that she has not mentioned anything about
textbooks – as we should know what we like by now (in theory). Also that she
hasn’t mentioned what to cover and ignore because we need to know a bit of
everything. This includes some of the 5th year stuff – e.g. Gynae emergencies,
paeds emergencies and common GP things like Hypertension, obesity and
melanomas. Enjoy!
Just for fun – someone went and interpreted the actual weightings of our med courses from THIS page – and put them in spreadsheet form. So fire up excel… grab your marks from my.unsw and the med website – compare to the given URL and see how hard (or easy) it would’ve been for you to make first class honours in 2005….
· Super Jackpot Collection of Everything
I have no idea what is in this file. I haven’t seen it nor have I downloaded it. But Vinay says it’s good and of course that means it *must* be something to get excited about. Apparently it has all these “Collections of answers to stuff from before, vivas etc”. Note: Apparently the original author thinks he/she is Jack Bauer and has password protected the files – ignore the password prompt and click on “Open read only”
Management Vivas
Ok people here they are – if you
don’t have them already… These are the officials set of medical vivas as
released by the faculty… They do have some new Vivas that they are keeping secret
– so if people can find out what some of the previous 6th years got and send
them along – that’d be great! Ok …. I have numbered these all in order for
Medical and Surgical – this document starts at 1 and goes up to 72 … the
Christian ones go from 73 onwards… and the Medical Vivas by topic continue from
there. So basically being the nerdbirds he is – when Chris Cao says “oh man I
haven’t studied Medical Question 95 yet and it’s the third week of term!!! I’m
going to fail! I’m going to fail!!!!” – We’ll all know exactly which paper and
which question he is stressing over…
Ok, again the official surgical vivas as
released by the faculty – same goes as above… numbering starts here then goes
to Christian then to Viva’s by topic.
·
Christian
Management Vivas – Med + Surg
These are unofficial. There are probably more
unofficial sets floating around – if anyone has them feel free to send them to
me or Adam. Need I repeat about the numbering? I haven’t looked at any of these
but I assume they start repeating by this set and the following – So I guess we
just need to do the previous and this? That’s what I’m lead to believe…. Also
to all the Christians I have just offended … I didn’t mean that this document
was about how to manage Christians …. Just more that it was written by the same
guy who did the “Christian” MCQs… =P
Ok someone - has collated these from sources
unknown – but here they are… set 3 in the numbering….
This is fairly self explanatory…
OSCE
·
Random OSCE Questions
found in Tally.
Everything is in Tally isn’t it? Someone found these in a Tally book in the Library and scanned them – it is presumed that they are from the 2005 OSCE. Thanks to Dr Daniel.
MCQs
Ok – here are the MCQs written out by some med students back in the day (after they got home from the exams and whatnot)… Unlike the Christian ones below these are not impossible and from what I’ve heard they are more like what we get in our exam – there are 4 different sets in here – I cut the answers out of two of them – hence why there are 6 files. A lot of people have these – still, I had to get them from one of the interns… I guess not everyone believes that sharing is caring… I do in any case – hope they help!
· The St George “Christian” MCQ’s
They’re back… I know we couldn’t do them before – but lets just see if we can do them now! For the more “challenged” amongst you – they are the same as the MCQs from 4th year – infact the link is still there further down the page!
Emergency
All you need to know about acute coronary syndromes, and not quite all you need to know about other causes of chest pain – for herpes thoracic zoster please go read up Harrisons.
5th Year
Overview
This is the guide I emailed you
all – complete with my trademarked conversation like style of writing, lack of
grammar, and spelling so bad that my year 2 teacher is crying!
From the now Dr Kate – the guide that us 6th
years look forward to every year. Kate having gone to the same school as me
(what can I say…
Psychiatry
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Exam
Questions (Summer Teaching Period)
Many kind people offered the questions from the first term’s exam, but Grace was the first. And look how detailed they are! With that kind of memory, why study at all? ;)
This is the motherload of past exam questions.
The effort that Jack Wang went to in order to get this is amazing – such is the
determination of a man who decapitated a mechanical horse by riding it too
vigorously. Oh – the actual author of the paper is some guy called Kinny.
·
Guide
to Diagnostic Interviewing
Vinay was given this at his hospital. It’s a
good summary of how to conduct and write up the interview.
·
Guide
to Diagnostic Interviewing (urr…)
Vinay also gave me this. I’m not really sure
how it’s meant to differ from the above, other than being more concise. But to
use one of Vinay’s catchy but stupid sayings, ‘the more the merrier’. ‘Have
fun!!’
·
Past
Exam – Teaching Period 1 2006 Written
This special request is for Jacqui and her
fellow Term 3 psychopaths. All 10 questions from the Term 2 (or TP1) written
exam fresh from Lyn’s (massive) brain straight after the exam. Hope it doesn’t
come too late.
General Practice +
Subspecialties
·
ENT
& Dermatology Exam Day 1 (Summer Teaching Period)
These are the 6 stations I got on my exam day. The other batch got a completely different set, so for those on the 2nd day who plan to get answers from the previous group – have fun failing. This also applies to the 5 GP OSCE scenarios you get on each exam day.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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Lecture
Notes – Gynaecological History
I travelled 1 hour+ each way to go listen to this lecture from Professor Wong, so therefore it must be good. (Plain version for printing)
· Lecture Notes – Menstrual History
For all you St Georgian sluts, do you get quality lectures from Liverpool’s Professor Wong? No – but now you do, courtesy of Hugo. (Plain version for printing)
A massive dossier of OSCE topics covering everything antepartum haemorrhage to ectopic pregnancy in the nasopharynx. Courtesy of Vinay who poached it off “someones website”.
Here you will find a random amalgamation of O&G OSCEs & notes on certain topics. Like the chocolate kinder surprises, most of the things you’ll find inside are shit. However, there are occasional goodies – my favourite being “Guru Gynaeshwar’s Guide to choosing an oral contraceptive for a fat, hairy, pizza faced chick”. Kinder Surprise brought to you by Late-anne.
·
St
Georgian Sluts’ Secret Stash
Another multi-file bonanza, this time
from our good friends at St George. Yes, lead by Vinay, King of the Sluts,
these scumbags rigged the allocations to St George, forcing the rest of us into
exile. Now that we have clawed our way back from purgatory (and into the
haphazard hellhole that is
· Lecture Notes – Menstrual Disorders
No faculty has more malnourished geeks than Medicine. As such, many of you are likely to be amenorrhoeic. Enjoy reading about your disorder. Another 5 star production by Prof Wong.
· Lecture Notes – Genital Prolapse
Download this for the pretty pictures, if not for the knowledge. One of which is reminiscent of a witchety grub, of which we are all now experts on due to our rural allocations. Also by Prof Wong. Please thank Rui for PDFing the above files – without his skill the files would be too big and nobody would be able to have the pleasure of viewing sagging genitalia.
YES!! Agent N has come through with the highly anticipated MCQs. There also appears to be some OSCE & other material scattered throughout the document, so consider that a bonus. Warning – 3MB file! Estimated download time: cable – 20 s, ADSL (512 kbps) – 1 minute, dial-up – if you start now, you might get it by graduation.
As promised in my 5th year guide
– Here is the list of topics to learn for O&G courtesy of Jack Wang who
collated them and myself who typed them up! This is gold for the viva, and very
useful otherwise as a way to structure your learning – but it is NOT all encompassing!
Paediatrics
·
Lecture
Slides – Approach to Chest X-ray
The Mongolian Blue Spot, Chris Cao, has provided the slides to the Chest X-ray lecture we got during lecture week as promised! Thank you, Chris! (Plain version for printing)
·
Lecture
Slides – Respiratory Clinical History & Examination
And in case you didn’t learn how to take a respiratory history or exam during your attachment (‘cause, you know, respiratory problems in children such as bronchiolitis are so damn uber-rare), the blue spot has also provided this set of slides for your browsing pleasure. (Plain version for printing)
What better way to prepare for 30 MCQs, than to do 3000 of them? Vinay got these off someone – I forgot who, but much appreciated in any case. Note that these are not past MCQs from UNSW papers, so rote learning them ala O&G exam is not an option.
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Past
MCQ's + OSCE + Clinical exam
Ok guys... here are some past mcq's + an osce paper + some past clinical history/exam stations... I got these of Adam Cho... so thanks heaps! from what i've heard they repeat the osce questions lots... if anyone has more please, please, please pass them on!
Again from Adam Cho, here is another batch of write ups by various people from various years on previous OSCEs. This file is an amalgamation of different files in no specific order, so you might have to navigate back and forth between pages.
4th Year
Pathology
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Case
Protocols (Partial Set)
Here are student created answers to approximately half of the case protocols in our pathology handbook. I’m not sure if answers to the remaining protocols exist, but if they do I’m sure Chris Cao will find them. Naturally, this set came from Chris Cao (expect no less from the one who specifically requested the 4th/6th year syllabus in November 2004 so that he could “prepare during the holidays”). Thanks Chris!
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Notes for
Pathology Objectives
From the legendary, but now defunct ‘Haju’ website – the pathology objectives have been resurrected (hopefully) temporarily until the Haju site is back up and running. A bunch of med-machines have written up answers to all the pathology objectives and this is the result.
Shan-shan’s sister (alliteration!) has created these cool palm sized tables. Shan-shan says to print them out 9 per page for authentic palm-sized viewing pleasure. Thanks to both SSS and SS!
A long time coming – and these ones look far neater (and thus are presumably better) than the previous set. Sourced from our good friends at St George Hospital – donor shall remain anonymous J
Home-brewed slides on (almost) every topic in the syllabus – predominantly Harrisons based, with a hint of Robbins, Oxford & Apley’s and plenty of spelling/factual errors for that authentic home-made flavour. (Needless to say, you need Microsoft Powerpoint (or Powerpoint viewer) to view these – sorry, no time to convert >100 files to PDF).
Physical Examination
· Physical Examination Techniques
This is a file containing exam techniques for the knee, back, foot, ankle, hip, shoulder and neuro. These were kindly scanned by Ruelan (as Word files!! I’ll convert them to PDF when I have a chance – really Ruelan, stick to rap and shaving your head, scanning is clearly not your forte :P). This is also a blatant breach of copyright, but I won’t report you if you don’t report me. Ding!
Clinical
· The St George “Christian” MCQ’s
Direct from the land land of of many many crow crow’s – wagga wagga… heres a set of mcq’s similar to those in the clinical mcq paper at the end of the year. These were given to me by Daneil G in 5th year… and you’ll work out soon enough why they are called the “Christian” mcq’s… hallelujah! As an extra note I was also told to have a look at the AMC AMCQ’s book… which is on sale at medsoc – if someone wants to get it and give it to me? That’d be super…
Pharmacology
Some smart chap a few years above wrote out some past pharm questions – with answers…. Now we just gotta learn a whole lotta stuff! But we got ages… so its all good… I think….
Pop Health
Enjoy and enjoy… they actually expect us to know this crap… at least you guys get to do it for only 6 weeks… ive been doing it over and over and over… every week….
· Lecture Handout – Indigenous Health
For those of you who did not attend this riveting lecture, here is an annotated copy of the lecture handout. Please thank Li-anne – if only the rest of you were as keen as her! ;)
· Lecture Slides – Infectious Disease
The slides from the Infectious Disease tutorial during the Pop Health lecture week – courtesy of Izhar.
Exams
The highly anticipated past papers are finally up! Li-anne provided these months ago, but in my enthusiasm for rectal examination, I completely forgot about them. They were not ‘withheld’, as a certain psychotic claims.
These come courtesy of Megan (surprise surprise) via Li-anne, so thanks to both. A bit of everything here – advice, exam answers, physical examination etc.
· OSCEs
Yes, that’s right. Sandy is back. Sandy’s obsessive fan, Vinay, has provided these on his/her behalf.
