Stud.med

Sarah // Denmark // 20 y/o // Medical student // Cosplayer // Artist // ENFJ // IG: studiescape

[studiescape-blog]

I’ve finally made my way back onto Tumblr!

Having been busy last semester with settling into the rhythm of university (and med school), I finally feel like I have the energy to start posting here again.

In the past 6-ish months, I’ve decided to go away from the classic “aesthetic” notetaking and pursued a more efficient notetaking method for me, and this is the result; still aesthetically pleasing, but less time is spent making funky headlines and re-drawing images from my book, unless necessary.

The notes that I write have also changed. Instead of writing as I read, I’ve begun reading first, then writing as I go through the paragraph, to ensure I only include what’s actually important; notes are a summary, so you can better remember things for your exam revision, not just a paraphrasing of your textbook.

Overall I’m happy to see that the studyblr community hasn’t changed much, and I can’t wait to rejoin it.

[amberess]

22/05/2018 Studied all day for my open book exam tomorrow.

#day72

[markparham]

You Are Going To Have So Much Success In 2018 (pass it on)

[exmellivorinae]

OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???

“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”

I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT

[a-windsor]

NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU. Also: Dear ______: Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future]. Sincerely, @mellivorinae

[exmellivorinae]

THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE

[a-windsor]

YOU ARE WELCOME

[emeraldboreas-deactivated201809]

My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.

[anancientheart]

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

[anancientheart]

whenever i post this it works  reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet 

[c3rvida3]

My new meds make my skin throw a fit. It’s not terribly bad, just a few things here and there, but it’s bumming me out because I’ve never really had too many run-ins with acne.

My four-year-old sister, however, is under the impression that it’s just “3D freckles”, and that they look very, very pretty. She wants all of my freckles to “pop out”, especially the ones across my nose; they’re her favourite.

And it puts me in this weird position where I can’t say, “No, this is acne, and it’s bad,” because I don’t want to teach her that it’s a bad to have unclear skin, you know? I tried to tell her that my skin was sick because of the new medicine, but she was having none of it. She didn’t think they were any different than all of my literal, actual freckles, despite my efforts to delicately tell her otherwise.

Kids are weird.

The more I think about interactions I have with children, the more I realise that children will consistently compliment “flaws” until they’ve been taught not to.

Like, a kid at the library, whose sister has vitiligo, saw my scars once and suggested that his sister and I should be cats for Halloween, since I have “tabby skin” and she has “calico skin”. “I can be a black cat,” he immediately added. “It’s not AS cool, but they’re the spookiest.”

When I started losing weight, my little brother immediately demanded that I gain it back, because I wasn’t as comfortable to cuddle with anymore.

And my other little sister always wants to wear her paint-stained clothes to school so that “everyone can tell [she’s] an artist”.

I don’t know. I guess talking to little kids just reminds me that all of this superficial shit we worry about really is 100% made up.

[cwote]

this^

[optomstudies]

Studyblrs! Please turn off "Best Stuff First" in “Dashboard Preferences” in General Settings

REBLOG TO SAVE A BLOG (DO IT FOR YOUR OWN BLOG!)

You’re missing out on heaps of original study tips posts and heaps of great stuff by creators, not just me! My study tips are really detailed but can be specific at times, I don’t want to have to resort to poorer quality posts or clickbait titles to bring in the activity :’( 

Studyblrs are one of the biggest communities on tumblr, we can make a difference!

@staff please remove this feature! I’m an original study tips maker and this killed my activity! Tumblr is about original creators as much as reblogging, and having this option on will mean only the popular bloggers get featured more and more. It’ll be so much harder for new studyblrs to get a foot in!

Reblog to protect your own original content from being filtered! 

Check your activity graphs. I’m sure you’ll find yours drops off at the same date. #spreadtheword #protectyourcontent #protectoriginalcontent

[studyskylar]

i loooove autumn 🍂

[emmastudies]

and I loooove spread!!!

[languill]

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

[flavoracle]

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

[stemcellee]

November 7 2017

Did I tell you guys that my physics lab on thursday got cancelled and friday is a holiday so I just have to survive tomorrow and I’ll have a fOUR DAY WEEKEND

anyways I have a quiz in ochem section tomorrow on ethers and epoxides and like “cyclohexoxycyclohexane” like shoot me

[medschooltutors]

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[licensetomurse-deactivated20200]

When you’re running a code and you’re ready to deliver that shock in 3… 2…

[rn-aimes]

⚡️⚡️⚡️

[pleatedjeans]

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]



[freeselfdefense]

Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

[kny111]

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

[blog-archive-111189]

Worth watching

[heylookitseli-archives]

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this. 

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot 

[leo-bish]

and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be

useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.

[appropriately-inappropriate]

This is one of the first moves I was taught in Krav Maga, and it is one of the most effective.

It took me about a half hour to get down with practice, but once you get it, it’s an intuitive movement.

Please pass this along, it will save lives.

[sprouting-colours-deactivated20]

Important

[hayei]

Please reblog this.

[madiithepand0rk-blog]

Please, if you see this, Reblog it. 

[nailtipflips]

If you see this, reblog please.

[sigilcrafter]

not witchy but definitely worth watching, stay safe

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

Always signal boost. Stay safe everyone.

[witchymarvelspacecase]

WATCH THIS SHIT!! It’s easy, and it’s important. Please, please stay safe

[lgbtcyrus]

I don’t care if it doesn’t match your “theme” or whatever, this could save someone from a lifetime of psychological trauma, PLEASE reblog it!!!

[whitecoatgia]

5/11/2017 me @me: no more anatomy pls stop there are other subjects that need your attention bones are overrated anyway also me: yasss anatomy 24/7 lets draw everything out there is neVER ENOUGH ANATOMY

[studiescape-blog]

i apologize if it is rude to ask, but may I ask what type of grades/ marks you get on average?

Hey anon! Thanks for your question, don't worry, I'm not afraid of talking about grades, if they are high or low 😊So, my grades are a bit of a complicated matter; in the IB I did social sciences and langusges at HL, and I scored pretty okay in them (556) but did brilliantly in sciences (7 in math, 6 in bio). Then, I did some supplementary courses in math, physics and chem, so I could get into med school, where I scored top marks in all of them.At uni however, all of my exams have been a matter of passed/not passed, so I don't receive grades in these. However, on tests like histology and anatomy, I do score among the highest in my class 😊But honestly, my feelings about grades is, that those you get on tests and exams don't necessarily represent your overall abilities in the subject. Where I live, at most exams, you draw one particular topic, and have to explain this. And in some cases that means, you draw your worst topic in for ex: chem. Ofc your low grade in organic chem does not mean you suck at everything else in chemistry, it just shows how good you are at that/those specific questions. Hence, I always take the matter of grades lightly, because if they are good enough to get you to move on, it doesn't really matter! Life is more than high grades, and high grades does not necessarily equal smart. Some of the brightest people I know barely passed their exams, and are now moving into some quite high-end educations and jobs, because they could show that they were smart! An exam is a picture of what you can do in that instant, but knowledge can be many things, and in all honesty I think, that the passed/not passed system is the best, because it acknowledges that.

[midwest-medblr]

Why Medical School Is Important

This week, I learned a lesson about why medical school is so important. For 4 years, we cram everything into our heads, a little about every specialty. In the end, we all just can’t wait to specialize in our own fields and not have to remember the majority of other stuff we memorized. We can always just consult someone else if we need help right? Well… What if you didn’t recognize the underlying problem in the first place?

This week on neurology, we had a 27 year old woman who was admitted overnight for severe headache. They ended up doing a brain MRI, which showed several small diffusion weighted defects in the posterior brain consistent with strokes. We were asked to see her in the morning for evaluation of “strokes”. I was asked to read her chart and go see her. I thought it was a little odd that a healthy 27 year old had strokes, but you never know. I start reading up and see that her systolic blood pressure has been above 160 all night. They were allowing some degree of permissive hypertension for her strokes. Her creatinine was 1.4. They also assumed this was because of her elevated blood pressures. Finally, there was protein in her urine. I keep reading and notice she is 4 days postpartum. I haven’t even seen the patient yet and put the pieces together in my head. Elevated blood pressure, severe headache with visual scotomas, elevated creatinine, protein in the urine, postpartum… Holy shit, this person has preeclampsia with severe features and needs to be started on a magnesium drip immediately!

I want to go into Ob/Gyn, so naturally I was a little excited that I recognized this. I immediately went to my 70 year old attending and told him this. He looked surprised, and I could tell he probably hadn’t thought about this disease in decades since usually they are admitted to ob/gyn and not neurology. He asked me to call the ob/gyn that was on. Within a few hours, she was seen and started on a magnesium drip for preeclampsia with severe features. My attending and I went to radiology and had them re-read the scan. She had PRES not strokes. This woman could have gone home on aspirin, an anti-hypertensive, and a statin with neurology follow-up and had a seizure a day later from full blown eclampsia.

In the end, I learned about how one person going down the rabbit hole of one diagnosis can lead to a series of several providers going down it as well. It was a shining moment for me as a medical student, not going to lie. But it also showed me the importance of being well read and not shutting out my mind to other specialties. We all need to know a little about everything and when to realize our limits and consult someone else. And a lot of the time, medical school is the only immersive experience we will get in many of these specialties. It matters more than just learning for the sake of the shelves.

[cranquis]

Important.

(And GREAT CATCH!)

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

Damn! Good catch.  I could reblog this over and over again. Maybe once a year to remind all the med students why they’re in medical school.