Well thought I'd come and update this while I remembered. This was my first week back at uni after five weeks off for summer. They went by so fast and I must admit that I didn't feel ready to come back again, let alone for the start of a new year. I didn't really feel like I'd rested and recovered from a hectic first year which hasn't been helped by the fact that I've had the cold from hell the past 10 days so end of my hols ended on a bit of a low. Anyway, enough grumbling already!
So as I was saying....this week we were in Monday to Thursday for anyone who is wondering what the timetable might be like. Two full days and two half days. Personally, I feel like they are throwing us right in at the deep end now and I get a strong feeling that last year was a walk in the park compared to what's coming. For the most part it has just been an introduction to the modules and the content we will be covering and how it's all going to be assessed. So far, presentations seem to be a real strong theme coming through and to be honest they are my worst nightmare so I have felt a bit stressed this week to say the least just getting to grips with what is going to be expected of us this year.
Despite the stress and the whinging though I have to say that I am still enjoying it and glad I did the course. I think it has just been a shock to the system. There is quite a lot of anatomy and physiology this year and it looks like we will be covering all of the body systems in quite some depth as well as looking more closely at pathologies and case studies. All pretty intense stuff at first glance but it's the kind of thing I love learning about so I don't mind too much. On top of this there is the usual content relating to the technology of digital imaging and the ethical stuff which is not always the most exciting of subjects but has to be done. I am feeling a lot better about the prospect of the second year today since we have had the day off and I've got myself in gear. Blitzed the study so I could get myself in the right mindset and into some kind of order and started thinking about the elective placements that we have to do in the second and third year.
We got told about these at the start of the week. Four weeks have been allocated where we are able to arrange our own placements at other hospitals. So I have been organising that today and it looks like I have organised two out of the four weeks so far and have a good idea where I would like to spend the other two weeks. I'm just waiting for confirmation of a few things before I can hopefully get the other two weeks sorted on Monday. So that has got me really excited about everything again and I feel raring to go.
I had hoped to spend a bit of time reading and writing up one of the body systems today as well but time got away from me and it is Friday evening now after all so not much hope of me doing that this evening. I'm having a nice quiet weekend and plan to keep on top of the uni work this year so I will get that work done over the weekend as well as some work on CT applications and principles which we have had lectures on this week. This year we are looking at the principles and applications of the various imaging modalities so that should be quite interesting once we get going with it all. Oh....and there is the first of many dreaded presentations to prepare for :(
Think that is enough for now but hopefully that gives you an idea of the sort of thing to expect. Any questions or anything you want included I will do my best. Enjoy the weekend :)
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