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My time at Semmelweis University:
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May 8, 2008
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Index books
Jesus. Will we never get rid of the relic?!
Exam time
Yeah, I know, you don't want to be reminded:-)
I have three exams in the week to come, but after that I will post some updates to Biochemistry and Physiology.
Here are two pictures from the 5th year Family medicine exam (Monday).
This was the last time this year's students will be seated together for an exam (our Neurology exam on Thursday will be held in two lecture halls).
Good luck on your upcoming exams, my friends!
Notes section progress report
I know this is not going as fast as some of you were hoping, but here is the progress report
The plan (number of topics yet to be published in italics):
- BIOCHEMISTRY
1st semester:251512
2nd semester:4135 - PHYSIOLOGY
101 - PATHOLOGY
96 - MICROBIOLOGY
1st semester:302922
Final:797674 - PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Hematology: completed
ECG: completed
1st semester: 29
2nd semester: 36 - PULMONOLOGY
29 - ORTHOPEDICS
78 - DERMATOLOGY
40 - ENT
57 - PHARMACOLOGY
undecided
In addition to the topics:
- BIOCHEMISTRY
Discussion of exam questions - PHYSIOLOGY
Discussion of exam questions
Even more 6th year questions answered
Updated today, April 16th: sixth year.
Notes
I have fixed the TOXICOLOGY link under Pharmacology.
Also, I have posted the 6th year Surgery topic list.
LAYOUT update!!
I have made some changes to the layout.
There are more direct links from the mainpage (see left menu!!) and I have cut the "life in Hungary" into pieces.
More coming soon!!
Obstetrics and Gynecology week
Updated the Gynecology stuff in Life in Hungary. Has pictures from the Ob/Gyn week
Problems with the sixth year...as always
I'm pretty sick and tired of the lack of information from my university.
I have therefore made an overview of my sixth year and answers that my friends and I have piled together from the vast amount of questions we have.
Updated regularly!!
Better Neptun help
ISAS made a much better tutorial than me.
Check it out here: http://www.isas.hu/index.php?p=university/neptun
Good stuff!
New Neptun system STARTER GUIDE
The university had a horrible lecture (I felt so sorry for Ms Böhm from the Secretariat - no working microphone and she had to translate a system she probably had not given any training in how to use) about the new Neptun System.
I have made a guide to the basics on how to get started.
Click here for the STARTER GUIDE
Back from the brink
The Easter holiday is over and things are back to normal - that goes for BudapestStudent.com, too.
More notes will be published in the weeks to come, along with tons of other cool stuff!
Be sure to revisit often!
Purim party
Contact ISOH at contact.isoh(at)gmail.com
or join the event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event .php?eid=11049871964
Concert
Pre-holiday updates!
I have the flu, so the updates have not been as many as I had hoped...but this is new:
- Pathophysiology notes: The notes on Hematology are pretty much complete.
- Microbiology: I have answered more than 100 topics here. More coming.
- Pathology/Pathophysiology: Some more topics answered.
- Biochemistry: Currently updating 2nd semester topics.
- Life in Hungary is back
- Norwegian pages: More stuff have been added and less depth-linking.
My books for sale
I'm a bibliophile, so I thought I would keep my books forever, but I've decided to sell some of the books I bought for medical school.
My friends know that I never write in my books and I never bend pages in my books. In other words, they are in "good as new" condition!
First I want to say a few things about editions:
If you have the money, always go for the latest one, especially in the clinical years (because therapy of various diseases might have changed).
I just find it odd that some books are published in new editions every 2-3 years. They change a few illustrations or they add a "whole new chapter on..." something, and claim the previous edition to be of no use. I think that is shit. Simply a way for publishers and authors to make more money (a lot of them are written by university professors and they often require their students to buy them - new edition means that hundreds, even thousands of students have to buy the new edition. My economics professor in the US made 200.000+ dollars for every new edition of his book....fair to say it was a good deal for him).
If you can read through the books to compare, you should. Just keep in mind that our university usually doesn't care if you have edition 3 or 4 (example: the topic list in psychiatry is based on edition 7 of the official book, which has edition 10 as the newest. Just shows you "essential" it is to have the very latest edition).
Anyway, I don't think buying the previous edition from me (or anyone else) is going to be that big a difference compared to having the new one.
Saves you money.
The books I'm selling are:
Essential Cell Biology edition 1
If you can afford the big one (The Cell), then that might be a better choice, but this book together with Basic Human Genetics (below) was all I used.
Barr's The Human Nervous System edition 7
The school recommended it, but I don't. Up to you.
Guyton/Hall's Medical Physiology edition 10
I never had the Berne/Levy book, but I have read through both. They cover the same material equally good, but I think Guyton/Hall is slightly better on the vascular system. If you have one, don't buy the other.
Send me an email if you want to buy any of these books.