board review

3 months from now ill be taking the boards exam... ooopps, i slip! i shouldnt be anouncing my plans so as not to get msgs from people if ever i didnt pass. anyway, emails have been pouring in about where to reveiw and tips on how to review. one of the emails i got was that from willie ong, the famous author of medicine blue book (one of the med books i consider truly handy).

heres one email response i got from our meskul yahoo group mail, coming from jona may sy:

sorry... wrong info... eto yung latest na natanong ko...
UP review P3500, june 2-8 lang ata..mock exams lang... 4 hrs per subject: 2 hrs exam, 2 hrs to discuss the answers... according sa chismis, wala daw lumalabas sa boards from the UP review questions... konti na lang slots, less than 100 na lang (source: elleen)...

APMC 2 mos P8500, 80 slots lang, last week 40 pa lang ata nag-enrol (source: xy)...

UST 1 month P12000, 300 slots lang, may available pa yatang 100 slots (source: Western Visayas friend)...

PLM...walang review! pero pwede daw gamitin and rooms dun para mag-review.. . (source: dette) big help!

astig mga batchmates ko, talk about resourcefulness! my source pa. i was warned before that there will be more to come. but what really strike me was PLM. this will be the first year PLM wouldnt be holding its reveiw classes. before it was like 3500, sat review sessions, which was fairly cheap. i was actually looking forward to this one since it would be nice to sit down with my batchmates and talk about catching up with stuffs, not much about the review. hehe. romours has it that there are on going war inside the campus about dean being dethrown ( yes, she think she owned it). its not farfetched since even during my time as a student council way back 2005, we fought for her unrelentless play of power. now that she has OM consultants and PLM alumni armying against her, its not a suprise why everything is in chaos.

i love my school, especially the college of Medicine where i beleive i have grown up as a person (to say the least). the minute i heard that PLM clerks now have a monthly rotation at Manila Doctors, i screamed for injustice! Ospital ng Maynila has been a home for PLMed. it taught us alumni the value of hardship and friendship, the service that our own mission and vision implied to us in the four years that we have spent in the college. i dont find the need for clerks to have a rotation in a private hospital where they would just "hang around". clerkship at OM is one that i would most definitely go back if given a chance. unmindful of all the stress that that hospital has given me, it gave me the confidence to go own my own. besides after clerkship we are given the chance to chose whichever hospital to have our internship with. that alone gave us that confidence.

sad to know how things have changed.... they say that PLMed has been losing its culture... its batch awareness... let it be a challenge for my fellow alumni to bring back the essence of us being scholars...

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on a lighter side... here are some pics from our win at the MCM annual interns case presentation. our case: right hypoplastic heart syndrome