"Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself." - Homer W. Smith
http://www.worldkidneyday.org/index.php

After more than two months of yearning for vacation, the year really is winding down. Just took my last two module exams for my first year of medicine. If I keep my fingers crossed, maybe no finals for me and all I would have left is the comprehensive exam on the 29th.

We have to perform a screening physical examination (SPE; a head-to-toe examination of a real-life patient) in a couple of hours. And we're gonna be graded on it. After almost two semesters in med school, I don't mind the grading anymore, as long as I pass. It's the feeling of being eaten alive by the physician-turned-interrogator/torturer that ( Read more... )

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Well, medical education anyway.

I've been studying for my exam on Medical Jurisprudence on Tuesday and I read about a case against a five-time flunker of the National Medical Aptitude Test (it's like the SATs for students applying to a Philippine medical school).

You see, there's a three-flunk rule: After you've flunked the NMAT three times, you're ( Read more... )

I was just waiting for us to pass our research paper ("Virgin Coconut Oil is Non-Mutagenic and Anti-Mutagenic: Results of Ames Test and Comet Assay"--woohoo! Go Buenafe to Delgado!) and then I was gonna let it all hang loose ( Read more... )

"I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living."
--Ricky Gervais

What is Your World View? You scored as a Postmodernist Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. ( Read more... )

Today is my last day as an official student of anatomy. This distinctive occasion was marked by a lab exam on the histology of the reproductive system. (Our last gross anatomy lab exam, which was on the kidneys, ureters and bladder, was given two weeks ago.) It seemed only fitting that I began my career as an anatomy student by failing my very ( Read more... )

1. Student number?
2003-05282

2. College?
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. Atsaka rin pala UP College of Medicine (I keep forgetting na ang Diliman at Manila ay kapwa napapasailalim ng iisang UP system.).

3. Ano ang course mo?
BS Psychology sa Diliman at ngayon ay kumukuha ng Doctor of Medicine sa Manila.

4. Nag-shift ka ba o na-kickout?
Neither ( Read more... )