Gerrard59: [/color][/i]Dr.Lagusta,though i know not much of it but i understand it means a brain disease,caused by a bacteria and one other way i cant remember{i need a medical dictionary quick}. And it also contains nevrous tissue in the brain{shey i try?}.



Basically,it talks about the Brain. Kai,Biological inclined courses and subjects sweet oh,still remember my B3 in waec{na my score high pass for our sicence class} . But Books plenty to buy and most importanly read and understand[color=#000099][i]

Gerrard59: [/color]Thanks @ olufolabi. Am more inclined towards Anatomy as it is more inlinced to med & surg{esp the surg}.


Did put pharmacy dis yr{to some na last yr},my pume would have been good,if not for K MISS 3 . it just f*cked my plans for this yr.

I do understand that pharmacy invovles more chemistry than Biology[my strength brekete for here }. Does Anatomy invovles more Biology than chemistry? Oga lagusta,abeg follow answer.

Dr.Lagusta,thanks for the explication,apt as usual. God bless.[color=#000099]

Lagusta: Encephalotrigeminalangiomatosis (sturge-weber syndrome) is a neurocutaneous disorder that is characterized by a port-wine vascular naevus on the face, which is usually prominent where the trigerminal nerve passes.. Patients also present with mental retardation and some other disabilities, and they do no survive their tenth birthday....

Fortunately the disease is rare....

Dr.Gboy:

dat's interesting, but is there anyway their chances of survival could be increased maybe if detected early? Possibly any form of therapy might suppress it, or is it congenital?

nice-guy1:
Gud day Doctors, i'm a young man of 23 with d passion of being a medical doctor. But getting into medical college has not been easy at all. By God's grace, I'm a 2nd class upper graduate of Biochemistry frm Michael Okpara uni. of agric. Umudike. B4 i went in 4 biochemistry, i wrote jamb 3 times, all because of medicine..... But didn''t get admission. I graduated frm Biochemistry in 2010....... I have bought D.E form 2 times..... Still i couldn't secure admision into Medicine. Now, i hv bought M.sc form...... But still my mind is in becoming a medical Doctor. I'm also praying 2 God for direction. But Pls, my friends, I need ur candid advice...... Shld i continue with M.sc in pharmacological Biochemistry or continue d search for medicine and surgery?

alutacontinua:

@nice-guy1, pls, go ahead with ur m.sc in pharmacological biochemistry. Alongside it, you could still continue in your search for medicine. It's never too late, nd i guess u're a guy. But it doesn't worth wasting ur tym on (Time, i believe, is life). Pharmacological biochemistry is a wonderful course nd if you get ur masters in it nd try to proceed for ur Ph.D, then, i believe, u'll be a Doctor of biochemistry. But all dt tym, u cld still be struggling with medical school all to no avail. Everybody cannot be doctors nd it's not only doctors dt do well. So, try and find fullfilment where you are now and you could continue your struggle for medicine alongside. But, at least, u'll be suo u didn't waste ur tym in d end. I av a lot of people in my class now who have had one degree or d oda nd dey've made sumtin out of lyf, nd dey're still in med schl because dt's der dream. apply wisdom, bros. I bliv Sir Lagusta, Dr. Gboy nd odas wld also add their one cent. Av a blessed week, everyone.

O.M.E:
Dr gboy....wadup with unilag?? Resumed yet??

nice-guy1:
Gud day Doctors, i'm a young man of 23 with d passion of being a medical doctor. But getting into medical college has not been easy at all. By God's grace, I'm a 2nd class upper graduate of Biochemistry frm Michael Okpara uni. of agric. Umudike. B4 i went in 4 biochemistry, i wrote jamb 3 times, all because of medicine..... But didn''t get admission. I graduated frm Biochemistry in 2010....... I have bought D.E form 2 times..... Still i couldn't secure admision into Medicine. Now, i hv bought M.sc form...... But still my mind is in becoming a medical Doctor. I'm also praying 2 God for direction. But Pls, my friends, I need ur candid advice...... Shld i continue with M.sc in pharmacological Biochemistry or continue d search for medicine and surgery?

Dr.Gboy:


nope, resumptn date is nov 12. I got 20 days left to lectures.
Hope u've also started packing ur bags too ?

nice-guy1:
Gud day Doctors, i'm a young man of 23 with d passion of being a medical doctor. But getting into medical college has not been easy at all. By God's grace, I'm a 2nd class upper graduate of Biochemistry frm Michael Okpara uni. of agric. Umudike. B4 i went in 4 biochemistry, i wrote jamb 3 times, all because of medicine..... But didn''t get admission. I graduated frm Biochemistry in 2010....... I have bought D.E form 2 times..... Still i couldn't secure admision into Medicine. Now, i hv bought M.sc form...... But still my mind is in becoming a medical Doctor. I'm also praying 2 God for direction. But Pls, my friends, I need ur candid advice...... Shld i continue with M.sc in pharmacological Biochemistry or continue d search for medicine and surgery?

Lagusta:


Not all are congenital... The vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) is usually caused by trauma, obstructed labour and gishiri cuts!!!!

Gerrard59: [/color]Thanks very much esp for the anatomy part, God bless.

The prospects,cos most folks complain about the irrelevance of Anatomy and also Micro biology in the today's world.

Also, the requirements,years,cost e.t.c it takes to study a course like for example Anatomy.
Is it {Anatomy,based on yur elucidation} similar to Med & surg.

I hope am not asking too much question.[color=#000099]

TCD: Good to see you all here. I'm a Part IV (FInal) Mbbch in a federal uni down south, finishing very soon. To those of you just starting out, I wish you luck, I'll be back to give you pointers on things you should know and how to survive medical school. Wish someone had told me all these when I was starting out, life would been a whole lot easier.

TCD: Good to see you all here. I'm a Part IV (FInal) Mbbch in a federal uni down south, finishing very soon. To those of you just starting out, I wish you luck, I'll be back to give you pointers on things you should know and how to survive medical school. Wish someone had told me all these when I was starting out, life would been a whole lot easier.

TCD: Good to see you all here. I'm a Part IV (FInal) Mbbch in a federal uni down south, finishing very soon. To those of you just starting out, I wish you luck, I'll be back to give you pointers on things you should know and how to survive medical school. Wish someone had told me all these when I was starting out, life would been a whole lot easier.

goodman3: Hi am a medical student in ESUT....i'll resume with them in november! I'm looking foward to the experience. @op pls hint us on what to expect as medical students. @wazzidon what are the challenges ure facing as a medical student?

TCD: Hope the spambot doesn't ban me for talking too much

..Okay guys, here it goes. Congratulations for having gotten admission into medical school, whether it's by merit, catchment, runs or your papa connections, doesn't matter. Nobody cares how you got in, What matters now is you have gotten in, it's going to be a tough and stressful journey lasting for 6-7-8 years (when you add strike)

What I'm going to mention here is just to try and shine a torch for you into the 'dark street' to at least make life alot easier. These are based on my personal experiences as well as those of colleagues both in my teaching hospital and other schools. Let me quickly add that I admire the doggedness and determination some of you have shown in your attempts to get into med school, I hope you get in eventually. I was very fortunate I wrote jamb only once had a great score and got admission into med school immediately after my SS3.

Now to your first year, you'll be doing science courses like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology (depending on your school you might have more science courses) in addition, English and your Gst or GSS courses. Those science courses in addition to English are core courses. You'll do them for two semesters.

These courses are very easy to pass, but also easy to fail. It's very easy to be carried away in first year, new freedom, new school and friends some of them bouncing around campus as per 'med student ' and thinking they have arrived. This is the time some foolish clowns will now join cult and be feeling big thinking the world is at their feet. Quick advise here, medical school doesn't respect cult. Infact most of them fail, never make it past third year. The few ones I know who managed to pass did so by studying well like everybody else not intimidating lecturers, professors and doctors. Sorry for the digression, First year is the only time you'll use grades system (A-F) and a CGPA. So this is your opportunity to pack all the A's you want and get a good CGPA (I'll tell the importance of this later). From your year two, you cease to use that grading system rather we use the pass/fail system.

Let me tell you a secret, each university has a quota of medical students it's supposed to admit yearly. MDCN recently has been getting really serious about enforcing this rule. They have withdrawn accreditation from schools like uniport last year(though they later got it back). I think Uniport didn't admit any new medical students that year. Also uniben and igbenedion I think also had the same problem. Schools are struggling real hard to cut down on the number of students they have in each class in order to maintain accreditation. What medical schools do is over-enroll students more than their quota (obviously for the money) then impose very strict year one rules/targets to weed out alot of people

Some schools say, If you fail one core course you withdraw from medicine and/or change to another course, others maybe set the limit more than two you withdraw, some say have a GPA of 3.8 or so else you withdraw. I'm saying all this so you'll be on the look out and not be caught unawares. Just find out what the conditions are in your school for first year and try to adjust accordingly (if you're lucky your school might not have such strict policies, but know it's becoming common place now that MDCN is not smiling) . During my first year, it wasn't this strict although if you failed more than two core courses you'll be asked to withdraw. Now it's even more stringent. It'll be painful after struggling for admission to be told to withdraw just in year 1 (well, I guess it's not as painful as colleagues of mine told to withdraw at 500L after spending close to 6 years in med school ).

This is a link to MDCN website showing accredited medical schools and their quota[url] http://www.mdcnigeria.org/Approved quota for Medical and Dental Schoos.htm[/url] . Most schools have 50, 75, 100 student slots, UNN, Unimaid, Unilag and Ilorin have 150, UI has 180. If you check your school and you see quota is 100 students then you look at your class and count that you're 220, mehn, be very afraid because your school will look for scapegoats to cut down by all means. Note if you see 50, it simply means by MDCN rules your school is not supposed to "ideally" have more than 50 students in EVERY (bar repeat students I think?)

I repeat again, don't enter 'one chance' o, try your best to pass all your year 1 courses. They are really easy. Another secret, no lecturer will set for exam what he hasn't taught you. It's really rare I tell you. Don't mind all the horror stories they told you about UNI beforehand. Honestly I've asked around and most people have told me most lecturers set what they have taught or mentioned to go read or assignments given.(in the last professional exam I wrote, one of the essay questions was an assignment given to us, silly me I didn't do that assignment had to manufacture few things from residual knowledge lol) So you don't have to cram the whole text book. Read what your lecturer has taught in class, photocopy notes(from serious students) if you can't write and read them. Please please, READ your NOTES Well before you use textbook to consolidate. The lecturer is not a clown, he took time to prepare that note/lecture and knows why he's giving you. 85% of the time that's where your exams are coming from.

I had people in my first year who loved reading OP (off point) in textbooks. Read note, they won't, na to go they do oversabi. Needless to say, they didn't make it. Don't get me wrong o, not saying you shouldn't read texts, but do so with wisdom and let your notes guide you.

I don tire to type for now, hope my long rant makes sense to someone. Other guys who have passed and scaled through year 1 can add more to this or modify it. A contribution from Lagusta will also be of great help too. If I remember any more things for year 1 I'll add to this, right now my brain don freeze. Ask any questions I'll gladly clarify.

Moving on, for your year two you start pre-clinicals. .............to be continued ..

.

TCD: Hope the spambot doesn't ban me for talking too much

..Okay guys, here it goes. Congratulations for having gotten admission into medical school, whether it's by merit, catchment, runs or your papa connections, doesn't matter. Nobody cares how you got in, What matters now is you have gotten in, it's going to be a tough and stressful journey lasting for 6-7-8 years (when you add strike)

What I'm going to mention here is just to try and shine a torch for you into the 'dark street' to at least make life alot easier. These are based on my personal experiences as well as those of colleagues both in my teaching hospital and other schools. Let me quickly add that I admire the doggedness and determination some of you have shown in your attempts to get into med school, I hope you get in eventually. I was very fortunate I wrote jamb only once had a great score and got admission into med school immediately after my SS3.

Now to your first year, you'll be doing science courses like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology (depending on your school you might have more science courses) in addition, English and your Gst or GSS courses. Those science courses in addition to English are core courses. You'll do them for two semesters.

These courses are very easy to pass, but also easy to fail. It's very easy to be carried away in first year, new freedom, new school and friends some of them bouncing around campus as per 'med student ' and thinking they have arrived. This is the time some foolish clowns will now join cult and be feeling big thinking the world is at their feet. Quick advise here, medical school doesn't respect cult. Infact most of them fail, never make it past third year. The few ones I know who managed to pass did so by studying well like everybody else not intimidating lecturers, professors and doctors. Sorry for the digression, First year is the only time you'll use grades system (A-F) and a CGPA. So this is your opportunity to pack all the A's you want and get a good CGPA (I'll tell the importance of this later). From your year two, you cease to use that grading system rather we use the pass/fail system.

Let me tell you a secret, each university has a quota of medical students it's supposed to admit yearly. MDCN recently has been getting really serious about enforcing this rule. They have withdrawn accreditation from schools like uniport last year(though they later got it back). I think Uniport didn't admit any new medical students that year. Also uniben and igbenedion I think also had the same problem. Schools are struggling real hard to cut down on the number of students they have in each class in order to maintain accreditation. What medical schools do is over-enroll students more than their quota (obviously for the money) then impose very strict year one rules/targets to weed out alot of people

Some schools say, If you fail one core course you withdraw from medicine and/or change to another course, others maybe set the limit more than two you withdraw, some say have a GPA of 3.8 or so else you withdraw. I'm saying all this so you'll be on the look out and not be caught unawares. Just find out what the conditions are in your school for first year and try to adjust accordingly (if you're lucky your school might not have such strict policies, but know it's becoming common place now that MDCN is not smiling) . During my first year, it wasn't this strict although if you failed more than two core courses you'll be asked to withdraw. Now it's even more stringent. It'll be painful after struggling for admission to be told to withdraw just in year 1 (well, I guess it's not as painful as colleagues of mine told to withdraw at 500L after spending close to 6 years in med school ).

This is a link to MDCN website showing accredited medical schools and their quota[url] http://www.mdcnigeria.org/Approved quota for Medical and Dental Schoos.htm[/url] . Most schools have 50, 75, 100 student slots, UNN, Unimaid, Unilag and Ilorin have 150, UI has 180. If you check your school and you see quota is 100 students then you look at your class and count that you're 220, mehn, be very afraid because your school will look for scapegoats to cut down by all means. Note if you see 50, it simply means by MDCN rules your school is not supposed to "ideally" have more than 50 students in EVERY (bar repeat students I think?)

I repeat again, don't enter 'one chance' o, try your best to pass all your year 1 courses. They are really easy. Another secret, no lecturer will set for exam what he hasn't taught you. It's really rare I tell you. Don't mind all the horror stories they told you about UNI beforehand. Honestly I've asked around and most people have told me most lecturers set what they have taught or mentioned to go read or assignments given.(in the last professional exam I wrote, one of the essay questions was an assignment given to us, silly me I didn't do that assignment had to manufacture few things from residual knowledge lol) So you don't have to cram the whole text book. Read what your lecturer has taught in class, photocopy notes(from serious students) if you can't write and read them. Please please, READ your NOTES Well before you use textbook to consolidate. The lecturer is not a clown, he took time to prepare that note/lecture and knows why he's giving you. 85% of the time that's where your exams are coming from.

I had people in my first year who loved reading OP (off point) in textbooks. Read note, they won't, na to go they do oversabi. Needless to say, they didn't make it. Don't get me wrong o, not saying you shouldn't read texts, but do so with wisdom and let your notes guide you.

I don tire to type for now, hope my long rant makes sense to someone. Other guys who have passed and scaled through year 1 can add more to this or modify it. A contribution from Lagusta will also be of great help too. If I remember any more things for year 1 I'll add to this, right now my brain don freeze. Ask any questions I'll gladly clarify.

Moving on, for your year two you start pre-clinicals. .............to be continued ..

.

Dr.Gboy:
@TCD thank u very much for ur advice, u've really opened my eyes to see things which i culdn't see b4.
I agree with u, d syllabus for 100 level is somewhat similar to that of secondary school except for a little complexity.
Concerning d quota stuff, Unilag only admittd 104 medical students,merit-98 supplementary-6, but since d quota is 150 i guess successful diploma students will also fill in d space.
D only problem is that does d quota change yearly?

TCD: The quota is constant. It's what mdcn during their accreditation visit has adjudged to be the number of students your facilities can handle satisfactorily according to standards. It can only change if the medical school expands infrastructure wise to be able to accomodate more students and mdcn approves such.

So basically that quota doesn't change yearly or as often as you think.

Unilag's case yes, the remaining slots I think are being kept for direct entery candidates that'll join you in your 2nd year. Also wouldn't rule out them admitting lesser number of students to offset the overpopulation in the senior classes.