Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

[lambchops]

What's there on nDeva doesn't really matter too much. I decided to change majors to psychology after OLY1 by picking my own papers. Didn't get it officially changed at the student centre so it always showed up as me study towards a BSc (Biomedical Science).

Finally got round to it before my final semester. As long as you complete all the required papers for a degree you'll be fine (and eligible to graduate).

 

[Indiana_91]

Hey,

Ive managed to get my hands on the Anatomy and Physiology Text Book and Epidemiology Text Book for next yr (ie for the MEDSCI 142 paper and POP HLT 101 at Auckland) and i was wondering if anyone cud tell me the pages/chapters that are applicable to next yrs programme.

Thnx & hope ur havin a gud holiday..

 

[g.walker]

frankly indiana my advise is not to worry about that yet, let everything come in its time. you'll need to be able to deal will the workload in later years anyways mate...

 

[dip]

frankly indiana my advise is not to worry about that yet, let everything come in its time. you'll need to be able to deal will the workload in later years anyways mate...

Agreed. Just relax and take it when it comes. If you stay on top of the lectures and just use the text book when you want to go a bit more thoroughly into a topic you will be fine, especially if it is someone eager to do well like yourself

 

[SASOL]

Getting a head start doesn't help, it just makes study longer really. Just enjoy your holiday(y)

 

[toaster]

To take a different approach to discouraging holiday study, you really need the lectures themselves to know what to study. Reading whole chapters in textbooks is a waste of time in my opinion. Most of the time you don't really even the need textbooks at whole, the notes given in lectures should be sufficient. A textbook is only there to help you understand what you do not understand from the lecture materials. The only time I really used a textbook lots was for learning anatomy, but thats only because the notes we got for that were a series of diagrams.

 

[Indiana_91]

Thanks for the advice...

I guess that I'll turn my attention towards practising for UMAT...given that once uni starts, i will hv no time to spend on it..

 

[g.walker]

lol, dont worry about that either. not only is it unimportant in auckland, its very hard to 'study' for it. You'll have a the mid-semester break to prepare yourself, but frankly I think stressing about it now is worse than putting it off for later mate

 

[g.walker]

Not that i'm getting textbook frenzy or anything here, but i'm just wondering what are the important ones for second year. Ive looked at Netter's (bloody awesome) and Clinically Oriented Anatomy, but arent there like any physiology/pathology books used by the lecturers?

 

[Leafie]

I agree with g.walker and toaster, studying in the holidays is a waste of time. I know this coz i was very worried myself this time last year, but what i learned is that it's best to relax and have as much fun as possible while you still can to get pumped up for next year, oh wait this year lol. There will be enough studying to do later so don;t you worry! You have a semester break to prepare for umat, now if you really want to do something i suggest u go and read some books and practice reading speed (but if you're a fast reader then you don;t need to do that either).

Anyhow Happy New Year everybody!!!

 

[gustavofring]

MBChB reply slip

just wondering
have any of you sent your MBChB reply slips yet?

 

[vacantexpression]

Yeah, I sent mine through email, but I got an autoreply saying that all MBChB correspondence is to be sent to [email protected]. I wasn't sure if this counts because it clearly says in the reply slip to send it to a different email address, but I forwarded the email to fmhs just in case.

I think it might be a good idea for those who haven't sent theirs in yet to email their reply slips when everyone's back from their holiday, around Jan 5th.

 

[g.walker]

I also sent mine in but got the autoreply too. I guess we'll see what happens on tuesday

 

[toaster]

Not that i'm getting textbook frenzy or anything here, but i'm just wondering what are the important ones for second year. Ive looked at Netter's (bloody awesome) and Clinically Oriented Anatomy, but arent there like any physiology/pathology books used by the lecturers?

Well if you really wanted to buy some textbooks, then the best pathology one is Rubin's pathological basis of disease, thats referred to a bit by one of the main POM lecturers. But there's no need to buy it, the lecture notes I found were sufficient, and if you really need it, go to the library. The best physiology one is probably Medical Physiology by Guyton and Hall. I read that a little, but I forgot most of what I read, and only studied from the lecture notes when it came to the exam. I wouldn't go buying those textbooks though, until you think you really need them, and then I still wouldn't buy them... If you're really excited for textbooks just go buy Moore's and try learn that...it'll keep you occupied long enough.

 

[Indiana_91]

Just wondering...how many seats are there for med in aux?..according to MSO wiki it was 155 for 2009..but i remember reading that it was something like 191..and hence there will be 227 seats next yr (coz of the MoH initiative to increase seats by 60)..

 

[lambchops]

Just wondering...how many seats are there for med in aux?..according to MSO wiki it was 155 for 2009..but i remember reading that it was something like 191..and hence there will be 227 seats next yr (coz of the MoH initiative to increase seats by 60)..

You're right, there were ~155 places for the class commencing in 2009. As of 2010, there will be an extra 60 places in total (shared between Auckland and Otago).

Of these extra places, Auckland has been allocated 36. So the class commencing in 2010 will have ~191. Approx. 116 of these places will be for general applicants from OLY1 and graduate entry. The remaining ~75 are reserved for MAPAS and ROMPE applicants.

Hope that helps clear things up

 

[g.walker]

I thought that this year had the 191 places? i remember when we went to the information session on selection into medschool in semester 2 the speaker mentioned a distribution of places very similar to what you wrote there lambchops.

Either way, what's important to remember is that the number of places available wont have much of a significant impact of your chances of selection, since they will still most likely interview twice as many applicants as there are places. The cutoff for interviews might not change, as more places is likely to attract more students to compete. But hey, more seats are always welcome

 

[midnightrambler]

lambchops is right but there is also 10 places reserved for full fee paying international students, so 201 in total.

And they will be adding more places for 2011 entry and beyond.

 

[lordgarlic]

I thought there was an increase of 20 places in the 2008 cohort. Then we just had a further 36 increase bringing the class size to 155 + 20 + 36 + 10? Which makes over 200 hmmm Just check how many are enrolled on ndeva haha

 

[g.walker]

on another note, it turns out that the renovations on grafton will be done by 2013 (https://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/faculty/aboutus/graftondev/timeline.aspx). What sucks is that the 'internal refurbishment' will take the longest to finish, so yea i guess we can expect 4 years of noise and disturbance during our lectures

but if it fixes up the lecture rooms i guess itll be worth it, i still remember that one we went to a year back during orientation for biomed. I sure am gonna miss the business school's rooms