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Otago HSFY chat - archive

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Yeah backing up what Froot said: hang in there for a little longer, try not to get too stressed, but try your hardest. The main thing with any exam, but especially in HSFY, is that you want to come out of that hall thinking that you've tried your best, and could not have changed anything.
I also like to visualise things. I used to visualise HSFY as a war, and each exam a battle. That made things a bit more interesting, but I don't know if it will help.
Good luck, and may the Force be with you. When in doubt, believe in magic.
A good quote: "When faced with complete disaster, total defiance is the only answer". From one of Frank Griffin's slides.
 
SeeKay said:
Hey guys, am I right in saying that isotype switching occurs just before the plasma cell stage?
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Yep! I remember him saying that it always occurred before plasma stage.
 
Might as well conform, good luck HSFY.. Just think, next semester you'll be taking BIOC192 and HEAL192- you're getting closer and closer to real medicine!

Enjoy.
 
Lol just did a physics paper...literally forgotten everything and cheat sheet doesn't even make sense to me now :(

Damn you hubs and cels!!!
 
SeeKay said:
Lol just did a physics paper...literally forgotten everything and cheat sheet doesn't even make sense to me now :(

Damn you hubs and cels!!!
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+1 to that! I predict most of next week being dedicated to relearning all of PHSI.. at least CHEM is down haha
 
Don't you guys think that this is contradicting? - one of the hubs lecture slides says skull is made up of the cranium, facial bones and the mandible but we know that mandible is a facial bone. Also, I just noticed that ear bones are part of the skull?
 
SeeKay said:
Don't you guys think that this is contradicting? - one of the hubs lecture slides says skull is made up of the cranium, facial bones and the mandible but we know that mandible is a facial bone. Also, I just noticed that ear bones are part of the skull?
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Which lecture / slide?
 
SeeKay said:
Don't you guys think that this is contradicting? - one of the hubs lecture slides says skull is made up of the cranium, facial bones and the mandible but we know that mandible is a facial bone. Also, I just noticed that ear bones are part of the skull?
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The mandible is not part of the facial bone.
Mandible is a bone by itself


Also, as for physics cheatsheet, make sure you have EVERYTHING in there.
I promise you, you gonna have so much time, just put in the numbers into the correspoding formulae.. don't know which one? Try all of it.
Also put the basics of the MRI onto the cheat, they usually don't ask the ridiculous stuff
 
Does anyone know where we might be able to get answers for the HUBS past papers?

What do you guys think about the overall difficulty of the HUBS exam? I find that the wording of the questions are pretty vague...

And also, so you are saying that the skull consists of the cranium, facial bones, mandible, base of skull and ear bones?
 
From blackboard:
Type II and III hypersensitivity are similar in that they both involve antibody, antigen and complement but the antigens are on a cell surface for type II and not bound to cell surfaces for type III (a broad definition).Serum sickness is an example of type III hypersensitivity.
Did type III hypersensitivity even get mentioned in our lecture on this, because I have no notes on it? (should we learn about both?)
 
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SeeKay said:
Does anyone know where we might be able to get answers for the HUBS past papers?

What do you guys think about the overall difficulty of the HUBS exam? I find that the wording of the questions are pretty vague...

And also, so you are saying that the skull consists of the cranium, facial bones, mandible, base of skull and ear bones?
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Cranium = skull without the mandible
Facial bones = smaller bones on the anterior portion - 13 bones
Mandible = lower jaw

Cranium + mandible = skull
Cranium = Calvaria & facial bones - which you don't need to know.

There aren't any answers on past papers, unless you know people who can supply you some that people have gone through. I suggest you do them and cross check it with a friend.


[MENTION=12787]hermafish[/MENTION]

I don't remember which type the type III is, but I think last year on the slide he had a typo on the hypersensitivity number.
 
hermafish said:
From blackboard:
Type II and III hypersensitivity are similar in that they both involve antibody, antigen and complement but the antigens are on a cell surface for type II and not bound to cell surfaces for type III (a broad definition).Serum sickness is an example of type III hypersensitivity.
Did type III hypersensitivity even get mentioned in our lecture on this, because I have no notes on it? (should we learn about both?)
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I don't think they mentioned type II hypersensitivity, type III hypersensitivity was labeled as type II allergy though...
 
Wongtong said:
People are saying that serum sickness / immune complex disease is actually type III and that he made a typo. (Google serum sickness)
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Good to see some HSFYs taking a critical look at what they've been taught. If you find enough evidence to support ignoring that part of the lecture slides, then do (and, from what I've found with a quick google, you're right).
 
Hey guys, could someone please help me with a question from last years HUBS exam?

Receptors on cells in the skin tissue detect the presence of microbes that may have entered the thigh cut during injury.
What is the cellular location of these receptors and what is their general function?

I'm guessing their talking about toll-like receptors on white blood cells but I'm not sure :P
 
Proshot said:
Hey guys, could someone please help me with a question from last years HUBS exam?

Receptors on cells in the skin tissue detect the presence of microbes that may have entered the thigh cut during injury.
What is the cellular location of these receptors and what is their general function?

I'm guessing their talking about toll-like receptors on white blood cells but I'm not sure :P
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Um.... the cellular location is the cell membrane? and the receptors (TLR) detect structures commonly found in bacteria?
 
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