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The student BMJ always has great articles on how to survive med school. A recent article looked at something that has become a mainstay of med school these days. Societies. They spring up every way y
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'What medical school societies were you part of? Have you started any of your own?...'
posted at 16/1/2013 7:44 PM GMT
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The student BMJ always has great articles on how to survive med school. |
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Re: 'What medical school societies were you part of? Have you started any of your own?...'
posted at 19/1/2013 11:56 AM GMT
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I was a member of our medical school's student society (UQMS) as we all were. It was universal. It was no beta capa pi or sorority for the rich and famous or for the beautiful people or the "too cools". I remember going to my first meeting in second year where the student president addressed us in our tiered auditorium with a human skull on a fancy tasselled pillow as one might do with a crown at the coronation. It was all a bit shocking and weird to us novices but as I progressed through the apprenticeship of medicine and read the UQMS newspaper, went to Melbourne for a UQMS Conference in my second year, I felt I was becoming transformed from a high school student into a somewhat unique and quirky band of brothers and sisters to whom I still belong in an intangible way all these years later.
It was already strong when I was a student so I cannot give you advice about its origins. I remember the boys playing cards in the refectory when we conscientious ones were scurrying off to lectures or racing off to the library. The UQMS had its irreverent paper and poked fun at our lecturers. I suppose it was like this at the University of Paris in the Middle Ages. Without this collegiate bonding you are just a number fighting for a pecking order in the big barnyard of life. Medicine is more than this. It is a bit like the Dead Poets' Society and if you do not know what I mean, go and read some poetry or contemplate about the wonder of it all. It is called Medicine. |
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Re: 'What medical school societies were you part of? Have you started any of your own?...'
posted at 21/1/2013 7:09 AM GMT
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I was in the University Motor Club [road racing / rallying etc], and the Canoe Club [camping in mid-winter when there was lots of white water in the rivers. No other medics as members - it gave a far broader outlook than joining any of the medical societies. |
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