Medicine

philosophised at 7:41 PM

It has been just three weeks since I arrived in London and the end of the second week of school, but it felt like a really really long time because we have done so many things within such a short time. For the first week we did lots of shopping for household items like broomsticks, mops, bath curtains, towels, ironing board and so on.

University has been interesting so far. My current module, Movement and Musculoskeletal Biology, interests me a lot. It has got all to do with bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and nerves. I like how it is so macroscopic and that I can use my own body as a visualization aid.

For my electives I chose Advanced Dissections for Upper Limb, Advanced Dissections (Clinical) and Cognitive Neuroscience - Behavioural and Brain Development during Adolescence as my three choices, out of which I will only get one (or possibly none, because I have a feeling they are all oversubscribed).

My cadaver this year proves to be a harder one to dissect than the one we've got last year. He's a bigger chap and has got much more fats to clear away, and we probably spent 90% of the time in the dissection room just pulling away at fats to get a good view at the vessels.

I'm however looking forward more to our Neuroscience module starting near the end of next month. As of now I'm still interested in specialising in Neurosurgery, even though I've been told that it's a darn hard specialty to get into (and legal insurance is a major headache because of how easily things can go wrong in brain surgery).