last 72 hours in JIPMER..

done with exams!!
joining DM, pulmonary medicine @pgimer,chandigarh.

monday resigning from jipmer and shifting back to Bangalore for few days before shifting to Chandigarh permanently.

2011-2015 in Jipmer will be the career defining moment/golden phase of my career and life..20 years down the line the day my APs here quote my name and remember me i would feel  proud /accomplished/blessed. 

cleared mcrp-1

Exam was tough but not tough if u "prepare" and go...sound concepts and revision will save you...
I started from Feb ( for may exam) with 9-4job/night shifts ...

started with basic science and then medicine...
Basic -easterbrook basics book
Medicine -only mrcp book u ever need and Karla (reference)....NHS /nice for reference only
Did subject wise first (like neuro then cardio)..then mixed and did everything together...made notes for difficult ones and read before exam date....

Its your exam and its you who shd prepare and go for it...be confident... I repeat again that exam is not tough if u prepare for it

Key s medicine(each paper 60%med) coz many qns in basics also are medicine based ....
Regarding mcqs-did on examination only... could do only half (around 1.5k out of 3k)....and "revised" what I read.. Its always better to read one set of qns many times then many QN banks once ....
In between opds /duties revised from android app (rapid revision mrcp1)

Am a post MD candidate and now going for DM (super speciality) and doing mrcp is my dream...so if a post MD with 9-4pm job can make it anyone can.

Exam day -6hrs and 2papers -only 2things will help u- preparation and common sense approach which comes from practice /clinics

So guys plan and work hard and smartly too...
All the best smile emoticon

Dr Pratap upadhya
MD , Dnb , Edarm

ID-special day

Quite a memorable ID this time for me here in pondy..

Id

Flag hoisting at jipmer today

Ers 2014..

Finally some recognition for my MD work...
Got sleceted for poster presentation at germany international conference to be held @munich in September...
A big thank you to my family, teachers and patients...

New launch

Our departments launch today...
Jipmers new lung excellence center

Rain

Raining here...

New phase in life....

Post -M.D, back to jipmer with a new job with additional responsibilities.
Happy and at peace to come back to the same institute as a senior resident.
Lots to learn and new goals to achieve.
Joining today.

M.D

Graduate...

I graduated.
MD pulmonary medicine.
@jipmer.
Proud moment for my parents and pride for myself

New phase in life..

MD completed..
Now back to jipmer as Sr..
New job..
New phase in life....
Thanks to parents and well wishers.

i will be back...

This is it...
End of my three years of residency @ jipmer.
Leaving with pride and satisfaction but with a melancholic heart and with no regrets at all.
Will miss my gurus, colleagues and of course my true teachers-patients.

But as Arnold says in terminator-"I will be back".

End of the golden phase....

Finally this is it.
Cleared my M.D exams and leaving jipmer with pride and satisfaction.
Time which i have been waiting for and will be cherished lifelong.
Months of drama, hard work, duties and studies have made me the professional i am today.

This period most probably will be 'the' golden phase of my life.
Period of my life I will miss and look into when life throws me an another challenge.

Mesmerized.

@ an art exhibition near rocky beach.
Human feelings caught in a spell bound manner.
Truly amazing.

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Sunday break..

Temple run....(last few hours preparations with god.)
Nice breaky with sweets.

P.s-
48 hours to go.

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“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.”-

T.Roosevelt.

P.s-
Less than 72 hours to go for my M.D exam.

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Revision..

Part 1(out of 4)...

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17 days

march 1st it is finally...
17 days to go for my m.d exam..
persistence/focus dude!...

Lazy bum...

40 days to go for my final exams. still drab about it and not in the 'eat exams, sleep exams' mode.
My routine now is to attend rounds in the morning and in afternoons those horrible seminar sessions (with tea/biscuits which I anticipate the most). Evenings after some high tea I go unfortunately back to the 'laid back attitude' mode. go online or watch some SH episodes ,study a little bit and finally end up sleeping early. Most of these days had neither intensity or that motivation to get set for the MD exams.
Think i should change now. Micro-plan my schedule, stick to it no matter what and do my best for the rest of the remaining days. (Expect the worst and be ready for it !)

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Exam.

One hour to go for a theory exam.
No preparation at all. May be I will copy a little bit or may be leave some qns or may be just don't write it at all. Just sit there and while away my time. :D
Growing up makes u mature(and lazy). You are not the same kid of high school who sits and prepares for the exams sincerely. I just need to pass now and concentrate on my main exams.

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