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

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.

Earn it...

2years of entrance preparation for getting into this...
3years of dedication, patient care and hard core training...
Now the time has finally arrived...
My MD practicals tomorrow...
In a national institute we earn our degree. They just don't give it to you.


-Dr.Pratap upadhya, M.D.

Finally done with theory exam.
Pracs on 28th.

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Last..

Last theory paper today.

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3 out of 4

3 papers over.
Just one more to go.

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Almost..

Race will begin tomorrow.
Its just a matter of few days that I will cross the finish line.
MD exams begins in 9hours.

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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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17 days

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

few more weeks to go....

taking 1st calls in final year is really pissing me off. U see shit cases [silly in fact] all day and get calls at midnight from other departments for references etc. Am doing this from past 3 years [almost] and frankly now i don't have the same patience and enthusiasm as i had in my first two years of resident-ship. Luckily this will be my last month of emergency calls and that's it, am done with my M.D here after 2 months of regular attendance. Hopefully i sail through the exams smoothly [2 candidates this time]. After that an year or so of senior residency here may be and will move on to next phase of my life. Phase where job responsibility will be more and personal goals are given more importance.

Lazy sunday...

Lazy weekend....
Got up at 10.
being in final has its own luxury. Less of work(and duties) and hardly they expect you to attend Sunday rounds.
Had a nice cup of coffee now with some good music. Happen to stumble upon tommy and tuppance episodes (YouTube) recently when trying to dig into the poirot episodes online. They are quite engaging and you will love it if u have read the books.
Finishing this will have my brunch, get a small nap and study a little bit.
my good weekend will end here and again tomorrow it will be a new working week with opds to attend and same old seminars and casualty duties.
Hmm....this episode looks interesting and I must finish it. Bye for now.

Finally...

Uff!!...
What a relief!
Done with thesis....submitting tomorrow.

Change....

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just one month to go for thesis submission (took extension) and few more for final year exams(M.D) think I should pore upon my efforts more.
Daily planning is necessary and also little bit of micro planning. Divide each day into micro bits and put up a plan.if your planning is good (and executable) I think half  the work is over.u just now need to follow it with a discipline to achieve your goal.

Ranting..

One o'clock in the morning.
Duty day.
Playing games in my android nexus.
three admissions over and one to follow.
Fuddling myself,Slice,coke and mango juice already over.
Not feeling sleepy at all.
Tomorrow a day off.

life..

life is hectic as a JR [junior resident]...

duty[every 3 days],wards,irritating patients,communication problem,homesickness.....all these drive me really crazy sometimes.....sometimes i feel why did i land up here..kahte hain na 'shaadi ka ladoo hai aisa Jo na khaye who pachtaye, Khaane wala bhi Pachtaye'...but that is life i guess..u have to face it....just 3 yrs and may be one yr as a SR [senior resident] and am done with this place...

p.s-

1-still havent bought the watch i want to- 'casio edifice'...

and planning to buy one good 250cc bike in the near future...hm...so much to plan for..

2-good old frnds r really hard to find...am lucky that i have such kinds even now..:)

3-one of my childhood frnd [neighbor] got murdered recently...though he was just a frnd to me i had quite a few nice childhood memories with him which are priceless

disaster...

Pune visit [unlike Chandigarh] was a total disaster [except for the exam part]...poor food,sick hotel hospitality [municipality restrooms seemed better] and on our return trip to banglore we had to suffer from food poisoning [saureus or bacillus?] and the trains cleanliness didn't help either..Indian railways need to seriously think about this[improving sanitation]..our train's hygiene and rest rooms suck and the contamination we get exposed is nothing short of a

Only nice thing about our visit was the afmc campus and the way they conducted the exam...absolutely methodical!!...and the AFMC campus is nothing short of a mini fortress [each department has its own independent building with museum] and i think campus itself is a big motivation for us to get into institutions like this.

p.s-

on a full course antibiotic now...oflox-tz

off to pune...academic cum leisure trip...[afmc pg entrance]....:D

updates

aipgmee 2011 over...

still afmc,kcet2011,jipmer and nimhans to go...!!...

p.s-

now now a movie watching spree...i seriously need a break...

update

27 more days for the exam....[my 7th till now and 6 more to go]

diminishing financial status with ever growing expenses[for forms etc]...

unemployment crisis...

weight gain..

this cold stress and added laziness in the morning due to that...

daily bombardment of pure nonsensical friends updates in fb....