ACADEMIC MODULE REVISION SESSIONS

[mrakhtar]

Salaam All,

This is where the planning for the academic revision sessions for each module for the 1st and 2nd years should be planned out.

This is the place where you should think of exactly what key areas to focus on in a module, what hints and tips you can give to your students, and most importantly put up drafts of the handouts and other beneficial resources that you can provide them with.

1st year:
Foundation
Infection and Defence
Circulation and Breathing
Fluids, Nutrition and Metabolism

2nd year:
MMB
Neuroscience and behaviour
Endocrinology
Reproduction and Genetics
Cancer biology

Planning should commence ASAP

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Wasalaam
Rashid

[RUMS ISoc]

AA,

As accademic stuff is mostly for the undergrads, this is being moved to the undergrad. team board.

wslm

WebMaster

[s]

AA,

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the summer

Shaarifa is away atm so probably not gonna be able to sort out a timetable for the preclin revision sessions/list of topics etc until she gets back

In the meanwhile, just a few thoughts

1) I think the 1 revision session per term idea is a good one. Just a bit worried that in the third term everyone is preoccupied with their own revision so there won’t be any volunteers to teach these sessions??? What do people think? Maybe 1 session in term one and 2 in term 2 would be better…

2) last year the surgical society organised for junior doctors to come in and run anatomy revision sessions at the end of the year for yrs 1 and 2. I think they gave priority of places to their own members but it still got a lot of interest from non-members. Maybe rums isoc could do something similar this year (provided that we can find people who are willing to teach these sessions)…might increase members/ generate some more interest in the isoc??

3) If anyone is willing to volunteer to teach any sessions please could you put your name forward and which module/topic. Or even just donate some revision notes then we can compile some sort of handout to accompany the session.

4) Is there anything else anyone thinks should be offered by rums isoc in terms of academic stuff?

Wslm

Shirin

[yasmin]

salam alaikum,
can we do revision/advice sessions for IBSC students, ie advice on revision, what extra work should be doin, and also revsiions advice and revision, maybe this might jus be a one-off one to one session in some cases, so maybe people can just be put in touch with previous students in case they want help.

as for shirin's posts, i think we should have clinical students running revision sessions for second years, that way they wouldnt have the problem of exams clashing in term 3. could it be possible for 3rd years to help 1st years? or probably not.
i dont think first years need a revision session in term 3, its jus kidney, an it wud be better for them maybe to cover it beforehand in term 2 to help them an they may not say they have time to do it in term 3. but i mean they prob dont need one apart froma session for the end of year, but maybe this can be done in the easter holidays, i kept trying to organise or suggest that my year got together in the easter holidays to help each other an do past papers but not many people really took it up. i think it wouldve been really helpful and useful, and i think it would be really a good idea for the future years.

i know that at some point hayder expressed an interest in running revision sessions for anatomy, im not sure if he still would have time to do this.
i told him i would be interested in helping him, and if i have enough time, i think i would still be interested in running some sessions.
but i think it may look like we are trying to rip their idea, especially if theyre going to be doing it again, even though nadir did the revision sessions regularly i heard in previous years. i think the best time to do these sessions would prob be in second term, when some anatomy wouldve been studied already, and it would help with the gradual learning of anatomy. maybe do another session if needed at the end of the year, but i think something in the middle would probably be best formany reasons including time wise and also trying to cram in too much to the people we are supposed to be trying to be helping.

it would be helpful to do an end of year general revision session for the exams, i know i think i remember feeling that i needed one in the first year with the end of year exams.

wasalam

[mrakhtar]

Salaam..

sorry I havent replied to this post...only discovered it recently..

with regards to what you said shirin,

1. Yeah you're probably right in that a revision session in term 3 is going to be tough for both years, so perhaps have 1 in term 1 and 2 in term 2.....Or just have 3 revision sessions but spread out equally in term 1 and term 2....so maybe have a session in november sometime...and another session after Christmas, and another before Easter..

2. Great Idea about doing anatomy revision sessions...Infact I'm pretty sure we could do a better job than the surg soc if we put our minds to it..Really give the students what they need to know and the best way to learn it etc etc...

3. I know Suleman has got quite a good set of notes for both years, and you should have some of the notes I made through out the year already too...so maybe pester him and I'm sure there are others in your year who have done something similar..what about you and shaarifa? I'm sure you guys have some quality notes too!
I don't mind teaching a topic..am not particularly fussed as to what it is to be honest.. I suggest getting two people atleast to present/lead each session..

[s]

AA,

Below is a rough timetable that Shaffs and I have put together for the pre-clin academic revision sessions for this year.

[glow=red,2,300]YEAR 1[/glow]
Term 1

FHD revision session
> 1-2 weeks before FHD formative
> Teachers: Shaarifa + Shirin

Term 2

Introduction to anatomy
> Within first 2 weeks after term starts
> Teachers: ?? possibly yasmin
> Notes sorted

C&B revision session
> 1-2 weeks before Feb formative
> Teachers: ??
> No notes yet


[glow=red,2,300]YEAR 2[/glow]
Term1

MMB anatomy revision session
> Week before MMB assessment
> Teachers: ?? possibly Ilhan

Pharm revision session (cardio pharm + receptors etc.)
> Last couple of weeks before xmas break
> Teachers: possibly yasmin???
> Notes sorted

Term 2

Neuro revision session
> Within first 2 weeks after term starts
> Teachers: ??
> Notes sorted

Pharm revision session (neuro+endo pharm)
> Sometime before easter
> Teachers: Shaarifa + Shirin
> Notes sorted


Revision type notes are also sorted for year 1 FNM and year 2 psychology which could be given out before the end of year.
But does anyone have any good C&B revision notes??

We have no teachers yet for C&B and Neuro. Any volunteers?? Or for any of the other sessions---doesn’t matter if there are already teachers listed above. Would be good to have a minimum of 2 for each session.

wslm

[Ayeshah]

salaam
There are sum good I andD revision notes that Rashid ame that are birlliant so we should ahve a revision session for that - i dnt mind!
I may have some CnB stuff but i havent looked. It mey good to have a revision session 4for that to...the motes could just be some answers 2 smaple questions.

Also.....i think we should sell tickets for these revision sessions. Therefore we have the money beforehand for notes that we may want to print and it may also be good for the isoc and to help in chairty week.

[Ayeshah]

Also........with regards to the first year revision CD thing......that CD will go round no-matter how hard you try and stop it. Too many people have it and the problem is that too many of the people dnt even knw it is the isoc that produced it. the non-muslims that have it should be aware how helping, charing, caring etc muslims are. I'm not sure how we can tackle this problem

[s]

AA,

Ayeshah let one of us know if you manage to find C&B notes pleasseee

Also about selling tickets and charging for the sessions...bit worried it might put people off from coming to the sessions. I think the max we should charge (if anything) should be for photocopying. If we start adding on top of this it may get a bit too expensive for some students meaning they cant come---and we dont want to exclude anyone. Maybe instead we could just have a charity week bucket at the session and make it a voluntary thing....so if somebody wanted to donate they could but it wouldn't be compulsory for them. Anyway those are just my thoughts.

And you're right about the 1st yr revision CD getting round to absolutely everyone...not sure either how that can be solved

wslm

[Shayan]

AA,

It is true that any revision notes/packs produced by the ISoc are likely to do the rounds amongst the whole year group. One way to at least draw attention to the fact that the ISoc made these is for the CD's (if this is the chosen format) to have the RUMS ISoc name & logo printed on them.

However, since many people will simply be emailed the files from friends with a CD - it would be best that in future all files on CD's & any revision documents/packs are produced in 'pdf' format not word, powerpoint etc. This would allow the ISoc to have our logo & name at the top of each page of the revision notes etc.

Wasalaam,

Shayan

[Ayeshah]

Nah i didnt mean to make it an expensive thing - just lik 50p or soemthing similar for non-members and free for members. That way we knw the number coming in advance and we know how kuch photocopying to do in advance aswell.

[abdulalim]

Salaam All,

Just wanted to find out a few things and run through some ideas on the 3 following academic sessions: I&D for 1st years, Neoroscience for 2nd years, Mock OSCE's for 3rd Years.

I&D revision Session for 1st years
firstly a big thank you to all those who were involved in the revision session for FHD as alhumdulillah we had a turnout of around 40 and quite a lot of them were non muslims. So it would be ideal that we do plan the I&D session well so that the expectation from these 1st years about the academic sessions doesnt drop and the turnout doesnt start to decrease in number, but rather increase iA, and as they have to be members to come or pay £3 entry, it will really increase our membership number iA.
Firstly waht are we going to do for them in the academic session for I&D as its an MCQ exam only, so are we only going to provide them with what was given last year which was a revisions poingts from LAPT that Rashid made or do you think we can do something else for them also? What do people think of producing summarzed revision document on all the 4 casestudeis that they do in the 1st year but this will require a few people joing forces and making it up and not just burdening only some to make it. Another idea is to also have presentations for them about the 4 casestudies, so you have a 1-1.5 hour revision session where you have 15-20 minutes for each casestudy for some one to go through and also answer qestions. but this will require the presenters to be well versed (not sure if thats the right wrod) in their knowledge of the casestudies to be able to answer the enquiring questions from the 1st years. please do post up with your ideas/suggestions/tips regarding this session. I will try to find out the dates for their I&D exams iA to make a suitable date for the event iA.

Neurosciene module for 2nd years
again wanted to find out what peoples ideas are for this session, what was done/given last year? what things can we make/do this year? please do post up with your ideas comments, also if Shirin & Shaarifa have something in plan already this year then please do post up or let me know.

Mock OSCE for 3rd year clinics
I have spoken to a few of you regarding this and the introduction of having academic sessions for the clinical students with the 3rd years as a starting point, also the introduction of having Clinical Academic Reps who will be able to organise such an event. I think its really importtant that we can get something started for the clinical students so that we dont only accomadate for the first 2 years but rather the whole MBBS course where people are getting involved with the ISoc and the ISoc is also catering all of their years. through speaking to Shayan, the idea that has come to light is having a Mock OSCE examination close to the end of year exams for the 3rd years, i think the month he said thaht woul be suitable is July. so what do people think about holding this event? any ideas/suggestions/tips? also are there any other events we can hold for the clinical students that may be beneficial? We do need 2 Reps for the Clinical Academic Sessions, so please do post up or email me on [e-mail].
I will copy this post and post it up on a new thread that i will open up for the cilinical academic sessions iA.

Wassalaam
AbdulAlim

[abdulalim]

Salaam,

I have found out that the first year I&D exam is on the 30th of November, so as today is the 7th of November we need to start deciding what we are going to provide them with so that there is enough time for people to produce it without it being a burden upon them.
Shirin and Shaarifa can u please post up or let me know what u have in plan for this event and what needs to be done so that we can delegate it to people in order to prepare for the event.
I do beleive that just providing them the MCQ revision from LAPT may not seem enough as we wanna fulfil to the aspirations of the freshers may have of us after the FHD session. so please post up ASAP so we can get crackin with this event.

Wassalaam
AbdulAlim