Sunday, March 19, 2006

it is finished!

It is finished! The 6 day third year BDS Professional examinations is finally over........it was another totally different experience........the bulk of the examinations is made up of some stupid component called OSCA and OSCE where we have to go around the wards and examine a patient and diagnose the patient's disease within less than 5 minutes with 2 pairs of eyes staring down at you......the last day we had to do about 10 of such stations and it was like a near death experience......It was really demoralising when the doctors had to prompt you so much and now I finally knew the reason why doctors look down on dentists.....Haha....cos we really looked incomptent.....and to think of all people....I spazzed out at the blood pressure station.....and diagnose a patient with Down's Syndrome when he looked perfectly fine.....Haha.....

Oral Pathology is another fiasco where I had failed 3 tests which they all bear weightage to the finals before the exams and totally messed up the practical exam leaving me with about 60% to fend for myself and it is actually the first time where I really thought I had to scrap through with a pass...

Everything is really crazy and wild......ended the day on saturday....with a splitting headache that lasted till the evening but once I went to church and dwell in the presence of God, everything was swell and to be able to have a connection to God again is a great feeling.....

well everything seems to be nearing a pass for me as of now....keeping my fingers crossed.