Long walk to.... freedom! Part Two: Hitting the books.

Getting admission into a medical school can prove to be a great launching pad but only if you take full advantage of it. Whether you were a straight-A’s student or someone who slid through High School with minimal effort (and marginal results), medical school is a new platform to start from- a new opportunity to show you’ve got what it takes to be successful.

    But nothing in the world can prepare you for that dreaded encounter with the Dissection hall. It’s here, in the dimly lit hall, which reeks with the pungent smell of formalin that the dry, boring facts of Anatomy come to life. A few weeks in the Dissection Hall and you become emotionally immune to the dreary surrounding. Among rows of dead bodies draped in cotton swabs drenched in formalin, students watch as the mysteries of the whole miracle of creation unfold under their scalpels and forceps.Surgeons are said to be born here.

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What medical students owe to dissection halls for the study of Anatomy, they owe it to frogs and rabbits for the study of Physiology. ‘Stunning’ and ‘Pithing’ are just technical names for knocking them unconscious and bashing out their brains. Lying in glass troughs with their chests opened up and their hearts suspended in mid-air, they present a pitiable sight. A lever assembly converts the feeble contractions of their hearts into oscillations of the pen, which transfers them onto graph papers so that medical students can use these cardiogram recordings to study the functioning of the heart and the minute details of heart blocks.

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To top it all off, med students are burdened with volatile subjects like Biochemistry and pharmacology. Doing biochemical tests on urine samples is disgusting as it is, but what really puts the drain on the mental faculty are all those biological cycles of all the metabolic fates of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in the human body. Its one helluva job memorizing them and another recalling them in the examination hall. Besides you forget them all after the Professional examinations.




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The hardest part of this saga are indeed the professional exams, which hang like a sword over the heads of students all through there student life. The whole administration seems out to get you. You have to be mentally tough to take the pressure of it all. But once you are through, you feel you can take on anything in life.

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