Saturday 25 June 2016

Induction Week

The first year at Warwick is split into five blocks each five weeks long. However this all kicks off with an induction week. This is pretty much a meet and greet where you have a number of welcoming lectures explaining what will happen during the year etc.

This week also starts with a number of lectures that are largely introductory to ‘science’ lectures for those without science backgrounds; including things like DNA, proteins and simple pharmacology. The idea of these is to get everyone up to the same level of these things given that Warwick also except non-science graduates.

Coming from a science background, and having studied both biology and chemistry at A-level, I found some of these lectures OK (and a little boring in places). However, some of the non-science graduates, understandably, found this quite difficult. The pace that things are delivered is quite fast which, I imagine, would be hard to grasp at any meaningful level of you have never studied any of this before. Before the course starts everyone is sent some optional pre-reading material that includes relatively simple chemistry and biology, which, if you have time I would strongly recommend going through if you don't come from a science background.

I don't want to scare any non-scientists potentially reading this, it is hard but it just means that in the first few weeks you'll probably need to put in more effort than the 'scientists' in the cohort. This does ease up and everyone comes to the same level and after Christmas it's quite difficult to tell those who have studied science subjects to those who haven't.

There is some more medical material covered during this week including lectures of the physiology of diabetes and the thyroid gland. This includes symptoms of disorders, for instance, hyper and hypothyroidism and type 1 diabetes mellitus. All material covered is potentially examinable, a few example questions you should be able to answer following his would be:

1. Which cells release thyroid hormone?
2. What is the mechanism of insulin release from pancreatic beta cells?
3. Give three symptoms of hypothyroidism.

The Friday of this week is the first day at the hospital. Every Friday during the year we were based at UHCW covering both anatomy, via the plastinated specimens in the surgical training centre, and clinical skills teaching. The day typically starts with a lecture at 8 am so you'll be getting up early!

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