My last oral exam

It may be a little weird why I keep writing in this blog about daily events that occur in my life. But I have a problem in expressing my feeling and writing is a good way to express them. A good example is when my cat died, I loved that cat a lot, but it seemed that I never been even a little upset, till I decided to write my blog " A tale of a pasha ". I actually was crying when I was writing the draft of that blog. Also it seems that I can't talk to anyone honestly without being criticized specially my father so I find that it is a good way to talk honestly and freely in here.

Anyway, about my last Oral exam, it was yesterday, Tuesday the 31 st of March. The exam had three parts, first was the slide show identification, then spot diagnosis of clinical cases and eliciting signs, then oral exam.

I did very well in the first part as I have a photogenic memory, I don't need anytime to figure out what the slide was about.

I did well too in the spot diagnosis exam and answered the questions too.

Then it came to the eliciting signs stations, the first one I didn't know how to assess muscle balance, which happened to be the corneal light reflex which I knew very well. The second one was the pupillary light reflex which I knew very well and did it very well too, BUT, seems that I didn't understand the swinging procedure, I thought that i notice the consensual light reflex in the opposite eye when the light in one eye, but it appeared that I had to look in the same eye again after the swinging motion to notice if there is a mydriatic reaction as a sign of relative afferent pupillary defect, anyway, it is relatively good till here.

Then comes the Oral exam, I am sitting to two professors, one is Dr. Mohamed Fakhry, he lectured us once before and I couldn't recognize the other one. Honestly Dr. Mohamed was very nice and cool with me. I answered at first very well to his questions, then it came to the eye lid and the optic disk questions, when I started to be quiet. The other Dr. said that it was important things. My reply was "honestly I didn't find time to revise them". Actually it wasn't the problem of revision, most of my answers I remembered them from the lecturs, we had the whole eye lid disease and anatomy lectured in only one session by Dr. Rania, very inefficient and a waste of time type lecture, we got out without any basis about the eye lid. Also the optic disc was supposed to be lectured in two lectures but it was lectured in only one as a sudden holiday appeared on occasion of freeing Taba. Both subjects were totally left over. Anyway I am going to study them right after I finish this blog isA.

What was striking is how much tired I was studying the last four days, I used to wake up early and have a nap at noon, other than that all my time was studying when 6 o'clock came I hardly can move a limb, so tired physically from studying, not to mention mentally too. I studied too much and I started with Glaucoma, then the lens then the cornea etc etc till I ran out of time and didnt' revise the things that weren't lectured properly.

Here I learn a good listen, right at that time I have already studied glaucoma and the lens very well, I could have left them for the end to check quickly and save their time to study the lid and the optic disk. Next time isA I will start with the subjects I am weakest at and finish with the subjects I am good at.

Although I know that I probably won't get more than 30 out of the 50 marks of that end round exam, but I know that me getting all that tired and have all those mistakes won't be gone to waste, It sure would be of a benefit to me later isA and may be in the final exam I will answer better and not sit quiet.

At last I am thankful I wasn't examed by either Dr. Mohamed El Basty or Dr. Mohamed Abd EL Mabood, not because of the grades they would give me, but because It was going to be so shameful sitting infront of them not knowing to answer their questions, they are my role models anyway, hope I can do better in the coming one isA.