Second year studies.

Hey Hi!!

This is how I studied for 2nd year and  simultaneously prepared for PG.
So second year consists of 4 important subjects

Here is list of subjects and their respective textbooks I used:-

-Pharmacology-KD tripathi(Rarely Katunz-But I simply love this book!)

-Microbiology - Ananthnarayan

-FMT-Synopsis Reddy

-Pathology -Robbins & Harshmohan.

So let me tell you how to study every subject
-Remember you need to complete your Mcqs of these subjects in 2nd year itself!
So suppose you are reading pharmacology,

Lesson 1 General pharmacology.Follow these step to study:

Step 1:
Do not open above books.
YES! you read correct.

Step 2:

Initially read from - Explanatory.
Explanatory is a book of MCQs but before giving MCQs they explain the theory part with important points and mnemonics. So just learn those and later go for text book. Trust me it will reduce your time by 30% and increase your efficacy by 50%.

Step 3:
Study textbook and most importantly make notes!

Why to study like this?

-1)Primarily to focus more on MCQs. MCQ is the only section in which examinor cannot cut your marks!

-2)After reading explanatory you have an idea of things which are important and which not,which points to focus and which not.
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-3)Explanatory are updated every year so you will get every important newly invented  drug name and side effects for it.Help you in being updated.

-4)Obviously for PG preparations.

And I can guarantee you if this is how you study each subject in 2nd year you are sure to excel.

Explanatories I used.

Pathology-  Devesh mishra >Garg
Microbiology-  Arora
Pharmacology-  Garg
FMT-  Arora

Good luck:)

Introduction

Hey hello guys!.
My name is ojas gite.I am one of the co-founders of "Stepping stones".
This is just my introduction in few words.
(Actually I don't know what to write in this:P but since many of you want to know about me and to clear some doubts and introduce some new info,I am writing this)
So,I am your immediate senior.This is necessary to tell you because many of you still think that I am way far elder than you.
Currently pursuing MBBS from DUPMC,jalgaon.
My native place is Nasik(❤️).

Now coming to main point.Apart from being stepping stones admin,I also write medical blogs for medicowesome website.Search medicowesome on google and you will get necessary information about it.So recently,I have started broadcast channel where you will get daily atleast one medical blog written by me or our medicowesome authors pannel.I try my best to choose topics which are related to your current year.  Topics which you have missed earlier(of broadcast) I can send you,if you want(It's almost 100-200 blogs till date).Incase if you want to be part of it text me again and please call me "ojas".I personally don't like to be addressed as "sir".Call me ojas,lets not complicate it.

Stay awesome:)

(Don't think I study too much.I do watch GOT and friends series and have completed each of them thrice!.I am normal human being so be free to contact me)

Abdomen study

Hello readers ! Today's blog is about abdomen study , basically today I am gonna tell how you should study for B.D.C 2nd volume .

The very first thing you should know is abdomen study requires lots of visualizations!,If you need to make it easy do following steps and I can guarantee you will score good grades
1)Make sure you give your 100% in dissection .About 40% of relations you can visualize or remember through dissection.Dissection give you a proper exposure to the things which you need to know while studying abdomen.
2)You also need to do most of the organs  so for that make sure you see proper orientation of all organs it's connection with peritoneum/Relation with other organs and most importantly location of the particular organ epigastric area etc .
Make mnemonics for relations .I made mnemonics for studying  those relations which was completely not getting into my head .
3)No need to tell that blood supply,clinical aspects are most important part of your answere make sure you don't mess them up .
4)Daily study 1 organ -
How to study organ ?!
-Draw digrams , visualize what you have dissected !
-Make Sure you know number of borders ,sides and their names!
-Blood supply ,nerve supply diagrams if possible draw separately.
5)And I know you all are in 1st year so you hardly remember what you have dissected(in case if you did:D)so don't worry, there are 6 aclands videos covering entire human anatomy you can refer that ,!They are awesome ! Lengthy but yet totally worth it .

Be happy:)
Keep working hard - _-

~Ojas💝

Physiology

Physio is actually the most interesting subject in 1st year for sure but studying it for exams is really a tedious job !
So how to study ? I will tell you my experience for physiology
Guyton is the best book for physiology
But the only problem with guyton is it's style and language and you may not be able to write your papers with it ,but trust me you will definitely not find any better book than guyton for physiology during your graduation .
So I would suggest you to use
Guyton+V.D. joshi/BJ notes.

V.D. joshi is just a question -answere format of guyton ,i choose bj notes over V.D. joshi.
Important chapters  like GIT , Reproduction and CVS must be done from guyton ,I personally made my own  answere by combining guyton and bj notes ,but trust me it's really tedious job and time consuming !
Exclusively for CNS i won't suggest you to use guyton ,content is directly of PG level and it will be hard for you guys to digest it in 1st year itself  .
So use books like A.K.Jain or directly go for answers from V.D. joshi or BJ notes but that won't be worthy ,I used sembulingham for some topics of CNS and then used bj notes to understand them in detail!

Physiology is worth reading but it's more important to revise it  from time to time just like for other two subjects !
Daily reading of physiology is must !
Good luck !

~Ojas

Anatomy paper

Hello readers ,today I am gonna tell you how to write anatomy paper for 1st year MBBS , Recently many students have requested me to tell them how to write anatomy paper so here are some tips
First ,of all the important thing which matters during anatomy or any other paper is speed,if you are repeater please write atleast one answere daily to improve your speed as you know ,before getting admission in medical college we hardly wrote anything except MCQs marking !
So how to write paper ?!
1)Your paper will be divided into 3 parts MCQs ,SAQs and LAQs  ,you have to complete entire paper in 2.5hrs, out of which half hour will be dedicated completely to MCQs ,so remaining 2 hrs will be left for SAQs and LAQs!
2)An ideal SAQ should contain maximum number of diagrams ! You have to write SAQ about 2.5 pages or 3 pages but make sure ,"Draw more ,write less".It's like more you draw -more marks you get !.
3)Complete all your SAQs in 1 hr itself ! If you can't finish it in 1 hr ,you will mess up with LAQs ! And in case you can't finish it in 1 hr ,it's fine move on to LAQs ,finish those and if you have time come back and write SAQs
4) Again an ideal LAQ should contain maximum diagrams , normally there are subquestions in LAQ which may include histology or embryology questions !,whereas in histology- diagram is must and for embryology if you know well you can go for diagram .!(I know you all  haven't  yet started with histo or embryo  !)
5) Sometimes in SAQs and LAQs ,examiner also ask Clinical anatomy or clinical importance,well you have to write there .But in case if examiner didn't mention about clinical importance/anatomy - WRITE IT! This will surely fetch you maximum marks !.
6)Now most important thing,
"Never ever leave your paper blank".
You must be knowing something about topic ,write that but don't leave paper blank ! Write something, anything, Related to topic!
This is medical ,1/2 marks or 1 mark is always better than zero ,this may save your entire year guys!
7)Talking about diagrams, so,you can use color pencil directly(Except histology)or if you are not confident draw with normal pencils or else after finishing paper you can just give a colorful pencil drawn over normal pencil  ,but probability of doing this stunt is almost null!.(I did this once and was successful though )

Comments are welcome :)
Critics will improve me and admirers will inspire me !

~Ojas