Reflection on 18-7-2011

Yammie Lam (4S)
Today is the start of our new course. In the morning we packed our luggage and said goodbye to our lovely south side hall where we have stayed for 2 weeks. After breakfast, we went to the lecture hall to meet our new academic mentor, Boncica. Then we were told that our course was not medical science but medical impulse. Although it is not what we expected to be, we still found it fun. But still, we wanted to have some surgery practice. After the brief introduction, we visited the Charing Cross Hospital. We saw many models of organs and were given a detail explanation on them. We found it very useful because we could know more about different diseases and the effect of bad living habits have on our bodies. Also we had a talk given by a doctor which was about how we could enter the Medicine School of Imperial College. We have known more about it and found it very useful for our future academic path.

Cynthia Wong (4S)

Today was the first day of the stem world summer school. There were only eight of us staying for the next two weeks course. Four of us were in the medical science course and four forensic science. As we were in different groups, we could have a chance to meet people from foreign countries.
I attended the medical impulse program with Yammie and Patsy. Today, we have been to the Charing Cross Hospital which was one of the hospitals under Imperial College London. There was a museum on pathology, where there were a lot of dead organs displayed with various diseases, such as, cancers and diabetes. Many of the organs looked really scary and horrible, and therefore this was just like a signal to tell us not to have cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and have a balance diet with more vegetables than meat with fats in order to have a healthier body.

After visiting the museum in the hospital, we had an introduction lecture about the subject Medicine. The talk included the criteria to study Medicine in most of the universities as well as in Imperial College. The talk provided us with much information on studying Medicine. We could now surely understand what we would need to achieve in order to study Medicine.