Professor Wilkinson Lecture

UQMS has announced a special lecture by Professor David Wilkinson on his personal experiences. Lecture hall in Hawken at 1 pm on Friday, May 15. Details are on the UQMS post.

Post-lecture comments can be posted below.

Access Old Exams via the MBBS Portal Maze

Hey all,

I was thinking about how annoying it may be to navigate through the MBBS Portal to find old exams. Here’s how it’s done:

1. Log in to Portal (If you don’t know how to do this, please see someone. Seriously.).
2. “MBBS Students”
3. “Year 1 – Foundations of Medical Practice”
4. *left-hand menu* “General Resources”
5. “Past Examination Papers”
6. It’s a lot of excess clicking to get all of the individual files. Check the post on how to do it while saving your digital musculature.

Defeat Arthritis!

…by saving unnecessary clicking on individual links to download old exams! For those liberated from the evil clutches of IE (I don’t care what they say about IE8) and use Firefox, there’s a handy extension called DownloadThemAll! that will help you combat long-term muscle wasting.

If you can’t be bothered to acquire and use this tool, bring a USB key to class and find me in the front row far left and I’ll hook you up.

Teamwork in Action Absentee List

A spreadsheet version of the list of those who are required to complete the provisional assignment for Teamwork in Action Day is now available.

Click here to access it. Post technical issues in the comments.

If it was unclear, you can access the assignment by logging into Blackboard. If you are required to do it, there should be a link below the MEDI1000 link in the My Courses section upon logging in.

Exams

Question: Students have asked me whether the exam would be made harder along with the increase in percent needed toget a 7.

Dr. Kippers’ Response:

Although the grade needed to get a 7 has been raised, the overall level of the exam should not change (If it does it would be unintentional)