Over the past week or so, the midyear exam times have been released for Melbourne's first year MD students. Since the structure of the MD first year uses year long subjects rather than semester long subjects for FBS and PCP1, the midyear exams are not worth very much, but are still worth something.
There is a two hour test/exam for FBS, worth 10% of FBS (FBS is worth 81.25% of this year's credit points; or 86.67% of this year disregarding the pass/fail student conference). Half of it will be assessing pracs and half will be assessing the lecture content of the blocks since the last test in FBS. There will be 15 minutes of reading time beforehand.
There is an OSCE for PCP1, worth 20% of PCP1 (PCP1 is worth 12.5% of first year; or 13.33% of this year disregarding the pass/fail student conference). There will be two stations: one history taking session, and one clinical examination session. Both stations are 7 minutes in length and have 1 minute of reading time.
For the OSCE, I was allocated to the morning 8.00 am group. This means that I'll have to get up earlier than usual. We do have some 8.00 am starts for medicine though, so I am somewhat used to it. I'll have to get used to it sooner or later before starting internship of course.
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