RACDS primary exam notes

So I'm halfway through the orientation course. So far the first few topics Cell biology and pathology have been fairly dry but fear not, it does improve! They're boring but I suppose that's because I had covered such topics in university albeit a long time ago. The particular lecturers do have a droning voice and a tendency to read off the slides but I found the topics interesting anyway. It's quite remarkable how the inner workings of the body don't breakdown more often. I do remember thinking that same thing as I learned this stuff the first time around. I thought Mark Schifter's lectures were fantastic and he's a very knowledgeable and interesting speaker. He did deserve more time to go through his content though. Microbiology was pretty much the same stuff that I encountered in university but delivered much more enthusiastically and more in depth by Laurie Walsh than he did at university. I am looking forward to further lectures on Micro, Histo and A...

The seven broad topics of the RACDS are: Anatomy, Cell biology and biochemistry, Histology, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology. To consider how to study through these I reckon it is best to start small and work bigger. More macro topics such as anatomy and physiology require knowledge of building blocks such as cell biology and microbiology. In my opinion, work through the topics as follows: 1. Cell biology and biochemistry 2. Microbiology 3. Histology 4. Physiology 5. Pathology 6. Pharmacology 7. Anatomy Once you have gone through the initial set of notes, revise your way through at your leisure. Will keep you updated if my thoughts change.

So I've been working on Dental Tidbits for a while and I'm entering a different stage in my career. I've signed up for the RACDS primary orientation course this year and I've just received a copy of the lecture notes. To be honest a lot of it looks like uni stuff (which i've long forgotten) but there is a fair amount of content to churn through. I do get the sense that supplemental texts will be very important to consolidate and extend knowledge from the lecture notes and I'm not sure how i'm going to manage to get my hands on them. I'm actually quite proud of the fact that I bought no textbooks over the course of my 5 year degree. I know that there will be copies of the text books in the ADA NSW library but this is a fair inconvenience to travel interstate for this. There may be some "non legal" copies on line that I may have to access or maybe some copies in the medical university libraries in Brisbane which is also a bit of a trek. Anywa...