The transition from Phase I to Phase II is essentially from theory based to clinical practice based medicine. which means that the majority if not all the focus will be on the practical information and how you can, as a health care professional, help someone when they need you.
During Phase I, we have been dealing with diseases separately from the cause of the disease to the different aspects of the disease that can generally manifest in patients. This idea is Fundamentally reversed as we pass to Phase II, which means now we will see a patient first, we will deal with the clinical features that manifest in each individual patients and we will go step by step to have a list of differential diagnosis for the patient until eventually we definitively diagnose the cause of those clinical features. This process is called Clinical Approach and it is the life saving method of doing medicine.
As always, there is a chaos to cover, so the first step of starting something is to know WHY you are starting it in the first place. The purpose of continuing on this long journey has to be sooo strong that it inspires you to wake up everyday fulfilled by doing this job.
It is always worth that you use your own way of studying that makes you enjoy the process. one of the great things to incorporate into your studying is the use of mnemonics because there is a lot of memorization, as an example is knowing one special feature of a disease like moon shaped face of cushing's disease. This will direct you towards the right diagnosis much sooner as there could be long cases and thus you would need to narrow down your differentials diagnoses efficiently.
Active recall is also one of the great methods of learning, you can apply this by using practice questions which are case based questions and Qbanks are very useful in such case.
We will have 4 blocks in this year: Musculoskeletal, Gastrointestinal, Cardio-Respiratory and finally EndoRenal blocks in addition to a student selected component module.
So here is how it works: Students are going to be divided into 4 major groups and each group will take one block until it finishes, then there will be a shift that each group will move on to take the next block until all groups take all blocks by the end of the year (just like CSFC module).
Each block consists of 7 weeks, the first 2 weeks (which are 10 days of lectures) are going to be entirely theory lectures, and we will take all the theory in these 2 weeks sequentially. Then the remaining 5 weeks will be practical sessions in hospital in which we will apply our theory knowledge in real life on patients. Try to finish as many theory lectures as you can before practical weeks although it is almost impossible to finish them. If you can finish 60-70% of lectures within the theory weeks then it is very easy to manage the rest within those 5 weeks of practical coirse without affecting it.
This block is the hardest one according to most students because there is just a lot to cover. There is so much memorization and classifications as the approaches are entirely different for things that are very similar like a proximal vs. distal fracture of radius or transverse vs. oblique fractures. So the advise here is to give more time and effort into this block and try to make comparison tables that can make it clearer and easier to study.
This is the second hardest block after MSK, as it also has a lot of variations, Medicine & Surgical lectures and information in addition to many imaging lectures, so the important thing again here is putting more time and effort in order to be on top of your days. Mostly your lectures will be enough as they have enough information for you.
This block is almost evenly divided between cardiovascular and respiratory modules and how they can be integrated. It is mainly and mostly understanding instead of memorizing so you've got to make sure to understand it really well through your own way and resources.
This is the easiest block and most likely doesn’t need resources. It is divided between Endocrinology and Nephrology (AKI, CKD & Glomerulonephritis…), there are no Urology lectures. The important thing here is to visualize each disease in the context of its patient because they are really specific and easy to distinguish like Cushing syndrome, Acromegaly….