You haven’t completed FIRST YEAR M.B.B.S. You have completed your First year in M. B. B. S. Why I state it this way is because completing requires an complete and thorough sense of all the 3 subjects which is not humanly possible within the actual span of 10 months given to us.
You have written an exam which allows you to face the next set of basic preclinical subjects.
To me, medicine is a continuously evolving knowledge trove. Hence being in constant touch with all the subjects is the best way to go about it.
Best ways to prepare for postgraduate examinations and forthcoming year :
- Now go back to the anatomy of heart, learn the conducting system, the various types of fibres etc.
- Pick a standard text. Eg. Physiology = Ganong, re-read the concepts. I repeat, the concepts. Say, how to correlate the cardiac cycle with ecg changes.
- Next, pick up an online pdf version of Robbins and Cotrans pathological basis of disease 9th edition. Go to the cardiovascular systems. Again Learn the concepts of arrhythmias and how they make changes in ecg. Learn about the implications of these in any other pathology of the heart eg myocardial infarction etc.
- Now go to the biochemistry aspect of the enzymes found specifically in the heart eg. Atrial natriuteric peptide. Learn it’s implications in the arrhythmias of the heart and which enzymes go up or down during which phase of a myocardial infarction.
- Finally for the treatment, come to the pharmacological aspect of anti arrhythmic drugs.