So now I was a final year student very happy to believe that finally only one year left but it was like the biggest mountain to climb coz ours was the first batch in rajiv Gandhi university of health sciences to change this pattern of having two semesters of six months with 4 subjects every semester but now v had 7 subjects at a stretch without a single break during theory exams which means 7 sleepless nights with huge books to revise a day before the exam…… the thought of appearing for 7 days a stretch sent shivers down my spine….. Anyways now started departments…Oral medicine was fun… First department went in discussions and taking case histories and learning to take radiographs… then came perio—which means scaling(cleaning) dirty possible teeth on this earth, full of calculus stains that too not possible to clean with hand instruments but had no choice… we had to finish 25 patients as quota..But then it wasn’t simple coz of discussions and every case v had to take case history discuss with HOD then once given a discussion to their satisfaction v could actually start the case which again took 2 days…which means every patient was taking 3 days minimum so in a month v had to finish 25 cases which is too much… but then v had culturals and other annual functions so somehow v escaped the grill comparatively which was more for our previous batch but we managed to complete 24 cases. Oh I forgot to tell you what the we comprises of…we means clinical batchmates – myself, aisha, Deepak and amitoj.
Now came conservative and Endodontics… again we were supposed to do 15 class II …10 class I…5 IPC’s…5 GIC’s…and composite..all these r cavity cutting types…Out of which v somehow finished class I’s in 3rd year..and now class II’s mattered because the dean we had then, was a conservative and endodontics HOD and was very very strict..she fined every case that wasn’t completed or the quota that was not over.. she fined every damn possible thing… attendance shortage fine!!! Quota not over fine…!!!
For sometime she was also warden…so booking tickets without her permission also lead to FINE!! Which was in thousands…So to actually get rid of fine we had to slog.. we toiled , searched patients in every nook n corner of chitradurga…moreover she also ended up in many casualities due to incomplete quota which meant repetition of a subject after 6 months which we were not ready for, come what may!!!
4 Of us used to go in search of patients in the evening after college hours and returned back only after hostel in timings.. we used to be dead tired.. so tired that v could not even sit for a minute..v used to come keep our bags and straight hit the bed for a while…with great efforts v used to go down till the mess cribbing to have dinner…come back lie down again… final year taught us to take worst possible conditions… we had 21 internals in 10 months… everytime they announced an internal v slogged 2 days before it..and the only possible time to study was after dinner or between the sleeps in the night because there was no stamina left after searching patients to sit with the book and understand the crux of the matter…we rested till 10 and after ten v used to study for next day discussion…I used to push myself thinking “I have to move on… Nothing comes easy” but we ended finishing 15 cases for classII …I think I can handle things much better with pressures hovering on my head after facing conditions in final year… Now came prostho department postings we were supposed to complete 3 complete denture cases… so we slogged one month and finished just that… Then came pedo postings … by this time we became resistant to work we didn’t feel like working at all…we used to go to department attend postings give discussions but not go out to take a single case… this continued for a week our staff got mad and came to us and shouted that you guys are not interested to work…?? Wat is wrong with this batch?? And we were like
“ leave it ya… v need some rest” after that v used to go on search of patients and come back at 12:00 without any patient and v used to get really screwed by our professors or was it the other way round as they started thinking that our batch was worst not ready to take up cases… probably not knowing that v were the only batch finishing all the cases quota on time till now in all other postings… we were told to do extra cases for the delay and we did that too by the end of postings,, our batch did new cases like topical fluoride application… again we finished more than 25 cases around 35. Now came ortho department… worst of all spending time in ortho department was biggest deal… sitting continuously for 4 hours without a break with pliers and wires trying to make clasps, springs, bows, retractors, appliances was very very dry and boring… v were several times thrown out as usual outstanding students…. With wire bending exercises to b done standing out of department but by this time v had become so shameless that it was like very unusual if v were not thrown out for some reason v used to start feeling uncomfortable and made it sure that v were thrown out someday and like this atleast it was easy spending sometime in ortho department… anyways again somehow I finished the quota… ortho was my last department I still remember …due to final internal assessment v could not complete postings and v were seriously not at fault and could not complete our quota so v had been screwed even more… 1 week before theory final university exams I was completing my ortho quota…amazing isn’t it??
Only department which I loved in entire final year or which was actual learning or really interesting and fun as work to me was oral and maxillofacial surgery… we were supposed to do 25 cases and v all ended up doing around 40-42 cases… I loved doing extractions.. and assisting impactions… I loved oral surgery.. till date I just love it. Our third internals theory marks were announced and I did really bad in perio… guess what was I doing 5 days before final theory exam papers??? I was writing 3rd internal assessment question answers 5 times….to submit or else I would not get my hall ticket… how does it sound? Psycho ? isn’t it? Yes I was making charts and writing theory impositions 5 days before university exams this was because ours was the first batch for 7 subjects together and college didn’t know how to handle students… our internal assessment marks were given like 13/25 as if they were doing some great philanthropy on students or some kind of charity that 13/25 was given… where else other colleges minimum marks sent are around 17-18 which ensures that atleast passing would be not much trouble… but with 13marks I used to sleep with books, wake up with books with a thud on my mind that I am gone, I flunked in prostho and ortho…I used to get nightmares that I am gone…I used to struggle with books on my bed ,sleep with books, wake up with them… sometimes I used to sleep with my specs on me and books opened on my bed.. sometimes I used to sleep with that posture ,sitting on my bed with books open and my roomie used to wake me up… I usually slept just 3 hours in the night…
Somehow I and my friend v pushed each other few days before exam and used to read those books with a thought of passing somehow…soon exams approached.. I just know that all 7 nights I was wide awake with so many books on my bed with my friend trying to read till the last second of exam… I somehow attempted all papers… oh my god those times… I still get feeling of an exam tomorrow and trying to read something one night before… my god those night outs… those acidity feelings due to sleepless nights… to top it up those extreme cold conditions with rains…made sure v all had a tough time… I still remember those pictures in my mind… all girls with books ,some roaming in the corridors, some in the mess some outside…some in rooms.. with scarves and socks.. with a cuppa tea or coffee to keep ourselves awake.. with crazy tension lines on foreheads…all immersed in reading some part of the book… we used to have those breaks wherein we used to peep in each others room or run into each other to push each other by saying how is it going? I read this and this.. what did u read? I don’t know what I read… I really don’t understand what I wrote in papers.. last paper was 7th and was completely exhausted 6 sleepless nights and perio paper.. to make it worse the paper was very tough.. I looked at the paper for first ten minutes… I was just staring at the paper don’t know what to write? Or where to start from? Somehow wrote something… just wanted to get done with theory papers…now when I look back I still feel its impossible to crack final year with condition like ours but god’s been kind to me that somehow I managed to clear 7 at a stretch.. I scored good marks in theory in prostho, ortho and surgery. The ones where I was so scared coz of less internal marks…Final year is the toughest cake to crack….i sometimes look at the books lying on my shelves and my mind is hit with a series of questions like…….how did I clear final year? Can I read them again, given the same circumstances?...i still wonder……how I read those HUGE TOUGH DRY Books !! And since my final year I have seen my interests for reading go low…..not just the books reading anything for that matter….novels, books, newspapers, magazines…can’t sit with them for long hours anymore ;-) lolz…..
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