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Hi! YL2 here. Saan po nakakahanap/nakakabili ng baby versions ng mother books? Specifically looking for baby Katzung for pharmacology since puro mother books lang nakikita ko sa Carousell and online pdfs :'))

Thanks!

Note: Posting on behalf of my partner who wrote this.

"To give context, I'm a guy. I work in an office sa One Ayala and this situation has been going on for several weeks, probably a month. I wanted to bring this up because 1.) I think I've exhausted all options and 2.) I want to know if anyone has seen or experienced this at One Ayala specifically.

This started happening to me at the 3rd floor bathroom and mostly in the early morning, before the mall officially opens at 11am, since my work starts at regular work hours pa.

First encounter was before I went into our office, I decided to wash up in the bathroom since I was sweaty from the commute. After peeing, I washed my hands and face, and that's when I noticed that one of the closed stalls was slightly open, and two eyes were peeping out. I only saw him for a bit but I got freaked out kasi the bathroom was still not fully lit up, and I couldn't see his face. I took my bag and just walked straight to my office. I was really rattled but I shook it off because I didn't want to think hard about it.

But I encountered him a second time, in the same bathroom. If familiar po kayo sa layout ng One Ayala bathroom, usually mahaba siya, but the one in the 3rd floor you can clearly see who's who from one end to the next. The stall he stayed in before was the same I saw him in again and in the next encounters. It's always the farthest stall, facing the mirror and washing area. I can see why he always uses it kasi it's the stall that allows you as much view of the bathroom as possible, and he always locks it until someone (i.e. me) comes in.

For the second encounter, I saw the door that stall was closed, and he only started opening it slightly once I started peeing. It really bothered me but I also just needed to work, so I just washed up with my eyes watching his corner. He never moves or speaks Kasi and he just peeked out.

On the third and next encounters, he does the same thing. He never spoke or fully showed his face or even came out of the door. I felt really troubled about it so I even brought him up to my officemates and they all felt it was creepy nga, but only one of them ever saw him and it was just once daw. Ako palang ang may multiple sights sa kanya.

For the redditors dito, i've seen him a total of 5 times na ata. I use that bathroom kasi wala kaming in-office bathroom. Yes, i've used other floor bathrooms and so far wala siya dun. My in-office days are hybrid so I don't know if he's always there. From the 3rd encounter onward, I've tried to confront him and even asked him if may kailangan ba siya or takot ba siya. Pero di talaga sumasagot. He doesn't even try to nudge the door further open. I've even taken tissue to the stall next to him but he doesn't do anything. I've also brought him up sa mga janitor or security, pero they don't seem to believe me kasi the times I try to report when they're around, wala siya sa banyo.

Has anyone else seen him? Or experienced this sa One Ayala? What do you recommend I do, or is this a non-issue pala? A part of me wants to give the benefit of the doubt na he might have a mental / social issue, baka he needs the bathroom to be completely vacant before he can leave or something, and if so I don't want him to be ostracized. But it creeps me out talaga kasi he keeps the door closed until I urinate, which is when he starts to peek out more.

TLDR: guy in one ayala bathroom always peeks out when I urinate, tried every possible action I can think of, but nothing happens. Has anyone else seen him/experienced this? What do you recommend I do, or non-issue ba toh?"

Hello! Grades have been out for a few days now, and I'm happy to be promoted to YL2 with good grades (GWA around the 1s) :')) I want to share some tips for getting through YL1 for incoming UERM med freshies, like how I wish someone did for me when I started the SY hahaha.

For incoming UERM YL3 or upper years, I'd appreciate it if you share some tips too :')

A little about me: Very non-trad course, anti-GenAI, non-Anki user

Here are my UERM YL1 tips:

GENERAL

• Get enough sleep. Sufficient sleep helps with memory consolidation and overall better functioning and stress management (you'll actually learn this in physiology). Figure out the range of sleep hours you need to function optimally (not the bare minimum) and respect those hours. For me, I actually need 6 to 8.5hrs of sleep, but most of the time I averaged around 7 hours. For really busy days (usually onsite days), I would get 5-6 hours of sleep but I would immediately bawi the sleep debt through naps.
• Know what kind of learner you are and really use it to your advantage. There's different kinds (e.g., visual, logical, auditory, kinesthetic) and usually may quizzes online to help you find out. Learn this about yourself and actually apply it through the kind active recall and sources that you use. For example, if you're a visual learner like me, I mostly used atlases and PPT slides to review my knowledge throughout the year, then I would view YT vids as supplementary material.
• Don't use AI. This one is very biased advice because I am passionately against GenAI hahaha. But this advice comes from a POV that believes na using AI can actually take away essential processing skills in learning. AI usually gives you the solution already, even with its step-by-step answer. It takes away the natural processing of your brain. Instead of you figuring out 2+3=5 and how changing the arrangement will still give you the right answer, you just end up learning the "script" of how you got the right answer, without really knowing the why and the how.
• Take self-care seriously. Back in college, I used to really grind and grit. I saw self-care as a weak choice. Funnily enough, sa med ko pa talaga natutunan mag self-care, kung kailan mas mahirap na hahaha. But seriously, self-care rejuvenates the mind and the soul and staves off burnout. Repeat after me: Resting is productive.
• Have a life outside of medicine. Same reasoning as above. Medicine is a calling and a vocation. It is not meant to be your identity, so don't act as if yan lang buhay mo.
• Establish a downtime and respect it. Your downtime is your cut-off time for studying. Meaning, by this time, you will not study anymore. Clock-out ka na. Establishing a downtime helps establish med-life boundaries and disciplines you to not forget the essentials (e.g., sleep). For me, this time was 11 PM. Kapag 11PM na, kahit di pa ko tapos mag aral, tigil na. Let go and let God.
• Read the books. Think of knowledge as food for nourishment. Lectures and transes are already processed food, chewed and spat out for your easier consumption. Will you get the same "nutrients"? Probably not. Reading the books will help your knowledge longterm. You get to master the why's and the how's. You learn how to properly process knowledge.
• Use the samplex wisely. Don't over rely on the samplex. Best way to use the samplex is to assess what kinds of questions are being asked and how the answers are being rationalized. This will help guide your studying. Pre-exam, samplexes help you get into that examination mindset.
• Give LE1 your 100%. LE1 will be your setpoint for the whole school year. It will determine your pace and effort in the coming LEs. Bumabawi ka ba or can you slowly let loose? Buelo ka agad sa LE1 para 'di na kailangan bumawi in the coming LEs.
• Be creative with your other sources of learning. Personally, here were my favorite YT channels (mostly for the majors): Ninja Nerd, Anatomy Zone, The Noted Anatomist, Amoeba Sisters, About Medicine, Crash Course.
• Use the manuals as a guide to see what's important to the respective departments. The major departments will distribute lab manuals for you to answer throughout the LE periods. Aside from completing this, use these lab manuals to assess what bits of knowledge are high yield for each department.
• Focus on yourself. Med school brings in together a lot of great, stupid, brilliant, and lazy people. Stupid and lazy people will pass. Great people will fail. It's important that you always focus on yourself and what works for you. Comparison is the thief of joy. What hardens the egg softens the potato.

ANATOMY

• Always study with an atlas. Whether or not you're a visual learner, always keep an atlas with you during lecture or ISP. Favorite ng lahat: Netters. Most professors also use Junquiera (Histology) and Gray's (Gross) as scripts for their lectures.
• Find out if you're weaker at theoretical vs practical. Anatomy exams are split into theoretical/written exams and practical exams. Find out ASAP if you're weaker at remembering the theoretical knowledge or identifying gross/histo structures. Anatomy is the heaviest subject (imo), so wherever you are weaker in, focus on that more and give that more time during your ISP.
• Use memory aids like mnemonics, hand gestures, etc. Anatomy will really make you come up with so much delulu memory aids hahaha Have fun with this! There's also lots online.
• Draw the structures if it helps. In my opinion, this comes in very handy for almost everything, but lalo na for cardio, GIT, neuro, MSK, and all the blood supplies and innervations.
• Integrate with physiology. Anatomy and physiology go hand in hand. You can't understand one without the other. Certain structures make sense when you know the physiology (and even embryology) behind them. Constantly integrating the two will help you balance these two majors, grade- and exam-wise.

PHYSIOLOGY

• Master the physiology basics. Your first module will tackle these topics (e.g., cellular transport, excitation-contraction coupling, action potentials, etc.). Master them! You'll constantly be applying these basics in the following physio lessons. Not understanding them inside-out will give you a harder time catching up with the concepts.
• Read/Skim the books/references used. Re-emphasizing this tip for physiology because physio is very book-based. A lot of professors love using Ganong (but I hate it lol), but personally I love using Guyton because the writing is "shorter" and has headings that are skimmable. Pag kulang sa oras, just skim and know the Chapter Summary by heart hahaha.
• Observe the lessons in your own body. Application is the best way to learn and keep the lessons in your longterm memory. Think of your lessons within yourself as you go about your day (e.g., when you're exercising and eating).
• Know the inside-outs of your SGD cases. Physio will assign SGD cases that require you to work in a group. You can't control your groupmates' performance, but you can control yours. Don't rely on your groupmates to know everything (or even anything at all, lol). Make sure to properly study. Again, no AI. Process the knowledge properly. Don't rely on spoonfed info.
• Make an effort to actually learn during your experiments. Experiments can be stressful due to the short amount of time given to them, added to you not knowing what results are expected. But try to learn why this experiment is being done. View it from the perspective of a professor: What is the learning objective here?

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Organize the pathways. Expect it already: the pathways will overwhelm you. But no, you don't have to memorize all the steps. But also yes, you have to know them by heart. Organize them the best way for you to remember all the characters involved (i.e., enzymes, processes, end products). You can list them down, take note, put them in a table, make a mnemonic, etc. Looking back, learning all the pathways was like watching Marvel movies one by one and not knowing all the characters and their lore, but at one point, when they're all together in one room--Avengers End Game na--it all finally makes sense. All this coming from a non-trad/non-sci course grad hahaha.
• Approach your learning like an iceberg: Go from shallow to deep. See the big picture then go through the small steps. Again, the biochem pathways will be overwhelming. If you fixate on the small steps immediately, you will be constantly overwhelmed and discouraged. See the big picture first. What is the goal of glycolysis? Of the Krebs cycle? Of amino acid anabolism? Then go through the steps. How does this pathway achieve that goal? What prevents it from achieving that goal?
• Here are the important concepts to always take note throughout the year in all the lessons (i.e., high yield, will always appear in exams): Rate-limiting enzymes and steps, clinical correlations to these RLEs and RLSs, end products of the pathways and RLSs, irreversible steps of the pathways, and ATP-dependent steps.
• Observe the pathways in your own body. Same logic as in physiology. By LE4, when we were done with all the major pathways and we began discussing nutrition, I actually got to lose almost 10lbs by just applying the biochem lessons in my diet hahaha.

PATIENT-DOCTOR RELATIONSHIP

• Actually read the manual. Aside from it will help you in their very easy exams, I do believe reading the manual during your free time or when you're commuting can help you fortify your "why" in medicine. You don't gain much, exam- and grade-wise, but it will help you be a better med student and doctor.
• Light review for exams. Sobrang dali and repetitive kasi hahaha Keri i-review ang PDR one hour before the exam.
• Cram the requirements but don't use AI. PDR has very crammable requirements, but for reflections, please don't use AI. Have some respect and dignity and actually do some introspection. God knows how much Filipino doctors need it. Please lang.
• View the requirements in advance so you can plan them accordingly, especially if it required respondents or advance preparation. PDR will upload assignments in advance. View these immediately so you can plan your cramming accordingly hahaha.

HISTORY & PERSP. IN MED / HUMAN LIFE CYCLE

• Have fun learning. All their lessons were pretty fun to learn, imo. Takes away the seriousness from the majors. Find joy in the little things, like from this.
• Integrate the lessons sociopolitically. There's a reason why these subjects are still included in the curriculum. Hindi lang dagdag o pampahirap ng buhay. These subjects are taught so we can learn from history and be aware of the present, sociopolitically.
• Light review exams. Just be early in showing up for the exam. Don't be on time because they already consider this as late. Source: personal experience huhu.

DISEASE PRVTN & CTRL / EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Feeling major, so put a premium on their non-exam requirements. Dahil mukhang matagal pa nating makakasama yung department nila, tanggapin na natin na feeling major sila. Out of the minor subjects, prioritize their department the most. Their professors have high expectations on the students and will grade accordingly. Hayst.
• Read and highlight the manual during synchronous sessions. The deartment always includes the manual in their exam coverage. Save time by doing this.
• Review the unit exams. This SY, the unit exams weren't graded (so safe space to fail). But do review them nearing the exam since sometimes they take questions from these.
• For EPI: Plan and coordinate the exercises in advance. Divide the tasks as much as possible. This will be during 2nd semester. The exercises will have very close deadlines that often coincide with the actual majors (usually quizzes), so coordinate agad! Divide and conquer.

FINAL WORDS

Again, for my UERM seniors reading this post, I'd appreciate it too if you could leave a few tips for surviving YL2! ❤️

I tried to make the tips a bit more general and less specific because I know some habits and techniques won't work for everyone. But if any of you have specific questions, you can PM me or comment and I'll try to answer you agad hahaha 😄

Godspeed to all of us future MDs!

Hello! Grades have been out for a few days now, and I'm happy to be promoted to YL2 with good grades (GWA around the 1s) :')) I want to share some tips for getting through YL1 for incoming UERM med freshies, like how I wish someone did for me when I started the SY hahaha.

For incoming UERM YL3 or upper years, I'd appreciate it if you share some tips too :')

A little about me: Very non-trad course, anti-GenAI, non-Anki user

Here are my UERM YL1 tips:

GENERAL

• Get enough sleep. Sufficient sleep helps with memory consolidation and overall better functioning and stress management (you'll actually learn this in physiology). Figure out the range of sleep hours you need to function optimally (not the bare minimum) and respect those hours. For me, I actually need 6 to 8.5hrs of sleep, but most of the time I averaged around 7 hours. For really busy days (usually onsite days), I would get 5-6 hours of sleep but I would immediately bawi the sleep debt through naps.
• Know what kind of learner you are and really use it to your advantage. There's different kinds (e.g., visual, logical, auditory, kinesthetic) and usually may quizzes online to help you find out. Learn this about yourself and actually apply it through the kind active recall and sources that you use. For example, if you're a visual learner like me, I mostly used atlases and PPT slides to review my knowledge throughout the year, then I would view YT vids as supplementary material.
• Don't use AI. This one is very biased advice because I am passionately against GenAI hahaha. But this advice comes from a POV that believes na using AI can actually take away essential processing skills in learning. AI usually gives you the solution already, even with its step-by-step answer. It takes away the natural processing of your brain. Instead of you figuring out 2+3=5 and how changing the arrangement will still give you the right answer, you just end up learning the "script" of how you got the right answer, without really knowing the why and the how.
• Take self-care seriously. Back in college, I used to really grind and grit. I saw self-care as a weak choice. Funnily enough, sa med ko pa talaga natutunan mag self-care, kung kailan mas mahirap na hahaha. But seriously, self-care rejuvenates the mind and the soul and staves off burnout. Repeat after me: Resting is productive.
• Have a life outside of medicine. Same reasoning as above. Medicine is a calling and a vocation. It is not meant to be your identity, so don't act as if yan lang buhay mo.
• Establish a downtime and respect it. Your downtime is your cut-off time for studying. Meaning, by this time, you will not study anymore. Clock-out ka na. Establishing a downtime helps establish med-life boundaries and disciplines you to not forget the essentials (e.g., sleep). For me, this time was 11 PM. Kapag 11PM na, kahit di pa ko tapos mag aral, tigil na. Let go and let God.
• Read the books. Think of knowledge as food for nourishment. Lectures and transes are already processed food, chewed and spat out for your easier consumption. Will you get the same "nutrients"? Probably not. Reading the books will help your knowledge longterm. You get to master the why's and the how's. You learn how to properly process knowledge.
• Use the samplex wisely. Don't over rely on the samplex. Best way to use the samplex is to assess what kinds of questions are being asked and how the answers are being rationalized. This will help guide your studying. Pre-exam, samplexes help you get into that examination mindset.
• Give LE1 your 100%. LE1 will be your setpoint for the whole school year. It will determine your pace and effort in the coming LEs. Bumabawi ka ba or can you slowly let loose? Buelo ka agad sa LE1 para 'di na kailangan bumawi in the coming LEs.
• Be creative with your other sources of learning. Personally, here were my favorite YT channels (mostly for the majors): Ninja Nerd, Anatomy Zone, The Noted Anatomist, Amoeba Sisters, About Medicine, Crash Course.
• Use the manuals as a guide to see what's important to the respective departments. The major departments will distribute lab manuals for you to answer throughout the LE periods. Aside from completing this, use these lab manuals to assess what bits of knowledge are high yield for each department.
• Focus on yourself. Med school brings in together a lot of great, stupid, brilliant, and lazy people. Stupid and lazy people will pass. Great people will fail. It's important that you always focus on yourself and what works for you. Comparison is the thief of joy. What hardens the egg softens the potato.

ANATOMY

• Always study with an atlas. Whether or not you're a visual learner, always keep an atlas with you during lecture or ISP. Favorite ng lahat: Netters. Most professors also use Junquiera (Histology) and Gray's (Gross) as scripts for their lectures.
• Find out if you're weaker at theoretical vs practical. Anatomy exams are split into theoretical/written exams and practical exams. Find out ASAP if you're weaker at remembering the theoretical knowledge or identifying gross/histo structures. Anatomy is the heaviest subject (imo), so wherever you are weaker in, focus on that more and give that more time during your ISP.
• Use memory aids like mnemonics, hand gestures, etc. Anatomy will really make you come up with so much delulu memory aids hahaha Have fun with this! There's also lots online.
• Draw the structures if it helps. In my opinion, this comes in very handy for almost everything, but lalo na for cardio, GIT, neuro, MSK, and all the blood supplies and innervations.
• Integrate with physiology. Anatomy and physiology go hand in hand. You can't understand one without the other. Certain structures make sense when you know the physiology (and even embryology) behind them. Constantly integrating the two will help you balance these two majors, grade- and exam-wise.

PHYSIOLOGY

• Master the physiology basics. Your first module will tackle these topics (e.g., cellular transport, excitation-contraction coupling, action potentials, etc.). Master them! You'll constantly be applying these basics in the following physio lessons. Not understanding them inside-out will give you a harder time catching up with the concepts.
• Read/Skim the books/references used. Re-emphasizing this tip for physiology because physio is very book-based. A lot of professors love using Ganong (but I hate it lol), but personally I love using Guyton because the writing is "shorter" and has headings that are skimmable. Pag kulang sa oras, just skim and know the Chapter Summary by heart hahaha.
• Observe the lessons in your own body. Application is the best way to learn and keep the lessons in your longterm memory. Think of your lessons within yourself as you go about your day (e.g., when you're exercising and eating).
• Know the inside-outs of your SGD cases. Physio will assign SGD cases that require you to work in a group. You can't control your groupmates' performance, but you can control yours. Don't rely on your groupmates to know everything (or even anything at all, lol). Make sure to properly study. Again, no AI. Process the knowledge properly. Don't rely on spoonfed info.
• Make an effort to actually learn during your experiments. Experiments can be stressful due to the short amount of time given to them, added to you not knowing what results are expected. But try to learn why this experiment is being done. View it from the perspective of a professor: What is the learning objective here?

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Organize the pathways. Expect it already: the pathways will overwhelm you. But no, you don't have to memorize all the steps. But also yes, you have to know them by heart. Organize them the best way for you to remember all the characters involved (i.e., enzymes, processes, end products). You can list them down, take note, put them in a table, make a mnemonic, etc. Looking back, learning all the pathways was like watching Marvel movies one by one and not knowing all the characters and their lore, but at one point, when they're all together in one room--Avengers End Game na--it all finally makes sense. All this coming from a non-trad/non-sci course grad hahaha.
• Approach your learning like an iceberg: Go from shallow to deep. See the big picture then go through the small steps. Again, the biochem pathways will be overwhelming. If you fixate on the small steps immediately, you will be constantly overwhelmed and discouraged. See the big picture first. What is the goal of glycolysis? Of the Krebs cycle? Of amino acid anabolism? Then go through the steps. How does this pathway achieve that goal? What prevents it from achieving that goal?
• Here are the important concepts to always take note throughout the year in all the lessons (i.e., high yield, will always appear in exams): Rate-limiting enzymes and steps, clinical correlations to these RLEs and RLSs, end products of the pathways and RLSs, irreversible steps of the pathways, and ATP-dependent steps.
• Observe the pathways in your own body. Same logic as in physiology. By LE4, when we were done with all the major pathways and we began discussing nutrition, I actually got to lose almost 10lbs by just applying the biochem lessons in my diet hahaha.

PATIENT-DOCTOR RELATIONSHIP

• Actually read the manual. Aside from it will help you in their very easy exams, I do believe reading the manual during your free time or when you're commuting can help you fortify your "why" in medicine. You don't gain much, exam- and grade-wise, but it will help you be a better med student and doctor.
• Only light review for exams. Sobrang dali and repetitive kasi hahaha Keri i-review ang PDR one hour before the exam.
• Cram the requirements but don't use AI. PDR has very crammable requirements, but for reflections, please don't use AI. Have some respect and dignity and actually do some introspection. God knows how much Filipino doctors need it. Please lang.
• View the requirements in advance so you can plan them accordingly, especially if it required respondents or advance preparation. PDR will upload assignments in advance. View these immediately so you can plan your cramming accordingly hahaha.

HISTORY & PERSP. IN MED / HUMAN LIFE CYCLE

• Have fun learning. All their lessons were pretty fun to learn, imo. Takes away the seriousness from the majors. Find joy in the little things, like from this.
• Integrate the lessons sociopolitically. There's a reason why these subjects are still included in the curriculum. Hindi lang dagdag o pampahirap ng buhay. These subjects are taught so we can learn from history and be aware of the present, sociopolitically.
• Light review exams. Just be early in showing up for the exam. Don't be on time because they already consider this as late. Source: personal experience huhu.

DISEASE PRVTN & CTRL / EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Feeling major, so put a premium on their non-exam requirements. Dahil mukhang matagal pa nating makakasama yung department nila, tanggapin na natin na feeling major sila. Out of the minor subjects, prioritize their department the most. Their professors have high expectations on the students and will grade accordingly. Hayst.
• Read and highlight the manual during synchronous sessions. The deartment always includes the manual in their exam coverage. Save time by doing this.
• Review the unit exams. This SY, the unit exams weren't graded (so safe space to fail). But do review them nearing the exam since sometimes they take questions from these.
• For EPI: Plan and coordinate the exercises in advance. Divide the tasks as much as possible. This will be during 2nd semester. The exercises will have very close deadlines that often coincide with the actual majors (usually quizzes), so coordinate agad! Divide and conquer.

FINAL WORDS

Again, for my UERM seniors reading this post, I'd appreciate it too if you could leave a few tips for surviving YL2! ❤️

I tried to make the tips a bit more general and less specific because I know some habits and techniques won't work for everyone. But if any of you have specific questions, you can PM me or comment and I'll try to answer you agad hahaha 😄

Godspeed to all of us future MDs!