Biomedical Olympiad

• xNiCo

  10 Feb 12, 18:16

  Hi guys, I am taking part in the biomedical challenge for secondary school students and it will be held next week. This means quite a lot to me as I really want to be a doctor when I grow up and prize winners get to go for an attachment. I was wondering if anyone who has taken the biomedical challenge organised by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and ACJC could give me an idea of what the paper was like in the previous years.

  Knowledge required for this years olympiad are fundermental understanding on:

  - the functional anatomy of the cardiovascular system

  -primary cardiovascular diseases devolped as a result of primary lung conditions and vice versa

  -the process of blood clotting and its relavant disorders

  -the roles of microorganisms and immune system in respiratory diseases

  -common diagnostic immaging and major drug groups

  Thanks :)

   

• Darkness_hacker99

  10 Feb 12, 18:23

  I have not taken the biomedical olympiad before, but is able to answer most equiries you have on the topics listed above. Feel free to ask and discuss

• Darkness_hacker99

  10 Feb 12, 18:30

  Heard from previous years participants, most medical/scientific terms in the papers will be relatively unknown to you. You will need to guess the meaning of each word and before you will be able to understand the problem. It's significantly tough paper for secondary school students. Like the maths olympaid papers, most of the questions are set in an uncommon in your school's exam papers. Questions are set to focus heavily on the comprehension, application and analysis part (especially the analysis part).

• Darkness_hacker99

  10 Feb 12, 19:04

  Here are some resources for you:

  For your cardiology topics, use this website instead of your textbooks
  http://www.cardioconsult.com/Anatomy/

  http://www.stewardhealth.org/disease_and_wellness/Even_Mild_Lung_Disease_Hurts_the_Heart
  http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonology/SmokingCOPD/18070
  http://www.ersnet.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=4037:copd-even-mild-lung-disease-gets-to-your-heart-
  http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/mild-lung-disease-affects-heart/story?id=9619138

  For coagulation disorders
  http://www.hemophilia.org/NHFWeb/MainPgs/MainNHF.aspx?menuid=2&contentid=577&rptname=bleeding
  http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/coagulation-disorders-1
  http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/hematology_and_oncology/coagulation_disorders/overview_of_coagulation_disorders.html
  http://www.hemophilia.org/NHFWeb/MainPgs/MainNHF.aspx?menuid=176&contentid=378

  For the topic on drug, stimulant is most comon and highly possible topic that will come out.

  For common dignostics immaging, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_imaging
  Pay attention to the more common ones like X-rays, MRI, Ultrasound, ECG

• SBS n SMRT

  10 Feb 12, 19:54

  Originally posted by xNiCo:

  Hi guys, I am taking part in the biomedical challenge for secondary school students and it will be held next week. This means quite a lot to me as I really want to be a doctor when I grow up and prize winners get to go for an attachment. I was wondering if anyone who has taken the biomedical challenge organised by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and ACJC could give me an idea of what the paper was like in the previous years.

  Knowledge required for this years olympiad are fundermental understanding on:

  - the functional anatomy of the cardiovascular system

  -primary cardiovascular diseases devolped as a result of primary lung conditions and vice versa

  -the process of blood clotting and its relavant disorders

  -the roles of microorganisms and immune system in respiratory diseases

  -common diagnostic immaging and major drug groups

  Thanks :)

   

  I am in Biology Oylimpiad where it is set by NUS Department of Biology in conjunction of YLLSoM

  basically, anticipate hard questions

  the scope can be

  - Anatomy (may be really in depth, do you know great cardiac vein ? )

  - Cardiovascular diseases (e.g. Marfan syndrome - arotical bulb dilation, ASD, VSD, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_disease)

  - Blood clotting (details up to factor XIIA may be needed) Disorders - check any of the clotting factors ? 

  - Respiratory conditions (maybe antihistamines / initiator capases. cytokines , humoral and cell mediated immunity, Helper T cells, and for microbes , maybe viruses (Influrenza - know up till details like nucleocapsid, haemagglutinin, neuraminidase till chronic bronchities)

  - Diagnostic imaging (PET CT (SPECTRA, Ru 82), X - rays, NMR/ MRI) and etc

  All these are possible aspects only, don't worry too much

• xNiCo

  10 Feb 12, 22:23

  Thanks for the help guys, really appreciate it :)