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I'm currently in second year at Western. This semester I am taking Methods 2290, Biochem 2280, Orgo 2213, Micro 2500, and Phys 2130 online. So far, I'm really enjoying the micro 2500 course, especially the bacteriology and virology sections. I was wondering if anyone here has gone into a MicroImm honours specialization, and what they thought of it? Was it similar to 2500 in terms of content or did it change significantly (I know it will get more detailed, but did your interest in the subject change?) I am aware that all upper year science classes are hard, but did you find it unfair? Obviously the goal is med school, but I also need backups! Did anyone come across any really cool careers to do with this field?

 

In addition, does anyone have tips for the micro 2500 final? Especially for the Dr. Colby section? He said he would test on major concepts and then proceeded to give three lectures with over 150 slides of pure facts and random scientific names. Does he test little details? My notes for his section are super long, and I don't want to study it super hard if he will only test major things. He also didn't give out any practice questions, so I have no idea what to expect.

 

Thank you for your help!! :)

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Hey!

 

I'm currently in second year at Western. This semester I am taking Methods 2290, Biochem 2280, Orgo 2213, Micro 2500, and Phys 2130 online. So far, I'm really enjoying the micro 2500 course, especially the bacteriology and virology sections. I was wondering if anyone here has gone into a MicroImm honours specialization, and what they thought of it? Was it similar to 2500 in terms of content or did it change significantly (I know it will get more detailed, but did your interest in the subject change?) I am aware that all upper year science classes are hard, but did you find it unfair? Obviously the goal is med school, but I also need backups! Did anyone come across any really cool careers to do with this field?

 

In addition, does anyone have tips for the micro 2500 final? Especially for the Dr. Colby section? He said he would test on major concepts and then proceeded to give three lectures with over 150 slides of pure facts and random scientific names. Does he test little details? My notes for his section are super long, and I don't want to study it super hard if he will only test major things. He also didn't give out any practice questions, so I have no idea what to expect.

 

Thank you for your help!! :)

Feel free to PM me

 

For Dr. Colby's stuff, its really just the thing he emphasized the most from each slide. All his questions were pretty predictable, focus on what he spoke about in class. I have not taken other micro courses at Western, so I can't help much with that. Its a very helpful course for med school in terms of giving you a nice intro to microbio and immunology by the way, definitely happy I took it looking back. Good luck! 

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Message me if you want specifics about the module/courses, everything is 4.0able though. Colby is the easy one, just memorize the very memorable material! Find his 'summary cheat sheet' floating around it helps alot; McCormick is the harder one IMO.

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Thank you so much!!
 

I have yet to find the cheat sheet, so if any of you have still have access to it please send it to me! 

I did super well on the bacteriology midterm, should I expect similar questions on the final? Or were they harder? Only 25% of the final is on immunology and bacteriology.

 

Thanks for your help!

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So back when I took it, bacteriology and parasitology were the last two units so they were only tested on the final so I can't help too much with the comparison to the midterm. I personally did best on virology so if that's the majority of the final, you should be good! I did not use any cheat sheets...

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I wrote the micro 2500 exam last year. The bacteriology questions were straight forward and very much like the questions asked on the bacteriology midterm.

 

In fact, most of the questions for bacteriology, virology and parasitology were pure memorization. The immunology section had a few application based questions, but they were still relatively straight forward.

 

This year you have the final in a pretty bad spot - right beside biochem :o Good luck and power through :)

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