OEC Team Won Second Prize in Inter-Medical School Physiology Quiz

It all started in April when IMSA announced for the  first ever physiology quiz at JU, we have registered to join to start our first  phase of the race which was a 100 MCQs paper on Saturday April 25th, over 50  participants have written the paper, at the end of that same day the names of  the top 25 students were announced  to  qualify to next phase of the quiz which has been held on May 3rd 2015, 5 teams  with 5 members in each team, all teams started preparing for the first ever  physiology quiz at Jiangsu university.   

The evening of May 3rd was a wonderful evening with  colleagues and teachers all around us. By the end of that night the white had a  tie with the red team at 42 points each, at where both teams were asked a  tie-break question, and the red team have won first position and the white team  have won second position after a tough competition with all other teams. That  night was great and unforgettable.

IMSA had to emerge both teams to form one strong and  capable team of 7 members to continue the race to its next phase at Xuzhou  medical school. That’s how the wining team was formed, and immediately after  that we have started our hard work and determination on wining the glory for our  school at Xuzhou. We set up a timetable of 3 classes every week to meet and  discuss what we read, with gaps In-between to prepare and be ready for the  discussion, and we would determine a unit or a chapter for each meeting. And we  would all go back and prepare very well that unit and be ready to explain any  part of it.

Professor lee has helped us with a board meeting room  provided with a projector and a computer to display our material and knowledge  for better understanding of the contents. We would usually meet for about 6~7  hours continuously every time, in order to finish a unit or a chapter and solve  as much as we can questions preparing ourselves for the hard time to come. And  we have successfully done the whole content of physiology by June 10th (2 days  before the quiz at Xuzhou), as we have planned from the very beginning.  

On Friday afternoon, June 12th, we prepared ourselves  with professor lee and tao yan laoshi. On the same day evening we had our last  meeting just to make sure that we all aware of the contents very well and all  ready and confident of winning the glory next day for Jiangsu University.  

Morning June 13th, the day of victory that's how we’d  like to call it. The physiology trivia at Xuzhou has conjoined 9 medical schools  from different parts of China, with 5 members representing each school. some of  the participated schools are Shangdong medical school, Xuzhou medical school,  Tongji medical school, Suzhou medical school, Anhui medical school, the Fourth  Military medical school, Qiqihar medical school and Sechow medical school, all  of which have participated in the previous copies of the physiology trivia which  has started out for the first time in 2003, and it’s held every year since then.  Jiangsu University was the only team to be part of the trivia for first time in  history.

We know how tough it was going to be, with all these  experienced schools in the trivia, and that's why we have given it everything it  took to be the wining team on that day. We have put too much efforts and time to  be able to achieve our goal and win in our first attempt ever.  

The physiology trivia at Xuzhou medical school started  at 9 am carrying out its first round with a lot of pressure on all teams as it  started tough and unexpected, but we have worked our way through this round with  a remarkable and astonishing performance leaving the audience wowing after we  get the right answer, and by this way we drew all eyes and attention on us, all  members in suits with smart looking and focused expressed faces on the  stage.  And as we are going from round to  another the questions become harder and harder.

We've reached the final round after very tough  competition with all other schools. Final round where the experience played its  role gave the lead for Xuzhou medical school to win the first prize, and we  finished second wining the second prize.

Jiangsu university team was represented  by:

1.    Luqman  Ahmed Mousa Al Quran

2.    Amonoo  Joseph

3.    Kondaveety  Jeevitha

4.    Arthur  Bella

5.    Reddimasu  Mounika Anil Josna     

6.     Deenadayalan Vijay Kumar

7.    Wanani  Moses

Memorable moments of emotions and feelings of victory,  the thing that we have been looking and aiming for over the last few months and  finally we are here wining what we came for, achieving what we've been preparing  very hard for. We were all very happy to be the first group to make history for  our university in the trivia. Finally our hard work and determination have been  paid off marking the first win ever for Jiangsu University by this amazing team.  

After the competition ended peacefully, we met with the  quiz master professor Chen from Malaya university, Malaysia; we discussed with  him some of the guidelines and agenda which will be carried out in the coming  years, and we have invited him to be very welcome to hold the physiology trivia  2016 at Jiangsu University, and asked him to keep in touch, he was very pleased  to receive such a warm welcome to Jiangsu  University.

Hopefully next year we could register earlier to be part  of the international physiology trivia in Malaysia, and I would like to  encourage the OEC to register the next year’s participants to be able to go to  Malaysia and win awards for our beloved university.

At last I'd like to thank all of our colleagues who have  supported and encouraged us throughout the entire journey. Thanks to all of our  physiology teachers and professor Lee who have been there for us and helped us  in every way possible to reach our goal, thanks to the department of physiology  for sponsoring us, thanks to all OEC teachers for their support, and thanks to  all my teammates for their sacrifice and hard work, wishing them all the best in  their academics and future.

And that’s the end of JU’s first victory, and we  are looking forward for more and more success to come in the  future.