I made about 300 flash cards yesterday. I don’t know how I’m going to keep up this pace for another 8 days. There was a moment when I was studying last night when I started to feel really strange. It’s like my brain said “enough!” and was refusing to accept any new [...]
Entries from April 29th, 2010
Come again?
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
So I was in the hospital seeing patients with my preceptor the other day. One patient in particular was interesting. It was a seemingly uncomplicated case–the woman had been having some gastrointestinal issues and I had been asked to perform a focused history and physical. As part of my work-up, I asked [...]
Tags: abortion · anxiety · diarrhea · dreams · Finals · first aid · NBME · preceptorship
Preclinical clinical experiences
April 14th, 2010 2 Comments
So, when I was a pre-med, I thought that the best med school for me would be one where I got lots of clinical experience in the first two years. See, in the US, the traditional medical school curriculum has very few chances for clinical exposure during the first two years. Typically, the first two [...]
Tags: clinical · clinical experiences · hospital · m-2 · pre-clinical · ranting · whining · why I hate going to the hospital right now
Lulz
April 14th, 2010 No Comments
I just noticed my “Pre-Med Douchebag” post from a couple years back has been linked by Encyclopedia Dramatica. Thanks for the recognition, internet. I love you.
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Hyper hypo
April 6th, 2010 2 Comments
I realize I haven’t had much to say this semester. That’s because the second year of med school is not very interesting. A blog full of posts that say “today I studied” would be no fun to read. At least during the first semester we did a couple novel things like phlebotomy lab [...]
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