body knows best...
last night was glorious...
with all of the weekly evals and our presentation done (well, sort-of), the pressure of the week was over, and we were all left to our devices for, at least, the night. it felt like the equivalent of a friday night.
i went home, made dinner (even the midwest has annie's mac and cheese w/ bunnies), turned on sportscenter, saw that the sox had blown it (getting a little nervous about the east--just a little), and promptly conked out on the couch...
i remember waking up briefly at nine, deciding actively not to go out with classmates, and putting my head down until midnight, when i must have stumbled to bed. Six a.m. came quickly, but i haven't felt that refreshed and stress free in a bit of time... so it was time well invested...
today went by quickly and productively, and with my histology class's reading done ahead of time, i found i was getting a lot more understanding from looking at tissue sections (muscle tissue today) than i normall do, so i'll start doing some more prep time for that class... lecture was unchanged, although i did take fewer notes for having a lot of prior knowledge for the subject. in all of these completely novel classes, i'm finding working a bit ahead of time speeds the whole process along nicely...
anatomy lab continues to rock, although yesterday's session was the least useful. Reason: in lecture, we had a visiting professor present the material in a much more interactive manner, more of a problem-based learning format that's become more and more popular, and it was too much of a change for me. We sat through lecture, i tried to take my notes, and when we went into the lab, i just found myself as lost as i've ever been in there. It doesn't help that we're dissecting the anterior part of the forearm and hand, which are relatively complicated, either. On the plus side, it was just another fantastic group of professors, surgical attendings and residents, plus the awesome TA's in lab to help us understand. Most of the surgeons were orthopaedic hand and arm specialists, so you can imagine what kind of expertise we're getting communicated to us.
And the visiting prof was an anatomist from another prominent clinic, who, despite my difficulties with the lecture (which was incredibly interesting, even if i didn't retain much of it--need to do a lot of prep work for that kind of lecture). So there's lots of attention and quite a bit of help... it's great... we did a quick calc, and we figure for every four students, there's a teacher throughout most of the lab.
Accidently, while cleaning out the branch of the brachial artery into the ulnar and the radial artery, I snipped part of it... a total accident... which got me thinking about surgery and whether i would be a good surgeon and whether i would enjoy the work... i think it's a pretty common thought while people are in anatomy, but i'm also in a pretty rare situation where i can easily get into the operating room to shadow surgeons and residents, so i'm thinking of doing it a couple times. I really enjoy the dissection... i wonder how i would feel about doing the reassembly and repair... only one way to find out...
and the really good news is that i'm all set for tomorrow's shadowing of my preceptor... she's a pediatrion, and i've got the whole afternoon (about four hours) scheduled with her to experience acute care (when you're sick and you call the doctor for an appointment on short notice). my suits all clean, and i think it will be really interested, so it'll be a nice way to end the week...
and tonight, some studying, the gym, and maybe a couple drinks out with classmates... this is about as leisurely as it gets around here...
oh, and before i go, i found out that my friend Brian, who helped me move all the way out here, met a girl who's friend is a second year here when he moved to his new job. i love coincidences that make the world smaller... like running into one of my fraternity brother's girlfriend in beijing... always cool... enjoy the cameo, Bri...
did you know that the white and dark meat on chickens come from fast twitch and slow twitch muscles respectively? and that on geese, you find the meat in opposite places because of usage and need (white = chicken breast, geese legs; dark = geese breast, chicken legs)... fun fun..
hope everyone is doing well...
cheers,
with all of the weekly evals and our presentation done (well, sort-of), the pressure of the week was over, and we were all left to our devices for, at least, the night. it felt like the equivalent of a friday night.
i went home, made dinner (even the midwest has annie's mac and cheese w/ bunnies), turned on sportscenter, saw that the sox had blown it (getting a little nervous about the east--just a little), and promptly conked out on the couch...
i remember waking up briefly at nine, deciding actively not to go out with classmates, and putting my head down until midnight, when i must have stumbled to bed. Six a.m. came quickly, but i haven't felt that refreshed and stress free in a bit of time... so it was time well invested...
today went by quickly and productively, and with my histology class's reading done ahead of time, i found i was getting a lot more understanding from looking at tissue sections (muscle tissue today) than i normall do, so i'll start doing some more prep time for that class... lecture was unchanged, although i did take fewer notes for having a lot of prior knowledge for the subject. in all of these completely novel classes, i'm finding working a bit ahead of time speeds the whole process along nicely...
anatomy lab continues to rock, although yesterday's session was the least useful. Reason: in lecture, we had a visiting professor present the material in a much more interactive manner, more of a problem-based learning format that's become more and more popular, and it was too much of a change for me. We sat through lecture, i tried to take my notes, and when we went into the lab, i just found myself as lost as i've ever been in there. It doesn't help that we're dissecting the anterior part of the forearm and hand, which are relatively complicated, either. On the plus side, it was just another fantastic group of professors, surgical attendings and residents, plus the awesome TA's in lab to help us understand. Most of the surgeons were orthopaedic hand and arm specialists, so you can imagine what kind of expertise we're getting communicated to us.
And the visiting prof was an anatomist from another prominent clinic, who, despite my difficulties with the lecture (which was incredibly interesting, even if i didn't retain much of it--need to do a lot of prep work for that kind of lecture). So there's lots of attention and quite a bit of help... it's great... we did a quick calc, and we figure for every four students, there's a teacher throughout most of the lab.
Accidently, while cleaning out the branch of the brachial artery into the ulnar and the radial artery, I snipped part of it... a total accident... which got me thinking about surgery and whether i would be a good surgeon and whether i would enjoy the work... i think it's a pretty common thought while people are in anatomy, but i'm also in a pretty rare situation where i can easily get into the operating room to shadow surgeons and residents, so i'm thinking of doing it a couple times. I really enjoy the dissection... i wonder how i would feel about doing the reassembly and repair... only one way to find out...
and the really good news is that i'm all set for tomorrow's shadowing of my preceptor... she's a pediatrion, and i've got the whole afternoon (about four hours) scheduled with her to experience acute care (when you're sick and you call the doctor for an appointment on short notice). my suits all clean, and i think it will be really interested, so it'll be a nice way to end the week...
and tonight, some studying, the gym, and maybe a couple drinks out with classmates... this is about as leisurely as it gets around here...
oh, and before i go, i found out that my friend Brian, who helped me move all the way out here, met a girl who's friend is a second year here when he moved to his new job. i love coincidences that make the world smaller... like running into one of my fraternity brother's girlfriend in beijing... always cool... enjoy the cameo, Bri...
did you know that the white and dark meat on chickens come from fast twitch and slow twitch muscles respectively? and that on geese, you find the meat in opposite places because of usage and need (white = chicken breast, geese legs; dark = geese breast, chicken legs)... fun fun..
hope everyone is doing well...
cheers,
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