fresh from another evaluation...
hello all,
so i'm five minutes out of the testing room, and feeling great as only a medical student can feel when it's the time of the week that's farthest away from the next evaluation... this one went pretty well, so the week is off to a very good start, and there's only a midterm between me and the weekend, and the weekend promises unlimited potential in studying all hours of the day for monday's ultra severe anatomy exam... so i think right now, ten-thirty monday morning is about as good as it's going to get, at least until that anatomy exam is over, or, perhaps even better, when the wheels leave the tarmac and i'm headed for bluer skies and hopefully balmier conditions on the left coast for a couple days... i'm of half the mind to change my flight so i can stay another day...
last night's short post was fresh out of a couple hour stint studying in the anatomy lab alone, with nothing but the company of my walkman. I had another of those shocking moments when you look up from what you're doing, stuck in your little bubble of the world with your headphones and whatever you've dug into for the moment, and right in front of you, totally unexpected, is some dude... in the anatomy lab, where there are a more than a handful of in-the-process-of-being dissected cadavers, this is a more disconcerting experience than most. when it happened last night, no words were exchanged other than some mere pleasantries, and i tried to shake off that feeling that you've cheated death somehow even though you haven't even landed in the same country as it... well, at least i got some studying in (looked at radiographs for an hour or so, and then explored the flexors or the forearm, as well as their innervations, and then moved up to the "dreaded" brachial plexus, which i had no idea to dread until i was taught to, so, there it is... hate is learned, not inborn)...
as for the weekend, nothing special... for the majority of sunday, i helped a fellow student wrap their mind around all of this molecular biology stuff we've been studying in class--with my background, it hasn't been bad at all... the least i can do is help some of my fellow classmates get over the hurdle of comprehending some of this stuff, which can definitely be less than intuitive...
on friday, i spent the afternoon shadowing my pediatriation... it was a slow day, so we got to sit and chat a bit--"waxing philosophic," as she called it, and I guess I have to agree... it was really quite interesting, and on a lot of levels...
for one, it's a pretty big high to put on your suit, and your name badge, and then walk around the clinic a bit... people are generally mistaking you for a physician, and since that's where you're trying to get, it's a bit flattering, and quite the trip... when they find out you're a student though, back to the bottom of the pile with you...
so after that high, and maybe, like me, you're sitting on the shuttle going to the clinic, and this high has worn off a bit and all you can think about is "i know absolutely nothing applicable to what is going to happen and what i might need to know...," but then you think that you're a student and you're just there to learn, and you don't worry so much about it...
so i spent a number of hours with my preceptor (teacher-physician), and we saw a number of patients, some for acute problems, some for wellness checks and whatnot, and it was really interesting. as to the work of a general pediatrician, it's interesting, but i wonder if i would want to do something more interventional... as i've said before, i really like anatomy, and working with my hands, so i'm going to try surgery, and look at a lot of specialties... there's a great number of things to be crossing off the list...
after the whole affair, i was exhausted... it's quite a bit going from patient to patient, making a diagnosis, counseling a patient and their parent, making notes, taking dictation, going to radiology, making phone calls to follow-up on patients... i think preceptor works 8 to six or something like that, and she probably sees 25 patients a day... generally scheduled for fifteen or thirty minute blocks... it's surprising how quickly it goes...
anyway, in a couple moments we've got our continuity of care course, and our first patient is coming today, so we're all in our nice dibs... looking pretty smart as i class, i would have to say...
well, that's it for me for right now... hope everyone is doing well in their little spheres of the world,
cheers,
so i'm five minutes out of the testing room, and feeling great as only a medical student can feel when it's the time of the week that's farthest away from the next evaluation... this one went pretty well, so the week is off to a very good start, and there's only a midterm between me and the weekend, and the weekend promises unlimited potential in studying all hours of the day for monday's ultra severe anatomy exam... so i think right now, ten-thirty monday morning is about as good as it's going to get, at least until that anatomy exam is over, or, perhaps even better, when the wheels leave the tarmac and i'm headed for bluer skies and hopefully balmier conditions on the left coast for a couple days... i'm of half the mind to change my flight so i can stay another day...
last night's short post was fresh out of a couple hour stint studying in the anatomy lab alone, with nothing but the company of my walkman. I had another of those shocking moments when you look up from what you're doing, stuck in your little bubble of the world with your headphones and whatever you've dug into for the moment, and right in front of you, totally unexpected, is some dude... in the anatomy lab, where there are a more than a handful of in-the-process-of-being dissected cadavers, this is a more disconcerting experience than most. when it happened last night, no words were exchanged other than some mere pleasantries, and i tried to shake off that feeling that you've cheated death somehow even though you haven't even landed in the same country as it... well, at least i got some studying in (looked at radiographs for an hour or so, and then explored the flexors or the forearm, as well as their innervations, and then moved up to the "dreaded" brachial plexus, which i had no idea to dread until i was taught to, so, there it is... hate is learned, not inborn)...
as for the weekend, nothing special... for the majority of sunday, i helped a fellow student wrap their mind around all of this molecular biology stuff we've been studying in class--with my background, it hasn't been bad at all... the least i can do is help some of my fellow classmates get over the hurdle of comprehending some of this stuff, which can definitely be less than intuitive...
on friday, i spent the afternoon shadowing my pediatriation... it was a slow day, so we got to sit and chat a bit--"waxing philosophic," as she called it, and I guess I have to agree... it was really quite interesting, and on a lot of levels...
for one, it's a pretty big high to put on your suit, and your name badge, and then walk around the clinic a bit... people are generally mistaking you for a physician, and since that's where you're trying to get, it's a bit flattering, and quite the trip... when they find out you're a student though, back to the bottom of the pile with you...
so after that high, and maybe, like me, you're sitting on the shuttle going to the clinic, and this high has worn off a bit and all you can think about is "i know absolutely nothing applicable to what is going to happen and what i might need to know...," but then you think that you're a student and you're just there to learn, and you don't worry so much about it...
so i spent a number of hours with my preceptor (teacher-physician), and we saw a number of patients, some for acute problems, some for wellness checks and whatnot, and it was really interesting. as to the work of a general pediatrician, it's interesting, but i wonder if i would want to do something more interventional... as i've said before, i really like anatomy, and working with my hands, so i'm going to try surgery, and look at a lot of specialties... there's a great number of things to be crossing off the list...
after the whole affair, i was exhausted... it's quite a bit going from patient to patient, making a diagnosis, counseling a patient and their parent, making notes, taking dictation, going to radiology, making phone calls to follow-up on patients... i think preceptor works 8 to six or something like that, and she probably sees 25 patients a day... generally scheduled for fifteen or thirty minute blocks... it's surprising how quickly it goes...
anyway, in a couple moments we've got our continuity of care course, and our first patient is coming today, so we're all in our nice dibs... looking pretty smart as i class, i would have to say...
well, that's it for me for right now... hope everyone is doing well in their little spheres of the world,
cheers,
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