Student Life

-- November 9th, 2011, 1:19 am

This is pretty close to the life of a med student too.

Idiot

-- November 9th, 2011, 1:08 am

I am an idiot. I keep all my DS.net files in a folder on my external harddrive. I was shuffling things around and I stuck the folder into another folder (which was some kind of weird “9282320324034039″ thing), and later, when I tried to move DS.net back into the main directory, I couldn’t. And what’s worse, it’s apparently empty. Argh! So for the time being, maybe I’ll see about linking my tumblr account. I update it a lot more than I do this site anyway.

Classes – 11-11-08

-- November 9th, 2011, 1:03 am

Microbiology (830-1030) – Didn’t go. As usual. Today’s topic was supposed to be Medical Parasitology.

Medical Sociology (1100-1230) – Thank god, this was the last of medical sociology! I had no idea what went on in this class at all. The last half of the class was a new section on Medical History, which will be continued in a final class next week – then exam the week after.

Internal Med (1330-1500) – Clotting disorders. We focused on ITP, TTP, and DIC.

— I took a two hour gym break afterward – Zumba and Pure Pump. <3

USMLE Step 1 talk (2000-2130) – The third years told us a little bit about the Step 1. I went to the talk last year (by last year’s third years), but I found this talk really helpful. And two of the students actually surprised me ;)

All in all, today, like yesterday, was too long a day. Hopefully tomorrow I can actually be somewhat productive.

Classes – 11-11-07

-- November 7th, 2011, 11:42 pm

Pathomorphology (800-1015) – GI pathology part II – focused on intestinal diseases, then pancreatic diseases (exocrine), and some biliary tract and gallbladder pathology.

Pharmacology (1030-1200) – Antivirals, and started on anticancer agents.

Pathophysiology (1230-1500) – GI diseases in the first half, followed by gastric diseases in the second half. I left early to make it to clerkship.

Internal Med clerkship (1500-1510) – Spent most of my time changing into scrubs, only to reschedule our session for Wednesday. Great.

Surgical Series Lectures (1600-1800) – A special series of lectures by a pediatric surgeon. Talked about developmental anomalies that arise from the pharyngeal pouches, the cysts they form, and their removal.

Micro (???) – There was a super-long microbiology session scheduled tonight, I think from 1600-2000, but I skipped that.

This week’s schedule

-- November 7th, 2011, 10:54 pm

This week’s schedule

Mineral Exhibition

-- November 6th, 2011, 6:45 pm

Today’s goodies from the Mineral Exhibition.

Today’s goodies from the Mineral Exhibition.

Daily workout

-- November 5th, 2011, 3:11 am

Yikes. I can’t remember the last time I did this… so… this week:

Monday: Zumba (@ Bonarka)

Tuesday: holiday, therefore everything was closed. Therefore I sat at home getting fat.

Wednesday: Pure Pump, plus a little bit of swimming later on in the evening

Thursday: Zumba, again, followed by some swimming

Friday: Pure Pump, following by spinning.

Classes – 11-11-02 to 11-11-04

-- November 5th, 2011, 3:07 am

Yeah, I managed to missed almost every class within this short three-day week.

On Wednesday, November 2:

Pharmacology (800-1015): The Doc never showed up for the morning half, so I technically only missed the 915-1015 portion. And I think she covered something between antihelminthic and antifungal drugs.

On Thursday, November 3:

Microbiology LAB (1015-1215): I woke up at 1022, and my roommate couldn’t sign me in since only 9 people did show up for class, and the Doc’s caught on to people signing other people in. I think I missed a lecture/lab on viruses, Chlamydia, and mycoplasma cultivation.

Pathomorph EXAM 1 (1700-1830): Covered the intro stuff; definitions, cell response to stress, apoptosis, necrosis, hyperplasia, metaplasia, atrophy, hypertrophy, and a lot of cancer.

And on Friday, November 4… the one day I actually attended all my classes:

Pharmacology (830-1000): Breezed through a whole bunch of antichemotherapeutics. But it was a good lecture.

Internal Med CLINICAL (1200-1400): Buddy and I got to watch an angiography, practiced (horribly) on asking a pt about his chest pain and attempting to take a pt Hx (we were not expected that and were therefore totally unprepared). For PE, we did the usual heart, lung, and abdomen exam.

Pathophysiology SEMINAR (1500-1630): Tests of the ANS. Doc breezed through lecture, so I pretty much have to look all the tests up on my own. We had a little practical sesh afterwards with student (us!) volunteers, but they still didn’t help with my understand of the topic. Oh well…

And like that, it’s the weekend once again. :P

Halloween was great!

-- November 1st, 2011, 9:59 pm

Halloween was great!

Can’t wait for winter for some reason.

-- November 1st, 2011, 5:36 pm

Can’t wait for winter for some reason.