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 amI 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 amMicrobiology (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 pmPathomorphology (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 pmToday’s goodies from the Mineral Exhibition.
Today’s goodies from the Mineral Exhibition.
Daily workout
-- November 5th, 2011, 3:11 amYikes. 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 amYeah, 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. 
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.
