University of Oklahoma -- everyone welcome -- Part 3

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So first day with the colorectal surgeon! Ummm... it was interesting and really, really gross. I am pretty sure that I will not specialize in colorectal surgery. I think it will be alright for the next few weeks. My clinician is a really nice guy who actually takes the time listen to his patients, even when he is an hour and a half late for surgery. Also, one of his patients has a really rare case (as in maybe 2 or 3 are known per year around the nation, I do believe). I'll be looking into it later. I think that when I ask to do a full history on a patient, the doc will let me. They are pretty swamped, so it might be a challenge, but I will try. Plus - they have a few pages that they have the patients fill out that pretty much exactly ask the questions we are supposed to ask for our full hx, so if I miss anything, it's in the chart! So the stuff that I'm seeing is nothing like what I want to look at for the rest of my life, but I am seeing something I've never seen before. So - that's how colorectal surgery is going.
 
You all have been so helpful. I'm so ready to have this over. I'm hoping against all hope I don't blow it. As dumb as it sounds, I'll be doing a mock interview on Sunday with my dad (he does many interviews for the research department for a major oil company)... He's an intimidating guy, even to me. It's better than nothing, I guess. I want the nice conversational people and not the I hate you people. I keep blubbering on, so I guess I'll shut up now. I'll let you all know how it goes.
 
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But as somebody said, and I saw with my own eyes as well, I know a lot of people that had what they thought was an interview from hell, and they're here. All things being equal though, I'm with ya on hoping for nice people! Our interview group actually began our tour, which for us was after the interviews, and as we were entering BSEB from the catwalk, one of our members that we'd forgot about came trotting up, having been in his interview A LOT longer than the rest of us. He looked like a big ol' soup sandwich, and he's here. Actually, most of my group is here. Early=good...

You'll do fine. Nobody is out to get you, it just might seem that way halfway into your interview...
 
I wish the best to you and everyone else as well. Making fun of myself is how I relieve my stress and nerves, so thanks Bravo.
 
I just wanted to say that I sure love :love: my Sooners!!!!! :D


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soonereng said:
So do my kids...dressed to kill for their first OU/Texas game!
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Oh they are so cute. I love babies, but I don't want any more of my own. I dressed my kids up for every OU game too. (Still do actually).
 
Good luck to everyone interviewing Tuesday. I'll fit right in seeing as I'll be dressed up for my PCM rotation. Maybe I'll get mistaken as a non-med student?
 
I can't do that. I feel like a fake wearing it at my current education. :oops:

Is there anyway to turn this icon upside down?:horns:

Boomer.
 
So I might be going to my first lecture of the year tomorrow. :eek: We don't have our stupid PCM syllabus for the respiratory system yet, and I have a feeling they're going to hand it out during the lecture. I guess I might as well go since it's a pita to copy it from someone else. Plus, I blow off PCM so much that maybe going to lecture is good. And it's not until 1:30. :)

Of course if I go to school and find the syllabus in my mailbox, the odds are about 90 to 1 that I won't be there.
 
Doctor Bagel said:
So I might be going to my first lecture of the year tomorrow. :eek: We don't have our stupid PCM syllabus for the respiratory system yet, and I have a feeling they're going to hand it out during the lecture. I guess I might as well go since it's a pita to copy it from someone else. Plus, I blow off PCM so much that maybe going to lecture is good. And it's not until 1:30. :)

Of course if I go to school and find the syllabus in my mailbox, the odds are about 90 to 1 that I won't be there.
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I really enjoyed not going to school at all on Thursday. Of course, I filled my time spending 9 hours tailing my colorectal surgeon :eek:. No more over-achieving on this rotation for me.

:thumbdown: to the PBL session tomorrow and the spirituality thing on tuesday. The spirituality thing is by far the stupidest thing we have done to date for medical school. Right, we can learn multi-religion sensitivity in two one-hour sessions. Ridiculous and time wasting. The PBLs are where we get to show up and watch a video and discuss it at the 2nd session, and not take a quiz that I will fail, right?
 
Jwax said:
I really enjoyed not going to school at all on Thursday. Of course, I filled my time spending 9 hours tailing my colorectal surgeon
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Gunner...

Jwax said:
The PBLs are where we get to show up and watch a video and discuss it at the 2nd session, and not take a quiz that I will fail, right?
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Right, no quiz, just fluff.

Why does it seem like we have these PBLs right after my family has been in the hospital for a week? I'm going to have to get the administration to schedule less of them because I can't afford that many trips to the hospital...
 
soonereng said:
Gunner...

Right, no quiz, just fluff.

Why does it seem like we have these PBLs right after my family has been in the hospital for a week? I'm going to have to get the administration to schedule less of them because I can't afford that many trips to the hospital...
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:laugh:

I think since I'm only trying make myself look better, but not trying to damage anyone else's appearence in the process, I am not a gunner - just an over-achiever. I imagine I will do it once per rotation so they think I'm extra cool. Although I think the doc could tell I was fading out for the last two hours of tailing him. I should also mention I'm not an over-achiever in pretty much every other arena. I didn't study Wed - today. I'm just about finished giving the biochem syllabus the first read through. Then on to notegroups of it for review. I have also decided it would be wise to not delay looking at HB until the last day, so I've got that and whatever I can figure to do for anatomy ahead of me. At least I'm on the south side of the mod so I don't have to go until 11 tomorrow! :)

I would get to not go to school for most tues/thursdays in our near future, except we've got human sexuality coming up and I've been strongly advised to attend (for pure entertainment purposes). Sooo... hooray for wasting gas!
 
Jwax said:
:laugh:

I think since I'm only trying make myself look better, but not trying to damage anyone else's appearence in the process, I am not a gunner - just an over-achiever.
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gunner.
 
Ice Nine said:
MS2+, is that the exam that required special scantrons due to so many extra options?
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Yep. I believe the pictures were posted on hippo, though, or were available somewhere else.

The spirituality thing is pretty much a big waste of time, but we got bonus points for doing it. I remember writing some completely lame paper about something because I was pretty sure no one was going to read it.
 
I just figured out how to work this networkthingy thanks to that sooner guy with the babies...Thanks dude! So hello everyone!
Jessica
 
Oh, did I mention that anything that ends with _BL is a waste of my time?

TBL, PBL, IMPS, 1st 2 hrs of anatomy lab: Just leave me alone so I can learn this stuff!
 
soonereng said:
Nah, just wear the white coat. That oughtta do the trick.
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Benoit said:
I can't do that. I feel like a fake wearing it at my current education. :oops:
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It's just a coat...who cares. Say that you were chilled and didn't have any other jacket.

Speaking of which, since I missed my rotation last week for my kids' birth, do we wear the short coat to those?
 
MS1 fuzzy curriculum carcinoma in situ.
 
I caught the end part of the OKC/Tulsa thing today. There wasn't a lot of new information -- mainly students on both campuses shared their experiences. It seemed like both groups were happy with their choices, and they tried to emphasize that you do get personal attention in OKC and that they're not mean there or anything.

One thing that seemed a little BSish to me were some claims by OKC people that they see more pathology than you'd see in Tulsa, which I don't buy. Tulsa's a fairly good sized city, and most people in the area get all their medical work done in Tulsa. It's not like Tulsans are regularly going to OKC to see specialists.

Anyway, I'm still going to Tulsa. :thumbup:
 
Tomorrow is it, wish me luck!
 
PreMedMommy said:
Tomorrow is it, wish me luck!
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Buena suerte!

Well, I am already one up on HB for this TB compared to last TB. I got a notegroups request so now I have listened to one of our two lectures! :thumbup: Yay for knowing something. I am so freaking irritated at the thought of wasting the next few hours researching this spirituality BS and writing a BS paper. Yes, the paper is optional and extra credit. No, I'm not blowing an opportunity for EC.

In a completely unrelated matter, I got to perform my first breast and quick pelvic exam today at the clinic. The obgyn who was working asked if I would be interested in doing anything hands on and I said 'sure'. So... I got to get real hands-on!!!! Have I mentioned I think everyone should go to clinic? The patients are generally very nice and will let you torture the crap out of them with your ineptitude. Tried to take a manual BP on a patient that I just couldn't manage to hear anything! :( Oh, well. I got to give a pelvic! Am I sick and twisted?

And I'm not a gunner! :mad:
 
soonereng said:
Yes...and that's very gunnerish. :smuggrin:
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You guys are mean... Why are boys so mean? Are we going to learn about that in HB?

I forgot to mention - he "pimped" me about which quadrant was #1 and #2 most likely for formation of breast cancer, which I happily still knew the answer to! :thumbup: That was super.

I am severely annoyed about trying to come up w/some BS answer for tomorrow. I just don't give a s***. Really. I think my "optional" paper is going to be flowered with bitterness and sarcasm (which is apparently an immature defense mechanism). Should be fun!
 
Jwax said:
You guys are mean... Why are boys so mean? Are we going to learn about that in HB?
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Actually I think that is Thursday's lecture on violence and agression. :laugh:

I forgot to mention - he "pimped" me about which quadrant was #1 and #2 most likely for formation of breast cancer, which I happily still knew the answer to! :thumbup: That was super.
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See, if you would quit doing these gunner-type things we wouldn't give you such a hard time. I barely remember that there is such a thing as breast cancer much less what quadrant it's in. Must make room for head and neck...
 
If I write the spirituality paper, I'll just BS something while I'm daydreaming in biochem tomorrow morning. If I end up not writing it, that's fine too.
 
shortitalian said:
If I write the spirituality paper, I'll just BS something while I'm daydreaming in biochem tomorrow morning. If I end up not writing it, that's fine too.
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I don't want to be one of the ~20 people that don't make an A in our class, so I'm doing as much EC as I can. I think it took me ~30 minutes to spit something out. I don't know how much they'll like it (if they actually read it?), because I pretty much said thanks for pointing out that we need to discuss spiritual issues, but you didn't really teach me anything. So...

Yeah, I was actually impressed with myself for remembering the quads it was in. I guess it might have something to do with my Fx being significant for breast cancer so my ears kinda perked up when we talked about that. In general, I catch most of the obviously clinically relevant issues they present to us. Oh, had another doc last week ask me what I know (b/c he was talking all sorts of above my head pharmacology stuff) and I said I knew how to treat gout and that's about it :D. To which he pressed for exactly how it's treated and I sputtered for a moment before coming up with allopurinol...

And I am definitely skipping out on thursday's HB. I don't care about violence or abuse. I can learn that at home just fine. Having to get up before 11am 3 times this weeks is x3 too many.
 
Jwax said:
I don't care about violence or abuse. I can learn that at home just fine.
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I :love: reading Wax-isms, because I'm never really sure if you meant them to be funny, but I think they are.

Like O'Don's teabag preferences, or inserting banana smilies.
 
It's the upper lateral quadrant and the axillary tail!

I wish that the clinics had more convenient times to volunteer, or took more than 1 volunteer a week, and not the week before test block. :p

The issues of American Family Physician have been very timely. I got one last month that featured gout (yup, I squealed in excitement) and lateral epicondylitis, and this week's issue is about Bell's Palsy (as well as radiology in chronic foot pain, which will be next block I'm sure).
 
slackerqueen said:
It's the upper lateral quadrant and the axillary tail!
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until next year in IHI when the answer will be upper outer quadrant and sub areolar region.
 
Mr. Freeze said:
I :love: reading Wax-isms, because I'm never really sure if you meant them to be funny, but I think they are.

Like O'Don's teabag preferences, or inserting banana smilies.
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:laugh: I think that is generally my humor, and the people who don't like me usually are the ones who don't get that I was joking.

soonereng said:
I think she meant Fam Hx... :laugh:
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Yep. I guess Fx is fracture? Eh, I thought I'd try shorthand. Didn't work. Thanks for making fun, Ice.

glp said:
until next year in IHI when the answer will be upper outer quadrant and sub areolar region.
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Super! I love it when the answers change year to year. I would say our profs need to learn to communicate.

So - interviews? Good?

Sooo much crap to learn tonight. Apparently West blew through the syllabus so I now have another 50 pages to read, just as I had gotten it down to 10 :(. And I'm a little lost from yesterday's anatomy lecture and have really wanted to spend 2 good solid days just on anatomy, which I guess I won't get until the weekend. I'm ready for xmas break...then I can get married and go on my honeymoon! :thumbup: :love:
 
Hey guys. The interview was great!!! I got the three best interviewers I could have dreamed up. I absolutely love the campus, and I'm really excited about all of the learning tools they offer! Ahhhh, I'm so happy. If I get waitlisted or rejected, I am going to be soooo disappointed.
 
PreMedMommy said:
Hey guys. The interview was great!!! I got the three best interviewers I could have dreamed up. I absolutely love the campus, and I'm really excited about all of the learning tools they offer! Ahhhh, I'm so happy. If I get waitlisted or rejected, I am going to be soooo disappointed.
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:clap: I think the percent of people who have great interview experiences that don't get accepted (especially at the beginning of the interviewing season) is quite small. So you should be golden. Way to go :).
 
PreMedMommy said:
Hey guys. The interview was great!!! I got the three best interviewers I could have dreamed up. I absolutely love the campus, and I'm really excited about all of the learning tools they offer! Ahhhh, I'm so happy. If I get waitlisted or rejected, I am going to be soooo disappointed.
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Yay!! I'm sure you have a great shot.

West was a horrible lecturer. I'd already looked at biochem up to Ch. 5, so I was astonished that he blew through that as well. It's useless to try to read ahead now, since I'm running on 3 hours of sleep...
 
You MS1 folks sure know how to ruin a guy's nap. ;)

There I was minding my own business napping in the lounge before my tutorial and the room fills with way too talkative first years cramming for spirituality in medicine. :p
 
Amxcvbcv said:
You MS1 folks sure know how to ruin a guy's nap. ;)

There I was minding my own business napping in the lounge before my tutorial and the room fills with way too talkative first years cramming for spirituality in medicine. :p
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Oh, that was you? LOL. Sorry that we bothered you. :D
 
PreMedMommy said:
Hey guys. The interview was great!!! I got the three best interviewers I could have dreamed up. I absolutely love the campus, and I'm really excited about all of the learning tools they offer! Ahhhh, I'm so happy. If I get waitlisted or rejected, I am going to be soooo disappointed.
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Fantastic! I'm sure you'll be getting good news then. And yes, even for those of you who felt like you had cr@ptastic interviews, hope is not lost. I had a total stress interview and felt like a complete ***** at the end, and yet I got in.

So did they say anything about when you guys will hear from them?
 
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