A small milestone for my classmates....

[rachmoninov3]

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We are half-way there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By half way there, I'm talking about the portion of our medical school lives that is devoted to sitting in a lecture hall, force feeding our minds the knowledge necessary to get those psuedo-grades (Outstanding, Good, and Satisfactory...we're a pass/fail school) and pass step one.
There are 7 'blocks' of preclincal subjects, and we're about to finish the 4th block. Since each block is made of varying number of weeks, I counted them up, and realized that we just completed block 26 of 52 preclinical weeks! (class weeks, not counting vacations)

Yippppeeeeeee this is like completing the first 1.2 miles of the 2.4 mile swim of the ironman triathalon! Yeah, I know it's not much, there's still step 1, the clinical years, and residency to go, but it's nice to know we're half way through the first event!



So tip back that power beer (oooops, powerbar) my friends!

 

[MattD]

I know how you feel, we've got like 8 weeks left before our "summer vacation" (study for and take Step 1), then we finally get to go do some work. W00t!

 

[Coconut45]

Finally a happy thread! I needed a break from pre-meds telling us how callous we are and how our venting on SDN is driving them to reconsider medicine.

It is exciting to be (almost) half-way through preclinical years. But, damn, I don't really feel like I know anything...been managing to fill in those little bubble sheets somehow though. Congrats to everyone whether you're honoring it all or barely scrapin' by.

 

[lilnoelle]

Yep, and it was a quick. I'm excited to be going into clinical rotations next year and feel like there is an end in sight. Its not going to be too long till we're doctors!

I'm not too excited about Step 1 though.

 

[rachmoninov3]

It gets worse...

You know all this stuff that we seem to memorize and then forget? Especially all the dry stuff from anatomy? Specifically, my first exam ever in med school contained a question about what nerve provides sensation between the two most medial toes...never in a million years did I think I'd ever use that information. I can't believe it, but yesterday at clinic, I actually used it!

A woman had a box fall on the dorsum of her left foot, and had tingling and pain between her two most medial toes! OMG, it's the common fibular nerve! Worse yet, it's the Adelta fibers that are being stimulated by the inflammation around the injury! Even worse, she's not getting any relief from tylenol because it's not an NSAID....

Just goes to show you that even with the amount of kicking and screaming that we do, we are learning, and that some day, we will be physicians.

 

[Tristy]

Yay!!! 😀 So exciting!!! 😀 OMG I can't keep smiling just by the mere thought of it!! 😀 I'll be an MSIII soon and I just can't wait to start my rotations!! It's going to be so awsome! Wow!, screw the first two years and having your own schedule, I'm ready to be somebody's b!tch in 4 months!

This is what I've been waiting for No more sleeping in, no more skipping class, no more of anything! (except for maybe considering a harakiri) I'm a full blown masochist and I am counting the days to the first day of the end of my life as I know it 😀

Wohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ashers]

It gets worse...

You know all this stuff that we seem to memorize and then forget? Especially all the dry stuff from anatomy? Specifically, my first exam ever in med school contained a question about what nerve provides sensation between the two most medial toes...never in a million years did I think I'd ever use that information. I can't believe it, but yesterday at clinic, I actually used it!

A woman had a box fall on the dorsum of her left foot, and had tingling and pain between her two most medial toes! OMG, it's the common fibular nerve! Worse yet, it's the Adelta fibers that are being stimulated by the inflammation around the injury! Even worse, she's not getting any relief from tylenol because it's not an NSAID....

Just goes to show you that even with the amount of kicking and screaming that we do, we are learning, and that some day, we will be physicians.

What?! That stuff's not dry. 😉 But then, I'm going into ortho. I had to use that anatomy every day for a month on the rotation.

Dry = biochem or all the minutae from neuro.

Actually, when you get on the wards, you'll be amazed at how much of the dry minutae are actually pertinent. I've said, "I knew that once" to myself more times than I'd care to admit.