MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

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lololololololololololololololololol.
[steel drum] hot hot hot!
 
that test was exciting. I especially liked how we had a dress code just to take a test that doesn't matter.
 
TheProwler said:
that test was exciting. I especially liked how we had a dress code just to take a test that doesn't matter.
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What fun! I hardly flunked at all! I 'fessed up on the way in to having cough drops and tissues, but they decided that was okay as long as I didn't have a hoodie. I SO wish I'd worn a hoodie and gotten thrown out.
 
yikes. I felt like the test was a lot of trigger words. I remembered that the trigger words were trigger words but I couldn't remember what they were for. hah.

I saw a handful of the score print outs and it looked like everyone was stradling the "borderline" line. Whatever that is worth.

How'd the scores look last year?
 
By the way, you can log back into the site and see your eval so you don't have to pick it up. I never exited the test somehow, so I can't actually print it, but I don't really need to.
 
indo said:
yikes. I felt like the test was a lot of trigger words. I remembered that the trigger words were trigger words but I couldn't remember what they were for. hah.

I saw a handful of the score print outs and it looked like everyone was stradling the "borderline" line. Whatever that is worth.

How'd the scores look last year?
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I think we took a different version of a practice Step 1 test. I seem to recall the test being only 50 questions or so (which I think is less than what you guys took). Correct me if I'm wrong on either count.
 
This one now told me I did NOT suck at biochem. HAHAHAHAHA. However, I did suck more than anyone in the world at anatomy.
 
DoctorFunk said:
I think we took a different version of a practice Step 1 test. I seem to recall the test being only 50 questions or so (which I think is less than what you guys took). Correct me if I'm wrong on either count.
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yeah, this was 200 questions and like four hours long
 
TheProwler said:
yeah, this was 200 questions and like four hours long
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Only I called it good a little after 2 hours. Not that it was good, but I had answered all the questions and had had enough fun.

Despite my misgivings, I wish I had gotten a better score on the mock test with limited predictive value. I am sick, and stressed, and have studying to do, and this was not a good day for an ego smackdown, even though my ego is trying to pretend it doesn't mean anything to it.
 
At least you know you'll pass without much studying. There was plenty of material we haven't covered yet from pharm and path (breast pathology for example).
 
indo said:
At least you know you'll pass without much studying. There was plenty of material we haven't covered yet from pharm and path (breast pathology for example).
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Plus perhaps I will go back and learn some anatomy. I thought I had that brachial plexus down, finally, but no. It keeps slipping from my grasp. Ulnar and medial nerves, right? No, don't tell me. You'll just make me sad.
 
ummm. I thought it was radial. ER= extensors radial. I dunno.
 
oh, yeah, wrong question maybe.
 
indo said:
oh, yeah, wrong question maybe.
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That's where I messed you up. I was referring to my own comment about things "slipping from my grasp." Self-referential humor is my favorite kind, because it's all about me.

See? It was actually really funny. Humerus. Wait, what nerve runs there? OOOOH, my brain hurts.
 
man, I get so much more done when I get dropped off at school at 6:30am rather than sleeping until noon, getting out of bed at 1, rolling into school by 2:30.....
 
Oh, fan-f*cking-tastic. It looks like two people I went to church with as I was growing up might be getting deported, one of whom is a pharmacy student at Madison. We have low-life gangbangers that are illegal immigrants in Milwaukee, but we go after the people that we should be TRYING to keep in the US? This country really pisses me off sometimes.

Link to the article in today's paper - http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=733990
 
that sucks
 
anyone doing the anesthesiology resident assistant job program thing?
 
indo said:
anyone doing the anesthesiology resident assistant job program thing?
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Still thinking about it...I need to find out how flexible they are in terms of scheduling for months when you have call on a rotation. It would seriously suck to add 3 extra calls onto a busy Sub-I month where you are on q4 call already.
 
Gimlet said:
Still thinking about it...I need to find out how flexible they are in terms of scheduling for months when you have call on a rotation. It would seriously suck to add 3 extra calls onto a busy Sub-I month where you are on q4 call already.
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I have thought about it, but not sure how practical it is as an m4. For the reason above, and also, what about away months and when you're interviewing.

It sounds like a good thing though. Perhaps better for m2s and m3s.
 
Gimlet said:
Still thinking about it...I need to find out how flexible they are in terms of scheduling for months when you have call on a rotation. It would seriously suck to add 3 extra calls onto a busy Sub-I month where you are on q4 call already.
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I'd bet they're pretty flexible but I'm wondering if the money is worth having those extra nights. It sounds like it would be a decent way to get to know a lot of the anesthesiology department if you wanted to stay at MCW for anesthesiology.

Speaking of that, did you see that MCW matched 20 4th years into anesthesiology? Did they get that many last year?
 
indo said:
I'd bet they're pretty flexible but I'm wondering if the money is worth having those extra nights. It sounds like it would be a decent way to get to know a lot of the anesthesiology department if you wanted to stay at MCW for anesthesiology.

Speaking of that, did you see that MCW matched 20 4th years into anesthesiology? Did they get that many last year?
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I don't remember what they did last year, but yeah, 20 is awesome. And 8 at MCW, which is higher than usual. We have ~30 interested in anesthesiology in the Class of 2009. 😱

The resident assistant program definitely wouldn't be worth doing for the money. It basically works out to $100 per shift...you get $500 per shift moonlighting in the Birth Center as an anesthesiology resident, so there isn't a huge incentive there. But the networking you would get with the program would be the reason to do it. I'd say for people looking to stay in Milwaukee it would be a very good idea.
 
I could pass a multiple choice Pharm test right now.

Too bad we're not getting one. Also, how come patients don't come in with multiple choice illnesses? I could so ace being a doctor then!
 
samenewme said:
I could pass a multiple choice Pharm test right now.

Too bad we're not getting one. Also, how come patients don't come in with multiple choice illnesses? I could so ace being a doctor then!
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They do! It's called differential diagnosis! And the best part is YOU choose the answer choices! Always include "other" to wastebasket the patient into malingering or fibromyalgia.
 
Agent Splat said:
They do! It's called differential diagnosis! And the best part is YOU choose the answer choices! Always include "other" to wastebasket the patient into malingering or fibromyalgia.
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I can totally see Dr. Mattson formulating a differential dx: All of the following DON'T include possible causes for the symptoms the patient is NOT having EXCEPT:

A. minimal change disease
B. FSGS
C. ATN
D. fibromyalgia
E. A and B
F. B and C
G. All of the above except C
H. H
I. None of the above
J. All of the above including I
 
Atleast it's only A-J and not A-Q with random lines drawn on a graph. Can't wait for path!
 
Please tell me that the owner of that black turbo Porsche out there in the parking lot is NOT a student.


pharm is teh suk.
 
indo said:
Please tell me that the owner of that black turbo Porsche out there in the parking lot is NOT a student.


pharm is teh suk.
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pretty sure it's not. but the black Solstice does belong to a student, I think. Not sure who.
 
I'm actually more annoyed with the path than the pharm right now, except too freaking many drugs in this block begin with "c". I'm happy with my staid old Camry except for the dent.

The closest thing to a sports car I've ever driven was an Opel GT with a street-sport camshaft in it (which I think ruined it; it just made the thing stall and you had to double-clutch to get it into second as it was and then with the camshaft you had to ride the gas in neutral at intersections and the whole thing was a pain).
 
Back in high school I worked for an auto detailer that did a lot of work for a nearby Porsche dealer. I would often get "lost" when driving the cars back to the lot. 😀
 
I want to see one of these in the parking lot:

http://www.cplracing.co.uk/htmlarea/uploaded/Turbo%20atom%20finished%20002.jpg
 
that thing has a turbocharged honda civic 1.6L...200 HP or so. Look at the size of those break rotors...that car must only weigh 800 lbs too.
 
indo said:
that thing has a turbocharged honda civic 1.6L...200 HP or so. Look at the size of those break rotors...that car must only weigh 800 lbs too.
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It weighs a thousand pounds (sans driver, I think), but it's 300hp with the supercharger, and I guess they just came out with a 500hp V8 for it. I think 500hp is probably too much, but if you had 300hp or so, you'd crush almost anything off the line. Look up the Top Gear videos of Clarkson driving it (it's an Ariel Atom). The handling is amazing.


here's the vid
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWoo82zNUA[/YOUTUBE]
 
TheProwler said:
Oh, fan-f*cking-tastic. It looks like two people I went to church with as I was growing up might be getting deported, one of whom is a pharmacy student at Madison. We have low-life gangbangers that are illegal immigrants in Milwaukee, but we go after the people that we should be TRYING to keep in the US? This country really pisses me off sometimes.

Link to the article in today's paper - http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=733990
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That freaking sucks! It is unfortunate how the resources of this country are being used to pursue frivolous issues. Here, we have a law abiding student gradually developing into a responsible citizen of a country she loves and adores, but she is being distracted from something important for no cogent reason(s).

May GOD bless America!
 
TheProwler said:
What's a well-equipped guy supposed to drive? a Geo Metro?
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In order of increasing well-equipedness:

1. Useless mosquito car shown above
2a. Anything that rhymes with "Hamborghini"
2b. Hummer H2 or H3.
3. Huffy mountain bike
4. Hybrids
5. Jeep Cherokee (green)
 
Agent Splat said:
In order of increasing well-equipedness:

1. Useless mosquito car shown above
2a. Anything that rhymes with "Hamborghini"
2b. Hummer H2 or H3.
3. Huffy mountain bike
4. Hybrids
5. Jeep Cherokee (green)
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*wipes a tear away from his post-call eye*
 
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