MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

[Agent Splat]

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Wasn't it Forester? "The cooling of the medulla leads to apnea in the anesthetized goat" (it may not be the medulla) He does talk with a great accent -- especially when Marty and Cameron mimic it.

I couldn't stand lung phys. My worst test was still Block 1 with Block 4 being a close 2nd.

i thought this was doctor forrester....

 

[Ashers]

i thought this was doctor forrester....

Maybe that's why i think that name sounds familiar.

When was the last time you bowed to me?

EDIT: Lung dude = Forster.
I just saw the first lecture after exams for M1s is by Cirillo. There's a neat game to play when she lectures -- count how many times she said "Um" in the lecture and then find the average/min (I think I got 34/min in 1 lecture). To make it more fun, add "likes" and stuff like that.

 

[Agent Splat]

Maybe that's why i think that name sounds familiar.

When was the last time you bowed to me?

EDIT: Lung dude = Forster.
I just saw the first lecture after exams for M1s is by Cirillo. There's a neat game to play when she lectures -- count how many times she said "Um" in the lecture and then find the average/min (I think I got 34/min in 1 lecture). To make it more fun, add "likes" and stuff like that.

even more fun...make it a drinking game.

 

[Ashers]

even more fun...make it a drinking game.

That can be done at home when listening to the lectures on mp3 while "studying."

 

[akpete]

even more fun...make it a drinking game.

That was my first thought when reading Ashleigh's post.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Maybe that's why i think that name sounds familiar.

When was the last time you bowed to me?

EDIT: Lung dude = Forster.
I just saw the first lecture after exams for M1s is by Cirillo. There's a neat game to play when she lectures -- count how many times she said "Um" in the lecture and then find the average/min (I think I got 34/min in 1 lecture). To make it more fun, add "likes" and stuff like that.

That was one of my favorite lectures last year. I had a fiendishly good time turning her obvious discomfort with public speaking into a parlor game for the students around me. Now if only I had been more organized I could have turned it into a Las Vegas style gambling ring...

 

[Ashers]

That was one of my favorite lectures last year. I had a fiendishly good time turning her obvious discomfort with public speaking into a parlor game for the students around me. Now if only I had been more organized I could have turned it into a Las Vegas style gambling ring...

I think I was too busy trying to take notes with my right hand while making a tally with my left hand to be creative.

I love it when people come to school and set off the fire alarm. It the library we've got lots of strobe lights. All I need to do is have the put back on the screechy noises they made at the beginning, start up my Swedish techno with a scottish accent and get a fog machine. It'd be great.

 

[45408]

They have 74 runs so I guess you could spend a day there.

Take a look at the trail map - they'd call my driveway a ski run if necessary. But you could spend a day there easily.

 

[Agent Splat]

heyguysijustdrankalotofcoffeeandifeelgreeaaaaaat!!!!!how'sitgoingwhat'supholycowilovehowfastmyheartisgoingwaitit'sgoinglike234bpm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SVTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Agent Splat]

hey...anyone up for some booty shooting after exams?

 

[Gimlet]

booty shooting

Explain, please.

 

[Agent Splat]

Explain, please.

it could very well be on Tuesday's test. you better know it.

 

[akpete]

Ha, I just finished that lecture.

 

[Agent Splat]

Ha, I just finished that lecture.

i don't really call it a lecture per se. it was more like overdosing on LSD and then sitting through the keynote speaker at a Random Thoughts International Committee Convention

 

[akpete]

i don't really call it a lecture per se. it was more like overdosing on LSD and then sitting through the keynote speaker at a Random Thoughts International Committee Convention

Yeah, I actually listened to it. And by listened, I mean stared off into space for the last hour.

I think I'll go to bed now. That guy pretty much zapped out all my energy and ambition.

 

[Agent Splat]

Yeah, I actually listened to it. And by listened, I mean stared off into space for the last hour.

I think I'll go to bed now. That guy pretty much zapped out all my energy and ambition.

he zapped me with a booty shot.

 

[Ashers]

You have an exam tomorrow?


Does physiology continue to be mainly conceptual?


What is a good field of medicine to go into when nobody takes you seriously? I was trying to tell my interviewing class that they've created a birth control pill for men but they just laughed it off. Maybe it is because my west coast accent makes me sound like a surfer.

Path tomorrow, pharm wednesday -- shoot me.

Emergency medicine. They don't really have to know much other than who's on call for the main problem.

 

[akpete]

You have an exam tomorrow?

Hence why we all had such an exciting saturday night going the other day.

 

[Gimlet]

path and pharm? holy crap. From what I've heard those must be some tough courses.

Good luck!

I'm predicting a repeat of my Block 2 path performance tomorrow. Pharm is scary, too. Since it's a written exam, if you don't know the answer you don't get the question right. No lucky guessing = bad for Andy.

 

[Gimlet]

Ok, I'm turning my computer off again. It was off this morning and I got great studying done for the first time all semester. I'm such an internet addict...seriously, I think clicking links and refreshing pages releases dopamine and serotonin in my brain.

 

[Gimlet]

Do path and pharm make up a lot of the step 1 exam? I know the questions are randomly selected from a question pool but surely the USMLE people don't want a test randomly generated with zero questions from any given subject. Right?

I'm not sure of the exact breakdown, but Path is highly represented on the test. I think a lot of the questions nowadays are integrated across subjects, too, so you have to draw from knowledge in anatomy, devo, physiology, path, biochem, and pharm to answer the question.

edit: I don't know the details of your block 2 path performance. Hopefully it did not involve you crossing pathology off your list of possible specialties

No, block 1 pathology crossed it off my list, but not because of anything to do with my score. I straight-up failed block 2, though.

REALLY turning my computer off this time.

 

[Ashers]

Every path lecture or path experience makes me put a heavier line through path as a career choice. Nothing to do with my performance. I think the autopsy solidified it in the black one of these:

 

[Agent Splat]

Path tomorrow, pharm wednesday -- shoot me.

Emergency medicine. They don't really have to know much other than who's on call for the main problem.

first off, we DON'T have to know who's on call...that's the nurse's job.

secondly, we ARE the main factor in deciding if you get to sleep at 3am or not, so watch it, buster. That case of gout just might "accidentally" be diagnosed as an ACL tear.

 

[Agent Splat]

Every path lecture or path experience makes me put a heavier line through path as a career choice. Nothing to do with my performance. I think the autopsy solidified it in the black one of these:

those smell SO DAMN GOOD

 

[Ashers]

first off, we DON'T have to know who's on call...that's the nurse's job.

secondly, we ARE the main factor in deciding if you get to sleep at 3am or not, so watch it, buster. That case of gout just might "accidentally" be diagnosed as an ACL tear.

My bad... your job stress was just decreased by not knowing who's on call.

😉

 

[45408]

those smell SO DAMN GOOD

I preferred the sweet scent of gasoline when I was younger.

 

[DoctorFunk]

I preferred the sweet scent of gasoline when I was younger.

Um...yeah. We had a pretty good idea...

 

[donnyfire]

I'm not sure of the exact breakdown, but Path is highly represented on the test. I think a lot of the questions nowadays are integrated across subjects, too, so you have to draw from knowledge in anatomy, devo, physiology, path, biochem, and pharm to answer the question.

I felt that a lot of the questions would integrate knowledge from two or three areas. For example, you are reading the question stem, and thinking you know what the disease process is, but when you get to the answer choices, you are asked something like "which of the following would be the most appropriate choice for the treatment of the above condition". So in this case, you would have to both figure out the disease, and then know the best treatment for it.

Said differently, there is a lot of multi step reasoning. For the most part it usually wasn't enough to simply know a list of facts to be regurgitated (although those did show up occasionally). I also felt that I had a lot of biochem and psych questions, but that may just be a recall bias.

props to the booty shooters

 

[DoctorFunk]

I think I finally realized why medicine drew me in: Schadenfreude.

I wish I could go back and rewrite my personal statement based on that revelation.

 

[Agent Splat]

I think I finally realized why medicine drew me in: Schadenfreude.

I wish I could go back and rewrite my personal statement based on that revelation.

i think my personal statement would have talked about death and the horrors of life or something like that if I were to rewrite it. Hell, for undergrad my application essay mentioned something about me putting black Xs over people in my high school yearbook, and I still got accepted to a pretty nice school.

Something to think about for residency applications, I guess....
"...holding his hand, frozen into a tight fist from rigor mortis, reminded me that none of us are any more alive now than he was at that moment."

 

[Ashers]

Well, I finally quit procrastinating and scheduled my boards for 7 June -- that just stimulated a whole bunch of adrenergic receptors.

 

[Gimlet]

hey...anyone up for some booty shooting after exams?

Explain, please.

it could very well be on Tuesday's test. you better know it.

Finally figured out what this is. Hopefully I don't booty shoot the test tomorrow!

Also, if you google "booty shooting," it doesn't return any hits related to suppository use, so you know that this isn't a real slang term. Similarly, the Urban Dictionary entries for "Bum Nuts" describe them as being more akin to dingleberries than anything related to drug use.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Finally figured out what this is. Hopefully I don't booty shoot the test tomorrow!

Also, if you google "booty shooting," it doesn't return any hits related to suppository use, so you know that this isn't a real slang term. Similarly, the Urban Dictionary entries for "Bum Nuts" describe them as being more akin to dingleberries than anything related to drug use.

Maybe I can convince that lecturer for next year's powerpoint that the new hit slang for suppositories is "deez nutz" and that the "in" way to ask if someone wants to use the drugs is "Hey, wanna hop on 'deez nutz'?"

 

[Agent Splat]

put deez nutz in your rectum? hahaha

i think that's illegal

 

[indo]

Isn't rectum one of those redneck words?

For example, "hey man, what happened to your 3-wheelers?"

"Rectum."

 

[akpete]

101 people did research and received funding. A lot of people got departmental funding. I'm not aware of anyone who didn't get a stipend.

However, I tried to get a research spot in a certain area, and ended up with no research at all. So now I've gotta figure out how to fit something in between now and residency applications - since I like competitive stuff it's practically required. Unless I absolutely ace the boards...

A bitter subject for me...sorry. But on the plus side, I'm the only one I know of that wanted to do research and ended up not.

 

[45408]

Isn't rectum one of those redneck words?

For example, "hey man, what happened to your 3-wheelers?"

"Rectum."

rectum? damn near kilt 'em!

 

[45408]

I opted not to do research. I have no interest in it.

 

[Agent Splat]

I opted not to do research. I have no interest in it.

you are a good man. feel free to come talk to me about your decision any time.

 

[DoctorFunk]

I opted not to do research. I have no interest in it.

There go your chances of getting into medical school/AOA/residency X/fellowship Y/Cap'n Crunch's Secret Decoder Club/Carmen Elektra's pants.

 

[Agent Splat]

There go your chances of getting into medical school/AOA/residency X/fellowship Y/Cap'n Crunch's Secret Decoder Club/Carmen Elektra's pants.

but he's probably still got a shot at getting into Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 

[Agent Splat]

but he's probably still got a shot at getting into Her Majesty's Secret Service.

or Her Majesty's Pants.

 

[45408]

Carmen Elektra's pants.

I already bought those on eBay.

 

[DoctorFunk]

I already bought those on eBay.

Cool. They should come in handy for your Micro lab next year.

 

[Agent Splat]

I would just like to say that we filmed our sex history tape today. One of the outtakes includes the line "everyone will be saying, 'Hey, there goes James Brown, the homo!!'"

 

[indo]

Wow. That'll be better than those quotes from Waynes World that some people still use.

 

[Agent Splat]

we can't let this dream die here, guys!! not at that point of me saying something I thought was funnier than it was, and indo sarcastically calling me on it!!!!

 

[Gimlet]

we can't let this dream die here, guys!! not at that point of me saying something I thought was funnier than it was, and indo sarcastically calling me on it!!!!

too late. you killed the thread.

 

[Agent Splat]

too late. you killed the thread.

i'll kill you, brat. then i'll EAT YOUR SOUL.

 

[samenewme]

i'll kill you, brat. then i'll EAT YOUR SOUL.

You've been saying that for a long time now. Surely his soul has passed it's "best if used by" date now. Look, they've changed the packaging and everything.