MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

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I wonder what percentage I need to get on the final to not fail micro.
 
following today's comedy routine/urology lecture in surgery curriculum today, I think I see why donnyfuego went into urology.


"When a man comes to you holding his penis, and it is not attached, there is something wrong with that scenario." And that was just the mild stuff.
 
indo said:
I wonder what percentage I need to get on the final to not fail micro.
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You're probably the only person in the whole class who has not already performed that calculation at least once or twice.
 
I have decided that any questions having anything to do with that funkydo gene cartoon and immunoglobulin, I'm just going to answer, "B". You saw it here first.

If the answer turns out to actually BE "B", I will laugh and laugh and laugh and I want you all to visit me on the psych ward.
 
samenewme said:
You're probably the only person in the whole class who has not already performed that calculation at least once or twice.
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i never did that. partially because i didn't know how and I didn't want to waste time figuring it out, and partially because I hated having some "minimum" score (besides the border between low pass and fail) hanging over me.


that and I never get less than a 100% on any test.
 
I figured it out last year. I think I needed an 80 to keep my grade and a 50 to keep 1 grade below. Yay for buffers. I think the test is only like 30% of the class, and there's like 150Q on it... or maybe 80. I forget that detail, however many, it was a lot. Probably related to the fact that I watched all 3 seasons of Arrested Development in the days before and I couldn't sleep the night before, and I barely studied (compared to my general studying strategy). I showed up at school at like 5:30am, and I think Splat had tried some of the weird vitamin B drink. I fell asleep during the test too.

Obviously my priorities were not with micro. I also missed more immuno questions than anything else, probably due to not studying that at all.

Ahhh.... micro, good times. When I was actually capable of studying, unlike right now, when I no longer can.

Any tips from anyone for CPR? Like maybe to motivate me?
 
Ashers said:
Any tips from anyone for CPR? Like maybe to motivate me?
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I wouldn't know - haven't gotten my grade yet so I don't know if I did well on the test or not. I still haven't gotten my ENT grade from October, either.

The test was pretty much like a 1st or 2nd year test where they expected you to have memorized random tidbits from the lectures. Make sure you know what makes someone NPO or not, otherwise I'm having a hard time recalling topics they tested.
 
Ashers said:
Any tips from anyone for CPR? Like maybe to motivate me?
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CPR is the most ******ed rotation of all the rotations. But if you act even mildly interested, all the attendings will basically love you. At least all the ones I worked with. At least the hours are good, and you don't really have to study. Which hospital are you at?
 
TheProwler said:
I can get a 46% and still pass the class...
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Here's my $0.02 regarding the micro final: at least when I took it, I thought it was a lot easier than the other block exams. I totally overstudied for it when I should have been studying path, then ended up doing badly on the path test and spent the entire next semester trying to catch up.
 
achybrachy said:
Here's my $0.02 regarding the micro final: at least when I took it, I thought it was a lot easier than the other block exams. I totally overstudied for it when I should have been studying path, then ended up doing badly on the path test and spent the entire next semester trying to catch up.
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I will be so very happy if tomorrow's final is just a little bit easy, because I am feeling just a little bit underprepared.
 
Agent Splat said:
following today's comedy routine/urology lecture in surgery curriculum today, I think I see why donnyfuego went into urology.


"When a man comes to you holding his penis, and it is not attached, there is something wrong with that scenario." And that was just the mild stuff.
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The best kept secret in surgery. 👍

Did Langenstroer give the lecture again? He's hilarious.
 
achybrachy said:
But if you act even mildly interested, all the attendings will basically love you.
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achybrachy said:
Here's my $0.02 regarding the micro final: at least when I took it, I thought it was a lot easier than the other block exams.
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Agreed on both points.

CPR drove me nuts because I constantly wanted to be on the other side of the drape.
 
donnyfire said:
The best kept secret in surgery. 👍

Did Langenstroer give the lecture again? He's hilarious.
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Indeed it did. It was funny as hell.

Even better: the next lecture was seriously given by a Dr. Pecker.
 
donnyfire said:
Agreed on both points.

CPR drove me nuts because I constantly wanted to be on the other side of the drape.
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That's how I feel anytime I see an ambulance coming into the hospital...I'd rather be on that side of the game.
 
achybrachy said:
CPR is the most ******ed rotation of all the rotations. But if you act even mildly interested, all the attendings will basically love you. At least all the ones I worked with. At least the hours are good, and you don't really have to study. Which hospital are you at?
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I"m at Froedtert East where I generally watch ortho cases, with an occasional oral-maxillofacial or GS2 case.

donnyfire said:
Agreed on both points.

CPR drove me nuts because I constantly wanted to be on the other side of the drape.
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I scrubbed into a case last week. One of the ortho trauma residents asked if I could because they were really short staffed and it was a case where they needed extra hands, so I asked my attending (Henry Liu). He knew I wanted to do ortho because I met him while I was on ortho trauma last month.

My attending's really nice, and he's been trying to convince me to go into anesthesia every day.
 
donnyfire said:
Is there a helicopter in your future then?
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Hehe, that was my question too. I think my ideal job would be an ER on wheels 😀 I like arriving on scene and having only one patient (usually/hopefully) and I like being the one who makes the decisions, but I hate the limited abilities I have to diagnose.
 
Ashers said:
My attending's really nice, and he's been trying to convince me to go into anesthesia every day.
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Yeah, at the end of my rotation my attending sat me down in her office and gave me a long "why I think you are particluarly suited to anesthesia" lecture as I nodded and bit my tongue to keep from saying "Sure, I've also been considering driving spikes under all my toenails and taking off all my skin with a cheese-grater."

No offense to anyone who likes anesthesia, of course. :d
 
We all have our own preferences...

Mmm... cheese....
 
achybrachy said:
Yeah, at the end of my rotation my attending sat me down in her office and gave me a long "why I think you are particluarly suited to anesthesia" lecture as I nodded and bit my tongue to keep from saying "Sure, I've also been considering driving spikes under all my toenails and taking off all my skin with a cheese-grater."

No offense to anyone who likes anesthesia, of course. :d
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How do you really feel though? 😉
 
i'm really bummed about being done with surgery. this whole "do it in nov/dec thing to keep it short" really backfired on me. never thought I'd like it so much.


I also didn't think I'd look so dang sexy in the surgical gown.

note to yet-to-be surgery students: half size higher biogel gloves first, then your normal sized regular white gloves. (in other words, i wear a 7 and a half glove...so i wear 8 biogel, and 7 1/2 white over that)

biogel gloves are like sex, only it's your fingers. i have lots of coffee right now. and ritalin. it's not working.
 
Don't worry, you get more surgery on GYN. Yay! And also with your elective, depending on what you have (too lazy to search and see if you've mentioned it somewhere else).

I already told Andy this once today, but I would like to reiterate that fourth year is fun!
 
I wear 7 1/2 ortho and 8 white (orthos 1st). I've gotten into so many discussions with techs, and 1 argument (while on OB/gyn) that, yes, my hands really are that big. On OB/gyn the tech was adament that only guys wore 7.5, and there was no way I could. Another tech was like "You don't have man hands!" All thanks to my "surgeon's fingers" that my mom told me I had when I was in 2nd grade, and I was like "but I don't want to be a surgeon!"

Apparently, the Dert's gonna stop carrying Biogel gloves sometime in the relatively near future. Or so some discussions with my attending and the scrub techs went last month during surgery.
 
Xandie said:
Don't worry, you get more surgery on GYN. Yay! And also with your elective, depending on what you have (too lazy to search and see if you've mentioned it somewhere else).

I already told Andy this once today, but I would like to reiterate that fourth year is fun!
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She also gives great advice about vacation months and is a fabulous distraction when your preceptor is late for PBL.

Splat is doing radiology, I buhleeve.
 
Ashers said:
I wear 7 1/2 ortho and 8 white (orthos 1st). I've gotten into so many discussions with techs, and 1 argument (while on OB/gyn) that, yes, my hands really are that big. On OB/gyn the tech was adament that only guys wore 7.5, and there was no way I could. Another tech was like "You don't have man hands!" All thanks to my "surgeon's fingers" that my mom told me I had when I was in 2nd grade, and I was like "but I don't want to be a surgeon!"

Apparently, the Dert's gonna stop carrying Biogel gloves sometime in the relatively near future. Or so some discussions with my attending and the scrub techs went last month during surgery.
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I wear a 7 white....way to make me feel emasculated. 🙁 The only time I've ever double-gloved my fingers got all numb during the surgery. I think I was wearing a 7.5 white over a 7 white. Was I doing it wrong? I should probably start making it a habit to double glove right away, since I've already had one needlestick in the OR.

I'm anal about not having wrinkles in my gloves, so finding the right combo will be key for me. The 4th year I was on ENT with always wore 8.5 whites, which were clearly FAR too big for his hands. I never understood how he could stand having his gloves flop around on his hands like that. He was going into FP, though, so I guess it doesn't matter.
 
Gimlet said:
I wear a 7 white....way to make me feel emasculated. 🙁 The only time I've ever double-gloved my fingers got all numb during the surgery. I think I was wearing a 7.5 white over a 7 white. Was I doing it wrong? I should probably start making it a habit to double glove right away, since I've already had one needlestick in the OR.

I'm anal about not having wrinkles in my gloves, so finding the right combo will be key for me. The 4th year I was on ENT with always wore 8.5 whites, which were clearly FAR too big for his hands. I never understood how he could stand having his gloves flop around on his hands like that. He was going into FP, though, so I guess it doesn't matter.
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I have some wrinkles in my gloves in both sizes. However, the only glove that ever fit perfectly was a brand they don't carry at the dert and carried at St. Mary's (Neutralon). However, when I wear a 7 ortho, my hands hurt so bad, that I nearly faint, and 2 7.5s feel uncomfortable too. So, my best bet is to go with wrinkles, and the bigger whites than I need, so I don't cut off the circulation to my hands, and so I can do stuff with my hands in surgery. I had issues during the one case I wore both 7.5s to appease the scrub tech after scrubbing with him a few times.
 
if froedtert gets rid of the biogel i will start fires.
 
Agent Splat said:
if froedtert gets rid of the biogel i will start fires.
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milton1.jpg
 
achybrachy said:
That's my toddler's favorite song. He'll go over to the stereo whenever he wants to hear it (like 6 times a day) and start yelling HI HO HI HO.
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When I was in elementary school, my dad taught me

Hi ho, hi ho,
It's off to school I go
I'll learn some junk
And then I'll flunk
Hi ho, hi ho, etc

I still have that running through my head on test days.

Agent Splat said:
if froedtert gets rid of the biogel i will start fires.
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donnyfire said:
milton1.jpg
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LOL!!! Ok, that actually made me feel a little bit better after my crappy start to the day. I have a new loathing of fog.
 
donnyfire said:
milton1.jpg
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later during this month i was hoping for another opportunity to use the stapler in the OR, because I was planning on making some kind of red swingline comment. too bad the opportunity never came up.
 
He's not a redhead? Sad...

And now, if we're showing pictures..

Starandpony.jpg

My little sister at the zoo in August.
 
I don't wish it was still August, only because I would have to do all these interviews and boards again. Boo hiss.

My sister is celebrating the holidays with her new adoptive family... my Mom is having a bit of a rough time. I, however, and LOOOVING being Jewish today. No presents, I'm only as out of money as usual, and I don't have to hate amateur shoppers. Fantastic!
 
Agent Splat said:
later during this month i was hoping for another opportunity to use the stapler in the OR, because I was planning on making some kind of red swingline comment. too bad the opportunity never came up.
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Not many people in the OR get the reference.
 
akpete said:
I'll be glad to help. I wear 7 biogels. Never double-gloved. Didn't feel the need.
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You'll need to double glove in ortho. The basically make you. Since those were the first surgeries I ever scrubbed in on (b/w M1 and M2 year), it was weird in OB/gyn when the stupid scrub tech Jeremy at St. Mary's told us not to double glove. Then attendings would get annoyed if we didn't while we were the uterine manipulators because we couldn't tie then because we were dirty.
 
Ashers said:
You'll need to double glove in ortho. The basically make you. Since those were the first surgeries I ever scrubbed in on (b/w M1 and M2 year), it was weird in OB/gyn when the stupid scrub tech Jeremy at St. Mary's told us not to double glove. Then attendings would get annoyed if we didn't while we were the uterine manipulators because we couldn't tie then because we were dirty.
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Awesome band name alert!!
 
Agent Splat said:
Awesome band name alert!!
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Funny, because for some reason whenever people called it a "RUMI" I always thought they were saying "roomie" which for some reason made me thing of "roadies" and "groupies."

I just looked on wikipedia to see what RUMI means and it gave me an article about Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi. Hmmm.
 
I'm just bumping the thread because, um, because 2010 is a cool class? And I would otherwise be cleaning my apartment.
 
My personal New Year's Resolution: Less bloodshed. Too busy to clean up after myself.
 
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