MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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akpete said:
The cap for honors on medicine is 40%. I guess I didn't think of that as stingy, but maybe it is...i dunno.

Team dinners - that was an excellent part of medicine. Both my attendings hosted a team dinner. And since they were both Indian, we got yummy Indian food both times.
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But that doesn't mean the top 40% of the scores got honors, it just means that was the cap he was instructed to work with. Which means he set the percentage needed to get honors higher this year (probably higher than it needs to be to reach that cap) compared to last year.

Overall, I'm fairly sure that peds is probably still the harder course to get honors in, but I knew plenty of people that were straight-honor types in the first 2 yrs that missed it on medicine.
 
eh, its a crapshoot.
 
You know what's awesome? Not worrying about grades anymore.

That being said, I have a slightly different thought process about ambulatory medicine as a fourth year. If you have it at the beginning of the year, it's probably fine, but at the end of fourth year... I would rather be learning on a wards month than doing fun things like Clinica Latina (where I mostly functioned as a translator for OTHER THIRD YEARS) and asthma clinic. Then again, my standard advice applies: It doesn't really matter.

Edit: I had inpatient at the VA, then outpatient at Sargeant (one of my top three months as a third year), Geriatrics at the VA, and then my sub-I at Froedtert. My co-sub-I had Froedtert as her third year inpatient, and also as our sub-I. My best friend had VA and ambulatory, then did Cards at the VA and ended up with his sub-I at Luke's. In April. So, the rules are not hard and fast.
 
Yes and yes, but they're not grades.
 
Ugh, the whiners upstairs can dish out the noise, but they sure can't take it. I hear banging and clunking around as I'm trying to do some Qbank, so I turn on my music so I don't have to listen to Junior bouncing off the walls.

Mom comes down shortly thereafter saying he's trying to sleep. Yeah right he's trying to sleep. He's making a ton of noise.
 
Samenewme, which half marathon did you run?
 
TheProwler said:
Ugh, the whiners upstairs can dish out the noise, but they sure can't take it. I hear banging and clunking around as I'm trying to do some Qbank, so I turn on my music so I don't have to listen to Junior bouncing off the walls.

Mom comes down shortly thereafter saying he's trying to sleep. Yeah right he's trying to sleep. He's making a ton of noise.
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*zip zip*

sweet silence!
 
samenewme said:
The Madison Marathon Half Marathon. I'm thinking of doing the Fox Cities in September.
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Madison's half is a nice flat course. So, we'll see you at the Lakefront Marathon? You should register soon.
 
indo said:
Madison's half is a nice flat course. So, we'll see you at the Lakefront Marathon? You should register soon.
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A full? THIS year? hahahahaha! I'm doing another half in September, but not a full anytime soon.
 
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Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a sexy, 19-year-old divorced woman.

"She told me she had just turned 18," Williams said.Williams said Dean picked him up on the street and after a few conversations they had sex.

When he heard she was not 18, he went to her father. "He was like 'well, she's 13,'" Williams said of a conversation with Dean's father.

Williams said he never did it again, but Dean has done it before with 24-year-old Darwin Mills. Mills was sentenced to five years in prison.

Dean's father wanted Williams to join Mills there.

"One of the reasons for the law is the fact that minors have poor judgment," said Jerry Dean, the girl's father.

Williams' father believes the jail sentence sends the wrong message to Alisha.

"I guess we just sit back and count how many after this," Henry Smith asked after his step-son was sentenced to jail.

Dean's family admits Alisha still stays out late and has yet to delete her misleading MySpace page.

Williams will serve six years probation with the first year in jail. The other five years he will have to wear an ankle monitor. His attorney says he will come back to court to ask again for a shorter sentence.

http://www.wftv.com/news/16348047/detail.html


Geez, the dad should be sent to prison for longer than each of those guys.
 
I am having bad studying burnout tonight. I just need to do a few more days, here! But I am covered in, "Meh!"
 
Burnout has been avoided thus far - I'm just envisioning how good I'd feel with a good score and how dumb I'd feel with a bad score.
 
If anyone else is doing medicine first - guess not, since I don't see indo, samenewme or anybody else from our class on the sheet - I've got Froedtert team 1B for July and St. Joseph's service B for August.
 
TheProwler said:
If anyone else is doing medicine first - guess not, since I don't see indo, samenewme or anybody else from our class on the sheet - I've got Froedtert team 1B for July and St. Joseph's service B for August.
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When you are at joe's ...remember there are 2 contraindications to a rectal exam:

1. You dont have a finger
2. Pt doesnt have a rectum
 
TheProwler said:
If anyone else is doing medicine first - guess not, since I don't see indo, samenewme or anybody else from our class on the sheet - I've got Froedtert team 1B for July and St. Joseph's service B for August.
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Make sure you have some ICU patients in July. Muahahahahahahahaahah!!!!!
 
pratik7 said:
When you are at joe's ...remember there are 2 contraindications to a rectal exam:

1. You dont have a finger
2. Pt doesnt have a rectum
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I just tell all the patients it's a thermometer.
 
Ashers said:
Really? I thought that was only on Sebastian's team.

I won't say how many rectals I've done at the VA or Joe's.
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Zero for me, unless you count one half-assed (pun...intended) rectovaginal on an anesthetized Gyn patient. I haven't particularly been avoiding them, or anything, but now that I'm so close I'd like to try and make it through all of third year without ever having to stick my finger up an awake person's butt.
 
Gimlet said:
Zero for me, unless you count one half-assed (pun...intended) rectovaginal on an anesthetized Gyn patient. I haven't particularly been avoiding them, or anything, but now that I'm so close I'd like to try and make it through all of third year without ever having to stick my finger up an awake person's butt.
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We weren't allowed to do them on gyn. On surg I did 1 (before a dude with stage 3 rectal cancer got a colostomy). I was in some EUA's, but I didn't do much.
 
I actually do quite a few on a daily basis. I run a clinic out of my apartment where people of all incomes can come for health care they're too embarrassed to go to a professional for...I call it the Clinica Splatina.
 
Agent Splat said:
I actually do quite a few on a daily basis. I run a clinic out of my apartment where people of all incomes can come for health care they're too embarrassed to go to a professional for...I call it the Clinica Splatina.
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At splatina, do the rectals come with a free c-diff taste test ?
 
Come on folks, it's just an ass. No big deal.
 
I just got my ob/gyn preference email today.
 
Ashers said:
You go to your world of kids where you pry won't have to do rectals, and I'll go to my world of the musculoskeletal system.
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I'm guessing you will do your share of trauma cases. They all need rectals.
 
I have done exactly 1 rectal, and it was just a few weeks ago on family practice. Felt bad for the guy. He was pretty reluctant to get 2 rectals that morning and my attending guilted him into it for the sake of learning.
 
Step 1 is DONE! Probably. Man, I did NOT get one of those tests that "didn't seem as bad as QBank."
 
samenewme said:
Step 1 is DONE! Probably. Man, I did NOT get one of those tests that "didn't seem as bad as QBank."
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Congratulations! Feels good to be on the other side, doesn't it? 😀
 
DoctorFunk said:
Congratulations! Feels good to be on the other side, doesn't it? 😀
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Yes. Mostly. Now would be a good time for those people who came out of the test feeling like they'd [had not done so very excitingly well] to offer up a little reassurance. Because, MAN!
 
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akpete said:
I have done exactly 1 rectal, and it was just a few weeks ago on family practice. Felt bad for the guy..
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Eh, he probably went back to all his buddies and bragged that he had his prostate checked by some girl in her twenties.
 
I was pretty sure I'd failed step 1, VERY sure I failed step 2. Didn't fail either, in reality. But no screwed pooches! Ew.
 
congratulation on being done with step one. How many questions did you get per section. How was the test?
 
fromeverywhere said:
congratulation on being done with step one. How many questions did you get per section. How was the test?
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There were 48. The first section was dreadful, the second and third weren't too bad, and then my life began to suck mightily. The video/audio questions were not too bad. The ear plugs probably are NOT latex-free, though the staff thinks they probably are. The earmuffs are not eyeglass friendly. Other than that, Mr. Lincoln and I enjoyed the play very much.
 
I came out of step 1 feeling at BEST 215, but also felt a fail was probably in order. Did much better than that.
 
Yes, but when you worried about failing I thought it was silly. When I do it, it is of course a legitimate concern.
 
I had to change lenders AGAIN at my financial aid meeting today. Chase is now servicing its own loans and I recall from my car loan experience that I do not want to be contacting multiple lenders about this stuff, so I switched to someone who is still (as of today) offering waivers. They said if the lender is still offering waivers by the time they process the loan Monday, I'll get it!
 
samenewme said:
I had to change lenders AGAIN at my financial aid meeting today. Chase is now servicing its own loans and I recall from my car loan experience that I do not want to be contacting multiple lenders about this stuff, so I switched to someone who is still (as of today) offering waivers. They said if the lender is still offering waivers by the time they process the loan Monday, I'll get it!
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So are they gonna notify those of us who signed with Chase. Eh, I might not bother switching anyway as long as I pay no fees like they said. I won't be able to have my financial aid appt until July. I have no post-call days on surg sub-i d/t "home" call.

Congrats on being done with step 1. I walked out feeling sucky, but thinking I must've at least broke 200. Later on in the evening, after a few dozen drinks, I was convinced I had failed the exam, and destined myself for family practice in rural Montana, started pounding some more drinks, began crying, then - as I'm sure some of you will recall - fell face first into the concrete while vomiting.

Turns out I did fine. And I bet you did too. Just lay off the alcohol a bit.
 
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