Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

[Xandie]

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Now... if I can just get my answers on the medicine shelf to be as accurate as my ramblings here.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Now I'm off to practice for the OSCE. My exam is tomorrow.

Yeah, I have mine tomorrow night at like 8 pm. Ridiculous. Anyways, I figure I'll just read over the cards repeatedly whenever I sit down to eat over the course of the next 24 hours or so and I'll see how far that gets me.

 

[Gimlet]

Yeah, I have mine tomorrow night at like 8 pm. Ridiculous. Anyways, I figure I'll just read over the cards repeatedly whenever I sit down to eat over the course of the next 24 hours or so and I'll see how far that gets me.

I've been subjecting my increasingly begrudging wife to daily physicals since last Thursday. I've come a long way since then.

 

[Gimlet]

Anyone have a good trick for memorizing antibiotics for someone who's put it off until today? I'll take any mnemonics or anything you have...these cephalosporins are not taking hold well.

 

[Ashers]

Anyone have a good trick for memorizing antibiotics for someone who's put it off until today? I'll take any mnemonics or anything you have...these cephalosporins are not taking hold well.

First Aid has a bunch of mnemonics for the bugs associated with the Abx. doesn't mean I've memorized them. Just means I've seen it.

Edit: I'm going to practice giving a physical exam to my big stuffed bear. I'll see how well it does with the neuro exam.

 

[BamBoozed]

I've been subjecting my increasingly begrudging wife to daily physicals since last Thursday. I've come a long way since then.

if i didn't live in California I'd totally let you guys practice on me!

 

[Xandie]

I think there's something with the different generations and vowels... can't remember exactly though. (I'm sooo helpful, I know.)

 

[Ashers]

Norfloxacin -- PEES -- Pseudomonas, Enterococcus, Enterbacteriaciae, Staph (UTI only)

I know it's only one, but after a quick look thru my note cards, I need to get back to antineoplastics. 🙁

 

[donnyfire]

Well, I actually got out my old pharm notes for this one...

These aren't perfect, but they helped me.

We had to know:
1st gen:
cefazolin
cephalexin

Mnemonic: You can't faze me when you phlex your muscles.

2nd gen:
cefuroxime
cefotetan
cefaclor

Mnemonic: You can't fake (fac) foxy tea.

3rd gen:
ceftriaxone
cefotaxime
ceftazidime

Mnemonic: Just try (tri) to tax taz's dime

Some parts of those came from Micro made ridiculously simple. Hope they help.

There are also pretty good mnemonics for bugs they kill in First Aid.

 

[Gimlet]

Thanks guys!

 

[Xandie]

It wasn't vowels, it was T's. The Third generations all have Ts in them... then again, so does cefotetan, but it has two Ts, therefore it's a second generation. (Also, teton is French for breasts, and there are CLEARLY two of those).

 

[Ashers]

It wasn't vowels, it was T's. The Third generations all have Ts in them... then again, so does cefotetan, but it has two Ts, therefore it's a second generation. (Also, teton is French for breasts, and there are CLEARLY two of those).

Except now they've gone and changed some of the drugs we need to/don't need to know for cephalosporins. =(

 

[Xandie]

Oh well... we tried.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Oh well... we tried.

Heh...how does it feel to know your second year medical education is already obsolete? 😉

 

[donnyfire]

Also, teton is French for breasts, and there are CLEARLY two of those.

Um, I disagree. There are three. At least of the Grand variety.

 

[Ashers]

Uh oh... Xandie and Don disagreed on something.

 

[Xandie]

Hey, I'm not the one who named the mountain range. Don and I will always get along... besides, I've got all of his medicine books as collateral.

And also, the further away I get from second year the happier I am, obsolete or not.

Two months from yesterday is our final exam of the third year. Lovely.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Uh oh... Xandie and Don disagreed on something.

Quick, we have to force them to get along again! At least until we hold our "Teach the 2009ers How Not to Kiss Patients and Kill Ass (and Vice Versa) Fest"!!!!

 

[akpete]

April, just do the stuff on the cards and you'll be fine. The fourth-years grade it, and they're usually pretty generous (if I'm remembering which OSCE it is correctly).

Thanks Xandie! I'm actually not too worried about it. For athletic training, we had a practical exam on each portion of the musculoskeletal exam with all the special tests and everything. So I've done ~8 practicals before. I don't think this will be all that different.

Question: Are the patients allowed to speak to us? For my certification boards practical, the model wasn't allowed to speak and it was really awkward and strange.

I also hate that it's not in the star center and that mine's late - I think 7:45ish, like Funk's. But I'm glad that I have it tomorrow so that I can concentrate on more important things afterwards.

 

[Xandie]

They can speak, but you don't have to do a history with them or anything. It's performed under the guise of being a "well adult" exam, so they should be normal.

 

[akpete]

Oh good. I was thinking about the auditory tests and sensation tests, if they were actually going to answer or not. Thanks Xandie!

 

[BamBoozed]

HEY PARTIK!!!! now I know why your name seemed so familiar!! i think you were my tourguide when i interveiwed at mcw!!! you said something really funny about the mannequin that delivers babies but i don't remember what it was. lol! thats so awesome!!!

you probably won't remember me but that's my picture

 

[pratik7]

HEY PARTIK!!!! now I know why your name seemed so familiar!! i think you were my tourguide when i interveiwed at mcw!!! you said something really funny about the mannequin that delivers babies but i don't remember what it was. lol! thats so awesome!!!

you probably won't remember me but that's my picture

Sorry, dont remember you. Prob cause I have given 4 or 5 tours this year. The mannequin thing sounds kinda familar but cant remember detals. Lately, I have had the memory of a peanut so it doesnt suprise me.

 

[akpete]

So I have another stupid question about the OSCE.

I was assuming we need to take vitals, but the instructions for the OSCE says that everything is based off our cards. And the vitals aren't on the cards. But they're definitely a normal part of a physical exam. So we still need to do them, right?

 

[Xandie]

No, you don't do vitals... during the OSCE, or otherwise. Except in asthma clinic during internal medicine.

 

[akpete]

No, you don't do vitals... during the OSCE, or otherwise. Except in asthma clinic during internal medicine.

Seriously? I would've wasted a bunch of time on that. Me and the other person I practiced with today completely thought we had to do them. Awesome, the OSCE will be even quicker!

Glad I asked my stupid question. 🙂

Xandie, you get my award of "best person of the day."

 

[Gimlet]

I still keep forgetting stupid things trying to do the whole physical from memory. Today I forgot to do visual fields and proprioception when I practiced with Mrs. Gimlet. I'll need to call on the benevolent presence of Osler's ghost to help me through this OSCE.

 

[45408]

Somehow the wife and I really need to reign in our spending, and not on the big stuff, like the trip to Vegas (paid for by a referral bonus) or the trip to Europe (tax return), but our regular budget seems to be running away from us like it's on speed. Thank God we're not both students, or this would be one gigantic loan...

 

[Agent Splat]

Somehow the wife and I really need to reign in our spending, and not on the big stuff, like the trip to Vegas (paid for by a referral bonus) or the trip to Europe (tax return), but our regular budget seems to be running away from us like it's on speed. Thank God we're not both students, or this would be one gigantic loan...

sounds like fun will have to be thrown out to balance the budget.

 

[samenewme]

Somehow the wife and I really need to reign in our spending, and not on the big stuff, like the trip to Vegas (paid for by a referral bonus) or the trip to Europe (tax return), but our regular budget seems to be running away from us like it's on speed. Thank God we're not both students, or this would be one gigantic loan...

Well, maybe you could cancel or curtail one of the trips to cover living expenses while you get spending under control. Just because some of the money wasn't expected doesn't mean you need to spend it in one big expensive vacation chunk.

The Tightwad Gazette or the Hillbillyhousewife.com Website has some serious commando budgeting tips if you're up for it.

 

[akpete]

I use microsoft money to keep track of where my money goes. It's awesome. But depressing knowing that it's actually in the red all the time compared to when I first started using the program in 2001 and was working 60 hours/week in the summer and 35 hours/week during school. Man I was rich then. I was even richer in high school. Moral of the story - move back home to live rent-free.

 

[Agent Splat]

I use microsoft money to keep track of where my money goes. It's awesome. But depressing knowing that it's actually in the red all the time compared to when I first started using the program in 2001 and was working 60 hours/week in the summer and 35 hours/week during school. Man I was rich then. I was even richer in high school. Moral of the story - move back home to live rent-free.

other moral: don't go to med school in the first place.

 

[akpete]

other moral: don't go to med school in the first place.

ah, yes. thank you.

 

[45408]

Well, maybe you could cancel or curtail one of the trips to cover living expenses while you get spending under control. Just because some of the money wasn't expected doesn't mean you need to spend it in one big expensive vacation chunk.

The Tightwad Gazette or the Hillbillyhousewife.com Website has some serious commando budgeting tips if you're up for it.

Plane tickets have already been purchased for London. This issue has arisen because the wifey wants to move somewhere with slightly higher rent ($135 more a month), and I put all our expenses in Excel....

I think Splat was closer to it - we'll just have to cut some of the other "fun" out of the budget. Of course, if we stopped giving to the church, we'd have a lot of extra money, but that wouldn't go over to well with the person who's making the money (i.e., not me).

 

[DoctorFunk]

I think Splat was closer to it - we'll just have to cut some of the other "fun" out of the budget. Of course, if we stopped giving to the church, we'd have a lot of extra money, but that wouldn't go over to well with the person who's making the money (i.e., not me).

I feel your pain on this one. Let's just hope that when we're actually making the bulk of the money that they don't try to pull that "the church says we're really supposed to give 10% of our pre-tax earnings" crap. I don't remember what church you belong to, but wifey is Catholic and there's no way I'm donating 10% of my poor earnings to them when they're sitting on a stack of gold in the Vatican that would make any leprechaun jealous.

 

[45408]

I feel your pain on this one. Let's just hope that when we're actually making the bulk of the money that they don't try to pull that "the church says we're really supposed to give 10% of our pre-tax earnings" crap. I don't remember what church you belong to, but wifey is Catholic and there's no way I'm donating 10% of my poor earnings to them when they're sitting on a stack of gold in the Vatican that would make any leprechaun jealous.

Well, I feel like our money is going to a good place, but it's several hundred bucks a month that would be helpful to us right now....I could easily have a nice car (instead of the city bus) for what we tithe.

 

[Agent Splat]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAKE BOARD EXAMS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE'RE GONNA DIE

 

[Xandie]

You = melodrama.

 

[DoctorFunk]

You = melodrama.

No, he's right. Fortunately for me, I have the Fake Physical Exam OSCE tonight and will very likely die long before I have the chance to face the SUPERFAKE BOARD EXAM OF 2007.

Seriously though. 2nd year is ridamndiculous.

 

[Ashers]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAKE BOARD EXAMS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE'RE GONNA DIE

Did we decide for sure to show up early and video tape our anxiety before the fake boards?

 

[BamBoozed]

oh my gosh good luck you guyz!!!! that sounds scary! i only have a final project in my interior design class this week, i bet your stuff is a lot harder!! hey, i need a fluff class my last semster before it gets too hard lol!

good luck i'll be thiking about you!

 

[akpete]

oh my gosh good luck you guyz!!!! that sounds scary! i only have a final project in my interior design class this week, i bet your stuff is a lot harder!! hey, i need a fluff class my last semster before it gets too hard lol!

good luck i'll be thiking about you!

I took an interior design class my last semester too! But that stupid final project ending up being a lot more work than I intended to have that semester.

I would be an interior designer, but everyone's house would have to look like mine.

 

[akpete]

No, he's right. Fortunately for me, I have the Fake Physical Exam OSCE tonight and will very likely die long before I have the chance to face the SUPERFAKE BOARD EXAM OF 2007.

Seriously though. 2nd year is ridamndiculous.

The OSCE was absolutely hell.

J/k.

 

[donnyfire]

No, he's right. Fortunately for me, I have the Fake Physical Exam OSCE tonight and will very likely die long before I have the chance to face the SUPERFAKE BOARD EXAM OF 2007.

Seriously though. 2nd year is ridamndiculous.

The OSCE was absolutely hell.

J/k.

Stalker report:

I saw akpete and Funk at their OSCE session tonight.

I didn't grade them though.

😉

 

[BamBoozed]

The OSCE was absolutely hell.

J/k.

is it true we have to do exams on each other? how personal does it get?

 

[akpete]

Stalker report:

I saw akpete and Funk at their OSCE session tonight.

I didn't grade them though.

😉

😱

What were you hanging around the OSCE for?

My grader was Sachin (did I spell that right?). I highly recommend.

 

[BamBoozed]

I took an interior design class my last semester too! But that stupid final project ending up being a lot more work than I intended to have that semester.

I would be an interior designer, but everyone's house would have to look like mine.

i'm going the light blue and brown route...sorta trendy and not real creative, but it looks really awesome. i hope i get a good grade! i've been doing this stuff forever for my mom's business.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Stalker report:

I saw akpete and Funk at their OSCE session tonight.

I didn't grade them though.

😉

I didn't see you amongst the gaggle of 3rd and 4th years plugging up the tiny hallway. My apologies.

I learned something important tonight--namely that next year I am going to get nailed at least once in grading for being borderline unprofessional. It's not that I'm rude or mean to patients, but I tend to make jokes when I feel at all uncomfortable. So situations like this where I am a little nervous and unsure of myself turn into improv night. I can only imagine what the poor patients must be thinking...

 

[akpete]

is it true we have to do exams on each other? how personal does it get?

nope, they pay people to come in. but you can practice on each other if you want. i really wouldn't recommend practicing the pelvic exam though. You probably won't find any takers.

ps. you're not tested on those types of exams.

 

[akpete]

I didn't see you amongst the gaggle of 3rd and 4th years plugging up the tiny hallway. My apologies.

I learned something important tonight--namely that next year I am going to get nailed at least once in grading for being borderline unprofessional. It's not that I'm rude or mean to patients, but I tend to make jokes when I feel at all uncomfortable. So situations like this where I am a little nervous and unsure of myself turn into improv night. I can only imagine what the poor patients must be thinking...

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