Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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So when I was looking into the hospital where I'll be next April, and how many hours I may have to work, I found that the UK is decreasing their resident work hours to a max of 48/week from 56hr. Man, I feel so bad for these guys; they're just working too hard as it is. I hope this will have taken place by the time I go there.

However, the hospital where I'll be has reduced wait times for their patients:

* The maximum wait for heart surgery is now six months.


* Outpatients wait no longer than 13 weeks for their first appointment.


* We were the first trust in country to cut our revascularisation waiting list to three months.


* We met the cancer waiting time target two months early. Now 98 per cent of cancer patients wait no longer than 31 days from diagnosis to treatment, and 95 per cent of patients no longer than 62 days from GP referral to treatment.


* And in 2005/06, 98 per cent per cent of all A&E patients were seen in four hours for all but one quarter of the year. This temporary loss of target was due to unprecedented levels of A&E attendance and an outbreak of winter vomiting virus in the local community.
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Just such a different system.
 
Just found this video in the ortho forums. If anyone's heard the Element Song by Tom Lehrer or taken pharm you might like this.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXROnzpsrlg[/YOUTUBE]
 
Fake boards are great... no better way to use my time.

At least now I know I could take step 2 and pass with a good margin without studying.

Edit: Once again, psychiatry is my lowest scoring thing. Hehehe.
 
what is with the free hand sanitizer at the door of the computer lab?
 
I do not know. Someone in the SA requested wipes for the keyboards, which the library was not willing to provide, so maybe someone else got wind of it and ran with it, only got confused.
 
but don't mistake those wipes for baby wipes. yikes.
 
did you all have Dr. Paterson for a path review last year? This guy is a comedian.
 
The cruise ship we were on for our honeymoon had those automatic hand sanitizer things all over the place. They had an attendant stand at the entrance to all of the buffets and dining rooms to make sure that everyone used it, too. I thought that was a good policy.
 
Gimlet said:
The cruise ship we were on for our honeymoon had those automatic hand sanitizer things all over the place. They had an attendant stand at the entrance to all of the buffets and dining rooms to make sure that everyone used it, too. I thought that was a good policy.
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cruise ships are great places for big outbreaks
 
Gimlet said:
The cruise ship we were on for our honeymoon had those automatic hand sanitizer things all over the place. They had an attendant stand at the entrance to all of the buffets and dining rooms to make sure that everyone used it, too. I thought that was a good policy.
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Although, as the director of the dance camp I fortunately couldn't afford to go to last year said, hand sanitizer won't prevent norovirus. Apparently by being po' I missed the Great Pinewoods Plague of 2007.
 
Body Worlds was moderately less impressive than I thought, I'm assuming since I've seen most of the human body already. The dissections are, on the other hand, amazing.

Probably the most impressive part was the fetal development. Gave a completely different perspective just after having OB/Gyn. I think that part alone was worth the trip.

The most disturbing thing was trying to figure out how the guy riding the horse was balanced, only on closer inspection to realize that the horse's tail was concealing a support rod that could only have gone into the horse's rectum. Awesome.
 
Agent Splat said:
Body Worlds was moderately less impressive than I thought, I'm assuming since I've seen most of the human body already. The dissections are, on the other hand, amazing.

Probably the most impressive part was the fetal development. Gave a completely different perspective just after having OB/Gyn. I think that part alone was worth the trip.

The most disturbing thing was trying to figure out how the guy riding the horse was balanced, only on closer inspection to realize that the horse's tail was concealing a support rod that could only have gone into the horse's rectum. Awesome.
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When I went with my parents, my mom kept asking questions throughout the entire thing, AND they got us those listening things.

When I went with Amie, her mom and my brother, Amie and I explained stuff when they asked or other random basic things, but we also made fun of stuff. All together, far more entertaining.
 
Ashers said:
When I went with my parents, my mom kept asking questions throughout the entire thing, AND they got us those listening things.

When I went with Amie, her mom and my brother, Amie and I explained stuff when they asked or other random basic things, but we also made fun of stuff. All together, far more entertaining.
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was it super crowded when you went? we pretty much had to stand in line for each part of the exhibit.
 
I went in St Paul and had to wait in long lines too. Actually, we just showed up one day and the tickets were all sold out, and had to make reservations to come back the next day. I ended up explaining a bunch to my mom and brothers, but not so much that it was annoying.
 
I thought you guys might be interested in this post I found over in pre-allo.

DrZaius said:
I don't see why it would matter. If you thought about the MCAT 40 hours a week for the last 5 years you'd probably do pretty good on it.
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Original context: Can MCAT writers or anyone who's ever come in contact with them every go to med school
 
Hey, I just learned how to connect to the VA computer system to work with CPRS from home. What a both wonderful and horrifying discovery! Has everybody already figured this out, or am I special? I can give you the IP address if you want the capability to do your dreadful work at home.
 
Gimlet said:
Hey, I just learned how to connect to the VA computer system to work with CPRS from home. What a both wonderful and horrifying discovery! Has everybody already figured this out, or am I special? I can give you the IP address if you want the capability to do your dreadful work at home.
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I figured that out during my med rotation as well. You can do the same with Epic and Children's too. 😉 Now if we could just get the patients to come to our places in the morning before rounds, we'd never even have to leave home!
 
DoctorFunk said:
I figured that out during my med rotation as well. You can do the same with Epic and Children's too. 😉 Now if we could just get the patients to come to our places in the morning before rounds, we'd never even have to leave home!
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Yeah, I had done the Epic/Clinician Access and Sunrise thing before, but my psych resident told me early in 3rd year that only residents get access to CPRS from home. Obviously he was FOS.

Aaaaaanyway...I'm going to wrap up this ridiculous H&P I had to write for somebody who won't even be on our service (attending decided we weren't getting enough new admits so she had us go write H&Ps for people going to another team for the "educational experience." Conveniently, the NP on that service doesn't have to do the work now...)
 
Gimlet said:
Hey, I just learned how to connect to the VA computer system to work with CPRS from home. What a both wonderful and horrifying discovery! Has everybody already figured this out, or am I special? I can give you the IP address if you want the capability to do your dreadful work at home.
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Oh, I'd like it, por favor!

DoctorFunk said:
I figured that out during my med rotation as well. You can do the same with Epic and Children's too. 😉 Now if we could just get the patients to come to our places in the morning before rounds, we'd never even have to leave home!
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Childrens and Epic don't work at home for me. Clinician Access does. Epic worked for about 1 week of surgery, then it quit.
 
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Ashers said:
Oh, I'd like it, por favor!
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I'll PM it to you...you'll come to regret this, I hope you know. Now there will be nothing stopping you from saying "I think I'll just go home now and work on this later tonight." Blargh.
 
Gimlet said:
I'll PM it to you...you'll come to regret this, I hope you know. Now there will be nothing stopping you from saying "I think I'll just go home now and work on this later tonight." Blargh.
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I do that anyway, but I copy and paste stuff to my email, and there's usually stuff I've forgotten, so I have to get to work early to finish H&Ps.

thanks =)
 
1 OSCE, 1 exam, 1 PDA sync, and 1 community health paper to go and 3rd year is OVER!
 
1 OSCE, 1 exam, 1 PDA sync, and 1 community health paper to go and 3rd year is OVER!
 
It feels good, right? Have fun this next year, M-4s. It really is great, even when it sucks. True story.
 
Thanks Xandie.
 
Xandie said:
It feels good, right? Have fun this next year, M-4s. It really is great, even when it sucks. True story.
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It is entirely unnerving for me to realize that I'm about to be a third year med student. I always thought that they were smart and knew what they were doing, and I realize how contrary to reality that will be for me...

I bet Don knew what he was doing though.


are you excited/worried/bored about introducing yourself as Dr. Preciousmetal?
 
TheProwler said:
I always thought that they were smart and knew what they were doing, and I realize how contrary to reality that will be for me...
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That will probably be the case for 3-4 months, and then you slowly realize that nothing you do really matters for your grade and only minimally contributes to patient care. At that point your confidence soars and you become that M3 that you see walking the halls who looks like they know what they're doing.
 
DoctorFunk said:
That will probably be the case for 3-4 months, and then you slowly realize that nothing you do really matters for your grade and only minimally contributes to patient care. At that point your confidence soars and you become that M3 that you see walking the halls who looks like they know what they're doing.
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If nothing you do matters for your grade, why did one person fail medicine three times?
 
TheProwler said:
If nothing you do matters for your grade, why did one person fail medicine three times?
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I think he means nothing you do that you THINK would help your grade.


p.s...Wausau is pretty. Too bad I'm here cause my fiancee's mom had a very unexpected CABGx2.

The psychiatry course director lady says I'm expected to make up the lost time. I'm still trying to figure out what significant difference a day makes.
At least they didn't give me trouble when I said I'd be missing the first day.
 
I am nervous about that... I'm getting used to people calling me Dr. Notsilver, because my boyfriend and all his friends do it all the time. Introducing myself that way, not so much. And I still forget to write M.D. after my signature, even when I mean to.

I'm also nervous about the whole, you know, delivering babies and writing orders and all that jazz. But it'll be good. I think I sort of know what I'm doing. Sort of.
 
Xandie said:
I'm also nervous about the whole, you know, delivering babies and writing orders and all that jazz. But it'll be good. I think I sort of know what I'm doing. Sort of.
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Didn't stop all the OB-Gyn attendings I worked with.
 
This sucks. I just had 2 LOR offers today, and since ortho likes ortho and surgical letters I can't really take the writers up on the offers. =(

What double sucks is I'm on call tomorrow, and my new resident is a stickler; he was kinda surprised when I said I don't go in on Sunday when the team's post call, but I've been told I've got a day off, so I'm taking the day off.
 
Ashers said:
This sucks. I just had 2 LOR offers today, and since ortho likes ortho and surgical letters I can't really take the writers up on the offers. =(

What double sucks is I'm on call tomorrow, and my new resident is a stickler; he was kinda surprised when I said I don't go in on Sunday when the team's post call, but I've been told I've got a day off, so I'm taking the day off.
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what was he surprised about? he expects you to show up on a day off?
 
TheProwler said:
what was he surprised about? he expects you to show up on a day off?
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Call and post-call days are pretty much the only weekend days that 3rd years are expected to be in the hospital in most rotations. Post-call days are considered pretty important, as rounds those mornings is your chance to do a full presentation of your newly admitted patients to your attending. On medicine this is especially crucial since rounds are such a big part of your day, and JMS presentations on them can play pretty heavily into your grade depending on your attending.

My team had the same problem on medicine at the VA. We decided to go against Dario's wishes and just take a weekday off as our one day off following our Black Weekend.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Call and post-call days are pretty much the only weekend days that 3rd years are expected to be in the hospital in most rotations. Post-call days are considered pretty important, as rounds those mornings is your chance to do a full presentation of your newly admitted patients to your attending. On medicine this is especially crucial since rounds are such a big part of your day, and JMS presentations on them can play pretty heavily into your grade depending on your attending.

My team had the same problem on medicine at the VA. We decided to go against Dario's wishes and just take a weekday off as our one day off following our Black Weekend.
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This is the "inbetween site" day off. I have to stay at the VA til today, and I can't switch to Joes til Monday the 2nd, so Kerrie Quirk said Sunday was going to be an "official" day off that doesn't count into the 4.

I'm just hoping to leave early because now I'm sick.
 
Ashers said:
This is the "inbetween site" day off. I have to stay at the VA til today, and I can't switch to Joes til Monday the 2nd, so Kerrie Quirk said Sunday was going to be an "official" day off that doesn't count into the 4.

I'm just hoping to leave early because now I'm sick.
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Oh, well then screw that. You should totally stay home on Sunday! Hope you feel better today. 🙁
 
any of you guys know anything about these boards things I just found out about? I'm supposed to take a step in three weeks? wtf????
 
Apparently, the test taking room out in Waukeeesha will have about 50% high school students in it, typing furiously, when you take your test.
 
indo said:
Apparently, the test taking room out in Waukeeesha will have about 50% high school students in it, typing furiously, when you take your test.
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I took mine at the Brookfield location and I think most of the other test-takers were accountants or nurses, which weren't too bad. I don't recall offhand being overly annoyed by any of them, although watching them parade out of the test center after only an hour or two of taking their test was fairly infuriating.
 
DoctorFunk said:
I took mine at the Brookfield location and I think most of the other test-takers were accountants or nurses, which weren't too bad. I don't recall offhand being overly annoyed by any of them, although watching them parade out of the test center after only an hour or two of taking their test was fairly infuriating.
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I actually don't recall anyone being overly irritating...I for once was actually pretty focused and not distracted by my surroundings.
 
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