Oklahoma future 2011ers part 01

[Wizard of Oz]

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...We've already lost several folks...

We have? Do we have an official body count? My module is as vanilla as it gets--no casualties, no original 09er's, nobody an obvious junior AOA, nobody struggling as far as I know. I've been told we're "that module who mostly comes to class and usually sits together" (though I guess glp and I don't fit into that mold), so I guess we're not in the loop.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

We have? Do we have an official body count? My module is as vanilla as it gets--no casualties, no original 09er's, nobody an obvious junior AOA, nobody struggling as far as I know. I've been told we're "that module who mostly comes to class and usually sits together" (though I guess glp and I don't fit into that mold), so I guess we're not in the loop.

Last count, we were down 3. I guess we'll see who doesn't show up to biochem tomorrow to see if anyone else is out for now.

 

[Benoit]

She was a cheerleader then, but now she is all huge and could use Knehans nutrition lectures. That's what happens to you when you break little boy's hearts, God makes you fat.

But I'm over it. Mostly.

lmao.

I received a letter yesterday from one Vice President for Health Affairs, Dr. Andrews. It talked about the OU Cancer Institute and the Oklahoma Diabetes Center that are coming to OU Med Center. (Pretty Awesome) It went on to congratulate me for a paragraph or so, all in order to build up my ego so that when I start in August, it falls farther. Atleast, that's what I'm going with.

 

[JohnnyOU]

Last count, we were down 3. I guess we'll see who doesn't show up to biochem tomorrow to see if anyone else is out for now.

Stop talkin smack about me ! 😡

😉

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Stop talkin smack about me ! 😡

😉

If you're not there tomorrow, I'll be sad. 🙁

I've been using the sad smiley entirely too much. I think I need electroconvulsive therapy. 🙂

 

[JohnnyOU]

If you're not there tomorrow, I'll be sad. 🙁

I've been using the sad smiley entirely too much. I think I need electroconvulsive therapy. 🙂

I'll be there ... biochem is the one i'm least worried about other than our GYM class (aka PCM).

Embryo and GA are the ones I'm struggling in. If I don't pass these finals I'm in deep ch*t.

I've had my boys here since friday morning so I've only got to study during nap time and bedtime.

I hope the GA written hasn't changed cuz it took me all semester to adjust to those insanely complicated questions. Lord, you'd have to be a friggin doctor to answer that crap
ok...actually I'm just slower than everyone else...but if I pass I'm happy...

 

[Amxcvbcv]

I'll be there ... biochem is the one i'm least worried about other than our GYM class (aka PCM).

Embryo and GA are the ones I'm struggling in. If I don't pass these finals I'm in deep ch*t.

I've had my boys here since friday morning so I've only got to study during nap time and bedtime.

I hope the GA written hasn't changed cuz it took me all semester to adjust to those insanely complicated questions. Lord, you'd have to be a friggin doctor to answer that crap
ok...actually I'm just slower than everyone else...but if I pass I'm happy...

I don't want to be an alarmist, but don't take the PCM exam for granted. I know several of the folks in my mod were surprised by the content they wanted us to recall. Also, keep in mind that the grade break for it is a little tighter than the other classes.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I don't want to be an alarmist, but don't take the PCM exam for granted. I know several of the folks in my mod were surprised by the content they wanted us to recall. Also, keep in mind that the grade break for it is a little tighter than the other classes.

I'm sort of worried about that since I haven't studied at all for it yet. Dr. Sparks said it would be easy, but I don't know -- I don't feel like I've learned enough PCM so far for 70 plus multiple choice exam questions. Is it at least enough like HB that you can use your intuition to get you to the right answer most of the time?

I haven't studied for embryo at all, either. That could be bad.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

I'm sort of worried about that since I haven't studied at all for it yet. Dr. Sparks said it would be easy, but I don't know -- I don't feel like I've learned enough PCM so far for 70 plus multiple choice exam questions. Is it at least enough like HB that you can use your intuition to get you to the right answer most of the time?

I haven't studied for embryo at all, either. That could be bad.

Speaking of that last HB exam, I kinda felt like female superior would be a better recommendation for a conservative patient than masturbation. I was kind of annoyed that I missed that one.

I got the feeling that Dr. Sparks' review didn't touch on half of the questions on the exam at least to the detail that we will be tested on. I'm with you, though, that's a Wednesday problem; and it's only Sunday.

 

[JohnnyOU]

Crap.
When I said it was like gym...I meant HB...not PCM.

Ya see why I'm worried lol

well I haven't studied for pcm yet either. blah

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Speaking of that last HB exam, I kinda felt like female superior would be a better recommendation for a conservative patient than masturbation. I was kind of annoyed that I missed that one.

I got the feeling that Dr. Sparks' review didn't touch on half of the questions on the exam at least to the detail that we will be tested on. I'm with you, though, that's a Wednesday problem; and it's only Sunday.

Yeah, some of those Tucker HB questions were sort of irritating. I think I answered masturbation on that one, but it was a big internal debate. 😉 I thought the first HB exam was just a better exam.

Yep, I'm not looking at PCM until Wednesday. I just can't.

 

[RachelD]

I'll be there ... biochem is the one i'm least worried about other than our GYM class (aka PCM).

Embryo and GA are the ones I'm struggling in. If I don't pass these finals I'm in deep ch*t.

I've had my boys here since friday morning so I've only got to study during nap time and bedtime.

I hope the GA written hasn't changed cuz it took me all semester to adjust to those insanely complicated questions. Lord, you'd have to be a friggin doctor to answer that crap
ok...actually I'm just slower than everyone else...but if I pass I'm happy...

Well Johnny, I guess I'll step in and give you some advice about studying with the kids around. (And, you deserve a huge hug and high five for stepping up and being a great dad and taking care of your boys!🙂 )
Here are a couple of my tricks.
#1 McDonalds, there is a new McD's on SW 134th that has a great playarea and there are leather chairs and tables that you can study in/at while the boys play. They love it and you can get a good hour of studying in.
#2 YMCA, we have a new YMCA down here (119th and May) and for $58.00 a month you have a place to go if you really need to study (or work out), they have a great play place for the kids with games and computers and stuff, mine love that too. And they have sports (mine are playing basketball now- not that I study during their games- might miss something!)
#3 If I'm really in a pinch I buy a movie that they can watch.
#4 (your little one might be too young for this one but the 8 year old could do it) have them help you study (I know this sounds crazy and it's less than efficient but if you let them think they are helping you by copying something on a notecard or something they are busy and you can get a couple of facts in.
#5 screw school, I'd rather spend time with my boys and get C's😀

 

[Smitty3L]

Ah, nice. I'm thinking maybe the biochem department is a little on the incompetent side in some ways.

So I just took the practice test that Hanas posted and could answer all of 2 of the questions.

Don't feel bad, I haven't looked at any of his stuff yet. I've sort of given up on the idea of learning it. I'm sure I'll get around to becoming familiar with some of the terms later tonight. Right now I'm learning Fuller, Knehans and Wiegel really well. The rest of the stuff I'm kind of blowing off. Yeah for test block 3 apathy!

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Yeah, some of those Tucker HB questions were sort of irritating. I think I answered masturbation on that one, but it was a big internal debate. 😉

lol

exlaw, how did we manage to get ourselves involved with that juvenile discussion over on the "med students have it easier.." thread?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

lol

exlaw, how did we manage to get ourselves involved with that juvenile discussion over on the "med students have it easier.." thread?

I always get sucked into that stuff, I guess because I'm bored. It took a few wild rides, though, but all were irritating. 🙂

Smitty, I might follow you on not mastering that Hanas stuff. I've got it halfway now, but it's not all there. I'm just happy that biochem's almost done. I actually expected to like it more than anatomy, but that just hasn't happened.

 

[glp]

Smitty, I might follow you on not mastering that Hanas stuff. I've got it halfway now, but it's not all there. I'm just happy that biochem's almost done. I actually expected to like it more than anatomy, but that just hasn't happened.

i understand of all of the stuff in his material, but his questions make me want to blow my brains out. the specificty and seemingly pointless details he asks about are not worth learning. imho.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

i understand of all of the stuff in his material, but his questions make me want to blow my brains out. the specificty and seemingly pointless details he asks about are not worth learning. imho.

Yeah, he asks about the most irrelevant details of what we're studying. Do we have to know that type of stuff he asks for the boards?

I think it's just going to be a matter of luck as to whether I studied whatever tiny thing Hanas wants us to know. Is anyone else not studying the Palmer stuff at all? I heard her questions are hard, and they're only 3 of them. Why bother?

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Yeah, he asks about the most irrelevant details of what we're studying. Do we have to know that type of stuff he asks for the boards?

I think it's just going to be a matter of luck as to whether I studied whatever tiny thing Hanas wants us to know. Is anyone else not studying the Palmer stuff at all? I heard her questions are hard, and they're only 3 of them. Why bother?

I didn't think about her material until you just mentioned it. Are we expected to have memorized s/s of those diseases?

For Hanas, I doubt that USMLE will ask us about specific protein structural motifs. My complaint is that he obviously thinks that many things are important that are not given/emphasized in his powerpoint presentation or syllabus.

"Ms. Smith, I am sorry to have to tell you that the zinc finger domains of your brca1 protein product have apparently acquired a mutation in recent years. Since the relevant coding portion of your DNA is expressing the mutation, altered cellular proteins are allowing cell division to go unchecked and preventing the normal halting of the cell cycle within a metastatic cell mass located in the upper lateral quadrant of your right mammary tissue. Do you have any questions about this diagnosis? Okay then, I am prescribing a monoclonal antibody that will antagonize a tyrosine kinase involved in cell signalling. We are hoping that this cell surface receptor will downregulate by merely internalizing the protein complex thereby decreasing the rampant replication via the lessening of signals downstream of the second messenger. Have a wonderful day!"

 

[Smitty3L]

Well Johnny, I guess I'll step in and give you some advice about studying with the kids around. (And, you deserve a huge hug and high five for stepping up and being a great dad and taking care of your boys!🙂 )
#5 screw school, I'd rather spend time with my boys and get C's😀

I second that.. yeah for great dads! And I have to say I mostly take option #5.

"Ms. Smith, I am sorry to have to tell you that the zinc finger domains of your brca1 protein product have apparently acquired a mutation in recent years. Since the relevant coding portion of your DNA is expressing the mutation, altered cellular proteins are allowing cell division to go unchecked and preventing the normal halting of the cell cycle within a metastatic cell mass located in the upper lateral quadrant of your right mammary tissue. Do you have any questions about this diagnosis? Okay then, I am prescribing a monoclonal antibody that will antagonize a tyrosine kinase involved in cell signalling. We are hoping that this cell surface receptor will downregulate by merely internalizing the protein complex thereby decreasing the rampant replication via the lessening of signals downstream of the second messenger. Have a wonderful day!"

This cracks me up! I had a patient once say she did not have any history of cancer, just infiltrating ductal carcinoma, which does not crack me up. I hope I remember to not speak jargon 7 or so years from now when I'm practicing.

Leon posted this on the discussion board
Yes, it would be a good idea to know how to diagnose the different MPS's and also how Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) works. It seems reasonable to conclude that you will be ok with the questions since you have had the benefit of the Clinical Correlation and the self-directed design and presentation of the MPS diagnostic maps together with feedback from Dr. Palmer. Previous classes have performed well on these questions. Dr. Palmer has 5 questions on the Exam. With respect to your inquiries about NF: it would be useful if you think about how modifying genetic mechanisms (e.g., gonadal and somatic mosaicisms, spontaneous mutation, variable expressivity, age-dependent penetrance, etc.) affect the phenotype with which a patient presents to a physician and, therefore, the diagnostic criteria (neurofibromas, freckling, cafe-au-lait macules, gliomas, Leisch nodules, etc.). There are 6 questions on NF.

I'm hoping the extra questions for these two sections were taken from Hanas.

 

[Smitty3L]

Okay, so if anyone is still up cramming like me, I thought I would post this update from Leon from the discussion board:

Just know MPSI and MPSII, not all of them. And ERT.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Okay, so if anyone is still up cramming like me, I thought I would post this update from Leon from the discussion board:

Just know MPSI and MPSII, not all of them. And ERT.

Yeah it looks like he had a change of heart about how specific he wanted to be in helping us prepare for the test.

 

[JohnnyOU]

Well Johnny, I guess I'll step in and give you some advice about studying with the kids around. (And, you deserve a huge hug and high five for stepping up and being a great dad and taking care of your boys!🙂 )
Here are a couple of my tricks.
#1 McDonalds, there is a new McD's on SW 134th that has a great playarea and there are leather chairs and tables that you can study in/at while the boys play. They love it and you can get a good hour of studying in.
#2 YMCA, we have a new YMCA down here (119th and May) and for $58.00 a month you have a place to go if you really need to study (or work out), they have a great play place for the kids with games and computers and stuff, mine love that too. And they have sports (mine are playing basketball now- not that I study during their games- might miss something!)
#3 If I'm really in a pinch I buy a movie that they can watch.
#4 (your little one might be too young for this one but the 8 year old could do it) have them help you study (I know this sounds crazy and it's less than efficient but if you let them think they are helping you by copying something on a notecard or something they are busy and you can get a couple of facts in.
#5 screw school, I'd rather spend time with my boys and get C's😀

Thanks Rachel 🙂
My youngest is a Blues Clues junky... so sometimes I can put that on and he gets into his "zone" 👍

My oldest was helping me with my Netter's flash cards yesterday...he was saying "that's the head" "that's the brain" "that's the head again"... 😀

 

[JohnnyOU]

I hate it when I can't sleep.
Laying there tossing and turning like an idiot all night.

blah 👎

 

[JohnnyOU]

I hate it when I can't sleep.
Laying there tossing and turning like an idiot all night.

blah 👎

screw it...i'm going to the mod.
see yall there
good luck everyone

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I hate it when I can't sleep.
Laying there tossing and turning like an idiot all night.

blah 👎

Yeah, I couldn't fall asleep last night. It sucked -- I don't recommend it for exam week. 😱

MPS I and II are all I know, so hey, that's something. I didn't go to that lecture, so I don't even have the handout to study from. A few more hours and we will be done with biochem! 🙂 I never want to know if something's a helix-turn-helix, a leucine zipper or a zinc finger again -- I hate that cr@p. Yeah, boards, I know, but I can't think about that now.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

screw it...i'm going to the mod.
see yall there
good luck everyone

You too Johnny!

I had a dream last night in which Jennifer Aniston showed up at my door wearing scrubs and a stethoscope with a pizza in her hand. She sat down on my bed, but imagine my disappointment when all she wanted to do was discuss thyroid hormone and vitamin D....

 

[Amxcvbcv]

You too Johnny!

I had a dream last night in which Jennifer Aniston showed up at my door wearing scrubs and a stethoscope with a pizza in her hand. She sat down on my bed, but imagine my disappointment when all she wanted to do was discuss thyroid hormone and vitamin D....

It's better that way.

She probably had worms, HIV, Ebola, and nasty black piedra in her hair.

 

[Jwax]

Speaking of french and private **** not being private anymore, I wrote a girl a big ol' love note in french once, like 9th grade. I didn't have command enough to write one without a dictionary, so the grammar was all jacked. I know the concept made her happy where it smells funny, but she couldn't read it, grammar notwithstanding, so she took it to the french teacher who translated it for her and everyone else in the class, using it as a tool for how not to conjugate verbs or whatever.

She was like my first love, too. At least 2nd or 3rd. She was a cheerleader then, but now she is all huge and could use Knehans nutrition lectures. That's what happens to you when you break little boy's hearts, God makes you fat.

But I'm over it. Mostly.

That's funny...

Benoit - sorry for my poor french... I took Spanish. But, now I know how to spell it for the future! 🙂

 

[Doctor Bagel]

You too Johnny!

I had a dream last night in which Jennifer Aniston showed up at my door wearing scrubs and a stethoscope with a pizza in her hand. She sat down on my bed, but imagine my disappointment when all she wanted to do was discuss thyroid hormone and vitamin D....

I didn't know she was into biochem. 😉 Personally, I think Jennifer Aniston is way more attractive (and sane!) than Angelina Jolie. I know -- I'm apparently alone here both amongst men and women.

So I guess the biochem answer sheet should be posted around January 12. 🙄 I also didn't like the whole intro speech today about filling out the course evaluation. It just confirmed my belief that Leon thinks the course is excellent and needs no improvement, when in my opinion, it could use some work.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

It's better that way.

She probably had worms, HIV, Ebola, and nasty black piedra in her hair.

Amx, was it you who said you were wishing you could switch places with us on TB2 (biochem for MMI)? Well I am being dead serious when I tell you that I absolutely would have taken you up on that today.

AG (if you are roaming today), thanks for backing me up on the discussion board last night; and thanks for the facebook add! I'm just getting into using facebook. I've found it to be superior to myspace thus far.

I didn't know she was into biochem. 😉 Personally, I think Jennifer Aniston is way more attractive (and sane!) than Angelina Jolie.

I agree, and it turned out she wasn't that into it. She kept confusing calctriol with calcitonin. 😀

So I guess the biochem answer sheet should be posted around January 12. 🙄 I also didn't like the whole intro speech today about filling out the course evaluation. It just confirmed my belief that Leon thinks the course is excellent and needs no improvement, when in my opinion, it could use some work.

Yeah biochem exams were (I like using this in the past tense) like going to the movies where you might as well show up fifteen minutes late because they'll still be running the trailers. You can bet that I will indeed fill out that evaluation.

Doctor: "Ms. Jones, we feel that your cancer might have something to do with your smoking."

Patient: "My smoking? Are you telling me that benzopyrenes present in cigarette smoke were being oxidized to ester epoxides therefore causing alkylation and thus DNA mutations in those regions that arrest cell proliferation?"

Doctor: "No ma'am, the benzopyrenes were actually being oxidized to diol epoxides."

Patient: "Oh, okay. I feel much better now."

BTW I missed that one...

 

[Mr. Freeze]

I didn't know she was into biochem. 😉 Personally, I think Jennifer Aniston is way more attractive (and sane!) than Angelina Jolie. I know -- I'm apparently alone here both amongst men and women.

So I guess the biochem answer sheet should be posted around January 12. 🙄 I also didn't like the whole intro speech today about filling out the course evaluation. It just confirmed my belief that Leon thinks the course is excellent and needs no improvement, when in my opinion, it could use some work.

Supposed to be posted today; everyone was accounted for. 2 didn't take it, but they weren't going to.

And it's blasphemy, but I would tend to agree, I wouldn't kick Angelina out of bed don't get me wrong, but she is TOO much. I thought she might have that AIS bidness, but she's had a kid. You can't just take all the hot parts of everybody and slap 'em on one person, it's overwhelming; ya gotta throw a crooked tooth or a mole in there somewhere.

YEAH!! NO MORE BIOCHEM!!

 

[JohnnyOU]

I didn't know she was into biochem. 😉 Personally, I think Jennifer Aniston is way more attractive (and sane!) than Angelina Jolie. I know -- I'm apparently alone here both amongst men and women.

So I guess the biochem answer sheet should be posted around January 12. 🙄 I also didn't like the whole intro speech today about filling out the course evaluation. It just confirmed my belief that Leon thinks the course is excellent and needs no improvement, when in my opinion, it could use some work.

Aniston is WAY more beautiful than that jolie hag...I'm so sick of jolie I'd like to just smack that b*tch. She's way over-rated.

 

[glp]

I didn't know she was into biochem. 😉
So I guess the biochem answer sheet should be posted around January 12. 🙄

the key is up on blackboard. its very nerveracking grading a test when know exactly how many you can miss to get the grade you want. the suspense builds at the end. 🙂

and guys prefer angelina bc guys like crazy chicks bc we think they will doing something cool we've never seen before or don't know about in bed.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

the key is up on blackboard. its very nerveracking grading a test when know exactly how many you can miss to get the grade you want. the suspense builds at the end. 🙂

Indeed this is the advantage of apathy. 😀

I missed more on the nutrition section than all others combined. So much for that food science certificate I earned at K-State. That will give me something to think about while I am eating my skinless chicken breast and contemplating the lipoprotein effects of chicken fried steaks prepared in soybean oil.

During the TBL last week, I realized that all of these sensible eating recommendations seem rather impractical for the average patient. I'm sure that President Boren has the support staff available to prepare him delicious healthy meals before he drives three blocks to campus in his Jaguar, but the average patient has neither the time nor money to afford five meals a day of low calorie, high nutrient density foods. It just doesn't seem to be a plausible strategy (hence no compliance followed by diabetes and obesity).

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Indeed this is the advantage of apathy. 😀

I missed more on the nutrition section than all others combined. So much for that food science certificate I earned at K-State. That will give me something to think about while I am eating my skinless chicken breast and contemplating the lipoprotein effects of chicken fried steaks prepared in soybean oil.

Well, assuming my calculations are correct, I made what I needed to make but by a pretty thin margin. I missed like half of Weigel's stuff -- I just studied that one study guide for him that was posted on Hippocrates, and it did not have a lot of the stuff he asked. Knehans was what I missed the most of next, and I actually knew his stuff pretty well. There were just some thing where I didn't know his terms. I'm pretty sure some of the questions were also things that weren't covered in class. Hanas and Fuller both worked out well for me -- Mulvihill not so much.

It is sort of amazing with biochem how little you can get away with studying and still pull an all right grade. I really didn't start looking at this material at all until last week.

 

[RachelD]

I was surprised at how poorly I did on this one. I left the exam thinking it was a pretty good test. Then I checked the key and look out!😱
Oh well, at least I passed.👍
On to embryo....

 

[Smitty3L]

I stayed up all night cramming for this biochem test. Is it overly pathetic that I watched that "I'm bringing study back" video every few hours last night for inspiration? God bless Dr. Fuller for some of his questions, like what does ACE do. I was surprised that Knehans was the hardest section for me. I think his material wasn't straightforward enough, not enough "you need to know x", again God bless Dr. Fuller for that.

I was really turned off at how we were told what to put on our course evaluations, I'll be sure to fill mine out. If it were up to me I would keep the second mini, just because I couldn't imagine cramming that material in with all that we were tested on today, but my rebellious nature wants to put otherwise on the eval.

Man, I feel like celebrating. This biochem class has been a total nightmare. Oh! I know what I can do, stay up all night cramming embryology.🙄 Only 72 more hours before I can sleep.

Aniston vs. Jolie. I guess they are all right if you go for that kind of thing, you know, thin and beautiful. Like Freeze said, there is such a thing as too perfect. Slightly chunky, bags under the eyes, pasty complexion, now that is beautiful!

 

[JohnnyOU]

Aniston vs. Jolie. I guess they are all right if you go for that kind of thing, you know, thin and beautiful. Like Freeze said, there is such a thing as too perfect. Slightly chunky, bags under the eyes, pasty complexion, now that is beautiful!

No matter how "beautiful and sexy" a woman is...
there's always some guy somewhere who can't stand the sight of that b*tch 😡

 

[Amxcvbcv]

I've read two allusions to it, but I need someone to spell it out for me.

What did Leon say about the course eval?

I think I was pretty candid with mine last year, but I can't remember what I complained about. 😉

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I was really turned off at how we were told what to put on our course evaluations, I'll be sure to fill mine out. If it were up to me I would keep the second mini, just because I couldn't imagine cramming that material in with all that we were tested on today, but my rebellious nature wants to put otherwise on the eval.

Man, I feel like celebrating. This biochem class has been a total nightmare. Oh! I know what I can do, stay up all night cramming embryology.🙄 Only 72 more hours before I can sleep.

Aniston vs. Jolie. I guess they are all right if you go for that kind of thing, you know, thin and beautiful. Like Freeze said, there is such a thing as too perfect. Slightly chunky, bags under the eyes, pasty complexion, now that is beautiful!

Exactly. I got the vibe that Leon wants us to complete the evaluation just to tell him how perfect the class is. Normally, when you request that someone completes an evaluation, you say things like you're open to constuctive comments about areas for improvement. Not Leon. I actually did talk to him about what I didn't like about Steinberg, and I got the strong impression that he just didn't want to hear it.

I'm also dinging the second mini because I just didn't like it. DeAngeles through Knehans wouldn't work, but I think some reasonable distribution could be figured out. But, yeah, it's over -- finally!!

I agree with your notion of beauty. 🙂

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I've read two allusions to it, but I need someone to spell it out for me.

What did Leon say about the course eval?

I think I was pretty candid with mine last year, but I can't remember what I complained about. 😉

Basically, he started out by essentially telling us how valuable the course has been and highlighted all the great features like how well we learned about diabetes (gotta admit I disagree with this one) and learned about things like gout. Then, he mentioned that he's kept the second mini because students in the past have told him they liked it, and that he needs us to give him that same feedback so he can save it. It was all really subtle, though, and I'm sure other students walked away with a very different perspective on what went on. It was nothing horrible, just sort of irritating.

 

[Amxcvbcv]

Basically, he started out by essentially telling us how valuable the course has been and highlighted all the great features like how well we learned about diabetes (gotta admit I disagree with this one) and learned about things like gout. Then, he mentioned that he's kept the second mini because students in the past have told him they liked it, and that he needs us to give him that same feedback so he can save it. It was all really subtle, though, and I'm sure other students walked away with a very different perspective on what went on. It was nothing horrible, just sort of irritating.

If I have one more professor explain the basics of diabetes to me I think I'll scream. We got it in IHI and Pharm, and I'm pretty sure they spent more time on it than we did in biochem.


Anyway...

 

[Doctor Bagel]

If I have one more professor explain the basics of diabetes to me I think I'll scream. We got it in IHI and Pharm, and I'm pretty sure they spent more time on it than we did in biochem.


Anyway...

Yeah, I can see that coming.🙂 I don't feel like I understand it all that well based on what we did in biochem because it was too broken up. Weigel taught one part, Olson taught another and an endocrinologist gave us a way too complicated lecture (coupled with way too complicated exam questions 😱 ). Nothing really tied it together, so I don't feel like I really understand the big picture issues of diabetes. And I made an A on the test that covered diabetes, so I don't think I'm way behind my classmates.

So I should be excited that I'll get the chance in the future to truly come to know, love and understand diabetes. 😉

 

[JohnnyOU]

So I should be excited that I'll get the chance in the future to truly come to know, love and understand diabetes. 😉

{{{{{{{ diabetes }}}}}}}}
😍 😍 😍 😍 😍

I love it...I'm gonna gain 100 pnds just so I can get type II !!!!
Then you'll all be jealous...just like you are of my thick luxurious hair !

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Basically, he started out by essentially telling us how valuable the course has been and highlighted all the great features like how well we learned about diabetes (gotta admit I disagree with this one) and learned about things like gout. Then, he mentioned that he's kept the second mini because students in the past have told him they liked it, and that he needs us to give him that same feedback so he can save it. It was all really subtle, though, and I'm sure other students walked away with a very different perspective on what went on. It was nothing horrible, just sort of irritating.

I didn't think it was too subtle. He all but came out and said Mr. Burns is trying to take the mini from 2011 and if you don't answer the eval appropriately, he will win.

 

[RachelD]

It's official, my husband doesn't get it. He just came into the study and said I got free tickets to the Hornets game (tonight) do you really need to study?🙄

 

[JohnnyOU]

It's official, my husband doesn't get it. He just came into the study and said I got free tickets to the Hornets game (tonight) do you really need to study?🙄

LOL
Rachel,
I admit that today was the first time it hit me how different things are for us future docs....I haven't watched tv in months except for once in a while while eating some crap layin on the floor....

most of my ex-friends use the phrase "what, you gotta STUDY?" like I'm a crackwhore.

Johnny

 

[Doctor Bagel]

It's official, my husband doesn't get it. He just came into the study and said I got free tickets to the Hornets game (tonight) do you really need to study?🙄

I think that would drive me to violence. 🙂

 

[Mr. Freeze]

My wife's lines are, "But you studied all day yesterday," and "How can you still be behind?"

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I didn't think it was too subtle. He all but came out and said Mr. Burns is trying to take the mini from 2011 and if you don't answer the eval appropriately, he will win.

Yeah, I guess it wasn't so subtle. His stuff about the class being great also wasn't so subtle. And here, I'm gonna say it -- I thought the Boren presenation was pretty worthless and just highlighted the unequal distribution of health care in the US. I doubt that Dr. Parker? (I totally forgot his name) wants to be woken up every 2 hours to get test results for his more plebian patients. 🙄

So I'd rather gripe about biochem than study. Anybody else pretty lost on the eye/ear stuff? I really like Rada's powerpoints (and I like her in general), but her powerpoints for that section don't seem so great.