Just goes to prove that admissions standards are so liberal these days that they're even letting people in who learned their manners in a trailer park.
OSCE = Objective Structured Clinical Exam. I guess the "structured observer" is either the standardized patient who is watching your every move... or the faculty member who is reviewing the videotape. Hey, DocBagel, were they ragging your OSCE group about NOT fast-forwarding through ANY of the videotape? L.D. and her helpers were getting very indignant (and snotty) about it. L.D. came over to me with her hands on her hips and I finally said, "Look... I'm not in the room yet in this part of the tape. I'm not spending my time watching her pick her nose." Actually, they got so aggressive about it, that's about the closest I've ever come to telling a member of the College of Medicine administrative staff to go pound sand in her *ss.
Silly kids. If you were old enough to remember when liquor was illegal for everyone in Oklahoma, you'd know more tricks. I used to keep my contraband substance in a Kerr jar (do you even know what that is?) marked with a label of "distilled water" - and I kept it next to my iron in the closet of my dorm room. Now, distilled it was... water it was not. 😛PreMedMommy - was that your mod that got busted with the EtOH?Classic Newbie Mistake #7 - forgetting to take out your own trash
How lovely! I even broke my life-long boycott of watching False News in order to see her. Yay for Mrs. Amxcvbcv!
Self diagnosis of this block: SLE (although I had already considered this in my self-DDx before)
I certainly have the hypochondriac manifestations to match up with it. 😉 🙄
I will continue my rant of abbreviations.... all the freaking gene transcripts and protein components of HIV - gag, pol, env, MA aka p17, TM aka gp41, SU aka gp120. Seriously?
Aw, thanks - always appreciate a kind word. Actually, Jwax, getting out of MMI was great - and I do sympathize with you - but that was the only thing that saved my sanity. The problem was, I'm always the type that has to study right up to the last minute - I'm never organized enough to finish studying a couple of days early and just work practice questions the night before the exam. So, the real kick in the teeth was no computer to download last-minute stuff (or look at practice questions, for that matter). It cost me a grade level on the IHI exam, I have absolutely no doubt - first time I'd ever taken an exam with one short section that I hadn't even read.
That is not a good thing, as I suspect that a lot of the MS-I's may have had a poor grade on TB-1 or TB-2, so I'd say your chances of a complete cancellation are not good - too many people would not be satisfied with his/her grade as it is after two blocks - after all, you guys are getting the hang of things now!
I hear ya! For some reason I just find it much more difficult to study for Biochem than for other classes. I'm just ready to get this week over with.
I wish I could say the same thing but most of my drunken episodes happen in public. I wouldn't have it any other way. 😀
Well, to be honest, that's why I was woopin' and hollerin' when the e-mail came out that we didn't have to take the test at all if we were satisfied with our grade. For some reason, all those bloody viruses didn't stick with me - and they still don't. Even though I'd wasted all bloody weekend trying to memorize those viruses, I was a very happy camper. And don't even get me started on nematodes and flukes and all that garbage. That's also cr*p that I still don't know.
I refuse to give up hope until I have to leave the house in the morning. Yeah, I know that makes me selfish.
I love how every other word in Ihnat's syllabus is in bold, underlined, and/or capitalized. Way to help us sort through what is most important. 
Hmm interesting new smilie. That's hilarious.
