You know you're in med school when....

[Critical Mass]

You know your a med student when: You tell a chick your gonna be a doctor and then she wants your nads...

At what point during medical school does this start happening?

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[GuzzyRon]

You know you're a med student when you study...study...study...study...and still feel you haven't studied well enough.

 

[klapmasta]

you get drunk more than you did in college.

 

[cfdavid]

Granted I am an MS0, not sure where I will be attending quite yet, but I am convinced that Sheldon Williams, the former Duke basketball player has fetal alcohol syndrome. Someone google his name and confirm my diagnosis!

well, i'm only an MS1, but all i can say is quite possible.....

 

[braluk]

you get drunk more than you did in college.

Lol idk about this...unless you mean drunk off the fumes in gross

 

[spreebee]

The point where you look like a supermodel and/or you are filthy rich.

LOL, very true... It's all about the deep pocket. If you can't reach the bottom, they flock to you in herds...

 

[Rockhouse]

When you start studying a week before an exam and you consider it "cramming"

When you get sleepy after lunch and start thinking about the insulin/glucagon system

When your classmates turn working out into an academic experience (this is no BS, - my workout buddy started a morning the other day with, and I quote "I was recently reading an article written by Arnold and his opinion was that...")

 

[fakin' the funk]

When you don't ever, ever get to do anything that you liked to do in your real life before you came to medical school.

When you come up with Star Wars-related mnemonics to remember obscure diseases:
Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome = Mace Windu syndrome (hey, it works for me)

When you start thinking that Clinical Micro Made Ridiculously Simple is actually funny.

When you sit on the toilet and wonder how many colonic diverticuli you have.

 

[angietron3000]

you only know anna nicole smith died because they play CNN in the hospital cafeteria

 

[trustwomen]

When you ask your boyfriend to take off his pants and spread 'em, but it's because you want to test his cremasteric reflex... ("Ooh! Look at that, it really DOES happen!!")

 

[34440]

At what point during medical school does this start happening?

3rd year.

 

[Biscuit799]

When you feel guilty about not studying because you're taking a break to eat.

 

[Ashers]

You're glad that you're confined to your apartment due to inclement weather (eg. blizzard) because now you have absolutely no reason to leave, and you're forced to study.

 

[braluk]

When you feel guilty about not studying because you're taking a break to eat.

hell...I feel guilty just being here on SDN, but I still go on here regardless

 

[deleted109597]

At what point during medical school does this start happening?

When you run into student nurses.

 

[lilnoelle]

When you ask your boyfriend to take off his pants and spread 'em, but it's because you want to test his cremasteric reflex... ("Ooh! Look at that, it really DOES happen!!")

When your idea of foreplay has something to do with a brief anatomy lesson. (Here's this muscle, and this is this ligament, oh, and here's where you'll most likely find a direct inguinal hernia and this is where you'd find an indirect inguinal hernia)

 

[cubsrule4e]

When youre sitting in traffic and you begin to list all of the disease/procedure abbreviations that you can make out of the 3 letters on the license plates of the cars around you

 

[angietron3000]

You know your a med student when: You tell a chick your gonna be a doctor and then she wants your nads...

haha, or when you tell a guy you're a med student and they just walk away

 

[melissainsd]

This is useful for the incoming class of '11. Now I know to make a Costco run for highlighters and red bull before school starts. I think I'll also take a lot more pics of my kid because I will obviously never see him again (perhaps I can even put a pic of me up in his room to remind him of "that mommy lady I never see").

 

[smq123]

This is useful for the incoming class of '11. Now I know to make a Costco run for highlighters and red bull before school starts.

Don't forget index cards.

 

[enanareina]

MS-1 and MS-2:

When you can have conversations with classmates over where the better place to have your syllabi professionally bound is Office Depot or Kinko's...

When you watch House (or Mystery Diagnosis) with a group of med students and attempt to diagnose the patient before the rest of the group...

When you drink more frequently than you ever have before, but your tolerance has shrunk to nil...

When dissecting the (human) ribs causes you to urgently crave barbecued ribs...

When you look forward to MS-III...

MS-3:

When you and your classmates compare clipboards with built-in document storage...

When you covet your friend's "cool" reflex hammer with the sharp pointy end and the "flying saucer" business end...

When you realize that your friends in law and business school actually get weekends off...

When you're excited about FP rotation because you get weekends off...

When you find a bottle of hemoccult developer in the doctor's workroom and slip it into your pocket (that stuff is liquid GOLD)...

When you realize that if you weren't already married, you never would be, because it's too tiring to try to date at this point...

When you look forward to MS-4 or residency, because it HAS to better than the **** you do now...

 

[shivasHeroLike]

you only know anna nicole smith died because they play CNN in the hospital cafeteria

lolz, so true.

 

[sacallaco]

your internet homepage is set to www.medicalnewstoday.com

 

[LaDoctorFutura]

great thread!

1) When you get angry at papermate for including colors of highlighters you don't like (I mean, c'mon, who uses purple highlighter!!)

2) You found a way to convert a stapler into a highlighter holder (PM for specifics

3) You have purchased a case of red bull from sam's, then complained that it wasn't enough

4) You finish the entire second season of Entourage three days before an exam because you're so burnt out on studying, but so strung out on red bull (see #3)

i actually got the pack for the purple highlighter. i don't use the yellows.

 

[Skills of House]

...when even though you've studied all day, you still feel so guilty about going to a club Saturday night that while there you decide to quiz yourself and draw out the hormonal responses during the mentrual cycle on a bar napkin...(maybe not my "coolest" hour...woohoo go nerds!)

 

[Skills of House]

This was inspired by the "Scrubs vs Grey's Anatomy" thread:

....when you watch shows like House, ER, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy and actually get pissed about the inaccurate portrayal of medicine.

 

[Tired]

This was inspired by the "Scrubs vs Grey's Anatomy" thread:

....when you watch shows like House, ER, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy and actually get pissed about the inaccurate portrayal of medicine.

. . . or you think to yourself, "I could follow this show a lot better if they stop using the patients' names and just refer to them by their diagnosis."

 

[medsurg2010]

I thought this would be a fun thread. I'll start.

Your highlighter runs out of ink.

during a particularly bad storm, the lights kept flickering on and off and I
suddenly realized that I had no candles or flashlights in my apartment. BUT I could use the light from my otoscope

 

[sacallaco]

when you get butterflies whenever you see or hear BRS

 

[DragonWell]

Not my creation, some folks have posted pieces, but I thought the whole thing was worth sharing :

http://www.geocities.com/abhinith/medical_school_nerd_scale.htm

MEDICAL SCHOOL NERD SCALE

The following scale has been developed in close cooperation
with the UVA psychiatry services (Well at least I was thinking
of some of their characteristics and used some of their class
time to compose it). It is designed to test if you have spent
too much time in medical school and whether you are having
adverse side effects due to prolonged exposure.
Score one point for each statement that applies to you.

1 You have ever said "Netter is god".
2 You can discuss autopsy/ anatomy over a meal
3 You own a 4 color pen
4 -it just isn't enough colors for you
5 You use more than one color to take notes
6 You have use up more than 6 highlighters in the past 6 months
7 you have ever highlighted something YOU wrote
8 you retype handouts given in class
9 you haven't had a date in 3 months
10 you haven't had a date since entering med school
11 you have not been able to remember the normal term for
something because you were thinking of the medical term (ie
reflux for heartburn)
12 You get more sleep in lecture than at home
13 You know the correct spelling for pruritus
14 - you also know what it means
15 You have ever asked a question in class
16 - The prof. didn't understand the question
17 - you didn't believe the answer the prof. gave
18 - you went to look it up to see if they were right
19 You can't hold a conversation on anything other than med
school
20 You skip class to study
21 You've said you didn't do well on a test on which you beat the mean
22 You spend more than 15 hrs a week on e-mail
23 You have a callous on you finger from writing
24 More than one professor knows you by name
25 When you ask a question, a new professor has said "Oh, I've
heard of you"
26 You can name more amino acids than past presidents
27 You use more than 5 acronyms an hour when talking
28 you actually know what PERRLA stands for
29 You know all the steps of the TCA cycle
30 You do not read PTA as parent teachers association
31 You can remember the muscles in the forearm
32 You know the strucures in the urea cycle
33 You know the dermatome distribution
34 You can't remember what you had for breakfast
35 You can't spell world, much less backwards
36 You've ever been sexually aroused by the breast shadow on an
X ray
37 You equate "morning stiffness" with Rhematoid Artheritis
38 You actually know normal values for plasma Na
39 -K
40 Missing class causes you extreme stress
41 You have seriously asked someone "So how does that make you
feel?"
42 You have asked will this be on the exam
43 -Just after the prof. said it wouldn't
44 You identify with Deb on E.R.
45 You have made a medical joke
46 -no one laughed
47 -You figure they just weren't that far in their studying
48 You wear your stethescope around your neck on the bus
49 - you don't even know which way the thing goes in your ears
50 "SOB" means short of breath to you
51 You have gone to student health with suspicion of a disease
you have studied
52 -within 3 days of the lecture
53 You have answered a question in class
54 -asked by the professor
55 -it was a rhetorical question
56 You can quote lines from the movie "Malice"
57 -you believe them
58 You can flip your pen over your thumb
59 - with both hands
60 - you do so throughout class
61 You have corrected a professor in class
62 -the rest of the class didn't understand the lecture to
begin with
63 You know how to claculate specificity
64 -positive predictive value
65 - anion gap
66 -you can't balance your checkbook
67 You don't know what the weather was like for the past week
68 You don't know what the weather is like right now
69 You actually talk in open ended questions
70 DIC isn't a slang term for the penis in your book
71 You think B- is a bad grade
72 you have stressed about a pass/fail class
73 You study during most of your meals
74 You saw nothing abnormal about the Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder
75 You draw all of the slides not already provided in the
handouts
76 -including the cartoons (humourous type)
77 Anatomy makes you hungry
78 You would even consider saying "Ease back on my finger at
your own pace"
79 You know the size of a RBC
80 - you don't know the size of a football field
81 Your eyesight has worsened by 10 pts or more in the last year
82 You have the library hours memorized
83 Hou have your own seat in the library
84 You score more than 95 on the Epidemiology final
85 You own more than one white coat
86 You have debated between giving up sleep or eating in order
to find more time to study
87 You started studying for boards more than 2 months in
advance
88 You have never received a personal invitation to discuss
your grades with the dean
89 A tie is the only addition necessary to what you normally
wear when you go to see patients
90 You wear scrubs to tests
91 You have made plans to study on a beach during vacation
92 - you actually did
93 You have a designated seat in lecture
94 - You have ever asked someone to move from "your seat"
95 You sleep less than 4 hrs a night
96 -you think that is plenty
97 -you have thought about cutting back
98 You study more than 35 hrs outsid of class
99 -you think you are a slackard
100 You think everyone answers yes to most of these questions


Scale
<20 - You're not in Med school. Go back to your party and
leave us alone. We have work to do.
20-35 Either Med school is a breeze or you like the sound of
"Senor doctor"
35-45 Gotta love that Primary Care
45-60 Well, I never really thought about MD/Phd, but now that
you mention it...
60-75 Your social life is shot, might as well try to earn lots
of money
75-90 Which surgery subspecialty did you say you liked?
90 All hail, great Med School Nerd master.

 

[Faraaz23]

when security must be called everynight at closing time to make you leave the library.

when giving driving directions to someone, instead of saying the road comes to a T-intersection, you say the road bifurcates.

when you put your food in a blender so you don't have to waste time chewing.

 

[Sophie]

You score lower than 20 on that quiz posted above, and think there must be something wrong with you and you need to step it up. (And then start looking through the list for things you can begin doing)

You think " *courtesy of wikipedia" should be somewhere on your diploma.

So true! I never used wikipedia before, but it's now one of my most frequented sites.

 

[gujuDoc]

Some of these might have already been said but this was from one of my med student friend's groups on facebook. The group is global and started by some BU students.
Enjoy....

You Might be in Med School if...
Type: Just for Fun - Totally Pointless
Description: You know what microscopic disease-causing class that picture is of and can name the structure of its capsid.

You see neurons in soap suds in your shower.

You feel like vomiting and automatically lay in the rescue position

When drinking, you and your friends think that the increase in your AST/ALT tomorrow is going to be hilarious!

You still do drugs, but at least you know what they do to you. And never fail to inform those you're doing them with.

You blame neurotransmitters for anything going wrong in your life

You can have a conversation about the abscess you drained today while eating cream of broccoli soup without any problem at all. Or for that matter, over any kind of meal.

You have named a dead person…and talked to them about your stresses while finding their lumbar plexus

You know that specialties are pre-defined by personality type.

The drama in your life now is worse than it ever was in high school.

When you go out with non-medical students, you're abnormally quiet, because you don't know what to talk about besides med school.

You can name the four people in your class who are the question-asker, the arguer, the bigshot doctor's son/daughter and the stoner/alkie/druggie who's never IN class.

You know countless dirty mnemonics for parts of the body, but couldn't tell anyone what the front-page headline today is.

Your life consists of three parts: studying, drinking, and sleeping.

You refer to the semesters you took organic chemistry as "The Good Old Days."

You consistently tell people that they just don't understand how bad it really is.

You know that, in theory, you have a family and friends, but you can't place the last time you saw them.

You don't bother dating because the divorce rate is 70% for physicians.

You constantly find yourself saying things like "I just have to get to spring break" or "I just have to get through Step 1."

You understand the complexities of the USMLE as well as internships, residencies, and fellowships.

You question every day if you should drop out and open a coffee shop, then realize that as soon as you were two semesters into med school, you were too far in debt to be anything but a doctor.

You're not really sure which professional organizations you're actually a member of, but you never joined the AMA.

People assume you know something when you tell them you're in med school, but you know that you haven't learned anything.

You've dissected a penis and can explain the way Viagra works.

People constantly ask what med school is like, and all you can think of to say is "It really sucks."

You've never had problems before, but 6 months into med school you're on birth control, an anti-depressant, an anti-anxiolytic and sleep medication.

You can name 3 specialties you're interested in, then immediately rule two of them out because they don't pay well enough to pay off your debt.

Half your class is Asian of some sort. The other half is Jewish. All of us are completely nuts.

You can name at least three people whose parents pushed them into med school, when they really wanted to be a vet/beautician/teacher/etc.

A "study group" is you, your syllabus, and your red bull.

You assess beverages for amount of caffeine before buying only those with more caffeine than coffee. Then you explain to the cashier how caffeine works for you.

You've done physical exams on your roommate, boyfriend, girlfriend, and any close friends.

You think "AWESOME!" if someone keels over in front of you.

You're still excited to see "real patients."

You're pretty sure you used to be a normal social person, but now you can completely stop conversations by talking about the time that guy pissed and bled all over you during a code.

You speak only in acronyms and abbreviations; HIV, CMV, USMLE, Dx, Px.

You meet someone and have to put off a date for months because you're crazy busy.

Advisors tell you that you have to balance your life with med school, and then are baffled when you ask them how to do it.

You've been told by at least 2 mentors that you really don't want to go into medicine.

You've thought something like "what's another $10,000 in loans?"

You're really frightened by the thought of some of your classmates becoming doctors.

You go a week without sleeping with no problem at all.

Grey's Anatomy, House, Scrubs, Dr. 90210, Nip/Tuck and ER are your favorite shows, but you point out all the wrong things in them all the time.

You have diagnosed yourself or others with at least 5 rare diseases (PML, Kaposi's sarcoma, Measles, Rheumatic Heart Disease, etc.)

People talking to you for longer than 10 minutes start to get a glazed-over look while you wax poetic about kidney function. And you don't even notice.

You keep trying to "catch" the kidney on healthy patients, because Bates says you can. Nevermind that every doctor you know says you can't normally.

 

[Skills of House]

...You find drunk driving absolutely reprehensible, but on the morning of every announced quiz and exam you can be seen intently reading your notes while doing 85 on the freeway.

 

[deleted109597]

You understand the complexities of the USMLE as well as internships, residencies, and fellowships.

This one obviously is in no way true, judging by the posts in some of the other threads.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

When the new friday night is any night after a test, and friday is irrelevant.

 

[Arsenic]

MS-1 and MS-2:

When you can have conversations with classmates over where the better place to have your syllabi professionally bound is Office Depot or Kinko's...

When you watch House (or Mystery Diagnosis) with a group of med students and attempt to diagnose the patient before the rest of the group...

When you drink more frequently than you ever have before, but your tolerance has shrunk to nil...

When dissecting the (human) ribs causes you to urgently crave barbecued ribs...

When you look forward to MS-III...

MS-3:

When you and your classmates compare clipboards with built-in document storage...

When you covet your friend's "cool" reflex hammer with the sharp pointy end and the "flying saucer" business end...

When you realize that your friends in law and business school actually get weekends off...

When you're excited about FP rotation because you get weekends off...

When you find a bottle of hemoccult developer in the doctor's workroom and slip it into your pocket (that stuff is liquid GOLD)...

When you realize that if you weren't already married, you never would be, because it's too tiring to try to date at this point...

When you look forward to MS-4 or residency, because it HAS to better than the **** you do now...

awesome, i can relate to all of those.

 

[mj1878]

1) During lecture, you pull out First Aid or BRS to check the lecture notes for correctness. In that small moment, you stress out a little about boards, even though you're a first year.

2)You ask your wife to pass you something, but can't think of the words "left" and "right" unless they're either blood vessels or nerves, so you describe the salt as being "posteromedial" to the ketchup, and when she's scratching your back, you ask her to "Go more rostrally".

3)Every letter you type into SDN reminds you of how you SHOULD be studying Neuro right now.

4)Red traffic lights piss you off because if you don't get to the library in the next FOUR MINUTES, someone will have taken YOUR favorite spot.

***As an aside, I recommend NOT taking (notice I didn't say "drinking") Red Bull. Not because it's bad for you, but because if you brew your own coffee instead, you can make it strong enough to awaken 3-week-old roadkill. (And it's cheaper!)

5)Your highlighter starts to run out and squeak during lecture, and it takes you a minute to realize why.

5b)You continue taking notes with the almost-dead highlighter, because switching to a different color coding would mess up your system. Except it really IS dead, so you--

5c)Run the poor highlighter over one line of text 47 times until it's BARELY highlighted enough to see that you've highlighted ANYTHING at all, and--

5d)You're only VAGUELY aware that the shrill squeaking is bothering the person next to you that doesn't need to highlight ANYTHING, thank you very much. She read today's notes (2/26/2007) during the Christmas Eve church service.

6)You buy one brand/style of pens/pencils to write notes with. Only that one.

6b)You will DRIVE CLEAR ACROSS TOWN to the other store that sells them if you're out, and then--

6c)You'll feel guilty for having wasted the time doing so, but--

6d)You got the right kind, so the hell with it!

7)You don't think of the passage of time in terms of days of the week, but in terms of which classes you're ditching today in favor of spending the day in the library.

8)Reading JAMA during study breaks while eating seems like "relaxing" to you.

8b)The last piece of artwork you saw was ON said JAMA's cover.

9)It shocks you when everyone that SAID they'd be in a certain place at a certain time really IS there then. Think about the last study group you had where everyone showed.

10)You're angry that you missed an exam question because "it's not the way it would appear on boards."

11)You find yourself thinking about all the Vagus nerve does, and you're ACTUALLY in complete awe.

12)You have a handy-dandy cooler on a shoulder strap into which you've figured out how to cram in 5 meals' worth of food.

12a)THAT way, you NEVER have to leave your spot in the library over the course of 16 hours.

13)Thinking of the branches of the internal iliac artery in the pelvis(aberrant obturator, anyone?) STILL makes you dizzy, even though you aced that part of anatomy LAST SEMESTER.

14)You REALLY start to resent all of your friends that graduated law school like a decade ago and look at you as if you had FAS.

15)You think of people that annoy you as "failing to thrive", and it makes you snicker. A little.

 

[JLT91W]

You come to realize how normal handwriting can evolve into chicken scratch as you witness yours make the transformation.

AMEN!!! There was a time when I would pride myself on my beautiful handwriting. Fast forward 3 years.....my handwriting has gone to crap...and I am still pre-med. I mean, it's still legible (unlike some docs I know) but compared to yesteryear.......it's so much worse!!! HAHA

 

[vtucci]

MS-1 and MS-2:

When you can have conversations with classmates over where the better place to have your syllabi professionally bound is Office Depot or Kinko's...

When you watch House (or Mystery Diagnosis) with a group of med students and attempt to diagnose the patient before the rest of the group...

When you drink more frequently than you ever have before, but your tolerance has shrunk to nil...

When dissecting the (human) ribs causes you to urgently crave barbecued ribs...

When you look forward to MS-III...

MS-3:

When you and your classmates compare clipboards with built-in document storage...

When you covet your friend's "cool" reflex hammer with the sharp pointy end and the "flying saucer" business end...

When you realize that your friends in law and business school actually get weekends off...

When you're excited about FP rotation because you get weekends off...

When you find a bottle of hemoccult developer in the doctor's workroom and slip it into your pocket (that stuff is liquid GOLD)...

When you realize that if you weren't already married, you never would be, because it's too tiring to try to date at this point...

When you look forward to MS-4 or residency, because it HAS to better than the **** you do now...

M0- newly admitted
You still smile when a family friend asks how is it going and you say proudly say that you have been admitted to medical school. Little did you know that you are about to be bombarded with questions about different drugs and whether the family friend should be taking this or that for ailment X and they ask for your opinion-- you have now been elevated to all-knowing medical person and you have not even started class yet.

M1
You can't wait to wear your white coat and take it to the drycleaner when it gets dirty.

You come to class prepared every day and read the assigned material.

You have lost all sense of smell and don't realize that everything you own (if you take your scrubs home) wreaks of formalin.

When you actually bring food into the gross lab and don't consider it to be a problem.

When your attendance at extracurricular activities depends on the free food spread (and 1/2 way through M1, you actually think you never want to see a piece of pizza again).

When you read JAMA every week and have absolutely no idea what the articles are conveying.

When caffeine suddenly becomes a natural food group to you and a redbull or rockstar for breakfast does not completely turn your stomach.

When you actually auscultated your pet cat/dog's heart and lung sounds.

When you take notes while attending a national conference of (insert intended specialty group).

When a CT scan looks like a game of connect the dots or a rorschach inkblot test.

When you start to carry a pharmacy in your backpack to avoid coming down with whatever malady ailes the class.

When you keep one hand sanitizer in your car, one in your bag and one at home.

M2

When business attire is now interpreted as scrubs.

You only come to class when it is required and haven't even considered buying the textbook-- it is Golijan or BRS all the way. As far as being prepared in advance, that is a nice pipe dream.

When sleep is your new favorite hobby.

Your white coat has already become a nuisance as you try to avoid spilling coffee on it and getting it dirty. But when the inevitable happens, throw it in the washing machine and immediately dismiss the idea of ironing it.

You now run in the opposite direction when asked what you are up to as you know telling the truth to that family friend or anyone not in your class will necessitate an exploration of whatever ache, pain, symptom they have experienced or listening to a tirade about the state of healthcare.

LOL-we have actually diagnosed some of the conditions before House, MD and then patted ourselves on the back. Congo Red stain, anyone? Or the Cysticerosis episode?

When you actually get annoyed at the TV docs trying to "resuscitate" Meredith (on Gray's Anatomy) from a hypothermic drowning, that it takes almost an hour for a neurosurgeon, chief of surgery and the head of OB/Gyn to think of blankets, warm/humidified O2 and heated saline. And where was the Emergency Doc?

When you know that Kinko's is definitely the best for binding the 8000 pages of notes for each block exam.

When you still can't pronounce a single generic name on your 1000+ drug list to memorize for the year and are pissed that we don't learn the brand names (after all, it is what our patients know).

When buying one highlighter is a laughable concept and you consider getting a business membership to Office Depot or Officemax.

When you buy paper by the carton and boxes of highlighters delivered to your house free of charge if your purchase is greater than $50.

When the idea of a good meal is the chinese dive down the block that guarantees lunch in 10 minutes or less-- you can't afford more time than that-- and you have actually calculated the likelihood of getting bacillus cereus from their fried rice.

When you start off reading JAMA every week, understand what is being conveyed and think- ok, why should I care.

When you attend that national conference of your intended specialty and start comparing the food to what was served the previous year.

When you see stuffed animals in the shape of the Ebola virus or Giardia and you snicker but then start to inspect whether they accurately depicted the organism.

When an ultrasound still looks like snow and not much else.

When you actually start to look forward to taking the boards and getting into 3rd year.

 

[LadyJubilee8_18]

The drama in your life is rivaled only by high school.

You can't remember if you came to medical school because you wanted to help people or because you hate yourself.

You find yourself posting on a "you know your in med school when...” thread at 11pm when you should be studying for the histo board.

You think " *courtesy of wikipedia" should be somewhere on your diploma.

You think you have whatever disease you’re learning about… every week.

Seriously! Wikipedia is AMAZING
- it's a point of gossip when someone changes seats in class
-You have your anatomy scrubs and your "good" scrubs that you study in
-You even use your shower time to review materials in your head
- Your ricotta cheese actually starts looking like caseous necrosis
- You're relaxed while taking a test because it's a nice study break
- You've not seen your family in so long that your little cousins/nieces/nephews look like totally new people
- All the mirrors in your house are covered with medical hieroglyphics and lists of terms you plan to memorize (mirrors really make great white boards)

 

[chrisisinnocent]

You set up your alarm for 4 am and you no longer think that it's unusual.

The only way anyone could convince you to attend a lecture is if they promised free food.

You get pimped daily but haven't had sex in a year.

You finally get a date and you ruin the evening by asking if you can practice your bimanual exam (true story ).

 

[Tired]

You get pimped daily but haven't had sex in a year.

Strong work with this one.

 

[funkless]

When you start thinking that Clinical Micro Made Ridiculously Simple is actually funny.

That's a good one.

 

[45408]

You discuss can discuss cadaver dissection while eating dinner.

I did this in front of some people who were not too happy with me. I was telling them about the Sawzall we used to bisect the heads.

 

[45408]

You start studying for the boards more than 2 months in advance

As opposed to those who aren't in med school that start studying the night before?

 

[GodoShingo]

I have some contributions:

When you think you are all alone being awake in the dormitory at 3-4 in the morning and go out to have a smoke and meet one friend.

When you panic when you are out of caffeine.

When caffeine just won't do it.

When you wonder what beds are made for, when you can fall asleep standing up.

When your eyes starts to tear when they get in contact with formaline in gas form.

When grown up people actually cry before an exam.

When you cannot see the difference between a zombie and your mirror reflection.

When you while writing something just stop just to admire the perfection in your hands.

When food looses its taste and anything can go down, even food you couldn't eat before entering med school.

When you wish that sleep wasn't essential.

 

[radiologydoctor]

This thread is funny. Some of you complain about missing out in current events. Well, that is your own problem. It only takes a minute to visit CNN, Fox News, and the local news online. All you need to do is visit those websites for like ONLY 5 MINUTES and you will know the current events. If you want to attend current events, well, that is a different story.

 

[spreebee]

You leave anatomy lab, take a shower, and still smell like dead people.

 

[mjl1717]

...when even though you've studied all day, you still feel so guilty about going to a club Saturday night that while there you decide to quiz yourself and draw out the hormonal responses during the mentrual cycle on a bar napkin...(maybe not my "coolest" hour...woohoo go nerds!)

how true!!

Also when William Osler becomes your hero, clinical role model, mentor, cult leader but "Father of American Medicine" even if a transrectal approach was used! (imagine going on Internal Medicine rounds with one of the residents having already completed a full Pathology residency)

Also for those with sense of humour- Someone saying the words "no borborygami" or "a sponge and a stick" tickles you!