Archive for the 'Medicine' Category
Internship Is Over
June 23rd, 2008My year of hell is finally over! No more notes, no more pre-rounding, and no more writing H&P’s. Now only two more years of general medicine before I begin training in what I’m truly interested in.
Match Day Results
March 17th, 2007I’m off to UCSD for internal medicine residency.
UCSD has a strong medicine program and an excellent bioengineering department, where there are some faculty members with whom I want to do research. Plus, people say San Diego is a nice city.
Unfortunately, I will be moving further down south…but will return to the Bay Area eventually. I […]
Typical Day, part 1 of 2
August 17th, 2005Everyone always asks me what I do in the hospital. Here’s a description of my typical day, starting from when I get up in the morning.
The day technically does begin at 4:30 in the “morning”, even though the sky is even darker when I get up than when I went to bed. I then hang […]
Out With the Outpatient, In With the Inpatient
August 15th, 2005Life changed for good last Monday when we began our 3 inpatient weeks of pediatrics — the prior 3 weeks had been exclusively outpatient. Gone are the 9-to-5 days with no time pressure. Days now begin bright and early at 4:30am when I wake up in order to be at the hospital by 6am, only […]
First Pediatrics Patient
July 10th, 2005Today marked the first time I was truly “saw” a patient. It was the second day of my peds clerkship, but my first day actually in the clinic. The six of us went to the well-baby clinic knowing we’d see patients, but we didn’t expect to see them so soon and without some sort of […]
Boards are over!
June 21st, 2005Yup…after 2 months of 60-hour study weeks, 7 days a week, boards are done!
Luckily there weren’t too many topics on the exam that were completely new to me (but there were definitely a few) I still don’t see why we should be required to memorize so many random basic science facts, but luckily First Aid […]
Year 2: passed
June 20th, 2005Wow, the (almost) unthinkable happened: I passed our Year 2 comprehensive exam. I was almost sure I’d failed and was already making tentative plans how to accomodate the make up exam into my schedule for the next 2 weeks, which required shuffling around a trip to Hawaii.
But no need, since I passed…with plenty of room […]
One week to go
June 14th, 2005Title says it all…one more week until this slow, boring suffering is over.
Let the Boards Begin
March 29th, 2005Medical school is finally over.
Sort of. The first two years — the “pre-clinical years” — are now essentially over (except for one final cumulative exam, which is no reason to worry).
And now that our Skin test is over, which in reality was more of a microbiology test, it’s time to focus exclusively on […]
Back From the Dead
March 3rd, 2005I know…it’s been months since I last posted. But what better a way to return from the “dead” than to describe my sobering morning at the coroner.
As part of another ICM focus experience, we had the opportunity to visit the LA County Coroner’s Office and watch the coroners there perform one or more autopsies. […]
Dr. DRE
September 21st, 2004As part of our continuing process of preparing to become doctors, we learned how to perform a male genital exam tonight. No, not from books, not on plastic models, but from the real thing…on “standardized patients”, of sorts (I think they were called HHA — human health advocates. These were trained people who at medical […]
Stripper, M.D.
August 10th, 2004For today’s ICM workshop, which was on “Surface Anatomy”, they brought in artist models (models that normally pose for artists) to help us out. ..by getting topless and letting us touch them as much as we needed. We got to palpate, percuss, and auscultate as much as we wanted, and actually I still don’t really […]
Kid’s Play
August 5th, 2004In our lecture on blood flow today, we learned what flows, pressures, and resistances were, and also how they’re related to each other according to physics law called Poiseuille’s law. Our professor was spending forever trying to detail step-by-step what this equation and all its variables meant.
And the whole time I was thinking — in […]
Back for Round 2
August 2nd, 2004After a brief summer vacation, which included my incredible 6-week trip to Thailand and India, the second year of med school began today…and it felt as if we didn’t even have a break. Summer vacation was so short (eight weeks of summer is hardly a “vacation”) that when returning to the lecture hall today and […]
Year One Done!
June 14th, 2004’nuff said.
Almost. I’m heading off in one week for a nice 6 week tour of parts of Asia…Thailand and India specifically. Check back for possible photos and journal entries as I travel.
See you in August!