ITS OVER!!! The first exam of my medical school career is over :) And yes, it was very hard but i got through it! The best part was the the last couple days leading up to the exam we received a ridiculous amount of new material to learn (that was going to be on the exam) and it was the hardest information to learn yet. There are 19 muscles in the forearm ALONE, and don't get me starting on your hand...lets just say the human body is incredible but god does it suck having to memorize all of it!
The test was in two parts, Friday morning we all had assigned seats in the lecutre hall and had a written exam that was 50 questions. Also, during the exam there was a powerpoint being flashed (15 slides, 2 min per slide) and we had to identify landmarks on bones and some MRIs, CT scans and X rays. We were given from 9:30 to 12 to take it. Then in the afternoon the class was split into groups of 25 people and all of us had a certain time to take our lab practical. This was intense! Me and 24 other people went at 1:30 and our cadevers had been 'pinned' with structures to identify. We were given 1 minute per question with a timer and very strict order to walk around the room. To clarify, it wasnt just our own cadevers it was everyones so memorizing one is not efficient, plus, everyone has anamolies (2 nerves of something instead of one or no palmaris longus muscle, etc).
I know I mentioned my cadaver before but I have learned more details about her since the beginning. She died at 60, like i said earlier, from kidney cancer and she has a tattoo of someone's name on her butt (sorry for the technical term). Also, she has a pacemaker!! I am very excited because this week we are studying the heart so i am excited to see how the pacemaker was put in and where it is going. Also, last week we had to dissect the breasts and another groups cadaver had breast implants, that was cool too!
Back to the exam, I was done at 2 and from there my classmates and I had planned to all meet at Characters bar which is about 25 feet from the anatomy lab right off campus. It was a great afternoon even though many of us were drinking away our worries about the test!
Yesterday was another day of celebration at a friends house. It was a 'black tie event' and everyone was dressed up and looking classy. It was a LOT of fun. Now im just gonna sit because tomorrow is another day of anatomy which means a lot of info coming at me!
Oh, and another thing this week was another patient encounter day! I leanred how to take a patient history and practiced on one of our actors. I was given 20 minutes and had to fill out a paper as we spoke. Then, we had 10 minutes to get feedback from the actor. Mine told me I did excellent and that I was going to be a great doctor :) It was a good day!
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