only 2 more days of endocrine....YAAAAAYYYY!

i live a pathetic life these days, and endocrine is OFF the list of interest (mostly because it is so damn tricky). life is pretty much 75% school and then 25% having a good time. but we still have a good time so thats all that matters.
its ok though, only 1 more year of classroom work and then they release me into the wild (what you would call the hospital). the more i learn the more i get excited. its also really fun to hear the 3rd years, who we got really close to last year, talk about their experiences.

oh, this was a fun quote from class today:
(after a question was asked to us about what drug you would prescribe a patient and everyone answered correctly):
"yes very good...theres really no science here this is just route memorization. theres really no way around route memorization in any subject.....whats your best long acting insulin? (as he casually goes back to the lecture topic)" -Dr. W

So today was our first standardized patient encounters of the year and my job was to counsel a patient on their drinking habits, even though they came in for back pain. it was an exercise on communicating with our patients and building repore again....blah blah blah. To get us back into the swing of things, they put us into groups of 6. Each one of us got 12 minutes with a SP (standardized patient--ps they call them standardized because every patient seen is the same to each student regardless of age or sex..they are all coming in with the same stories and symptoms so we can discuss them in lecture later). While we talked, 5 other students watched and then after the 12 min we got 5 min of feedback from the actor and our peers. after the encounter, the SP left the room and a new one came in. we had 3 scenarios, a diabetic patient, a smoker and an alcoholic then we had the same SPs come back and we pretended to do follow up visits. not sure if that makes sense but oh well.

Anywho, it was fine...nothing to write home about. its much more fun seeing ACTUAL patients. today was another 8:30 to 5 day and i got to unwind a bit by playing volleyball with my classmates. its always a good time. ok, im getting back to work. studying again till 12 and then bedtime.