I have an exam on Tuesday....BUUUUT, thats not what i am sooo excited right now [obviously].
On Monday night [tomorrow] I will be seeing my first real patient as a medical student!!! Our school has an amazing opportunity for students called the Montclair Clinic. It is run by residents of a nearby hospital and medical students from our school. It is run every Mon, Wed and Fri from 5 to 9. It is not completely free for the patients but it is very cheap and most people use it as their only source of medical care because of its decreased costs. The way it works is a medical student [me!] will initially see the patient, take a history and physical, and then make a educated guess [since I dont know anything yet] and present this information to a resident. After discussing it over with them, we both go in and the resident will do his own exam while incorporating the medical student [me!].
Obviously since this is my first time i am not going in blind, we are required to shadow a 2nd year student one time before we can sign up for shifts. That is what i am doing tomorrow. Hopefully the 2nd year i get paired up with will be cool and let me interact with the patient and do some stuff myself. Also, I am keeping my fingers crossed that the patient speaks english so i can understand what is going on.
Throughout the night we can see anywhere from 1 to 5 patients and after it closes, we have to stay until we complete their medical chart and get it approved by the resident and supervising doctor.
I will let you know how it goes later in the week!!!
OK, back to leukemias, lymphomas, chemotherapy drugs, anemias etc etc etc
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