I did not fail the neurology shelf exam!! HURRAH!!
It was my lowest raw shelf score ever, but I still beat the mean by a decent margin. I'm not sure how I pulled that one off, but DAMN.
Psych ward continues to be amusing/scary/sad. At least the hours on psych are nice and cushy, although I do have call this week. In any case, the shelf is on Friday and other than continuing to get all of the stupid drugs mixed up in my head (the names, actions, and side effects of the drugs, not the actual drugs, unfortunately) I am feeling pretty okay about it. Also, this is my second to last shelf test EVER!! Wow.
WOW!
Okay, back to studying. There's nothing like studying crazy people on a Sunday night...
The experiences of a recently minted MD/PhD out to take over the world.
Posts Which Might Have Meant Something (A "Best Of" About the MD/PhD Experience)
- Grad vs Med: The Smackdown
- Surviving Graduate School (And Possibly Even Getting a Degree), Part 1
- Surviving Graduate School, Part 2: Be the Captain of Your Own Ship
- Surviving Graduate School, Part 3: Constant Dripping Hollows Out a Stone
- The four most important decisions of graduate school
- The MD/PhD Journey: Welcome to the bottom of a new ladder!
- You say Mudphud, I say Sucker
- MD/PhDs are people, too
- Like Being in the Ring with Mike Tyson
- Student, evaluate thyself
- ChumpWork
- Big Deal, I'm Very Professional
- Grad vs Med: The Smackdown--UPDATE
- Random Observations from the Clinics
- Whatcha, whatcha, whatcha want?
- It's graduate school that sucks; not research
Terms Possibly Unfamiliar to Non-Med Types
- Mudphud: An MD/PhD
- Fellow: A jolly gentleman. Kidding--someone who could be an attending but instead choses to continue training despite being paid and treated like livestock
- PGY: Post-graduate year, ie PGY1 would be a first-year resident, PGY2 would be a second year, etc
- Hammer page: Someone pages you every few minutes for hours; dreaded by all
- AI: Acting internship, done in 4th year medical school, to try and prepare you for your internship
- MS3: A third year medical student
- Rounds: Where the docs and med students get together and check up on all of their patients, usually REALLY early in the morning
- Intern: A first-year resident
- Attending: The senior physician in charge of the service and your future; aka the big boss, the head cheese.
- Clerkship: A rotation through a clinical specialty, such as medicine, pediatrics, etc.
- Shelf test: The big, scary national exam given at the end of each clinical clerkship
- Pimping: When the attending quizzes you on medical stuff in front of the whole team. Var: getting pimped, pimp question
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- An MD/PhD beginning her residency, with an MD/PhD husband beginning his residency, with a weensy MD/PhD offspring beginning her life and two large dogs in tow.
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2 comments:
Don't tell me you're one of THOSE people who is all like, "I failed I failed I failed!!!!" and then you get like 2 questions wrong. Please tell me you're not.
Oh Lord no. This was by FAR my lowest shelf score of the year. Luckily it was also the lowest mean of any shelf test, so I got that going for me.
Nope, I was not lying when I said I have never been worried about failing a shelf test before this one. Plus, there was another exam, a written exam, a few blocks ago that I feared I might have done really badly on, and as it turns out, I did.
C'est la vie!!
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