Charlie goes to Medical School

I can't draw for crap.

I’m pretty tired. I need to start studying, but I was up late last night…the last three nights. Studying for the Anatomy final exam which went pretty well, but I wish I had started studying on a different tack than I did.

I’ve been saving my flashcards which has been somewhat helpful, but not as much as I would have liked. Ultimately, I made them too all inclusive, and what I’ve been needing are the highlights. I did use them to cover stuff from the fall once before moving to the high-level review, but most of the cards I didn’t have time for.

I mainly concentrated on the clinical correlations that were given to us throughout the year. The result is that the granular study early on and going back over stuff from the fall (especially the muscle compartments of the limbs) made the clinical correlations really stick. Half of the questions on the exam I answered in less than 10-15 seconds.

Where I really wish I had taken more time to review was some of the development which was also on the exam. Overall, there were a couple of really tough questions that I had to really guess on, but I don’t know that I ever would have known them.

One thing that sort of helped was drawing and scribbling a few notes on my white board. I wasn’t entirely successful at determining what should have been on the board, but it did help me out more than a few times. My drawings are all awful. You should see some of the other students in our class. It amazes me that medical professionals who universally have awful handwriting can do some of the best illustrations.

I’m feeling better about this subject now that I’ve taken the test. I was pretty unsure about things going in, but I think that was just because I did such a high-level review…although sometimes that is all that is needed.