Charlie goes to Medical School

Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body) Huntington Library. Detail of the Anterior Aspect of the Bones of the Human Body Assembled Together. From the Description in the Huntington Library. Picture by Brewbooks.

Thank you…thank you very much.

For starters, today’s exam was rough. I think I did pretty alright, but it was a clear demonstration of what I know and what I am unsure that I know and what I don’t know.

I spent the entire weekend reviewing stuff from class, but clearly I’m getting to where I might benefit from a bit of outside help. These aids tend to highlight high-yield subject areas as well as some specific topics that not every school will get to.

I started with a clean white board for my physio review…it was filled after cardio and pulm. This meant kidney, GI and endo all were off in on note cards and legal pads.

We are going to need a bigger board.

However, the exam was much past this with a lot of the questions geared more towards practical application of this knowledge, so memorizing is no longer enough. You have to know how to apply all of this stuff. This really was the same as the approach to the anatomy/dev exam…it was just harder with physio.

Biochem is my last exam, and after I will officially be done with my first year of medical school. I don’t really have a strong plan in place for what I need to get done with all the free time that I am about to have. But needless to say, I’ve put off enough stuff that summer is going to be pretty busy.

Any of my free time needs to either be directed at relaxing or studying for Boards. However, my day job is going to be research. Maybe I need to clear the white board after biochem and use it for the “must do” list for summer.