I lied- I said I will write more after the exam but it’s been more than a month since the last post. The truth is, every time I made my way here I find myself feeling guilty for wanting to write something when I could be doing something else that’s more urgent. Today however, I just wanna scribble some thoughts before I move on to other things. It’s August. So much has changed since I last wrote. The biggest change, at least in my realm, is that Hopkins is no longer PUGSOM’s collaborating partner. As I write this, I’m not…
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“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” An old adage that never gets old. Those were the words our clerkship director J left us with on our first day of clerkship before we ventured out to the affiliated hospitals – right after warning us that it’s going to be a very tough 8 weeks to come and we should be mentally prepared for it. Maybe because of that, I was expecting the worst, and that made the past 8 weeks seemed bearable, enjoyable even, if I daresay. Now that surgery clerkship is over for a week, I’m having withdrawal symptoms.…
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In light of surgery clerkship, here’s a video to share. Depending on what kind of person you are, you’ll either find it disturbing, or funny, or *insert your own adjective here*. Enjoy! 🙂
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How did a whole month pass by without me noticing? No, actually.. scratch that. I did notice it passing by, it’s just at the speed of light I felt like I’m playing catch-up with my workload all the time, and I just had to sacrifice the time used to read and write. So many of the funny little things my groupmates and I did or said that I wanted to write down, but alas by the time I get home all the energy mustered up is only enough for me to do the bare minimum. How do the other people do…
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That’s what I’ll be doing for the next few weeks. No, not really. Not so much of rumination, I don’t think, but a lot of other stuff. I was told we’ll be seeing patients with all sorts of psychiatric problems- it’ll be interesting! Can’t wait, even though a part of me is nervous about starting my first rotation in psychiatry. Psych, of all rotations! They say it can be mentally draining, and I’m sure they’re right. But this is what we’ve all been waiting for- to learn at the bedside, to speak with patients, to try to understand them and…
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So! As I mentioned in the last post, we’re having our Transition to Wards course right now, and we’re almost at the end of our second week. Last week we focused on Basic Life Support, learning CPR, EKG interpretation, and how to handle emergencies / acute care in a hospital setting. There were many sessions of acute care simulation; each scenario is different from the others, each one has many learning points. There is the communication component of it, and then the clinical acumen part of it. So much to learn, absorb and internalize, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed.…
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So. I must’ve mentioned it a zillion times about this exam that I’m taking. It’s always seemed so far away in the future and I just talk about it but don’t do much to alleviate the anxiety; but now it’s really just right around the corner. Nowwww the panic has reallyyyyy set in. And I mean REALLYYYY. Sh’damn. Ordinarily I’d write more on this, but not today. Enough of talking/writing about feelings about it, (I swear, sometimes I feel I need a break from myself lol), so I channeled my energy instead to create this mix. A playlist to accompany myself while…
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Day after day after day, we do the same thing, repeating the same routine, not realizing time has passed by so quickly. Can’t believe one and a half year has gone by since we first stepped foot onto this interim campus, becoming the first students of this school. But now- look where we are! End of GTS courses! It’s a bittersweet feeling that I have. Glad it’s over, felt it’s a tiny milestone we’ve accomplished; yet a little sad it’s ended. No more sitting so closely with each other, no more passing snacks/cookies around during class to help wake us…
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Today is March 14. In other words, it’s Pi Day. Happy Pi(e) Day everyone! Go get a pie and celebrate! 😉 Midweek. Everything is as usual, nothing much is out of the ordinary. Came across some beautiful words and thought I’d share (quoting it loosely, with some minor changes): Be trustworthy, and trust others. Sometimes you will get hurt. That happens when you trust people. Still, you must trust. Not saying you shouldn’t try to verify. But don’t be so cynical that your first instinct is to question or to deny. Please realize that your patients are hurting and they…
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…is because I feel like her on most days- Source of photo: here. That’s right. That’s how tired I am after class every day. Now who can blame me for not updating this blog, right? ;P Ok bye now, have to go back to studying! Who can tell me what’s Wolff-Chaikoff effect?
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The sky was a perfect shade of blue, until it started raining. October is a wet, wet month- Makes me don’t feel like blogging. Okay fine, that’s an excuse. I was just being lazy. And since I’m still lazy to write, I’ll just post some pictures to fill the void. 😛 Our yoga sessions in class. See the matching mats with our shirts? So well-coordinated! 🙂 Mooncake festival at school. Never too old for lanterns. *a-hem* Nezar and Rinugah’s birthday celebration. Rinugah’s busy cutting cake haha. Neuroscience professors and a thank-you cake from Dr. Nicole. That’s a brain, if you’re wondering.…
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The perks of being the ‘first’ – be it first child in the family, first in class, first batch of a new burgeoning med school etc. – is that you get special attention and care; you get to try everything firsthand; you get to explore, discover, and set benchmarks. The downside of it is that you probably have a certain invisible expectation to live up to. On 21st of September, 2012, we held our white coat ceremony, a ritual that many medical schools in the US (perhaps also some dental, pharmacy, physical therapy schools etc.) keep, to mark the student’s…