Showing posts with label usmle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usmle. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

Islands


Awesome article about how Central Park is an ecological island, human-made in almost every sense, but the laws of nature operate - resulting in an entirely unique species of dwarf centipede,Nannarrup Hoffmani.
Made me think how Hospitals can also be ecological islands, on the microbial scale.



Oh there was also exams this past week. Went well overall. Have some experimental results to share regarding the 10,000 question method for step 1. Apparently, doing just questions for pathophysiology review gave me the same score as doing straight reading/revision type review, but was much more fun to do questions! Not sure what this means for board prep yet though....more later.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

March?

Eh - what just happened? Oh, midterms. Compared to the other test takers out there, Term 4 and especially those who just took the boards, I feel a bit unworthy of logging any complaints about exhaustion from term 2. The exams went well but I am learning that med school tends to take your studying habit errors and magnify them.
I am always quite excited to get my score reports back. But I'm seeing a pattern - those things I knew that I did well, and those things that I did not understand so well I didn't do so well.... hmm, how does this help my inability to pick a method of studying?? I can say that my method of "no paper notes" and doing everything through annotating PDF docs has been working at least as good as scribbling a bunch of stuff on paper. So I'll stick with my... green studying.

Anyway, there was also whole healthcare stuff that passed. Yeah, about that. I think it's a good thing, but really cannot say so much in detail before I read up on it (June) and get the impression we will need to tweak the bill with add-ons in the years to come. I do intend on reading this wonderful Grand Rounds from SeeFirst though.

I also got a fan. I paid too much for this fan but since you apparently need psychic powers to predict when a fan will be posted on SGU POST and email that person the instant the put it on sale, I sucked it up and paid for it at the hardware store. Am very glad as my Midterm AC electric bill was more than the fan.