Calm After the Storm

Tonight is the calm after the storm.  We had our first Gross anatomy written and practical yesterday. They said this whole med school thing was a marathon and not a sprint and they weren't lyin'.

We started off the day yesterday with a "Developmental Anatomy" (aka embryology) exam from 10-11.  This was the test everyone would say was a "hail mary" type of exam.  Developmental is worth so little of your overall average (~1%) most people just cram a day or two before the exam and the morning of and hope for the best.  Of course you can't fail the course b/c failing this meaningless waste of time would mean you would be taking it again during the summer (the only "free" summer we have left is after our M1 year-no one wants to spend it re-taking the Developemental Anatomy)  This class is the rock in everyone's shoe .  It's difficult material, hard to learn, and it won't help your average that much even if you do well b/c its worth so little, but.....you have to pass it.

Between 11 and 12:50 we crammed in a quick lunch and tried to learn any last minute bone parts.  We kept going over all the crazy clinical names of all the brachial plexus lesions: "back packers palsy", "watier's tip", "claw hand", " cyclist handlebar neuropathy", "erb's palsy", klumpky's paralysis", and many more.

At 12:50 I went in to take the written portion of the Gross test. There were 83 questions we an alotted 1.2 minutes per question.  I had to hustle through these because I'm typically an anatalytical test taker.  I had no type to process at all, I kept telling myself "move kelly move, don't think about it, just go with it.."

After out 83 questions with 1.2 min per question we went into the hall way got a quick snack from the M2's who are awesome for providing a snack table with home-made goodies and drinks.  Taking that exam is strenuous and we all needed a little glucose before taking the lab exam.

After our snack, we headed into the cadaver Lab practical, there were 73 stations, 60 seconds per station, no time in between so we kept going for 73 minutes till we finished every station.

Needless to say, I'm glad its Tuesday.  Can't believe its only Tuesday though, feels like we've done a week worth of work already-ha they never said it would be easy....and its not, but I know its worth it.

Thanks for reading.

Salt and Light,

Kelly