Sunday, November 11, 2012

November life...

consisted of postponing the boards.  See previous post.  Who knew that relearning all of ob/gyn and ID (antipseudomonal drugs, anyone??) would take so long.  Or, probably more importantly, that I would be so unmotivated to study?  It's fourth year, man!

So now I am living life.  It's the least structure I've had in my schedule for some time.  There are things I need to accomplish each day - research, writing, boards studying, interview prep, etc, etc, - but it's totally 100% up to me to accomplish them.  Of course, in the past, I was also 100% responsible, but it's a little different when that responsibility consisted of going to class or showing up at the hospital.  The way my schedule works out, I am basically taking 4 months "off" to do this whole research/interviews/boards/etc thing.  Then I'm going to be a glutton for punishment and spend a month in the MICU (see knowing antipseudomonal drugs part - above).  And then, after that, I am going to spend 2 months abroad on an away clinical elective!  Our school has a formal clinical exchange program with an international medical school and each year, a few of us go there and vice versa.  I have wanted to do this program since second year, and I am so excited to go!

Now I am going to go learn those fetal heart tracings...


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