The environment we're used to is designed to sustain us. We live like fish in an aquarium. Food comes mysteriously down, oxygen bubbles up. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo we call civilization. Then we go into nature, where we are least among equals with all other creatures. There we are put to the test. Most of us sleep through the ( Read more... )

Kayaked both days this weekend on the Wind. Lovely river, waterfalls, hotsprings....fantastic place. Perhaps I should have been studying for boards, but the practice test I did last Friday convinced me that I'm pretty well prepared. I just now studied up on G6PD. There are a few glaring areas of ignorance but overall I feel good about what I've ( Read more... )

Good morning. The sun is pouring into my office and I am drinking green tea, sorting out my day. In a little while I'll ride my bike downtown and go to the NW Naturopathic Physician's conference.
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( nutrition study guide from winter 2010 )

It's a lot of material to cover in a short time, so I have made a schedule for myself. I will be spending long days in the library because I have a hard time focusing consistently at home. I have an hour timer, and my strategy is to study for an hour, then get up and move around. We'll see how it goes. The exam is Tuesday August 4 ( Read more... )

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The GPA 1 is the first of three major practical exams in which students are expected to interview and examine a patient while being observed and graded. My exam was last Saturday morning. I received a score of 70.5 (70.0 is minimum to pass). As far as I'm concerned, 70.5 is just as good as 100%. I passed!!! Phew.
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Two tests to go. I just finished the lab diagnosis final. I think I was the second person to finish it, and I did not hurry. I do not get why students take SO LONG to finish those tests. It is multiple guess. The teacher is tricky, we know that. Expect things to be worded with double negatives, or one small clause in a long answer that makes ( Read more... )

LAB Dx Lecture
FINAL EXAM STUDY OBJECTIVES
FALL TERM 2008
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I have long suspected as much, and every time that I pass an exam that I should have flunked, I wonder. How long will we continue in this direction? How empty will our educations be, by the time that we realize that we don't know how to run a free society, we don't know how to save the world, we don't even know how to save ourselves? Below you ( Read more... )