It already seems to be all over the place again, and will likely only get more overwhelming as the week goes on b/c we really are 10 years out from September 11, 2001. I just finished reading a really moving article in the Boston Globe about the people who were working at Logan airport that day. The ones who checked in the passengers, the security ( Read more... )

Doing a cadaver dissection in anatomy lab is definitely one of the special rites of passage in medical school, so I felt the need to document mine. This was my first day in what will be about 7 months worth of 3 days/week gross anatomy lab ( Read more... )

I just officially finished my first class of medical school: Cell Science. (Or at least I really hope I did! B/c if I failed, I have to remediate which means it's not really done and that's a horrifying throught ( Read more... )

We had our first major med school exam today: Cell Science Exam 1. This is a five week course that is basically a survey of biochem, cell bio, genetics, and whatever else might fall under that general umbrella. And it's been rough ( Read more... )

Today was our first day doing what I like to refer to as "real doctor stuff." Basically this means we had Clinical Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine classes (with a lengthy and complex lecture on medical genetics in between - LONG ASS DAY). So it was all about learning the first stages of conducting a complete physical exam and ( Read more... )

I'm trying really hard to keep eating my "pancakes" right now. Allow me to explain ( Read more... )

We had our white coat ceremony today. It's a long held tradition of medical schools to have a formal ceremony where the students are presented with their first white coats and take their oath as an initiation into the medical profession. Our school is know officially a "health science center" so they have included the PA and DPT students as well. I ( Read more... )

The days are really dragging with the back-to-back-to-back-to... on to infinity of presentations about things I feel I was already pretty well versed about. But there are a few points that stuck out to me and are worth mentioning or at least had me pondering ( Read more... )

Today was our first day of medical school orientation. I met a lot more new classmates in addition to a faculty member who will be the adviser for my "college." We got our white coats in an unofficial way (we are officially presented with them when we take the oath at a big ceremony this weekend). And this evening we went to a dinner hosted by the ( Read more... )

Today was my first day in the anatomy lab with human cadavers and I have to say it's such an incredible thing. There is just so much STUFF inside of us working in amazing harmony and it doesn't even really seem possible. Especially the brains. A cadaver brain just looks like a colorless lump with a lot of grooves in it. But when we actually start ( Read more... )