Finals and Christmas

Given that it’s a busy time of year I will be taking a break until the start of semester 2 (January 6, 2008). Thanks to all those who have read over the past 15 weeks.

Happy holidays! I’ll talk to you in the new year -

Statistics …

I just received a note from the class VP with some interesting statistics (remember this is year 2 of Medicine, 1st semester which consisted of 15 weeks total) …

If you’ve attended every class/lecture/group session, and did 3 hours of Family practice each session, you will have spent 393 hours in class since August 27th. Here’s how it’s been broken down:

Problem Based Learning (small group): 84 hours
Family Medicine lectures: 103 hours
Family practice clinical sessions: 46 hours
Physician, Patient & Public: 36 hours
Clinical Skills Lectures / Sessions: 35 hours
Anatomy: 32.5 hours
Histology: 29.5 hours
Pathology: 27 hours

We have approximately 250 hours until our lab exams, so happy studying.

Endocrine, week 5

It’s the last week of class before finals hit. The schedule is still dense with lectures but thankfully some of the courses will take only a little time to wrap things up and do some year end house-keeping. Needless to say that the classes, coupled with the need to study for finals starting next Friday, make this an incredibly busy week. This is the time of year when personal hygiene seems to decline and facial hair increases. Want to spot a medical student in year 2? Look for someone wondering around the hospital who is a little shell shocked, smelly with a two week growth of facial hair…and yes this works as well for the women as it does for the men.

The material that we are covering this week is centered on the thyroid and all it’s wondrous effects. I would go on here but honestly I am too distracted at the thought of GI, anatomy, MSK, histology, pathology, family practice, clinical skills and the previous 4 weeks of Endo. Wish me luck ’cause it’s crunch time!