At this point, I’ve gone through all 2090 USMLE World questions, UWorld’s Self Assessment #1 (around 200 questions), over 1000 NBME questions, 300 questions from Kaplan’s free Qbank, the 138 questions from the USMLE website, and any random questions I can find on forums across the Internet. With only eight…
During my ob/gyn and surgery rotations, I saw plenty of cool procedures but only had brief opportunities to learn about what goes on “behind the curtain” with the anesthesia team. The following video provides a succinct yet informative outline from induction to anesthetic reversal and is a must-watch for any…
Between getting the house ready for my grandmother to visit and the NBA All Star festivities, today was a lax day in terms of studying. I’ve reached the point where I’m now browsing the Internet looking for insightful information regarding USMLE Step 1, but it seems that the consensus is to just…
This evening was a milestone in my studying – I finished the 2090 questions in USMLE World’s Step 1 question bank. Now it’s 4am, and I’m struggling to get through endocrinology in First Aid. Most of my colleagues have already finished Step 1 or will be taking it in the…
The last two days of studying have been very productive but awfully frustrating. Biochemistry and microbiology are two courses which we covered in medical school (four months of microbio, at that), but it’s so much wrought memorization that it’s easy to often mix things up… especially when terms like rubella,…
It’s time to prep for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step I! Baylor Med students tend to take Step I in the spring-time of their third year. Because we start clinical rotations 18 months into medical school, we have a year of rotations under our belts before embarking…
After submitting two papers Friday afternoon, I officially finished my month of Family Medicine. It was a fantastic experience, and I learned a lot about the “patient centered medical home” (PCMH) with regards to coordinating a patient’s healthcare holistically across many specialties and time beginning with the primary care physician.…
Family Medicine has been my first real outpatient experience, and two weeks of clinic have certainly flown by! My preceptors have been incredibly gracious in taking time to teach me tricks to the physical exam, treatment regimens, establishing rapport, and making sure I see a wide breadth of cases. I’m…
After commuting 60 miles round trip to the Texas Medical Center for a year, my Family Medicine rotation has given me an incredibly nice reprieve – the clinic I’ll be working at is down the street from my old high school and pre-school. Basically, it’ll be a 15 minute commute…
The last year of clinics have been full of successes and failures. I’ve helped patients and learned a lot, but I’ve also come up short when it mattered most. One year ago, I wrote a summary of my goals as a clinical medical student, and in retrospect, I feel that I’ve…