Archive for December, 2009
End of the 1st Semester of Medical School
I sit here typing this relaxed and in a pretty darn good mood. Although my first semester of medical school actually finished last Thursday, I’ve been too busy/lazy to actually sit down and write anything.
I think this is the first Christmas break in a while where I haven’t really felt any stress or guilt [...]
So I had my clinical skills exam today…
As I mentioned previously, one of the courses I take in medical school is the Arts and Science of Clinical Medicine (ASCM I) where we learn basic clinical skills. So far this year we learned to take patient history, vital signs (heart/respiratory rate and blood pressure), and some physical exams (precordial, peripheral vascular). [...]
Roller Coaster of a Day
Okay not really much of a roller coaster, but definitely some ups and downs – sort of.
This morning I did my last anatomy dissection ever. We looked at the posterior part of the forearm and dorsal part of the hand (i.e. the back of the arm from the forearm to the fingers). Being [...]
Clarification of My Last Post
So I got this nice email today…
Liu, Joshua Paul
You achieved the following scores on the STF exams:
Blood & Gross Anatomy average: 84.3%, Your mark: 74.7
Histology average: 85.0%, Your mark: 67.5
Embryology average: 76.49%, Your mark: 70
Boy, that Histology mark looks ugly. I will be super sad if I’m asked to do remediation for that. [...]
So This is What It’s Like to be “Below Average”
Looks like I started a trend with the very last exam I took at York. After doing below average in a course (Molecular Biology 2) for the first time ever in my life in my last year at York, I have begun the year by getting below average marks on my first two exams, [...]
