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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). Next semester [...]
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 able [...]
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 [...]
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, as [...]
I Passed!
I’m sure people are going to say “oh Josh, of course you passed!”, but the reality is that I barely passed. I got a 72% – you needed 70% to pass, and the class average was 82%. I could easily have been on the bad side of variance and failed. Oh, and oops, scored below [...]
I Think I Failed but Maybe it was Exactly What I Needed
The morning of Monday, November 9th, I gave up for the first time ever while studying for an exam. When I say give up, I mean that I knew I wasn’t completely ready for the exam, but was unable to stay up stay up all night long to make sure I was as close to [...]
Wow, has it really been a month…
…since I last wrote here? It honestly hasn’t felt like it. I’ll be honest, it’s not like I completely forgot about the blog. Well, I do sort of forget about it during the week with all the medical school stuff going on (it really feels like a full time job, and that actually sort of [...]
I’m Really Lucky
It seems like a pretty common occurrence for us to overestimate how unlucky we are and underestimate how lucky we actually are. If you think about it, “luck” evens out in the long term (unless you believe in some outside force that controls “luck”, in which case, I can’t change your mind). But if you [...]
Medical School Week 3 Reflection
I sit and type this on my brother’s 9 inch netbook because my Dell Inspiron 1420 seems to have basically crashed. It started off yesterday when I started seeing flashing zig zag lines and flashing blue and green screens, and it culminated in basically crashing or whatever you call it last night. I basically can’t [...]
Medical School Week 2 Reflection
Courses I realized I probably never actually explained how medical school, at least here at the University of Toronto, works in terms of courses/curriculum. For this first year, we are doing three courses at a time, with two of those courses running throughout the year while the third will change a few times during the [...]
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