Breakfast notes

A new day has already started for me. 16 possible hours of study!

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Surprise...

My OSCE was yesterday and it was fine. I did fail to recognize the heart sound, but that was it, so I guess I will still be able to get a good grade... Let's wait and see. 

At the day of the day I was so tired that I couldn't do anything, so I went to bed and slept 10 hours, more or less. So I woke up today and started studying for my next exam, Introduction to Clinic and Radiology. Or so I though. Later on I discovered that there isn't one exam but two on the same day, which means that I have to pass both of them. While I realize that it does make sense (I should acquire some kind of knowledge of imagiology), I just wan't counting on studying that much. I was planning on studying a lot of Introduction to Clinic and just have a look at imagiology. Guess what? Not going to happen... Radiology, here I come!*

* And I do hate it. I do.

OSCE

Next Friday I will have an OSCE about Objective Examination of the Heart, Lungs, Blood Pressure and Pulses and Neurological System, and that's what I've been studying to. I already know the protocols by heart*, I've studied the theory associated with 3 of the 4 stations** and have been listening to the heart and lungs sounds for quite a while, now. I am actually quite good at it, since I associate each sound with something of my almost daily life.*** Here's the problem: I am, indeed, quite good at it, at night. Why is that?, would you ask. Over night I forget all the sounds. All of them. I don't really know why that happens, but it's starting to annoy me. So here's what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna go to bed and keep my ipod on for about one hour, while I try to sleep; tomorrow morning I will listen for those sounds like crazy and I really hope that I can identify them. I really, really hope I can.

This is my study group trying to listen to the heart sounds. We do have a model of a thorax,

 but the sound keeps changing every time people in the other room change the sound on their model.

 So professors decided to have a "back up plan": this little machine with nothing

 more nothing less than 32 heart sounds and 16 lung sounds. Amazing, hum?!

* That was actually quite easy for me as they are quite simple and logical

** Which doesn't necessarily mean that I know it

*** Let's just say that mis-systolic murmur is now associated with the upstairs neighbours, if you know what I mean

Study Time

These days I'm kind of lacking epiphanies...

(And now I'm going to study the protocols for my OSCE)

Can you tell the exam season has started? (I)

No matter how organized you are, you have a lot of used clothes on the floor/bed/chair/radiator*. When you decide that you can't live with that and start to fold it, you discover that you only used kangaroo and polyester sweaters for the last two weeks.



*Yup, this is true. But in my defense, it was only my pajama, and I intended to wear it the night I putted it on the radiator, but then forgot about it.