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