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Name: Emily Wolcott
Year at OU-COM: MS I
Curricular Track: CPC
Spouse/partner (if applicable):
Children (if applicable) N/A
Hometown: Smithville, MO
Undergraduate Institution: University of Missouri, Columbia
Graduate Institution (if applicable) N/A
Favorite Quote:
"To find health should be the goal of a physician, anyone can find disease". - A.T. Still
Hobbies or Interests:
Soccer, reading, biking, snow skiing, working-out, etc . .
Favorite thing to do in Athens:
bike path, Strouds Run, eating-out, going-out
Area of medicine you plan to practice:
Sports Medicine
February 9, 2004
6:45 So I wake up with much dread because today is our Cardiovascular block exam. This thing is going to be really hard. All of the second years have warned us that we will be brain dead by the time we finish the exam. As I am brushing my teeth my door opens, which really freaks me out because I live by myself, and in walks my dog and my boyfriend, Chris. He drove all the way from Cincinnati to make me breakfast before the big CV exam. I was impressed. He wins major points for this one.
7:40 After an awesome breakfast Chris walks me to the exam. I don’t like getting there too early because people are usually freaking out in the 15 minutes before we start. The stress level is super high.
8:00-12:00 I took the exam getting more and more brain dead as the minutes pass.
12:00-5:00 I walked home from my test a little unsure as to how I did. I was HARD. It was a lot of application of knowledge and kind of tricky. I usually don’t do well on those types of exams because I talk myself out of the right answer. I am officially a waste of flesh for the rest of the day because my brain has fried. Chris and I hang out for the rest of the day until he has to leave at 5:00
7:00- 12:30 Several of my classmates and I go out to eat to celebrate being done with CV block. Then we all went to BWWs. It’s definitely the bar/restaurant that the med students like to hand out at. I was very impressed; most of the CPC-1s were out tonight. To put it lightly, we all had a lot of fun.
February 10, 2004
7:50 So it was a little bit difficult to get up this morning, but I made it. When I walked into lecture I notice that there aren’t a lot of people here at 8:00 am. I wonder if the late night celebrations had anything to so with that?
8:00-10:00 We
all sit through lecture wondering why on earth the school didn’t give us a
day off before throwing us into Respiratory block. Trust me it’s going to
be as hard as CV block, and none of us are ready to start studying again.
10:10-12:00 Gross Anatomy lab, woo-hoo. I really didn’t want to be in GA today, but what we are doing is pretty cool. We cut off the front of the rib cage and dissected out the lungs. It was kind of hard to get them out, but cutting through the ribs with the saw is fun. I am really interested in orthopedics, so I love to play with power tools and cut up people-parts. The lungs are kind of tricky to dissect because you have to get out all the bronchi with out ripping up the lung tissue. It takes a little bit, but my group figures it out. The nomenclature is really difficult too: the third anterior bronchi of the middle lobe of the right lung (or something like that).
12:00-1:00 I rush home to work on CBL, since I obviously didn’t do it yesterday. I am presenting a case today to my group, so I need to be really prepared. Luckily my case is just a broken nose, so it doesn’t take me long to prepare it.
1:00-2:00 Today in clinical skills we learned more about breath sounds, and recognizing abnormalities when auscultating the lungs. Dr. Clay had a CD-Rom that played the sounds. Unfortunately after every sound he said, “Well it really doesn’t sound like that, but it kind of does.” We were all like, great that really helps us. So he ditched the CD-Rom and we practiced listening to each others lungs. It seems like I’ve done this a million times in ECCs and to myself, but practice makes perfect.
3:00-5:00 CBL time. Luckily my group agreed to be a little less prepared than normal since we had the exam yesterday. I present my case with no glitches, and we get done fairly quickly. I’m glad the cases are simple this week, because I don’t think I can handle thinking too hard.
5:00-11:30 Once at home I eat dinner, organize my notebook, and veg all night long. I think it’s really important to give yourself a night off after a stressful couple of weeks. I probably studied 100 hours for that exam, a night off won’t kill me.
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