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Name: Elizabeth Patterson
Year at OU-COM: MS I
Curricular Track: CPC
Spouse/partner (if applicable): Eric Patterson
Children (if applicable) No Children
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Undergraduate Institution: Capital University
Graduate Institution (if applicable) N/A
Favorite Quote:
"Practice makes perfect"!
Hobbies or Interests:
Running marathons, playing tennis
Favorite thing to do in Athens:
Run on the bike trail . . . its a great 32 miles round trip!
Area of medicine you plan to practice:
Orthopedic Surgery
2-10-04
Wednesday
6:30 Wake up, with the intent to go to a pre-class review. Decide my bed is nice and warm, and skip the review, and my first class (um, maybe I should not be admitting this) but I was up late last night studying. Next week is our finals week then spring break!
8:30 Drive to school
9-10 Class consisting of a journal article review.
10-11 Class on bronchoscopy. This was a really neat lecture. The doctor presenting brought in an actual bronchoscope and showed us how it worked, along with other asthma medications.
11-12 Class on the alternative medicine approaches to lung disease. They presented herbals, meditations, acupuncture ect. It was really neat. This you probably don’t get at an MD school!
12-1 Hang out in the LRC with friends, look some stuff up in books, copy notes.
1-1:30 Head home and get some quick lunch.
1:30-3 Condense my whole quarter’s worth of notes into a few pages to make next week’s cramming easier.
3-4 Make chili for
dinner for my husband and I. Watch a show on tv.
4-7 Study the notes I prepared earlier, look over objectives and read.
7-7:30 I am the group leader on the Xray case of the week. This is a supplemental case that the head radiologist and I work on to give the students more exposure (no pun intended) to reading X-rays. I am definitely considering it for a career! Anyways, all my classmates email me their list of differential diagnosis for the case and I put them into an excel spreadsheet.
7:30-9 Work out and take a shower.
9-10 Study for a quiz tomorrow.
10-11 Spend some time with my hubby and go to bed!
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