It's exam week

I'm disappointed with how little actual school work/learning I've had time to do this year. It's clear that when I have the time to study and stay on top of the work load (eat all those pancakes) I can do very well.

We had a one week course in Emerg/ICU care this semester. I stayed on top of the material and feel like I killed the exam. Yes it's just one week, but that just meant I was able to stay on top of the work. What makes this win extra scary though is that the rest of the class seems to feel that they did not do well on the exam.

The other three courses this semester though, will not go as well. I'm desperately choosing which weeks I will study. Weeks! Not just lectures or parts of lectures I feel are less important, entire weeks!

We had our OSCE last week and despite studying for the past 2 years and feeling pretty prepared for it, I was knocked off my game a couple of times. It was fun but also, as I said to the examiner for the ankle exam, fully humiliating.

Our school has a pass/fail system so that as long as I make my 60%, I'll make it through to clerkship. For the OSCE, we just need 60% of 60% of the stations. But, I don't want to be the doctor that barely made it through med school. I don't want some doc in administrivia hell looking for the last 1/2 % so that no one has to hold my hand through remediation in the summer. I want to do well in clerkship and need to start making studying a priority in my life. Starting.....NOW.

How could anyone possibly study?

There is simply far too much to snuggle, far too little motivation and far too many calories consumed over the holidays. How could I possibly study repro? I'm excited to learn more about the reproductive bits of us humans, but it involves holding still and not playing. I like playing.

Repro certainly has it's moments. The erectile dysfunction talk was the most exciting of my med school experience. My favourite quote (with respect to the male arousal cycle)
"A few years ago I asked the class what the difference is between the arousal cycle in males and females. One student put up her hand and replied 'women don't have orgasms'. While this is my personal experience, the literature tends to disagree."