I can’t believe it has been more than a month since my last
post!!!! Life has been ridiculously busy and there has been so much I wanted to
share with you all, but not enough time to sit down and do so! I’m even super
behind on emails and comments, but I'll make it a priority to get through
everything by the end of the week. Tonight, I’ll try my best to do a quick
recap of everything that you all might have missed, and include what I consider to be
the most important highlights :-)
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| Best Birthday Cake Ever!!!! (Yep, it even tops my 27th cake) |
For starters, I recently celebrated my birthday and
officially joined the “Dirty 30” club. I think I celebrated every night the
entire week of my birthday, which was rough considering I started a new
rotation, but sooo worth it! I partied alongside Cam Newton (technically he was
just sitting in the same section as me in the club, but I’m still counting it
LOL), was surprised with the most amazing cake ever, and even got a chance to
enjoy a Sips Under the Sea event one evening at the Georgia Aquarium. Thirty
feels awesome and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the decade has in store!
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| Sips Under the Sea at the Georgia Aquarium...Drinks, fish, and no kids! |
As for rotations, I finished my family medicine rotation
last month, and I really enjoyed the experience. It made me feel a lot better
about writing notes and presenting patients, and it was nice being a part of a
dually accredited MD/DO program with some residents who had graduated from my
school. I also got the chance to do and observe a couple of procedures, so that
made me happy.
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| Having fun with the FM residents and attendings |
This month I am on my Family Medicine / Osteopathic
Manipulative Medicine (FM/OMM) rotation, but my preceptor doesn’t really do any
OMM, so it is basically a repeat of family medicine in the outpatient setting.
I’m definitely not complaining though, because we see at least twenty patients
per day, the pace is non-stop, and I am learning a ton! Plus, I had the chance
to do OMM during my rotation last month, so I don’t feel like I am missing out
on anything. The cases have a lot of variety, I am constantly looking things
up, and I am pretty sure I have a solid list of ICD-10 codes memorized at this
point. Today, he even let me do two I&D procedures back-to-back since he is
fully aware of my love of surgery, which definitely makes up for the 10+ hour work
days with only five minute lunches with the drug reps if I’m lucky.
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| COMLEX Level 2 PE = Complete! |
I think the final update on my list is the completion of my
COMLEX Level 2 PE medical board exam. This is the physical exam portion of our
boards where we get eight hours to see 12 patients, do their physical exams,
and write up SOAP notes on them. This is a requirement for graduation, and for
osteopathic medical students, the exam is only offered in Philadelphia or Chicago, so I
made my way up to Philly a couple of weeks ago and took my exam. I won’t know
the results for a few months, but I’m hoping it went well. I immediately
starting thinking about all the mistakes I made after taking the exam, but
hopefully I passed and now I'm ready to move on to the next one. The bright side is I only have
one more board exam to go during my medical school career, and I got the chance
to explore my school’s main campus and FINALLY eat a philly cheesesteak!
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| Visiting PCOM's main campus for the first time |
I think that sums everything up! Right now, I’m finishing up
the last week of my FM/OMM rotation and then next week I start my Internal
Medicine Ambulatory rotation. Right now, I need to go study for Friday’s OMM
COMAT exam, but I hope everyone reading this is having a great week! I’ll try
my best to not go so long without posting next time, but you can always keep up
with me through my Instagram pics and stories (@LSUsweetheart). Until next
time!
