- 6:45: get up, dressed and start breakfast; Turn on CNN
- 7:00:Farley comes over to man the pancake flipping while I put on make up and we discuss the news
- 7:20: eat yummy breakfast
- 7:35: finish getting ready and be out the door by 7:45
- 8:00 -9:50: Physiology lecture on GI secretions. Take notes like a crazy person. Make sure you pay attention to all the details
- 10:00-10:50: Anatomy lecture on the ischioanal fossa (yes, the anal fossa)
- 11:00-11:50: Biochemistry lecture on the digestion of lipids
- 12:00-1:00: Lunch, that is if you want to eat after taking about the anal fossa and digestion all morning. Okay, I'm in medical school it is going to take a lot more than the anal fossa to curve my appetite
- 1:00-1:50: Anatomy lecture on the Posterior Abdominal wall, diaphragm and kidneys (this professor is too smart for MY good!)
- 1:50-2:00: Change quickly and run across to the anatomy lab
- 2:00-4:00: Anatomy lab--We GET to dissect out the posterior abdominal wall. We specifically got to dissect out the nerves on the posterior abdominal wall. It was an easy lab and we were actually done in an hour. Another guy and I stayed in the lab and reviewed the GI tract (which has been removed from the cadaver) with a professor. Yup, almost one hour of individual instruction. You can't ask for anything more.
- 4:00-5:00: Demo the anatomy dissection to other students (one third of the class dissect at t time, so the other two thrids come into see what we've done). Got another professor at our table and had another 35 minutes of instruction and he quizzed us. The best day in the anatomy lab EVER!
- 5:00-5:30: Farley and I had to go to the grocery store and to the fruit stand
- 5:30-5:45: Quickly hop in the shower as to not smell like death anymore
- 5:45-6:10: Make dinner. We had a tomato and Italian cheese pasta side with chicken and spices. I also made carrots with a brown sugar sauce.
- 6:10-6:30: Eat the yummy dinner then get packed to go to the study area
- 6:30-8:00: Arrive at the study area and study GI physio from today and review the last two lectures
- 8:00-9:00: Review the biochemistry from today's lecture (Farley typed our notes and they were beautiful)
- 9:00-10:00: Study anatomy. The chair of the anatomy department wrote a 90 page "study note" document. Review this along with Netter's (the most beautiful anatomy drawings ever) and Rohan (the most beautiful disections ever).
- 10:00-11:00: Pre-read for the physiology lectures (digestions and absorption and GI disordered), Biochemistry (lipids and lipoproteins) and Neuro (Intro to Motor systems).
- 11:00: get home. talk to Mom, clean up, shower, and pack bag for the morning
- 12:00: FINALLY get to bed.
Yup, that was yesterday. I had to get up and do it all again today. Our first exam of the semester is next Monday, so there won't be a break until at least Monday the 16th, but probably not until the 21 as classes continue as normal on Tuesday.
at least while you are enjoying your lunch you can really appreciate what your body is doing for you, as you are eating your foos will eventually pass through your GI tract (hopefully w/o secretions...that sounds awefull).anal fossa:not too sure what fossa is, but I do know where food goes once it's digested.
ReplyDeleteAsk me about teeth and I can answer you there :)
Just wondering...So where does the take a deep breath and relax part come in? is that a few years down the road still?!? Hope you take some time for a glass of wine and a beautifull sunset :) best of luck, miss ya! ~crystal
HI Crystal!
ReplyDeleteWe studied teeth when doing the GI tract as well, but they are not "high yield" for the boards so we won't be tested on them much. I do get breaks, but just not the week before an exam (although last night I took an hour and a half dinner break because after 4 hours of class and five hours of studying, I couldn't take it anymore). Oh and the ischiorectal foassa is (according to cancerweb.net) A wedge-shaped space with its base toward the perineum and lying between the tuberosity of the ischium and the obturator internus muscle laterally and the external anal sphincter and the levator ani muscle medially. I don't suggest searching for anal fossa: google gives some not so medical hits.