Originally posted by shorrin
hey tiaz,
well so far things have worked out really well! We do have a lot of people which makes for very stanky anatomy lab w/ about 30-40 bodies.
yikes, there are 125 of us and we only have like 12 bodies. it's like 14 ppl to a body (not at the same time of course, it's 2 groups of 7 and each of us dissect a particular region like lower extremity, upper extremity, etc.)
The admin has been great, but there are a few issues surrounding LPC that aren't exactly fair. I'll have to get my own I think. Most classpeeps are supernice and I've found several to study with which will help.
i assume you mean longitudinal primary care, the sort of intro class thingie. we have something similar called introduction to human disease (IHD) and it's really cool. although we get no direct patient contact we have this really cool cd-rom where we have "virtual" patients.
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But I am looking forward to when people decide coming to class is a waste so I can be there without a gazillion people talking while I'm trying to listen to lecture....I swear if people wanna talk about foosball and not listen about enzyme kinetics then leave. I gotta admit there are a few who have some ego issues - they just seem to know everything...
the 3rd day of orientation and the first day of classes the dean had a talk with us. i'll let you in on what he said:
"there are maybe 1 or 2 people sitting in here right now that have exceptional intelligence. i mean, extremely impressive academic credentials. we see it every year, these people have been nowhere but at the top of their class their entire life. yet sometimes unfortunately they fail the first year of medical school. we see it every year. why does it happen? because they fail to work together and they are too competetive. you cannot do this alone. i can't stress that enough. i'll tell you a story about when i was a resident. we had a patient who had a rare form of disease in his nose, and i happened to be reading about it the night before by pure luck. the next day when the attending asked us all 'do you know what x y and z symptoms are indicated for and what would you do if a patient presented with those symptoms?' i said 'sure, the patient has so and so disease and i'd treat it with so and so antibiotic' everyone was amazed that i knew that. but that's about ALL i knew. later on my friends said 'i can't beleive you knew that.' after i explained to them that i had been reading about it a day earlier they were much more relieved. they said 'we thought you knew everything!' and they couldn't have been further from the truth. so you see, even though you will have some people blurt out the correct answer at times, they don't know everything. so keep that in mind. nobody can know everything, there is simply too much information. work together and make this as less stressful as you can on each other."
i thought that talk rocked.
Glad you are having a good time down there... I think it doesn't really matter where ya are, there's too much to do anyway...speaking of doing things it's beautiful outside so I'm going....to study
yeah i have a date with netter too. alright, well hope everything else is going ok. email me cause i don't have your UIC email address! alright, well laters!
*Canes gives Jalby a bear hug*
