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Deal fell through...stupid people who don't realize how much it's going to cost them to do a bridge loan while they sell their house. Oh well...
Deal fell through...stupid people who don't realize how much it's going to cost them to do a bridge loan while they sell their house. Oh well...
I need some quick advice please! Would you suggest sending in more than three LORs? I have two majors and thought it would be a good idea to send 2 from each college. Does OU frown upon additional info?? Thanks in advance!
I need some quick advice please! Would you suggest sending in more than three LORs? I have two majors and thought it would be a good idea to send 2 from each college. Does OU frown upon additional info?? Thanks in advance!
Have books/resources for MSII (mainly, but step as well) been discussed recently? The cliff notes is should I buy Robbins monster path book...
Or do any of the MSIII's on a vacation rotation have time to shed some light on what's worth buying?
Basically, I was thinking, through some posts I've seen both here and on hippocrates:
BRS Pharm Cards, Path, and Behav. Science
Clinical Micro MRSimple
Robbins review (Is the big one worth adding here?)
lippincott's pharm cards
FA
QBook
Is anything woefully absent? Roadmap for Pharm? goljan? Any of the HY series?
From reading the syllabus so far IHI seems so much more interesting than the stuff from last year.
Sure rub it in why don't ya...
Oh, you get to be an MS-II, just not until next year. I remember last year looking across to the East Lecture Hall, and thinking "those are the big kids." Well, I'm a big kid now, and I think anatomy is poopy. So there.Sure rub it in why don't ya...
Yeah, I know. I've got to say second semester of MS1 was way more interesting than first semester, so I guess it just keeps getting better. The good news for you guys is that the content requirement is smaller, and you might really like anatomy -- some weird people do. Biochem's another story. Embryo might be cool for you just 'cause it's relevant.
Embryo might be cool for you just 'cause it's relevant.
Yeah, I actually enjoyed the embryo lectures today. I'm glad that class is only once a week though. I wish we could just do all of them that way. One day of biochem, a couple hours of embryo, a half day of HB, a half day of PCM, and then alternate the anatomy days in between.
That's just better for my particular learning style though. I get focused on one subject intensely then like to move on to another subject intensely, etc.
Now back to anatomy...
Of course if you homeschool, the official schedule's a non-issue.
You don't have to by a diagnostic tool set. You'll only use it a handful of times this year, unless they've really overhauled PCM II...And don't buy a panoptic unless you're seriously interested in opthamology, and even then consider it cautiously.
OK, so I guess I'll hold off on the tools for now.
I can feel the homeschooling rapidly approaching...like maybe tomorrow. I just can't handle Leon's slow pace. It drives me crazy. Plus it seems like HB is all common sense, read the syllabus and notegroups type of stuff.
What are the issues besides cost, Amxcvbcv? I've used the Panoptic several times and I really like it. What was the opthalmologist's critcism? I noticed that, at the new FMC in Tulsa, they have the panoptic as part of the standard set on the wall of exam rooms. I'm thinking of buying one so that I don't have to use a standard scope - which I know is an acquired skill, but they drive me crazy. I'm extremely near-sighted and, with a highly-magnified narrow field of view, I tend to have my whole visual field clouded with floaters. At 1000x with oil on a light microscope, I was frequently just about blind.And don't buy a panoptic unless you're seriously interested in opthamology, and even then consider it cautiously. The opthamologist that saw mine was very PC in her criticism. Personally, though, I got it because with my limited dexterity and ability to move around it really makes that aspect of the physical exam easier for me and my patients. Remember... as nice as the Welch-Allyn people seem, they're still salesmen out to meet a quota.
So are the quiz questions on Hippo at all representative of the questions on the written portion for anatomy?
I was just wondering.
If you can answer the questions correctly at the end of each chapter of Chung's, you're good. I don't care what O'Don says.So are the quiz questions on Hippo at all representative of the questions on the written portion for anatomy?
I was just wondering.
If you can answer the questions correctly at the end of each chapter of Chung's, you're good. I don't care what O'Don says.
More reasons why I'm glad I took anatomy last year. I know -- sorry MS1s!
Sure, just keep rubbing it in...
On the upside, you don't have Steinberg for biochem. Believe me, that's a good thing.
It's a nice feeling to officially be done with my first clerkship
Way to go! Your next one's supposed to be a cushier one, right?
Today's anatomy lab was really pretty fun. I actually liked it. Does that make me weird?
Absolutely.Today's anatomy lab was really pretty fun. I actually liked it. Does that make me weird?
I understand your feelings, but be warned that Leon's material is probably the most poorly covered in the entire biochem syllabus - no real narrative - and Leon does not permit streaming video or synchronized PowerPoints to be posted. Plus, he uses his terrific chalkboard drawings and overhead transparencies <g>. You'd have to listen to the audiotapes to know everything Leon wanted to cover, plus you won't have his in-class visuals. Leon weights his own material very disproportionately on the first exam because it's so easy - but there are a lot of questions. Leon is apt to cover something not in the syllabus because, while a lot of instructors really don't care, Leon gets irritated by people who don't come to class. He's probably not your best first teacher to home-school. Only two more days. Just my $0.02...I am pretty sure I am not going back to biochem again until Dr. Bidichandani next Wednesday. I like Leon as he is funny and all, but his thought process is too random for me. I find him confusing me more than helping so far with his interjections of marginally related information that he covers again later at a more appropriate time.
It's a nice feeling to officially be done with my first clerkship
God I'm in a sh*tty mood today. I feel like drop-kicking a few puppies or stickin a f*ckin bunny in the garbage disposal.
On a lighter note, living at the university village, I get to see lots of the "who's f*cking who"...
eg...toga party last night, today I see a guy from my mod and another classmate leaving his apartment around 10am walking her to her car, doing the "ok b*tch it's time for you to go" shuffle....her hair all messed up and him dressed in the usual morning-after-dont-give-a-****-what-she-thinks outfit since I already tagged it.
So I walk outside and catch him on his way back to his apt and say "Hey! Found a friend huh? " He was kinda "umm...ahhh..ummm....yea"....I say "isn't that so-and so?"
oh well
Ya gotta love those "just add booze" chicks
Hey, Johnny, good to see you. Apparently the toga party was a drunken bash as usual. I didn't go - I had something like 40 people in my house last night for the "welcome back" mod BBQ. It was a great time and nothing got broken! After everyone left, I had to get to the vet's by midnight, however, to pick Jesse up from "day care." Boy, was she having a great time smelling 40 new people all over the house. Not such a great time, however, that she didn't make a beeline for the kitchen to counter-surf leftovers while I made a pit stop in the bathroom.Ya gotta love those "just add booze" chicks
Ooh, so maybe I can get hooked up with some good gossip through you. That'd be great if I knew some people.
O'Don never really liked us using a review text to study from. You are in uncharted waters as far as that is concerned. I would still use Chung's to study because I can't imagine O'Don rewriting the whole test bank in a year.
Dr. O'Don said that Moore's will be our Bible for this semester. Chung's was not even listed under the optional texts. Does anyone know what the story is with that?
I finally learn all the answers and they change all the questions!That's true. O'Don seems pretty energetic, but I don't think he's quite up to redoing all the questions. Also, doing the questions in Chung is a relatively pain free way to study. So yeah, still useful but just not the golden ticket that it was last year.
Seeing what is on O'Don's first test will be very interesting. I personally am in the school of thought that he's going to have to use the question bank, which has a whole lot of Chung questions. If he tries to re-write from scratch and/or use some prepared Moore's questions, he would end-up having to curve, since none of the questions would be tested - and I don't know how the associate deans would feel about a curve (I have no idea how those politics work, but I guess the associate deans have a lot of influence - e.g., the third block minis vanishing when neither Chung nor Leon wanted to change things).I finally learn all the answers and they change all the questions!
I notice that O'Don is weighing the practical more than 50%, bless his heart.