Today's restrospective comes ahead of starting the next phase of medical school: Clinical Rotations.
Original Post Date: 11/04/2006
The 12-Step Guide To Being a Caribbean Medical Student
12. Drench yourself and everything you own in water. This will emulate the humidity/random 5 minute rainstorm/sweat factor. Remember the local motto: St. Maarten - The land that never dries. 11. Make up and memorize random words like 'Pericardiacophrenic', 'Vaso Vasorum', 'Ora Serrata', and 'Dipalmitoylphosphotidylcholine'.
10. When driving anywhere, make sure that your car crosses through a significant body of water such as a lake or river. There's no experience like taking your Hundai through the major flooded regions after a rainstorm!
9. Again while driving your car, randomly stomp on your brake and screech to a halt, since the person in front of you has stopped in the middle of the road to talk to his buddy walking on the other side of the road.
8. Have at least one argument per day with your colleagues about where the Accessory Hemiazygous Vein really is, and where it drains.
7. Learn to say things like, "I think you can only get those on the French Side," and "Yes, I think ACE Hardware does sell punchbowls."
6. Once a week, splash some salt water in your eyes and pour sand into your shorts. This is your weekly trip to beach.
5. Carry a laptop with you EVERYWHERE you go.
4. When asked, what gym you go to, do not reply with 'Bally's', '24-Hour', or 'Gold's'. Instead start naming off hotels whose gym you use occasionally.
3. Get all necessary supplies (i.e. snacks, pencils, coffee, books, and notes) from a window in the side of a building. Call this window 'Notes Services'. Have professors/bosses/teachers blame Notes Services for anything that goes wrong with their presentations.
2. Begin seeing anatomical structures in normal everyday objects (i.e. Mitral valves in palm leaves, bifurcation of the carotid in tree branches, etc.)
1. When confronted with something odd or absurd (at least twice a day)…using your Trapezius and Levator Scapulae muscles, shrug your shoulders. Then using Risorius muscle, grin really wide and say to yourself, "That's St. Maarten!"
1 comment:
Out of curiosity, do you remember what the Accessory Hemiazygous Vein does / is located / drains into??? I sure as heck don't! And guess what: wasn't on MY USMLE.
And STILL WAITING FOR APARTMENT PICTURES MAN - don't just approve my messages without acting on them. What do you think this is, a game???
And where are the posts about your first week of clinicals?!?!!? Don't keep a brotha waiting!
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