Well our Surgery module is kicking my butt. Not necessarily because the material is hard, but because we have shunned all of our other classes away in order to fit surgery in one week. Here is our schedule for this week:8AM - Meet in lecture room for Surgery topic lectures
12:30PM - Break for lunch (and you better woof it down fast)
1:00PM - Back to lecture room for more Surgery topic lectures
4:00PM - Either go home and start studying to try and catch up with the enormous amount of material given to you that day OR:
4-6PM - If it is your groups day you go to the suture and "how to gown up for surgery" lab room and practice, practice, practice.
So far it has been that schedule for the past 3 days. Needless to say (maybe?), this week has found me fighting every nerve and muscle in my body to stay awake during the 4 hour lecture marathons.
I thought that when we did surgery we would be talking a lot about procedures, how to do them, what to look out for, etc. Instead we have been more talking about when is it appropriate to do surgery, pre-op/post-op considerations, and prophylactic therapies. Much of what we have been talking about has been a lot of review from the GI module. We really havent talked much about cardiac surgeries or anything like that. I think it's because the PA teaching us right now is teaching us mainly from what he does at their hospital. That's fine I guess. I just wish we were getting a little more diverse exposure. But maybe thats what next year is for.
Well back to work!!
M-R
