Hey thanks cofty,
Had the pracical exams today, so 6 minutes to appropriately examine a patient then differential diagnosis, relevant investigations and management ..2 minutes of grilling questions. Any unprofessional or life threatening desicions or actions is a red card or missing an essential part of examination. Today went well, got the examinations done and looks like I got the correct differentials and in the right order (probability and priority) .... Really burns your brain out, you get 8 mins to do all that and then a minute break between patients, non stop for an hour and a half.
Tommorow is stations of acute management so walk in, told an acute emergency and you have to get the relevant info from patient super quick, 4mins, best investigations then management then a practical procedure in 2 minutes, could be suturing, could be inserting a catheter etc. This is a minefield for red cards as you can imagine, acute presentations are potentially life threatening.
Day after tommorow is a 3 hour written exam covering all 6 years.
We have been on 9-5 placements with no revision leave too, so it is extreme levels of revision and exhaustion, just how they like it :P . This week is just one of 5 sets of exams this year. Why didn't I just become a milk man.......
Snare
hey kate x yeah i was just kidding.... Atheists don't expect responses, besides the biblical god wasn't much of a fan of science and medicine..
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. --James 5:14-15
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. --2 Chronicles 16:12
