Professional I took an online class for elective credit while preparing for the USMLE Step 2 exams, both computer-based Clinical Knowledge and awkward Clinical Skills test that pairs you with 12 real-live-fake patients. I chose to use only one resource for each: UWorld for the computer exam (but who doesn’t?), and First Aid’s Step 2 Clinical Skills for the exercise …
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Or, two pharmacists play out the magic of compounding. It’s an oft-debated topic: I have loans at relatively high interest rates. When I have extra money, should I pay them off or invest instead? Many finance gurus always advise paying off loans–you have a guaranteed “return” because you eliminate a known interest rate. In general, I agree with that, especially …
Way back in dental school, I once served on an admissions panel where prospective students and their concerned, hopeful parents could ask current attendees about the school’s particulars. In one of these sessions, four or five questions into a discussion on finding housing on campus and why having a new facility means the world to us (it didn’t, really), a bespectacled elderly gentleman raised his hand to …
(I know, it’s a compass, not a watch. Did it get your attention?) Yes, it would be serendipitous if we could all flick a switch and suddenly be able to stick to disciplined schedules and complete our entire To Do list after work each day. Unfortunately, that’s not how the life of a medical professional goes. We spend all day …
Or, My Yard Explains Your Financial Situation and Exercise Routine Something had to be done. A meteorogically impossible series of intense floods and prolonged droughts had plaqued my intern year in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Fresh out of dental school and spending 80 hours a week puzzling over fluid orders and how to use my expensive stethoscope, I’d neglected that …