Δ if APDX: no assignments Δ if HQ/PS: read BB's "High and Rising Health Care..." and "The Implications of Regional..." ΔNS: standby ΔGR/CD: complete "Understanding Yourself" at Careers in Medicine; optional MBTI at noon too ΔMDM: check BB on Monday for article Δ if COM: waiting on Drs. Roemer/Neely email Δ if ELSI: no assignments Δ if IG: read BB's "Acupuncture: Theory, Efficacy, and Practice" ΔPPS3: read BB's "A Medical Student on Call"; submit journal to BB's discussion group, your small group leader, and meded@northwestern.edu by Monday (format: "Last name, First name initial, PPS III, and the Month [e.g., Smith, J. PPSIII July journal]")
ΔJust Because: make breakfast for somebody?
Pager Tips:
ΔPager Inbox: Remember, you can check your pages online if you think you've missed an important page. On the NMH Web Paging site, there's a "Login" button. Use your 5-digit pager ID (given to us on our blue card during ICC, or just search for yourself in the directory) as both the Page ID and Password, and then click on the "View Incoming Messages."
Δ if APDX: no assignments Δ if HQ/PS: read BB's "Executive Summary: Crossing the Quality Chasm..." and "The quality of health care..." ΔNS: read BB's "Is This Patient Malhourished", go to http://nim.unc.edu and do module ΔGR/CD: review AAMC's Careers in Medicine ΔMDM: check BB on Monday for article and patient description Δ if COM: waiting on Drs. Roemer/Neely email Δ if ELSI: no assignments Δ if IG: read BB's "Mind-body medicine..." ΔPPS3: submit journal to BB's discussion group and meded@northwestern.edu by Tuesday 7/22 (format: "Last name, First name initial, PPS III, and the Month [e.g., Smith, J. PPSIII July journal]")
ΔJust Because: sing a broadway song to someone?
Access Tips:
ΔPACS: Email pacs@nmh.org with full name, last 6 of SSN, and PowerChart username. ΔUpToDate: Email yourself an UpToDate article from the hospital and check 30-day trial box. Or go to www.nmh.org, click "Employee Login," change Access to NMConnect, and login with your PowerChart username (works best in IE).
Just updated all of the sidebar links with some new sites. Of particular use will be the Northwestern M3 Main Page as well as the NMH Web Paging. In case you missed it, here's where you should be this coming Monday per your clerkship too:
Don't forget to do your ICC/Faculty Evaluations (via the Clerkship Evaluations link at the side) and register for the IDM Careers in Medicine via Dr. LaBlance's email too.
SBM is over! Congratulations to us, on our merry way to becoming newly minted M3's. I know everyone is getting ready to bunker down for Step 1 studying, but before you do, here are a few odds and ends that you might want to be sure are taken care of before you disappear.
ΔSBM, PPS, STS, M2-Preceptorship Evals: click here ΔPBL 203 Evals: click here ΔMDM: turn in by June 6 if "incomplete"? ΔFinancial Aid: all squared away? ΔPPD:: forms turned in? ΔVA: forms turned in?
And now to the USMLE Step 1 matters:
ΔFA2008 Classic Findings: click PPTX or PPT ΔFirst Aid Corrections (firstaidteam.com): click here
General weekend checklist to look over until school ends!
Important Dates:
Δ MDM Exam: April 11th Δ Mask Fit Testing: by April 11th Δ Turn in MDM Final Projects: April 14th Δ ESS M3 Scheduling: by April 21st Δ M3 White Coat Sizing: by April 25st Δ PPD Screening: by April 30th Δ Unit 7 Exam: May 19th
Things to do:
ΔMDM: do your daily homework? ΔPBL: (starts April 15th) ΔPOM/VGS: do your weekly assignments? ΔCS: prepare for didactics or preceptor visits? ΔCS: sign up for your 3+ H&P visits?
ΔUSMLE-1: study, chill, relax, study?
ΔJust Because: Don't forget that we are the most awesome class to ever grace the halls of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Rock it 2010.
ΔPPS: do any PPS Seminar assignments? ΔCS: prepare for Muscoloskeletal didactics or preceptor visits? ΔCS: sign up for your 3+ H&P visits? ΔHLU: document your Healthy Living triumphs and tragic losses?
ΔJust Because: Make up a fun mnemonic and email it to peeps?
"Kartagener's will Kill ya with Cilia."
(defect in dynein arms = recurrent URI's, fallopian tube and sperm infertility; also known as immotile ciliary syndrome or primary ciliary dyskinesia)
ΔPPS: do any PPS Seminar assignments? ΔCS: prepare for Pulmonary didactics or preceptor visits? ΔCS: sign up for your 3+ H&P visits? ΔHLU: document your Healthy Living successes and dismal failures? ΔOther: do your FAFSA?
ΔJust Because: YouTube "octopus vs shark" (below is "octopus camouflage")?
ΔPBL: do your PBL? ΔCS: prepare for Oral Presentations (no site visits)? ΔHLU: do Behavior readings? Δ2010: reserve Feb 11th @ 7:30pm for the Dessert Social?
ΔPBL: do your PBL? ΔCS: prepare for Abdominal Exam didactics or preceptor visits (Wk6: Sexual History)? ΔCS: record patient information for Oral History didactics for week 2/4-2/7? ΔHLU: do Diet and Nutrition readings?
ΔPBL: check your groups (starts up this week)? ΔCS: prepare for Abdominal Exam didactics or preceptor visits (Wk6: Sexual History)? ΔCS: record patient information for Oral History didactics for week 2/4-2/7? ΔHLU: do Physical Activity and Exercise readings? ΔHLU: wear something comfortable for HLU for aerobic and resistance exercises? ΔSBM: register for the NBME exam in April here?
ΔJust Because: take a moment to Wiki or Google Martin Luther King, Jr. to remember the impact he made on history?
ΔCS: prepare for Breast/Pelvic didactics or preceptor visits (Wk5: Oral Presentation)? ΔCS: write your H&P? (M3 example here) ΔHLU: do Stress and Coping readings? ΔUNIT5: update your entire unit schedule as per Blackboard's new spreadsheet (updated December 28th, 2007)?
ΔJust Because: tell someone another nerdy joke?
Q: Why did the mucosal neuroma fall in love with the pheochromocytoma? A: They were MEN2B! HAHAHA.
Δ CS: prepare for Breast/Pelvic didactics or preceptor visits? Δ CS: write your H&P? (M3 example here) Δ PPS: confirm your Healthy Living day? Δ SGS: update your Unit 5 Precis as per Peter's email (he'll bring copies on Monday too)
ΔJust Because: celebrate one last time before Step 1 woes? Note: First Aid 2008 is out, Kaplan medEssentials 2nd edition has good reviews, Goljan is pronounced "Gol-Yan" (by the good doctor himself), and yes, we're gonna rock this thang.
Δ CS: prepare for didactics, back on preceptor visits? Δ CS: have you done your hospital H/P's yet? Δ VGS/POM: prepare any necessary assignments? Δ SGS: prepare cases for staff-led and/or presentations?
ΔJust Because: email someone a holiday song to spread around the good cheer?
It's soon to be the last school week of 2007, oh how the time flies. It was only just yesterday that we were frightened little children watching scary Dr. Seuss movies.....
Δ CS: prepare for didactics, back on preceptor visits? Δ CS: have you done your hospital H/P's yet? Δ VGS/POM: prepare any necessary assignments? Δ SGS: prepare cases for staff-led and/or presentations?
ΔJust Because: email someone a funny YouTube video?
(disclaimer: you will never get these minutes of your life back)
Δ PBL: do your PBL learning issue? Δ CS: take your Peds/ENT quiz / prepare for site visits? Δ OEM: do Week 8 Healthcare and You readings? Δ OEM: write your 3-4 page double-spaced paper? Δ SGS: prepare cases for staff-led and/or presentations?
ΔJust Because: bring your checkbook so you can cash in on some *STARSTRUCK* 2010 Boat Formal fun?
Δ PBL: do PBL learning issue? Δ CS: take your Social Hx quiz / prepare for site visits? Δ OEM: do Week 7 Options For Reform readings? Δ OEM: study for quiz? Δ SGS: prepare cases if presenting?
To Do List Δ PBL: do PBL learning issue? Δ CS: take Standard Precautions quiz? Δ CS: take your Social Hx quiz / prepare for site visits? Δ OEM: do Week 6 Measuring Quality readings? Δ OEM: pick essay topic for approval? Δ SGS: prepare cases if presenting?
ΔJust Because: double-check your computer keyboard to make sure you received those rare and coveted "Ctrl," "X," "C," and "V" keys? (Not that you should be outraged if you didn't receive them -- your keyboard will still be fair, just incomplete. Don't spell "cervix" anytime soon though.)
To Do List Δ PBL: do PBL learning issue? Δ CS: take your PMH quiz / know where site visits are? Δ CS: do the Week 4 Medical History readings? Δ OEM: do the Week 4 Private Health Insurance readings? Δ SGS: prepare cases? Δ Just Because: send someone an e-card, just because?
To Do List Δ PBL: go to PBL tomorrow? Δ CS: email your preceptor already? Δ CS: take your HPI quiz? Δ CS: do the Week 3 HPI readings (5 of them)? Δ OEM: do the Week 3 Intro readings (3 of them)? Δ SGS: prepare cases? Δ Just Because: email your little sib "WHY 'ALLO THAR!"?
To Do List Δ PPS: white coat and head-to-toe on CEC 1-401 day? Δ PBL: look up your PBL groups for Friday? Δ LAB: review Tuesday and Wednesday? Δ Just Because: drown summer memories away in bacteria?
(Gram positive, obligate anaerobe, causes gas gangrene)
Summer's almost over Class of 2010 (sad), and it pains me to post because posts = school, and school <<< summer. But below, you'll find several reminders and things-to-do in preparation for our first week including our SBM schedule, a checklist, and important dates. Rock it hard this week, LAST SUMMER OF OUR LIVES.
To Do List Δ Pick up your syllabus? Δ Look up your small groups? Δ Email your little sib(s)? Δ Make your activities fair poster(s)? Δ Clean your white coat you dirty slob?
Important Dates Monday, 8/20: School start! (8am) Mourn. Tuesday, 8/21: Big Sib Little Sib Dinner! (6pm) Eat. Wednesday, 8/22: Activities Fair! (2-4pm) Recruit. Thursday, 8/23: no special event Friday, 8/24: Founders Day! (2pm) Coat. Saturday, 8/25: Breakaway Retreat! (all day) Win.
i updated the calendar to include MDM II, so you'll know what times lecture and group sessions are at, and what readings you have to do each day to prep for them. note: i didn't bother making separate groups and listing out the group rooms, so make sure you figure out where your clinical epidemiology (MWF) and literature critique (TTh) groups meet. . .
also, i wanted to provide a permalink to the MDM II web-based program (you can find this on the left side of the infoplex homepage as well, under "Resources - Academic"):
next time you see el presidente, offer him a hearty congratulations on becoming the brand new
EXECUTIVE senate vice president!
but wait! there's even more zolo domination of executive senate: congrats to lindsay kuo (treasurer), leslie kim (secretary), and jason rho (student organizations chair). our senators aren't just zolo supahstahs anymore - they're feinberg supahstahs.
good luck on tomorrow's test, everyone! let's dominate it the same way we did for the neuroanatomy practical. . .
Δ PSM: prepare for Dr. Peter Orris' three topics? Δ PBL: do your PBL learning issue? Δ CCF: write/visit/plan any CCF stuff you need to do? Δ UNIT: review lectures + BES? Δ Just Because: drink in some beautiful sunshine?
Δ PSM: check to see which day/time you are? Δ PSM: prepare for Dr. Becky Wurtz's three questions? Δ PBL: do your PBL learning issue? Δ CCF: write/visit/plan any CCF stuff you need to do? Δ UNIT: review neuroanatomy for Practical Exam on 4/27? Δ Just Because: hug a puppy?
Well since we didn't get any more pictures of Maynard this week, here's my pup instead. This is Roxie hangin' out in the Texas bluebonnets during spring break. Maybe if we all think warm thoughts we'll get some spring weather here too.
Anyone else with some pet pics? They could be the next pet star of the week.
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(10:02 PM) Wednesday|04.18.07
learning neuroanatomy through cartoons
okay, so maybe these don't have that much learning value (although you could certainly make a case for the latter), but they're just too fun not to post:
Δ CSA: (Dresner/Bennet) review for CSA Exam? Δ PEX: (Didwania/Rhinehart) read for Eye Exam? Δ PBL: do your PBL learning issue? Δ CCF: do any CCF stuff you need to do? Δ UNIT: review neuroanatomy for Practical Exam on 4/27?
so in case you're wondering why audionotes have been somewhat. . .erm, lacking (actually, outright missing), you can blame a mixture of bad luck and utter incompetence.
Grand Emperor Pham's computer experienced minor problems Thursday morning (or maybe it was catastrophic hard drive failure requiring reformatting, I forget which), so 223 and 224 went sadly unrecorded. as for 225? Lowly Peon (wait, those shouldn't be capitalized) biswas managed to set his maximum file recording time to 4:00.
that sounds fine until you realize it's in minutes and seconds, not hours and minutes.
Δ PEX: do Breast Exam readings + check your schedule? Δ CDM: read Session 3 Kleinman and UNC excerpt? Δ UNIT: catch up on anatomy/lectures? Δ Just Because: buy a forecasting stone?
One week through the unit / I'm not gonna kidja / We still got work to do / So I'm gonna ask didja:
Δ PEX: do Neurologic readings (no PPS attire needed)? Δ CDM: read about your assigned cultural group? Δ LAB: catch up on anatomy? Δ Just Because: tell a stranger about your pisiform bone?
