The guys and gals of the 2010 Emory PA class created this cool spoof video. A must watch.
I think it just goes to show that even if we as PA students spend all our time studying we do still have time for fun and a sense of humor.
I was sitting at my OB/GYN rotation thinking today how crappy it is to know that I can’t afford to buy things that I might need or want. For example, textbooks are just down right expensive and being on rotations means having to pay for gas to drive to the rotation site.
Then the thought came to me….
Why not try and start a HELP the Physician Assistant Student Campaign.
The idea is that the Physician Assistant community and the the general medical community could help selected students by making donations to them.
How much donated is determined by the persons doing the donating.
Maybe even the donation person could buy a few books off of amazon.com that a student needs and have them sent to the student.
What do you guys think?
Sound like something you would help out with?
So every Thursday I have to pick a patient that I saw in the past week and present the patient in front of the reproductive medicine board. Board being the 3 or 4 doctors in the department as well as a resident and at least one medical student.
I presented a patient last week, but one of the doctors seemed to have thought I didn’t provide him with enough or THE information that he wanted. Hence I was “wasting his time.”
Now I have gathered said information that he wants and am to present the patient again today at 1:30.
I even went over the information with another of the doctors this morning who said I needed to still find the dosage for Bi-est. I repeated that I had already called the local compounding pharmacy and was told twice what the dosage was. He still felt I was missing some information. At that point I pulled up a google site created by a compounding pharmacy and showed him that the dosage was as I was told. If the bi-est is 40/60 2mg then its 40% estriol to 60% estradiol. Just that simple. So he then seemed to agree that I had the information I needed.
I guess we will see what the other doctor who wasn’t pleased with the presentation last week thinks today.
And since the online pharmacy site was such a help, at least at this point I hope, I want to post a link for others. So here it is…
I’ll be attending my first OB/GYN grandrounds in close to an hour.
I’ll update later as to how it went.
Update:
So grandrounds was covered by the NICU. It was a discussion about preterm birth complications.
Actually they presented a patient who was born at 22 weeks with some complications, but is now doing fine.
The odd thing I noticed while at grandrounds had nothing to do with the discussion.
I felt a little out of place as I was the only PA student there. Actually everyone else was an M.D.
The odd part comes when everyone looks at my white coat to read who I am. I guess its because my patch or the patch for PA student’s white coats is different than that for the medical students.
Again, it was just odd to see every M.D. that walked by my seat look down to read my jacket.
So this past year has been an adventure with the site.
First the site was hacked several times.
Next the server went haywire as things had been changed and damaged by the hacker.
Then recently, the server went down and seems to have grown a mind of its own.
And so the few updates that I have made to the blog are gone..
but I have moved the site to another server and things should be working like magic now!
So hopefully you are here reading the blog with no trouble and I will try and get a few things posted about how rotations are going!
I’m sure many of you have noticed by now, considering the feed subscription numbers have dropped from 40 to 12, that this site was hacked.
Lucky for me I keep backups of the site, so only a few things were lost.
I guess it is one of those things really. With WordPress being so famous among bloggers these days, its a platform that is target to script kiddies all over the world. They are nothing more than script kiddies and nothing more!
Lucky for everyone, the server that this site resides on is a little more sophisticated than one would think. The the information of the person who hacked us was recorded. Even though they tried and hide themselves, they left some things uncovered. My OP has reported this information to the proper authorities and will be dealt with as such.
I plan to get the post back to where they should be and catch up on this site….geez, I know, its way behind, but it will be caught back up by the end of the month!
Day 137:
Friday January 9, 2009
We started our Friday off with a lecture in ACLS at 9am on PEA or pulseless electrical activity. In other words, you don’t feel a pulse, but you still see electrical activity.
Next was another pharmacology lecture. Not much to say here.
The last lecture of the day from 1-3pm was again in ACLS. We covered aystole and then practiced everything we have done so far. Asystole is quite cool. Its what you always see on shows like ER or Scrubs. Most of the time you you watch the show though they say “flat line” and not asystole.
Day 136:
Wednesday January 7, 2009
We start the day with a 9am lecture in pharmacology. I looked ahead in the book last night and saw that we will probably be covering antibacterials at the end of this semester. I really hope to get to those sooner as it seems these are drugs that are used most often.
After pharmacology we had our real first lecture for ACLS. Today’s topic was on ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Nothing too too complicated, but still a challenge. We actually have quizzes that we will have to turn in. The person teaching ACLS also likes to include people in the lectures. By this I mean she likes to put peoples names or pictures on slides and ask them questions. I guess this is a good way to make sure everyone pays attention, but wow…how stressful.
After lunch, we had our first surgery lecture. The lecture was on introductory surgery and was basically a fast overview of surgery. After that we had surgery lab. Knot tying boards where handed out and we learned how to tie our first knot. Some of us also went over how to tie a surgeon’s knot. Playing guitar for quite a while not, tying knots is quite easy. It seems after doing it a few times, like playing guitar, my fingers remember what to do without me thinking about it. I think i’m going to really love surgery!
Lucky for us…we haven’t started small groups yet…which means we don’t have class at all tomorrow. YAY! Normally thurday will also be test day. So we would normally have small groups in the morning and then a test at 3pm.
It seems like RSS feeds are the coolest thing on the internet these days. That being said, I have revamped the RSS feed for the site. You will now see a button to the right telling you have many people are subscribed to the site’s RSS feed. You will also notice that the RSS feed is now powered through Google’s feedburner service. After playing around on the internet, I found the feedburner service to the best for both the users and for me, the admin. So please subscribe to the feedburner RSS feed. You can also enter your e-mail address in the box to the right had have the latest post and whatnot send right to your inbox. This is also part of feedburner.
Hope you enjoy the new added feature. My goal is to have over 200 active subscribers so lets see if we can do it 
Day 135:
Tuesday January 6, 2009
The second day of the new semester. I got to sleep in really late today as we would normally have small group in the morning. Our first lecture was at 1pm and it was on hypertension. This seems to be a very important subject. No matter what field of medicine you work in you will see hypertension. It seems to me like everyone is getting HTN. Its like the new craze! This lecture was actually taught by a PA that also will be teaching us surgery on Wednesday afternoons. Now that is the class that I am really looking forward to.
The next and last lecture of the day was on lipids. The lecture started off easy, but got harder the longer she lectured. I guess there are many different forms of lipids and its important to know what is what. Most of it you should know even if not in medicine. Like…LDL, HDL, cholesterol…i’m sure you know about those.