Day 8 of board studying:

Day 8 of board studying:

Well, its been a slow couple of days. I can't believe an entire week has already gone by. Am I now one third prepared to take that test? Not quite.

I sort of sank into a rut on thursday. I think studying biochemistry sapped all my strength and will to contintue. I have gotten very late starts since then, which I attribute partially to my complete inability to get up at 8 am according to plan, and partially to to my poor grasp of the entire field of anatomy. You would think anatomy, an area based enitrely on pure fact, facts which hasn't changed for thousands of years, would somehow be easy or straightforward. But its suprisingly complicated. I find it very difficult to remember which nerves exit the greater sciatic foramen superior instead of inferior to the piriformis muscle, or the fact that the superior and inferior pancreaticoduodenal arteries are the only link between the branches of the celiac artery and the superior mesenteric artery and therefore only thing to save your guts from rotting if your celiac artery clotted off. It seems, actually, that the vascular system of the GI tract is a favorite subject of board questions, and I was suprised to find that I like it better than almost any other pat of anatomy.

I have all these amazing colored diagrams that I drew last year during anatomy, and they are really nice to have right now. I want to eventually scan them and make a internet slide show of them, for posterity's sake.

I just did a practice test on cardiac physiology, the subject that I devoted myself to yesterday, and I got an 85%! The highest score yet. I think I now understand that stuff better than I ever did when I was learning it in class. I guess that's one good thing about this whole process - it prevents you from looking like a total idiot when you get to the wards and people expect you to actually know things.
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