Medic Students!!!

[iamjeff171]

one hour, one day, one week, and one month at a time

this is good advice

 

[TransportJockey]

Waiting to hear back from a community college in Aurora CO about transferring the majority of my medic credits to them. I'm hoping for good news

 

[dneal]

I love this advice, it might just work...thanks and remember to breath along the way!

 

[amberdt03]

Good luck on your A&P test, I just finished Pharm and can I just say it wasn't easy...I am sure you will do fine.

Thanks!! I feel good about my A&P test. I've already started making my first round of drugs flashcards and I already want to pull my hair out. Lol.

 

[Sieldan]

Feeling really down about my abilities as a potential medic. I've gone from straight A's in Basic and P1, to B's in P2, and now low C's high D's in P3. What am I going to do in P4? Stuff I thought I had down pat, I now have completely twisted up and fubar'd. I'm really worried about P4 this summer. Its a summer semester so its shorter than a normal semester. However, we have about a quarter more clinical hours to complete. On a good note, only 4 more clinicals to go this semester. So once thats done, I can concentrate on more studying.

Help?

 

[ah2388]

what are you struggling with...

if the skills, do extra clinicals, consult with your instructors/preceptors

if the books, study more

Its a commitment, not a hobby

 

[amberdt03]

96 on the A&P final. woop woop!!!!!

 

[Sieldan]

what are you struggling with...

if the skills, do extra clinicals, consult with your instructors/preceptors

if the books, study more

Its a commitment, not a hobby

Its just the books. What gets me is I thought I 'got' the subject material. Just finished all of my required clinicals yesterday, so now I can concentrate more on the books. At our clinical sites, the preceptors would tell me to go do something, and then they would go on to something else. They had that much confidence in me.

Now that my clinicals are done, and spring break is here (next week for us), Im going to take a few days to just chill, and recuperate. Then, at the end of next week, the study marathon begins.

Just needed to vent somewhat.

 

[dneal]

I passed my ACLS mega code and written test....what a relief! Now the 436 hours of clinical's begin. Congrats amberdto3...hang in there Sieldan!

 

[Shishkabob]

I'm cleared to take the NREMT-P test... now just to schedule it at the VUE center.

 

[TransportJockey]

I'm cleared to take the NREMT-P test... now just to schedule it at the VUE center.

Good luck man! You'll ace it.

 

[reaper]

There goes Texas! hehe

 

[amberdt03]

I'm cleared to take the NREMT-P test... now just to schedule it at the VUE center.

Lord help us all. Lol. J/K. You'll rock it!!!

 

[AlphaButch]

Good Luck Linus

 

[JoeSchmo]

Passed A&P with a 93%.
We are now into more background stuff with advanced practice.
Just had first lab on IV.
God help the first patient I have to stick. lol.

 

[iamjeff171]

Passed A&P with a 93%.
We are now into more background stuff with advanced practice.
Just had first lab on IV.
God help the first patient I have to stick. lol.

im not sure how your school does it, but our first iv starts were on each other...

 

[JoeSchmo]

we are not allowed to stick each other.
school rules.

as i said.. God help my first patient. :unsure:

 

[TransportJockey]

we are not allowed to stick each other.
school rules.

as i said.. God help my first patient. :unsure:

Wow.. we had to do ten live starts on classmates before we could even go into clinicals to practice in the ED... And over half of my medic class were basics who had never really started IVs before

 

[Shishkabob]

Knowing which school Joe goes to in DFW, he will get PLENTY of practice at their main clinical hospital.


We started a few on eachother in my class... boy was that an experience I never want to go through again.

 

[iamjeff171]

imagine being that patient. i think it was a little less stressfull starting them on classmates for the first time. at least i knew while they were stuggling on me, i was about to do the same to them