DONE

Its day three of freedom after taking Step 1 of the US Medical Licensing Exam. The way it works is that in order to become a licensed physician, you have to take and pass three killer exams called steps 1,2,3 respectively. I just spent 8 hours of my life taking Step 1 this past Sunday.

Anyway, I am ECSTATIC that I am finally done with the lecture based, sit on your ass portion of med school and going on to the learn on your feet bedside portion of my training. Thats really what it is I have found, training. Its pretty amazing amount of information that they cram into your head, even if most of it leaves again the day after the exam.

For example, got CPR recertified today and took the course. Compared to the last CPR course I took 3 years ago, it was amazing to know and be able to have a map of the human body in my head as the instructor talked about positions, techniques etc and know precisely the physiological bases of respiration and circulation.

Anyway, so it is on to pediatrics starting on Monday. Gonna be working in the Neonatal nursery (. . . awwww . . .) which should be pretty great. Then its off to the white mountains for a pediatrics outpatient experience before going going back back to Cali Cali in late July to work at the Children’s Hospital in Orange County. I can’t wait to be a real person again.