Much better

I was on inpatinet medicine for six weeks. It was terrible. I was misreable and I darn near hated every minute of it. I have changed to outpatient medicine and it is much better. I am one week into a three week assignment in diabetes and ednocrine. I am horribly ignorant when it comes to this subject - I always have struggled with it - but I am seeing things and learning and it is actually making a lot of sence finally. The doctors and residents are nice, and they tell me that I'm doing a good job and that my work is valuable and helpful. What a change! It is making me motivated to learn and I don't go home hating life anymore.

The immediate future is as such:
1. 2 weeks of diabetes and endocrine
2. 3 weeks of regular outpatient medicine. This entails half days of small group PBL type learning and half days in the clinics with patients.
3. During #2. I will have a simulated patient exam and on OSCE (Objective standaredized clinical exam), and it will end with the internal medicine shelf exam.
4. END OF YEAR THREE!!!!!!!
5. One wonderful week off - Steph, Jeff, and Owen (O-BOY) will visit for the first time, and I'm working 2.5 days teaching the rising M3's injections. woohoo!
6. Year FOUR begins with pediatric nephrology (the kidneys are another weakness of mine).
7. One week into my second M4 rotation I take the clinical knowledge portion of Step 2 of USMLE.

Guess what I'm doing now? Studying for both my shelf exam in 5 weeks and for my board exam in (gulp) 9 weeks (gulp).