Monday, August 8, 2005

Anatomy quiz at 8am. I spent most of Saturday and a little bit of Sunday studying for it. I wasn't able to do any lab work because of the quiz. I did alright on the quiz. It covered the histology of the nervous system, blood, the circulatory system, the back, and the skin. Some tricky questions, but nothing that wasn't expected.

For OCP, we met our GPA (group practice administrators). These are the guys who run each of the four sections in the clinic. Based on your last name, you are grouped into one of the four sections. The GPAs assign patient loads, make sure students complete requirements, and give the green light for students to graduate.

We also went down to the clinic and practiced giving fellow students a health history interview, took their vitals, and administered both a head and neck exam and an oral exam. It took an average of 30 minutes each to run through all of the steps. Each week is essentially a repeat of the previous week plus something new. I like the repetition, it helps me learn.
We got our loupes today, but mine weren't sized correctly. They are being shipped back to Designs for Vision for adjustments. The rep said it could take 2 weeks or more to get them to me. I told him that was pretty sad considering it took them 4 weeks to get them to me the first time and they cost me $1500. He shrugged his shoulders and said he was sorry. That's what you get when a professor at your school creates a small monopoly for one vendor--crappy customer service.

In the afternoon, we spent two hours looking at radiographs of teeth. After about 20 minutes, we had seen everything they were going to show us that day, but we still sat through the remaining 100 minutes. At one point, one of our professors was talking about how delightful it was to remove calculus from a patients root. She said, and I quote, "When you finally get the calculus off, it feels the same way you feel after you pick your nose and you finally get a good one." Needless to say, the class was on the floor laughing. None of us had any doubt in our minds that she was an avid nose picker, perhaps even trained professional.