Summer is full blast here in the south...temps in the 90's and finally enough free time to enjoy the pool! So we finished up the spring semester in April and took the first summer mini-mester which incuded Health Policy and Economics (blah!) and Pharm. II. Those seven weeks flew by and now we're clinicals exclusively until August. It's hard to believe we only have two more classes for the whole program. (One this fall and one next spring).
Things on the clinical front are definitely changing. The attitudes (from CRNA's, MDA's, etc) are much more positive towards our class (now "sooners"-- not juniors, they started classes this summer but not quite seniors until the class of 2010 graduates in August). The everyday of the OR is becoming much more familiar and with most of our class having been in close to 500 cases already, we are just working on perfecting techniques and getting exposure to specialty areas and more complicated cases. The days of "what have I gotten myself into" still exist, but are fewer and farther between. Although we have no class for the remainder of the summer semester, we do have a "book test" (yes, a test that covers anything and everything in a whole textbook) at the end of July. Which, by the way, I need to start studying for!
We have a vacation planned for the middle of July...so excited. Headed to New Smyrna beach on the east coast of Florida since the oil has affected our favorite beaches in the Gulf. Well, I am spending the weekend at the Baroness (what we affectionately refer to Erlanger as). Doing 7p-7a tonight (Saturday) and Sunday night. Hopefully it will be a quiet weekend!
