Wow how time flies! I haven't been on top of the blog in the past few months, obviously!
Graduation is in 59 days. We were officially done with class at the end of April and are clinical only til August 11th. The learning curve has been steep and not even the peak of a plataeu is in sight! Now that I am doing more and more cases by myself, it validates all that I have learned in the past two years. It amazes me to know that I have done almost 1,000 cases in the past year and a half. It will probably take four or more years out of school to do that many cases again!
I just paid for my board exam today, so I guess I need to get serious about studying soon! I plan to get my provisional (temporary) license once I graduate (AL is one of the states that allow this) and work 1-2 days a week while studying for boards. Gotta start making up for these more than 2 years of unemployment! I will then take (and PASS) boards in September and hopefully a cruise to somewhere tropical won't be too far following.
The stress of anesthesia school doens't disappear, just changes. Now it's on to dealing with finding a job; paying for, studying for, and passing boards; filling out all the paperwork required for graduation/credentialing, etc.
Our anesthesia program hooding ceremony will be Friday night August 12th and our par-tay is scheduled for Saturday the 13th. It will be here before we know it!
