WEEK AS A MED STUDENT (headshots, signing up for step 2!)

Hey guys! So, uh, just random vlog right now. I'm signing up for my Step 2 exam, which is something that I have to do this July. It's not going to be as nerve-wracking as Step 1, because I've already taken a board exam, so there's less anxiety about that. And also, this test tends to be a little bit easier. People tend to score better on this exam than Step 1. So let's look at the dates. So I am at Prometric, and I am scheduling. These are all the availabilities in July. My last rotation is my ER rotation, and my ER rotation is pass-fail. I feel like when I start my ER rotation, that's a good time to start studying for my board exam. Not only for my ER shelf exam, but it's pass or fail. Since it's not really about getting an A in the class, I can really focus on studying for my shelf. My ER rotation ends the 24th, and then 4th year starts July 8th. I get like a two-week break, which is... I would like to have a little bit of a break before I start 4th year on the 8th. So let's go for the 2nd. I'm just a little bit nervous because that would mean I only have about a little over a month to study for my Step 2 exam, which is scary to me because I needed three months for my Step 1 exam. Time available for that is at 9 30. Appointment complete. So according to this paper, I am taking my Step 2 clinical knowledge exam July 2nd, 2019 at 9 30 a.m. Oh my gosh! That's like five months from now! Oh, I'm so tired of these board exams, and I bet this exam is like 200 questions and nine hours long. Actually, yeah, it is nine hours long. And I already did this, guys, but I'm just gonna update you. I'm also taking my Step 2 clinical skills exam and basically pretend to see patients in front of a grader and I'll see if I have good clinical skills. I have that exam August 6, 2019 at Houston. They only had test centers in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. So thank freaking gosh that my family is from Houston, so I have somewhere to stay. It would really suck if like you were from New York or literally any other city and you had to fly to take an exam. Like, it's so dumb. And I had to pay like $1,200 to take that test. Actually $1,290, but hey, who's counting? Insane. Hey guys, so I just got back from and I was randomly told that I had a package waiting for me even though I was not expecting anything. And somebody sent me this mug that is so freaking beautiful. It says my name and on the back it says women in medicine. Whoever said this to me really knows me because I love pink sparkly tumblers. So thank you so much to whoever that was and I guess it has to be someone who knows where I live. Today is going to be a very fascinating day because, I don't know if you guys know this, but every doctor has a headshot. Kind of like models except doctors do this. They have headshots so that they can put that on their web page. And the time has come for me to have a headshot because you also need these for your applications for residency. I'm super nervous about this because, I don't know, I feel like this is a landmark moment in medical school to be so professional that you have a headshot, you know? I don't think I'm there yet but I guess I am because my headshot appointment is today at six and right now it is 3 49. So somehow I have to turn this into headshot worthy America. I definitely need to fix my hair which is a bad situation and I definitely need to do my makeup. And I definitely need to do this within like the next hour 30 minutes because my appointment's at six and there's traffic and this place is far away. So let's go get ready. All right guys, put my clothes on. What do you think? Do I look like, what do I look like? Do I look like I know what I'm doing in life? Do I look like I'm going places? I'm totally wearing my clogs right now because I don't think anybody's gonna look at me from like from down below but I'm wearing slacks just in case. So I'm wearing a blazer with a green shirt underneath. I like green because I feel like green goes really well with like my hair color and my skin tone. Black course with a blazer to be like extra professional and black slacks. So what do we think? I'm excited. Cannot wait to go there and to um I don't know, do this. I'm very excited. This is all new to me. I'm just a little med student but right now I feel like a boss. Let's go take this picture and pass this monumental moment in anybody's professional life. Taking a head shot. So come with me. Hey guys, so I'm here. I am at a random person's house so hopefully I don't die and it's raining outside so I really hope my hair like it controls itself. Guys, I did it. I took my photo. It looks super super nice. I'm really happy with how my photos turned out. I could not be more happy. I'm going to just enjoy the night and it feels so special inside that I Ugh, blast. I got this question wrong. How could I have ever forgotten Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome? Like what the heck is Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome? Hello guys and welcome to another fascinating week of my life. Hopefully you enjoyed the few little vlogging I did earlier but today is Sunday so this is like the beginning of my actual vlog week. I'm enjoying some grapes, water, and some you world questions. I'm really enjoying it obviously. 15 patients for our team so I'm just trying to read up on people. I got like two hours of sleep last night so I'm very tired. I need food to stay awake. So on my lunch break. I thought I was worth an $8.82 lunch but I really wanted to make it a healthy option and apparently that comes at an expense. I won't lie. That hit the spot. Remember back in the day before you got hooked on sketchy micro? When you'd spend your Friday and Saturday nights going to bars and socializing with people that do interesting things? Go drink more. Geez. Get a life. You've got to be kidding me. I'm literally in the dark. Not to be stereotypical or anything but I don't know how to change tire. I assume it has something to do with the spare tire than my back of my trunk. I don't know what I'm doing with that. Yeah just right here. Well that's my new tire right there. Relaying. Showered and in bed doing you world questions guys so it's gonna be the rest of my night. Peace. Hello everybody so right now I am currently at lunch. I just finished two giant pizzas and I'm sitting with people who don't want to be camera but don't worry I do have friends. I'm going to go back to work. Hi everyone. Oh Raji. No? You want a pizza? No. No. No. No. No. I look awful. No one knows who you are. Raji. Raji. Come on. I've been in your video before. Hello. Hello camera. Hey guys so I finally have a chance to talk to you. I know I have been kind of all over the place in this video because my life has literally been all over the place and I finally have some time to sit down and talk to the camera. Talk to you guys. Say what's up. What's going on. No I'm just kidding. I'll end this video walking you guys through a day in my life in internal medicine. First I have to wake up super super early. 5 20 in the morning. That means I put on my scrubs. I brush my teeth. Put deodorant on and that's it. Like this is this is what's going on here. This is hair that literally goes in the shower, gets brushed, gets put in a ponytail and doesn't get out of that ponytail until I take another shower. I get to work and the first thing I do is kind of see what happened overnight with my patients and then I go see them. Luckily throughout my whole internal medicine rotation I've been having amazing patients that were so sweet and kind and very memorable people. After I go see them I round with our residents and kind of tell them what my plan is and what I think we should do next and then after that our attending comes in around nine o'clock and by that time I've kind of been working on my notes and formulating my plan. I kind of tell him my formal presentation of what happened, vitals, physical exam, labs, imaging, assessment and then my plan. A lot of residents can be very dismissive of the things you think and want to do for a patient because you're just a medical student. You don't know anything yada yada but my team has actually really listened to me and made me feel part of the team. At nine we do table rounds where we kind of tell everybody what's up with our patient, what we plan to do and we all agree disagree and kind of discuss. After that we usually have a meeting around noon or we go eat and then we come back at one and finish our notes. Internal medicine has been very fun. It's all like detective work and critical thinking which is really fun. The hours are really hard though. I haven't ever been this frazzled and this just like not together in a long long time but I don't regret having this experience. I feel like I've really connected with my patients which is uh I don't know it's like gold you know it's it's it's the gold of the day to have a patient and they know you're a medical student be like thank you doctor and it's just like I'm not a doctor and you know this you don't have to call me that darn it you know there's been times during this rotation where where my attending's like go tell them and I have to go into a patient room with the rest of the family and let them know that their family member my patient is in critical danger and that this is my plan and I have to be confident enough to look at a family in the eye and let them think that well let them know hopefully that we have a great plan and that we this is what we plan to do have it make sense to them and for them to look at me and think I'm not a complete idiot which I don't know how they don't always think that because I feel like that sometimes actually I feel like that all the time in my head I just stare at them and I think can they see right through me can they tell that I'm nervous that this is my first time I've ever had to deliver bad news did they know that I don't know if my patient's going to make it do they know that I just freaked out earlier this morning when my patient's labs came back and they terrified me and I don't know how to keep up the hope but I'm going to look them in the eye pretend that I'm confident and then I'm calm and then I have it all figured out because I need to be the rock that they have because everything in their life is falling apart everything in mine is too but I have to pretend I've had a lot of fun I've had a lot of craziness I wouldn't trade it for anything though because I had the best teams ever in my internal medicine rotation I loved it a lot I don't love it enough to do it for the rest of my so I'm enjoying it while I can I have one more week to go and I will be out of internal medicine I'll enjoy it while it lasts done with the day I have tomorrow off so I can edit this video for you guys hey guys so I'm sorry that this vlog is kind of all over the place and that um I was I'm just just every aspect of my life just being absolute chaos so that has been a little difficult to get used to and also vlog but hopefully you were able to learn something thank you guys so much for watching this video me and calix love you guys so so much from the bottom of our hearts all the way to the top and of course I will see you guys in my next vlog goodbye everybody