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[ceci5752]

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nothing like an OSCE to make you feel like you picked the wrong career path.

seriously, that thing was terrible.  I haven't wanted to cry that badly about med school since last year when I was only sleeping 5 hours a night and still not getting to see my (then) boyfriend.

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[hypatiasghost]

Poor Cecily!!
*hugshugshugshugs*

Honestly, there are some days where I look at the two possible paths before me - teaching, or more school and then teaching - and I think "ugh, do I really want to have to think about these things all day? Why didn't I just become a stripper?"

[mdrnprometheus]

Cera, you did not become a stripper because it only pays well for about five to ten years, at which point your career options become rather limited.

Ceci, the general fact about OSCEs is that most people who take them are crazy-ass neurotic med students. As such, they fail to recognize that the "pass" bar is sufficiently low that you mainly just need to be breathing and speaking English. Honestly, performance on these things is poorly correlated with actual clinical aptitude, and that's been semi-documented in the literature to date.

[ceci5752]

well, okay, but I'm still pretty pissed at myself that I didn't ask any sexual history questions of the "patient" with low abdominal pain. She was hinting like crazy, comparing it to her periods, etc, and I just completely blanked. I did quite well on the physical exam parts, but the thinking part (connecting history and physical in order to better diagnosis, which I'm usually pretty good at) were just terrible. And I ran out of time on another one, which I know doesn't really pertain to real-life medicine, but it sure as hell pertains to my real-life grade.

Ugh. It's okay, I'm over it now. It was just the culmination of a really crappy weekend.