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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Reasons why one goes nervous during Boards study; Why am I learning Medicine from Scrubs?

In one recent scrubs episode, the interns spend a lot of time and energy to diagnose a patient and in the end they find out it was Mediterranean Fever. Now, I'm thinking, hey, i just finished second year of med school, how come I've never heard of this disease? it must be really rare and unimportant, the first is true, the latter, not so much during boards time. Well, i'm doing the kaplan question bank and AMyloidosis comes up. Of course i get it wrong because well, somehow our pathology course curriculum committee decided to not emphasize this disease. I go and look it up in the review book only to see that there are EIGHT FORMS of it, one being Mediteranean Fever and I didn't know ANY of them, so I start memorizing thinking that if it's in scrubs and on qbank then surely it's worth knowing. do you see my problem people... I mean, after all that work and studying and praise for the curriculum, how do they skip an entire set of 8 diseases.... I'm going crazy, it's official.

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