The lead up to these exams were much smoother than Block 1. I have been studying using flashcards throughout the block. However, the block exam is, as foretold, much more case-based than Block 1 exams. I didn't discover this wonder until a week prior to exams, so that was a bit unfortunate. I think next block, as opposed to reviewing lectures and key physiology in our weekly Friday afternoon group session, taking cases from this book will be more useful.
I was caught a bit off-guard with how many clinical reasoning questions there were. For example, I understood the conceptual difference between the sensitivity and the specificity of a diagnostic test, but did not memorize the formulas to calculate the values themselves.
The physical exam on the standard patient (OSCE) went fairly well. I was silly and didn't check the weather forecast for the week and was unpleasantly surprised by a downpour on that morning. Fortunately, a classmate, who had just finished her standardized OSCE, lent me her umbrella. I cut a truly dashing figure with the large pink umbrella, dress pants rolled up above the knees, and plastic flip-flops. Fortunately, I did leave plenty of time to dry off with my towel and change shoes at the exam site. Other than starting to do HEENT instead of taking vitals, I'm pretty sure that I covered the vitals, cardiovascular, and abdominal checklists.
The anatomy practical was set up as a series of 50 stations that we rotated through. Each station was allotted one minute of time. Most of the questions were primary identification questions with a few secondary identification, such as what vessel leads to this pinned vessel, or function questions. There were roughly 4 stations which I was utterly clueless with roughly another 4 for guesses.
Overall, I am in no way worried that I did not pass the block. However, I likely did not score as well as I had hoped on the closed-book exam, roughly what I expected on the anatomy practical, and better than expected on the OSCE.
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I was caught a bit off-guard with how many clinical reasoning questions there were. For example, I understood the conceptual difference between the sensitivity and the specificity of a diagnostic test, but did not memorize the formulas to calculate the values themselves.
The physical exam on the standard patient (OSCE) went fairly well. I was silly and didn't check the weather forecast for the week and was unpleasantly surprised by a downpour on that morning. Fortunately, a classmate, who had just finished her standardized OSCE, lent me her umbrella. I cut a truly dashing figure with the large pink umbrella, dress pants rolled up above the knees, and plastic flip-flops. Fortunately, I did leave plenty of time to dry off with my towel and change shoes at the exam site. Other than starting to do HEENT instead of taking vitals, I'm pretty sure that I covered the vitals, cardiovascular, and abdominal checklists.
The anatomy practical was set up as a series of 50 stations that we rotated through. Each station was allotted one minute of time. Most of the questions were primary identification questions with a few secondary identification, such as what vessel leads to this pinned vessel, or function questions. There were roughly 4 stations which I was utterly clueless with roughly another 4 for guesses.
Overall, I am in no way worried that I did not pass the block. However, I likely did not score as well as I had hoped on the closed-book exam, roughly what I expected on the anatomy practical, and better than expected on the OSCE.
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