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Had to share this here XD (via)

[physioblr]

03.28.20 Final exam grades came out and I got 99% on the animal physiology final. I ended up with a 3.9 this quarter which is great! I have not studied a whole lot over the break (which feels way shorter than last year), mostly because the only thing I have to work from is an old syllabus and a list of textbooks that were on reserve in the library which is obviously closed due to COVID. The genetics course I am taking in spring quarter (online) doesn’t have an assigned textbook, and canvas hasn’t been published yet. I start on Monday (9:00am), so hopefully the professor is tech literate and will publish canvas before then. Wish me luck!

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Anatomy was the most interesting course i have ever taken, i would do it again just for fun🤩

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physioblr heeft gereageerd op je bericht “i’m FUMING a professor just posted a message that we have a test a...”

I would try to torrent the textbook, or get 1 day shipping from Amazon, and email the prof to clarify what the exam covers. Also ask if there are past papers or practice exams or a study guide to study with. You might also be able to find past papers online if your Uni uses canvas and forgets to delete them. You might also want to explain to your prof that students are concerned about their performance on the exam considering how much content is covered and ask if he could do a review lecture.

there is literally nothing else to refer to. this is the first year they are working with a new online platform, and the course outline is all that’s available.

on top of that, we haven’t even had a lecture from him yet?! he considers this material as basic knowledge and as a prerequisite. it’s a visiting professor from abroad so he will only be here for two weeks.

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T - 1 week till my dissertation is due. Cue early morning starts, coffee and lots of highlighters.

To everyone who has a deadline coming up - we've got this 💪

[physio-slytherin]

26.05.18 - [?/100 days of productivity]

My last week of internship is coming and with it : my clinical thesis. Yey. But I actually like the theme I’m covering (the impact of aphasia in hemiplegic patients on rehabilitation) so the research is fun. Also, I got an A on my practical exam so :) :)

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Stuff I wasn't prepared for in medicine #2 : being called "nurse / sister" by patients and their families

Through the years I've been on the medblr side, I've come across a lot of posts by women in medicine venting about how they get called as "nurses" even while they're in their working uniforms, currently treating patients as a physician.

While I was always sympathetic and appropriately outraged by reading said posts, nothing prepared me for my own personal experience with it : getting called as a "nurse / sister" while on duty.

Keep in mind that over here, nurses wear their separate white uniforms, all the time, while most doctors (starting from us interns upto the senior consultants, don't usually scrub in while coming for work, scrubs are mostly reserved for operation theatres or other intervention settings) we're mostly wearing formal clothing for the major part of our shifts.

The weirdest part is this : most of my female patients never make this 'mistake'. YES, you read that right. I've come across my fair share of women coming in with problems, or a family member of a patient admitted in the wards, who came to visit. They always either called us ma'am or doctor didi (hindi / bengali for referring to an older sister, it's a way of addressing irrevocably linked to our culture, where we refer to strangers by uncle / aunty / brother / sister etc and not by professions or names)

BUT. the same can't be said for the male patients /male family members. They see a woman coming in a treating them, immediately assume she can never be the doctor. Even after we repeatedly correct them.

While my male co-interns are always referred to as Doctor / Sir without fail, the same is never true for us.

This just....feels..... dehumanising at some point. For so long, I was studying to become a "doctor", in every sense of the word. It had become a part of my identity just like my name, my gender, my other identifiers in life an an individual.

To be suddenly flung into this situation where my identity is being repeatedly questioned, despite my competency levels, or my skills, to be continuously dismissed and my words / advice not taken seriously unless it's coming from a man's mouth is just..... Infuriating tbh.

So many times I've thought of using a sharp tone, or simply yelling out (especially when you get those middle aged men as patients and you know they're literally feeling you up with their gazes, you know the kind), but I've had to hold back.

Because I'm supposed to be the rational, more understanding one. Because I'm supposed to treat them. Because I'm their doctor, at the end of the day.

Being a woman in any profession is a whole other ball game, a whole parallel struggle that men / male passing people will never truly understand.

I'm starting to realise its just the tip of the iceberg.