Wooo Wooo! Nick has officially written his first shelf exam of clinicals! IM was a great rotation to start with because it covers SO many bases and allowed him to dibble dabble in a lot of different issues. However, that made studying for the Shelf a lot more broad and a little less fun!
Monday Nick had his oral exam in which he sat down with one of his Attendings and was asked questions regarding a couple of the case reports he had written based on patients he had worked with over the past 12 weeks. This was pretty quick and Nick felt really good about it and got good reviews/a good grade! Woo!
The second part was the written portion which took place on Friday. It was extra helpful because his last day working in IM was Tuesday- giving him all day Wednesday and Thursday to prepare. Nothing like a couple of good 10 hour days in the library to remind you that although you are in the hospital and seeing patients... you are still a student! haha.
The overall consensus from Nick and other students was that the IM shelf exam was EXTREMELY general and broad. They felt that on many of the questions they didn't really have enough information to answer the question (a sign that they are getting so super smart?!) But Nick feels like he did well and passed. From what I've heard it can take FOREVER to get grades back... so it may be awhile before we officially know how he did!
Overall IM was a great success and Nick left with several letters of recommendation and many more great connections made!
Now for the next 12 weeks it's goodbye dress clothes- hello scrubs!
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