October Blog
Another month done! October seemed to go even faster than last month. We went into some more difficult modules this month- ANS and CV. We had so many drugs to memorize but luckily my drug charts were really helpful with this. I’m trying to make sure I periodically review the drug charts for past modules as I don’t want to end up trying to cram hundreds of drugs for the final exam at the end of the year. Luckily the mechanisms of action for these past two modules have been fairly straightforward- the main concern with the ANS module was just memorizing all of the various drugs. We set up a regular study group and I feel like that’s helped a lot. I had my volunteer orientation at Touro Hospital and was really impressed with their set-up. Everything has been streamlined so that the average waiting time is less than fifteen minutes. The night of my first shift it was actually pretty busy with extremely quick turnover for rooms. I spent a lot of time running around refilling carts, cleani