I start pediatrics in January.
All identifying info is left out and patient details have been changed in order to protect anonymity. This blog is a fictional blog. These kinds of cases occur in Emergency Departments across the nation but the cases and details here have been changed. This blog started out to document my journey through medical school and now I continue to document my life as a resident physician in EM in a story like fictional style. I am however an actual resident in EM.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Internal Medicine Exam
My last day of Internal Medicine was Wednesday and since then I have been studying for my shelf exam which is tomorrow. This is the exam that every medical student in the country takes after their internal medicine rotation. I think that the national mean is a 74%. In order to get an A in the rotation you need to beat the national mean by 0.25 standard deviation above the mean. In addition to getting above the mean you also have to get an A on your clinical rotation. The clinical grade comes from ratings from the doctors you work with during the rotation. We shall see how it goes. So far I have been able to beat the mean on the exams from my previous rotations. Hopefully I can keep that trend going.
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