Week one of musculoskeletal block is officially in the books! I’ve pretty much lived in scrubs all week since we’ve had anatomy lab every single day. We’ve covered the entire lower limb, some MSK embryology and some radiology as well. This whole week I kept thinking, thank God I took anatomy over the summer! It’s certainly made learning a lot easier. I don’t remember everything and honestly, origins and insertions can kick rocks, but still, familiarity has definitely helped.

My anatomy lab group has been cool. It’s so interesting finding out who wants to go into surgery and is of course eager to cut. I like cutting, but do I want to go into surgery? I don’t know. I just know I’m tryna learn this material REALLY WELL and the faster our cadaver gets cleaned up, the better.

On a different note, I had clinic this week. I mentioned this in a previous post but as part of our curriculum, we’re assigned to a longitudinal practice (LP) – mine is a family medicine practice – in which we go every 2 weeks and practice our clinical skills. This was my second time going and I basically helped check patients in and took all their vitals signs – blood pressure, pulse, respiratory, temperature etc as well as helped do an EKG. We have different objectives for our LP depending on the block we’re on. Since we’re now on MSK, in addition to other tasks, I’ll have to take a history of present illness on someone with a MSK condition during one of my visits. LP has certainly been a learning experience. Big plus is, I’m no longer nervous about taking an accurate blood pressure using my stethoscope. Initially, I struggled with this because I would sometimes miss the first sound, but having done it so many times now, I’m much better.

Also, I voted yesterday! Since I’m in Ohio, a swing state, and considering how crazy this election is, I decided to do early voting and get it off my checklist. I voted early Friday morning. There were no lines, it was awesome! If you haven’t voted, please please vote!!! I’m hoping that when Tuesday rolls around, I’ll be able to breathe a sigh of relief that the right candidate to lead this country and represent the United States, actually won 🙂

On that note, back to books I go. We have a quiz on Monday, so its study mode. Hope you all have a nice and relaxing weekend!