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"Med Studs! Prepare for glory!"

A small group of the larger class has been getting together regularly and intermittently (regularly irregularly?) to study anatomy based on the objectives of the lab. The order of the recent days has been every anatomical piece and part of the lower extremity from the inguinal ligament to the tip of the toes.  After suffering the pain and anguish of the first lab exam, we decided on a new course of study with different focus, contact time, and with the benefit of hindsight...we have a sense of how the professor tests now. The study was efficient. The conversation took the content to new levels of understanding. We tested and prompted each other, verbally jousted over terms, directions, planes, spaces, branches....In the words of one of the females in the group, a "cacophony of testosterone."

Best of all we "peaked" at the right time. And this morning we nailed it! The average went up 15 points since the first exam. Most of us walked out confident, and with the knowledge that we had seen and discussed everything, and likely, knew all I need to know. Now, does this correlate with bedside manner, diagnostic skill, knowledge of preventive medicine and cost containment? Unlikely. Will this exercise do more than pump us up for the next Persian attack of the anatomy lab gods? Doubtful. But the 97/100 did feel good. Alas, I have never in my 24 years of clinical practice seen a needle probe stuck in an Anconeus Epitrochlearis muscle. And, I'm pretty sure I won't see that again either. I am going to reward myself with a DQ Blizzard. Wait, no DQ on Statia. Nuts.