Monday, we has companion animal medicine lab. We sit around in a group and one of the residents/interns question us about a made up case. It is to stimulate us thinking about the possiblities of what is causing the animal’s disease as well as to start making us have good skills in the exam room.
I normally don’t mind this. I never really have the answers but its a group thing and everyone throws stuff out there.
But this week (like last week, but more so this week), I felt like I was really put on the spot. We sit in a circle and of course both times I was forced to come up with reasons for a clinical sign. This week it was for seizures. Seeing as I got a 48% on the neurology section, I said I didn’t know anything other than just brain disease. I tried saying watching too many Japanese cartoons but that didn’t get the response I was looking for. But the resident kept pushing me telling me that I really did know some. Everyone else kept volunteering these simple things which of course cause seizures and had I been given enough time and not been put on the spot I could of came up with. And honestly, some of those things don’t really count, I don’t think. They aren’t direct causes.
Anyway, I didn’t like looking like a fool esp. in front of people that already think I’m stupid and probably shouldn’t be here. I wanted to cry. Seriously. Then the intern asked if I was confused. I told him yes. But really more I just didn’t know it. And meanwhile, some people got to interpret the CBC. I could do that. Its reading from a paper. So that’s what I’m going to request to do. No more of this being put on the spot and looking like a fool.
The next day, I got an 88 or 86% on my test in that class. Take that fools!
[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 10, 2011.]
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