Even with a 3-day weekend (due to MLK day), getting caught up has proven impossible for most of our class. The lectures are so long and detailed that we don't know where to begin. Thankfully there was only one lecture on Tuesday, which dealt with how microbes are able to build resistance to antibiotics. In the afternoon we had our first humanities session with Dr. X, which was very interesting and had to do with how commercials affect a patient's mindset. Wednesday in clinical skills we learned how to test for hearing loss, as well examine the eardrums, nose, and throat with our otoscopes. We then had a double lecture over autoimmune diseases, which was pretty cool, except the professor tried to cram 60 pages of notes into this lecture. Way too much material to pull only 6 exam questions from.
Thursday, we had a pediatrics lecture over the health maintenance of school-aged children and adolescents. This was followed by our 3rd 2-hour POPS session, this time on lupus. We then had a review of all the pediatrics lectures we have had over the past 3 weeks. Friday, we had a biochem lecture which went into the chemistry of autoimmune diseases... it was pretty painful. We ended the week with a series of case studies concerning various immune reactions and autoimmune disorders. I've already forgotten the material from the first week, so I will have to review that before going on and studying the newer lectures. I have a feeling that there will be very little sleep this weekend.
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