Category: School

A review series on various subjects/topics/lectures we've gone over in med school.

“Hey there, can I check your craniosacral flexion?”

Please observe this picture. Closely.

Note the lovely hand placement.

Not awkward, not awkward at all.

My friend wins for quote of the day: “But what if they have really big testicles?”

This is about as terrible as anterior T1-T9 counterstrain / posterior L1-L5 counterstrain. I think I was only slightly more weirded out …

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Coat Tail

For one of our courses (Early Clinical Encounters), we have coat tail sessions where we’re assigned to a physician for a couple hours and basically follow them around/see real patients (although clearly, I’m just limited to taking patient histories right now). I love these sessions because it reminds me of why I’m in med school …

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Informal Postbac

My “Informal Postbac” year is also known as  year 1 after graduating from UC Davis--also known as the former half of my “pre-med journey!”

I talked about some of it on my very first post, but I figured I’d go into a little more detail. Since most of my posts …

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