It's been two weeks now. Two full weeks and two days I have been on vacation. I have to admit I felt very bizarre for the first few days. Getting from intense studying to nothing feels weird. I didn't know what to do with my time. But, I finally found some kind of balance... doing a lot of laundry :-)
Last semester was not that bad (but maybe that was not how I saw it last week before the exams). Endocrinology and then Ob/Gyn, exam week and human sexuality unit. This one is a week off campus, where we discuss themes like orientation, identity, assault, HIV, disability, and geriatrics and how all that affect the patient sex life. I wasn't convince at first, but it was really interesting, and it generated fantastic discussion. A lot of food for thought. And we got presented with this hilarious video about consent for sex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGoWLWS4-kU
I actually love it because it is so simple and clear...
And then, 3 days ago, we finally, finally got our results. (getting test results is so complicated in med school, everything has to go through a comittee before they are released). And I am very very happy to say I am done with Year 2! I am very proud of all my classmates because there was no one failing any of the summer exams. And it wasn't because they were easy... Ob/Gyn was pretty tough, and we all got though it! Yeah!
This marks the end of a phase. I am done with studying the systems one by one. In the Fall, we have an integration phase, and then clerkship in January. This is going to go soooo fast, I am sure I am going to be working on my CaRMS application in no time... Have to start to think about that!
