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While playing basketball today I sprained my right ankle for the third time during my stay here in St. Maarten. The last time I injured my right ankle was while I was doing the Soulja Boy dance at a party over a month ago. Go figure. The good news is the ankle feels [...]

I just felt like posting to say hi. Nothing special to say other than the usual studying and putting up with the at times intolerable “Introduction to Clinical Medicine” course we have to take. Next week I get to interview one of the local patients on this island. Should be fun. Other than [...]

This weekend will be an eventful weekend apart from the usual studying. Tomorrow I get the opportunity to conduct a breast and urogenital and rectal exam on a female patient and likewise on Sunday I will conduct a urogenital, rectal, and prostate exam on a male patient. The patients are from the United [...]

I have gone ahead and registered for a USMLE Step 1 preparation course with Falcon Reviews. The course will be in Dallas, Texas and will start on May 5th and run through June 20th, meaning that I will not write the exam until the beginning of July. I will be writing the exam later [...]

Today there was a meeting for those students leaving the island regarding where in the U.S. our clinical rotations will be following a passing score on the USMLE Step 1. I think I left the meeting with more questions than answers. In essence I have to balance this year with possible preparation for the [...]