Well, as you’ve probably guessed I have now reached the practical aspect of my medical education, also know as clerkship which is pretty much when you begin to work as a slave and love it. I successfully passed by USMLE Step 1, thank God for that. Getting my results for that exam was probably the worst 5 minutes of my life yet. I was literally shaking and it felt as if my heart was making back flips on my chest and could jump out at any minute. You get an email the day the results are ready telling you your result are ready and to log on to a site to view them. As I logged on, I was so scared. After logging on, you have to actually open a PDF file, which seemed to just take forever to open, when It opened and I saw it I had to make sure the results I was looking out was not a sample result so I scrolled down and realized that it was. I just started saying Thank God. I was so happy, I finally felt a sense of relief that I have been looking forward to for the last 3 weeks. I can finally carry on with the next plan.

I have now completed my two years in Grenada and have been assigned to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, New York. It was my first choice when I selected hospitals I would like to train at. I started rotations on Sunday, the 10th of August. My first rotation is in Surgery. It has been said that surgery is the most difficult or should I say challenging rotation among all the core rotations I will be doing as a third year med student but I have to say that I have heard otherwise as well. Anyways, the word out there about surgery been the most challenging seems to have stuck because I was really hoping that I wouldn’t get surgery as my first rotation but surprise surprise I did anyways. For the next 4 weeks I will working with Trauma team on a 24h on, 24h off schedule. Oh my, when I heard that it sounded like torture. And to be honest the last few days have seemed like that just because you are well aware that you are working 24 hours when you are in the hospital but once you leave and you’re home it doesn’t seem like you have 24 hours off at all all you can think of is the fact that you have another 24 hrs to do tomorrow. I am sure, that as things progress and days pass by things will not be as bad as it is right now. My body and mind will adjust that way I won’t ever have to see my resident laugh at me because I’m walking around like a zombie at 3am in the morning while doing rounds. So far, I am loving it jamaica , because I have had some hands on experience that I wasn’t even expecting to have and its just the second day. I hope they keep the good surprises coming. I will share more detail on my next post . It’s bed time now. Remember, don’t focus on my typos/spelling mistakes.

Stay Blessed!

Want to know more about JHMC? Visit: http://www.jamaicahospital.org/