Inside Med School

Since my last post, I’ve had several exams, which ended this past Friday. Studying for them was pretty intense so it was good to have a short hiatus from school work this past weekend. One of the exams was a lab practical for histology. Which was really interesting. For the practical, there were 45 stations set up. Each station was either a microscope set up with a pre-focused slide, an electron micrograph, or an unfocused slide. The focused slides were projected on a monitor and a particular structure was circled on the monitor and we had to identify the structure and classify the tissue. Same idea for the electron micrographs except that they were much more magnified and focused on sub-cellular structures as opposed to tissue specific structures. And for the unfocused slides, there was a question that is pertinent to the slide, and we had to search around the slide and use different magnifications to find clues that would let us answer the question. I must say that I was most worried about the histology practical because I didn’t know what to expect, but it turned out that the practical was my favorite exam. I think I studied most for the practical, so by the time of the exam I was very comfortable and actually enjoyed the experience.