10/30 Mock board

Today was our mock board and I was scheduled in the morning. I felt like I was runnning around like a chicken with its head cut off. All the paperwork was really confusing. At the beginning of the year I thought that three mock boards was a lot but now I am really grateful for them, but I am still a little worried about finding qualifying patients for them all and for the real board. I ended up missing a lot of clicks but I learned something. I was using my columbia and that was why I was missing the calculus, because I needed a longer instrument. Professor Alexander came over and had me try my barnhart and that got it right off. So now I am going to try using my barnhart and see if I can do it by myself.

10/09/07

The curse has left our pod today(knock on wood). All of our patients showed up for their appointments. The morning went really well. My patient was one I was finishing from two weeks ago. I missed a couple of spots but overall it went good and she was really nice. My second patient was one I saw six months ago. I got through everything up to scaling pretty quick but then the scaling took forever. He was a class 5 and I used him for my exam. Bad idea, I did awful, I missed so many spots. I guess I will chaulk it up to experience.

10/02/07

Today was awful, any other day that I thought was bad doesn't compare. My first patient took forever and then I missed a ton of calculus. I couldn't use my ultrasonic on her and so that made it ten times harder. Then I thought my afternoon patient would for sure come. He came on short notice last time and then we scheduled him before he was moving. Then he didn't show, I JUST CAN'T BE THAT LUCKY!!!! That makes it every week that atleast one of my patient's have no showed. Usually I can find some patient even if I have less time, but today I couldn't find anyone. I called people and even went on campus to look. The only highlight of today was that I scheduled some patients. I swear that if another patient no shows on me I am going to have to see a counselor.