Personality Test

We're studying personality disorders this week. There is one prominent theory about how our brain-derived personality lies on a spectrum of five categories. Here is where I lie on each spectrum:

I'm a O30-C64-E5-A27-N49 Big Five!!

Where I Go Everyday

It's a little late I realize, but I thought I should fill all my faithful readers out there in on where I've been going everyday for the past 8 months (or at least 4 days out of the week).
Its a little rural town called Ridgeland. When the company found out they were going to be having medical students coming they decided to build a new clinic for Ridgeland (it was previously a double-wide) that would also be our classroom. This is also the clinic I go to each week to shadow at (and stick my fingers in things).

THE BUILDING



THE CLASSROOM (with some students and our instructor - Dr. Polkey)


(THE CLINIC BEFORE WE GOT HERE - Dr. McElveen is still the doctor though - he's the one I follow around)

What Do These Objects Have In Common?

That's right, this past week I did my first real rectal exam. It was fantastic. I always thought I had long fingers, but they never seem long enough when I'm sticking them in various orifices.

I'm sure I'll get to do plenty more when I start my rotations this summer. I will be doing 8 weeks of family medicine and 10 weeks of surgery to start off, which is good cause then I'll know early if I can "cut" it in surgery or if I'm doomed to anuses (or is it ani). The rest of my rotation schedule is 8 weeks of Internal Medicine (Which may be something I end up in cause I really like Hematology), 4 weeks of Psychiatry (also a possibility - I'm too crazy not to consider it), 4 weeks of Dermatology, 6 weeks of Pediatrics and lastly 6 weeks of OB/GYN.
I'm looking forward to all of it. The doctors here are great and are excited to teach us. I'm most excited for surgery. I'll be doing the first 4 weeks at a small rural hospital, so I'm sure I'll get to see some pretty crazy stuff (rural=crazy). The other 6 weeks will be in vascular surgery here in Beaufort (a somewhat bigger hospital). We're the only med students here too, so we won't be competing with anyone and we'll get to do alot.
The more I think about it the more I think I'm going to try to do my residency (whatever it may be) in Arizona. We'll see how that all works out tho.