Tomorrow is my last day of inpatient internal medicine at SLU Hospital.  🙂  Then I just have 1 month of outpatient internal medicine before my MSIII year is over.  Crazy how fast it goes… and how slow it goes.  I feel like I’ve been working here at SLU for ages, when really it’s just been 4 weeks.  My time at the VA just flew by, and I’m hoping that outpatient flies by as well (and that I get a lot of studying done!)

I’ve got my summer exams all scheduled now – I take the written USMLE Step2 (CK) on Monday July 11 and I have the standardized patient USMLE Step 2 (CS) scheduled for Thursday July 14 (or maybe it’s Friday the 15th.. I’ll have to recheck).  I’m at that point where I’m nervous about having enough time to study, but I also want to get them over with.

I still haven’t heard from UW or OHSU about my away rotation applications.  Supposedly OHSU started contacting students on May 12th, so  I might try to give them a call sometime next week if I still haven’t heard.  UW claims June 1st as their communication start date, so I’ll just wait with eager anticipation.

AJ got me a nice little stamp that says "Jill Cook MSIV" for me to use next year (well, in a couple of months) for when I sign my progress nots and orders and stuff.  It’s really cool, and even though my handwriting is fine so I don’t really NEED a stamp, I like it a lot and it makes me feel special.  🙂