The Rossie

Prom/luau on Saturday night:

I had my dreaded Rossie on Tuesday and I found out that night that I passed it with a perfect score!  It's so exciting and such a relief, so now I can just focus on these upcoming blocks!

  For those of you that don't know, the Rossie is a mock spay on a "sweatshirt" looking model.  For the Rossie exam, you have to maintain aspectic technique; pick out the correct surgical instruments you will need to use; clamp and ligate the "ovarian pedicle and above the cervix"; cut in the correct places; make sure you use the correct surgical knots and correct suture; close the "body wall" (hardest part because you need the correct spacing of suture); close the "subcutaneous tissue" with the correct pattern; close the "skin" with the pattern the instructor tells you; do all of this in under 40mins.

I have a bone lab on Friday where we get to play around with different fixation devices.  I have no plans to be an orthopedic surgeon.
I will be studying for the last set of blocks for the rest of the week and the weekend.
So excited to be home for break in one month!

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