Good morning.
I'm Diana.
I'm a second year med student at Mayo Clinic.
So I'm actually also part of the 2 plus 2 program.
So the first two years are here in Rochester
for me and the second two years are in Jacksonville, Florida,
at another campus of Mayo clinic.
And I guess a little bit about myself,
I double majored in biophysics and molecular and cellular
biology and minored in entrepreneurship and management
at Hopkins.
And I'm originally from DC, born and raised.
It's where I started to become interested in medicine.
I initially started being interested
in medicine because of some family medical experiences.
That really made me want to learn more about medicine
and learn how to apply medicine.
And over the years, I found out that I really liked science
and that maybe I should actually consider becoming a doctor.
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Hello.
It is 7:55.
And basically, I woke up at 7:45 and got ready.
I'm the opposite of a morning person.
So I try to condense my routine in the morning
as much as possible.
So we have a Blackboard quiz to start off the day.
It's between three and six questions long,
and it's just on the previous day's material.
So because it's on Blackboard, I can do it on my laptop
before heading to class, and I can listen to Zoom on my phone
when Professor Schiavo goes over the quiz answers,
and then I try to get there right before lecture starts.
So I'm going to go do the quiz and then get back
to showing you more of my morning.
So I just finished the quiz.
So I'm just going to start getting ready to actually go
into class.
So I'm wearing a blazer, and a blouse, and everything.
So typically, when we kind of figure out
what to wear for going to class, it
can be slightly smart casual or business professional.
So if you're walking through patient areas,
then you need to wear professional, formal clothing.
And I typically will walk through a lot
of patient areas on my way to class or on the way back.
So I prefer to just wear business professional most
of the days even if I don't--
am not seeing patients later.
So it's usually just like a blazer, shirt, and jeans.
But you can wear jeans to class if you're not
going through any of the patient centers
or if you're not seeing patients.
But at the same time, I'm also not always
confident in the schedule that I have on my Google Calendar
so I usually just dress professional just in case.
And I got my breakfast, so some blueberries.
And I love that this is pretty portable.
I can just kind of put it in my purse.
And I also have this energy bar.
So I'm walking to class now.
And I thought I'd maybe show a bit of what my walk looks like.
It's mostly through, I guess, downtown-ish Rochester.
So it's a nice walk, not too bad.
It's not really that cold right now.
So just this blazer is enough.
So this mall has a bit of an access
path in the middle so I usually walk through it every morning
and in the evenings, too.
So this is the center of downtown a little bit.
This is the space where Thursday's on First
is held in the summer.
So basically, there's a bunch of vendors,
like food vendors and street vendors,
that will come out here and have stalls.
I'm coming up on the main Mayo building.
So Mayo is huge, a lot of buildings involved.
But this is the main building.
And it's honestly pretty tall.
This is also a Mayo building, but they
have this really nice garden area
in front, which is a nice place to just chill and eat lunch
outside if that's your thing.
This is Mitchell Student Center.
So this is pretty much the main medical school building.
There's a library in there as well as most of the offices
pertaining to the School of Medicine.
And there are also a couple of classrooms.
Mostly, people will study here.
There's also a lounge.
But we don't have class there right now.
We have it in Guggenheim.
So it's the building right adjacent to Mitchell,
this incredibly tall one.
So I'm headed there now.
Since Mitchell is right next to Guggenheim,
which is where the lecture is, I can grab coffee really quickly
from the library.
And I prefer to have one cup of coffee every day just
to help me wake up.
So this is an important part of my daily routine.
[Lecturer speaking]
[Lecturer speaking] because [Lecturer speaking]
So we just had lecture and have small group in a bit.
So we're hanging out and talking.
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So you mean that--
but the architecture of the lung is distorted such
that you can't see blood vessels anymore.
Now here's a structure within this area of consolidation.
Does that look normal or abnormal?
Abnormal.
So do we have normal areas?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So I think we have some normal areas,
but we also have some abnormal areas.
And those are looking pretty busy.
The small group finished a little bit early.
So usually I come here to the library
to get a little bit of work done.
Mostly send emails and just try to get
in a little bit of content review
just because it takes so long to get
things to stick in my head and a lot of repetition.
So this is the time that I dedicate to it.
And there's also a lunch meeting going
over radiology relating to pulmonology,
which is our current block.
And I'm attending that.
It's put on by I think the radiology interest group.
So it's helpful because we are in the middle of Pulm block
right now and we have a final on Friday.
So I'm going to attend that and hopefully that will help me
review things a little more as well.
So I'll get to that.
OK, so I just realized that we can print some stuff.
So I don't have a printer at home,
so I'm going to leave the study room
and go to the printer in Mitchell.
It's pretty close by.
It's just upstairs.
There is also a printer room.
And also, we have a student lounge.
OK.
So here's the library again.
And here's the printer.
So we get free printing here.
OK, so just got back from printing everything.
Have my printed stuff and I'm joining the radiology thing
now.
It starts a little bit late just because typically people have
something to do before 12:00.
So often these rooms have a little bit
of buffer time mixed in.
OK.
So the Zoom meeting finished and it's right before 1:00,
so I have to head to the afternoon thing.
So usually in the afternoon, maybe like half the time--
obviously some weeks are different than others.
But basically we get assigned to particular times
in various settings.
So we have outpatient, inpatient, and pediatrics,
and REACH clinic.
We also occasionally have sim center activities,
which is where they have different technology that
helps us replicate what it would be like to actually do
different procedures in different situations,
but in a simulated environment.
So that's really fun.
So today, I have outpatient, which
means that we go to clinic and basically we
are getting a taste of what primary care is
a little bit like.
So we go in and see the patient and get a history.
Maybe a physical exam and get a sense
of why the patient has come into the clinic today.
And we come back and present the case
to the consultant, who is the doctor in charge of us,
and then discuss what we think is appropriate.
And then the consultant tells us a little bit more
about what they think about the situation and how to manage it.
And sometimes it is about something
that we haven't quite learned about yet.
So it's a really good learning experience,
I think, both in terms of talking to patients
and learning about different diseases that
can be a little bit more common in the primary care setting.
These afternoon sessions are super helpful
and definitely is a huge reminder
of why we're going through all this memorization and all
of that.
And it's honestly my favorite part of school so far.
So I have outpatient now, so I'm going to head there.
So I just got home and I like to go on a walk with one
of my friends.
She often drags me out even if I don't want to go,
but I think it's probably good for me to do that.
So I'm going to get changed and then I'll show you the walk.
So we're going on a walk now, and this is Muda
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So we're on another part of the river now.
And I can see the bridge.
It's very beautiful.
And Mayo is that way.
OK.
I'm taking a video of these.
OK.
So I just got back from the walk and wanted
to go to Nupa which is this Greek chain restaurant.
It's like two miles from here, so we went by car
and grabbed that and it was very filling and very awesome.
Generally, you can find pretty darn good food around here,
which I was a little bit worried about coming into Rochester.
So I've definitely been very happy
with the food around here.
So now it's around 6:30.
So I usually spend 30 minutes to an hour
every other day kind of working on my job.
So I tutor for the MCAT.
It's not really common or at all necessarily recommended
to have a job during med school or to work during med school,
but I don't know, it makes me feel better to be working.
So I'm going to spend 30 minutes now creating a schedule
for someone I tutor for.
So yeah.
Usually for me, I have been studying
by going over the slides again just because there's
so much gross pathology, which means
the pictures of the organ.
I will just maybe do some Anki, watch Boards & Beyond video,
do some questions.
So I also try to go through the lecture notes for the next day,
but I will do that now.
So it's 12:30 now, so I should get to sleep soon.
So I'm just going to close out the day,
go through some emails, plan for tomorrow, and wind down.
I usually just Zoom with my SO, and we will probably
watch Netflix.
And I've fallen asleep on Zoom watching Netflix way too
many times, but it's pretty fun.
So goodnight.
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