Sleep

This afternoon we had brief lecture on behavioral psychology and it's applications toward depression and insomnia.
Really interesting to learn how sleep is cyclic, with deep, slow wave sleep at the beginning of the night and REM toward the morning.

The behavioral modification part was cool as well. The doc presented data on the success of sleep rationing to increase sleep time vs. various drugs. The behavioral methods worked much better.

In other news, I took my first serious exam of medical school on Monday.

Started with 25 questions about various structures tagged/pinned on cadavers or x-rays.
I felt pretty good about this part, but definitely forgot some simple information from the very beginning of the block. (each block is three weeks, so we're on to block II now)

Then I had 45 questions about various micrographs and light microscope images pertaining to tissue types and classification.
This went fairly well I think.

Monday morning finished with 37 multiple choice questions about cardiac physiology and ECG interpretations.
These were really challenging.
There were also some more short answer anatomy questions that were clinically oriented. I had not read enough of the textbook to feel really comfortable with these.

After lunch, we immediately started in on block II. Intensity is good.