yes, i do occasionally do schoolwork

So just to let you all know that I am learning academic things here, I thought I'd post a blog about my Human Health and Disease class. We've done some crazy things, saw some incredible procedures, and all-around, gotten to work hands-on with medicine!

One of our first days we learned how to insert an IV into a person's arm and hand, and also how to draw blood. We began by using dummy hands with veins inside them, then turned to each other. Of course, after one of my classmates missed my vein while inserting an IV, everyone else refused to volunteer to be the patient.


Later on, while learning about eyes and their diseases, we got to "play" with all sorts of eye equipment! Our class is held right down the hall form the Opthamology department, and since both of our teachers are opthamologists, they thought it would be cool for us to look into each others' eyes, dilate some pupils, take retinal scans, do general eye exams, the works. We all had a blast.

Then on our study tour, in Poland, we got to put on lab coats and watch an endoscopy and colonoscopy happen just a few feet away! So interesting and much more intense than you can imagine.


In Berlin we were shown into a cadaver lab, where we put on some gloves and a robe and touched cadavers. Held a few brains, a heart, a lung, a kidney, touched a stomach, felt around through intestines, and more. Talk about exciting! We all had a blast! I think...

So there's a few of the highlights. All of us pre-med students are loving this Medical Practice and Policy Program. Couldn't be more fun, intense, or emotionally draining. Just like being a doctor, right? Well, close.