I am actually quite tired, as I had to get up and go to a mandatory class this morning, at 9AM! (And before you motherly-types or actual mothers get on my case for not going to lectures much of this week, I scored above the average on this week's online physiology quiz. Since I have been to all the lectures before, I have found it more efficient to review the material on my own time. Suprisingly, it's all coming back pretty quickly.) Anyways, back to todays class: formerly called Basic Science Foundations of Clinical Medicine, now re-titled the Professional Development Program. Basically the class is designed to teach you 1) how to access online medical literature, 2) how to interpret the validity of studies presented in journals, and 3) integrate basic sciences with clincial presentations. My original class' assigned disease was Rheumatic Fever/Heart Disease, yet today's presentation was on Diabetes. A Biochem professor first lectured on the biochemical basis of the disease, and then a practicing physician lectured on Symptoms/Diagnosis/Management. After that, went to a small group session where I had to present two of the studies investing Rheumatic Fever/Heart Disease out of journals that I had read last term. Considering that I hadn't looked at them since last term, I think I did pretty well. The clinical tutor (a praticing MD) was impressed with my knowledge, but the class couldn't care less, since I was doing RF/HD, and they were doing diabetes. Oh well, another requirement out of the way, only 2 case summary write-ups to go, and this class will be out of the way for the term!