That's all I can say about my USMLE Step I exam experience: It's Over. I knew some without looking at the question, I knew I should have known some, and I had no idea what they were talking about on some of them. Of the latter, I just hope they were among the 50 "experimental questions" and not among the 300 questions that were scored.

I took the exam on July 20th, and there is nothing to do now but wait a nebulous "4 to 6 weeks" for my score report to see if I was able to cram enough useless information in my brain over the last two years to satisfy the National Board of Medical Examiners. I call a lot of the information useless because no practicing physician knows half of it (I know, I asked!). They say you really learn medicine in the clinical years by doing. I'm definitely looking forward to this, provided I passed that minor roadblock on the way.

Posting should pick up again soon. I spent the last week on Lake George camping without internet access (hence the delay in posting), but I have a few shifts scheduled in the hospital ED and on the ambulance over the next few weeks to provide me with at least some fodder for this blog.