The Nerd Medical School Scale
Anyway, just a side-dish for tonight. Might help to ease the mounting tense.
This test was published in IMAMUKEIRE's annual magz, The Beat. I copied it from the cyberspace anyway.
The following scale has been developed in close cooperation with the UVA psychiatry services. It is designed to test if you have spent too much time in medical school and whether you are having adverse side effects due to prolonged exposure. Score one point for each statement that applies to you.
1 You have ever said "Netter is god" (Duh, never)
2 You can discuss autopsy/anatomy over a meal (Not a problem)
3 You own a 4 color pen (Yes a QUADRUPEN I call it, it costs a freaking EUR1.50 in Reads)
4 It just isn't enough colors for you (Not really)
5 You use more than one color to take notes (Definitely)
6 You have use up more than 6 highlighters in the past 6 months (Hehe yep, just another obsession)
7 You have ever highlighted something YOU wrote (I do)
8 You retype handouts given in class (Not really)
9 You haven't had a date in 3 months (This is case sensitive)
10 You haven't had a date since entering med school (Do I have to re-emphasize, I don't do dates)
11 You have not been able to remember the normal term for something because you were thinking of the medical term (ie reflux for heartburn) (Sometimes)
12 You get more sleep in lecture than at home (Not really, nerd I know)
13 You know the correct spelling for pruritus (Yep)
14 You also know what it means (Yeah, itching)
15 You have ever asked a question in class (Depends on the mood)
16 The prof didn't understand the question
17 You didn't believe the answer the prof. gave
18 You went to look it up to see if they were right (All 16, 17, 18, yes)
19 You can't hold a conversation on anything other than med school (Oh no)
20 You skip class to study (He he yep)
21 You've said you didn't do well on a test on which you beat the mean (Aku seorang yg berpijak di bumi yg nyata..he he)
22 You spend more than 15 hrs a week on e-mail (I have 3 email accounts with more than 10 group emails, whaddaya expect?)
23 You have a callous on you finger from writing (Duh, this gonna cost me my duit hantaran, yes)
24 More than one professor knows you by name (Well we only own one prof in The Coombe, he's my mentor)
25 When you ask a question, a new professor has said "Oh, I've heard of you" (Tipu aa ni)
26 You can name more amino acids than past presidents (I can't do either)
27 You use more than 5 acronyms an hour when talking (He he u tell me, I love acronyms I wanna marry them)
28 You actually know what PERRLA stands for (and I always thot it's PERLA all these while)
29 You know all the steps of the TCA cycle (Not a biochem junkie, I hate biochem. Nuff said)
30 You do not read PTA as parent teachers association (am not that nerd)
31 You can remember the muscles in the forearm (Anatomy was my first love)
32 You know the strucures in the urea cycle (Biochem, duh!)
33 You know the dermatome distribution (Yes yes, face shining with joy)
34 You can't remember what you had for breakfast (I always do)
35 You can't spell world, much less backwards (I can)
36 You've ever been sexually aroused by the breast shadow on an X ray (Not a pervert!)
37 You equate "morning stiffness" with Rheumatoid Arthritis (What else? Hati suci..)
38 You actually know normal values for plasma Na (The normal value is on the sheet, why bother remembering?)
39 Missing class causes you extreme stress (Mild stress that is)
40 You have seriously asked someone "So how does that make you feel?" (Tak bleh ke?)
41 You have asked will this be on the exam (Yes)
42 Just after the prof. said it wouldn't (Ha ha double yes)
43 You identify with Deb on E.R.
44 You have made a medical joke (I always do)
45 No one laughed (They gave me a weird look)
46 You figure they just weren't that far in their studying (I'm not boasting)
47 You wear your stethescope around your neck on the bus (I don't)
48 You don't even know which way the thing goes in your ears (It should be pointed forward)
49 "SOB" means short of breath to you (What else?)
50 You have gone to student health with suspicion of a disease you have studied (Ha ha so true)
51 Within 3 days of the lecture (I think I saw mental people on the roads thruout the 6 weeks of psychiatry rotations)
There's more from the website. This has seriously cost me my time.
I am officially a nerd.
And I don't mind that.
Which makes me double nerd.
This test was published in IMAMUKEIRE's annual magz, The Beat. I copied it from the cyberspace anyway.
The following scale has been developed in close cooperation with the UVA psychiatry services. It is designed to test if you have spent too much time in medical school and whether you are having adverse side effects due to prolonged exposure. Score one point for each statement that applies to you.
1 You have ever said "Netter is god" (Duh, never)
2 You can discuss autopsy/anatomy over a meal (Not a problem)
3 You own a 4 color pen (Yes a QUADRUPEN I call it, it costs a freaking EUR1.50 in Reads)
4 It just isn't enough colors for you (Not really)
5 You use more than one color to take notes (Definitely)
6 You have use up more than 6 highlighters in the past 6 months (Hehe yep, just another obsession)
7 You have ever highlighted something YOU wrote (I do)
8 You retype handouts given in class (Not really)
9 You haven't had a date in 3 months (This is case sensitive)
10 You haven't had a date since entering med school (Do I have to re-emphasize, I don't do dates)
11 You have not been able to remember the normal term for something because you were thinking of the medical term (ie reflux for heartburn) (Sometimes)
12 You get more sleep in lecture than at home (Not really, nerd I know)
13 You know the correct spelling for pruritus (Yep)
14 You also know what it means (Yeah, itching)
15 You have ever asked a question in class (Depends on the mood)
16 The prof didn't understand the question
17 You didn't believe the answer the prof. gave
18 You went to look it up to see if they were right (All 16, 17, 18, yes)
19 You can't hold a conversation on anything other than med school (Oh no)
20 You skip class to study (He he yep)
21 You've said you didn't do well on a test on which you beat the mean (Aku seorang yg berpijak di bumi yg nyata..he he)
22 You spend more than 15 hrs a week on e-mail (I have 3 email accounts with more than 10 group emails, whaddaya expect?)
23 You have a callous on you finger from writing (Duh, this gonna cost me my duit hantaran, yes)
24 More than one professor knows you by name (Well we only own one prof in The Coombe, he's my mentor)
25 When you ask a question, a new professor has said "Oh, I've heard of you" (Tipu aa ni)
26 You can name more amino acids than past presidents (I can't do either)
27 You use more than 5 acronyms an hour when talking (He he u tell me, I love acronyms I wanna marry them)
28 You actually know what PERRLA stands for (and I always thot it's PERLA all these while)
29 You know all the steps of the TCA cycle (Not a biochem junkie, I hate biochem. Nuff said)
30 You do not read PTA as parent teachers association (am not that nerd)
31 You can remember the muscles in the forearm (Anatomy was my first love)
32 You know the strucures in the urea cycle (Biochem, duh!)
33 You know the dermatome distribution (Yes yes, face shining with joy)
34 You can't remember what you had for breakfast (I always do)
35 You can't spell world, much less backwards (I can)
36 You've ever been sexually aroused by the breast shadow on an X ray (Not a pervert!)
37 You equate "morning stiffness" with Rheumatoid Arthritis (What else? Hati suci..)
38 You actually know normal values for plasma Na (The normal value is on the sheet, why bother remembering?)
39 Missing class causes you extreme stress (Mild stress that is)
40 You have seriously asked someone "So how does that make you feel?" (Tak bleh ke?)
41 You have asked will this be on the exam (Yes)
42 Just after the prof. said it wouldn't (Ha ha double yes)
43 You identify with Deb on E.R.
44 You have made a medical joke (I always do)
45 No one laughed (They gave me a weird look)
46 You figure they just weren't that far in their studying (I'm not boasting)
47 You wear your stethescope around your neck on the bus (I don't)
48 You don't even know which way the thing goes in your ears (It should be pointed forward)
49 "SOB" means short of breath to you (What else?)
50 You have gone to student health with suspicion of a disease you have studied (Ha ha so true)
51 Within 3 days of the lecture (I think I saw mental people on the roads thruout the 6 weeks of psychiatry rotations)
There's more from the website. This has seriously cost me my time.
I am officially a nerd.
And I don't mind that.
Which makes me double nerd.
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