I offer to meet with the resident who is presenting the article before her presentation. We meet in the office, it is hot. The windows are draped with heavy green curtains to keep the sun, the hot air, and any air for that matter out. I think i might actually die, in this tiny little room on the fourth floor of this vietnamese hospital (the fourth floor is a misnomer: the first is the ground floor, then there is a pho-floor, then the counting starts with 1st floor, so i htink i climbed like 6 just to get here). air conditioner is turned on, but it's really not doing a whole lot. we go over the presentation and the resident went way above and beyond anything I would have done, adding molecules and things. We still have some time, so we head downstairs to grab lunch.
The hospital cafeteria is semi-outside and is similarly hot. what happens in the summer? does it get hotter? oh yes, it does. that's impossible; it is simply impossible for it to get hotter. we sit in the main area--milk coffee for me, soup for the resident. at some point some chick (a patient) tries to beat another chick (pregnant patient), but the fight is separated just in time. then, head back upstairs. I ask many questions about residency. Ob/gyn residency is 3 years; the schedules are less crazy than the US resident schedules (more like 8-5), but they do take night call, which apparently you're scheduled for once a week (and get half day off), but also, residents volunteer to take call and stay longer to 'learn adn practice'. damn, i'm not that motivated.
some boy (pharmacy student) is enlisted to rig up the projector. at presentation time, an older wiry dude shows up introduces himself and before i get a chance to tell him who i am, he launches into a whole life-story. he is the vice chair of the department, adn for hte past 20 years he has been involved in reproductive health, 16 of which he spent in infertility work. umm...i'm alex? then, he proceeds to tell me all about the curriculum reform they are launching in med school and proceeds to pimp me! (WTF?) about curriculum in my institution and whether we use team-based learning (ok, it's been a while since i've been in med school and i honestly, have no recollection). then, people come and presentation starts.
The vice chair takes the mic adn formally introduces himself (wait, you just told me who you are), then formally introduces me and hands me the mic. damnit! then, the presentation finally beins. The resident does an excellent job reading from the slides. but the discussion becomes very formal. I am asked to speak my opinion (mic in hand); my poor resident gets pimped..2 hours later we are still beating the horse. other people come up with questions. there is a resident who asks about how ot tell what the first day of menstrual period is in someone who just had a medical abortion where she is pregnant again. 1) this woman has no business being pregnant again, 2) you did a shitty job making sure she does not get pregnant again, 3) you always have ultrasound. then, there is question boy, who is really hung up on molar pregnancy and asks like 3 different questions about it. the horse is dying in the heat. but, actually, i'm having great time. we talk about regimens, and medications, and contraception, and contra-indications. i ask what else they want to learn about and we come with a next week topic (emergency contraception). finally, class is dismissed. the helpful male doctor came too, adn he asks me if i'm taking a cab home. no, i'll just walk. walk?? but it's so hot outside?! yes, yes it is.
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