Alumnifolk Ain't Always Kinfolk

Its the end of third year.
I know how to take a history.
I know how to do a physical.
I know how to write a note.

Why are you coming at me like I'm dumb?
This MD today came for us Howard students like she's not a Howard Alum her damn self?!?!?

She acted like if we missed one day of in patient, our patients would go without food and water until we got back!
She acted like if we don't show up to take care of our patients, no one else in the hospital will see them and they'll suffer and potentially die without us.

First calm down. That won't happen.
Secondly, we are missing time to take a national examination. No one is taking vacation.

We are taking one of the 4 exams we are required to take to become physicians.
And I know you interview people who haven't taken this test yet, but that's not the way we do things at Howard.

We all try and take the exam in the summer during out last rotation and your rotation IS our last rotation.

And then God forbid, this student asked about space to study. She got all huffy and was like You probably wont' be able to study because we expect you to be ACTIVE participants in your patients care yada yada yada.

I was so tired.
Take me back home to Howard.

Girl....the man asked for space to study. Not space to nap!

And unlike the students from the White school down the street, we actually have to honor the Pediatrics Shelf, a nationwide exam, to honor this course.
So yes, we do come across differently.
We want to study.
We want to be left alone because this test stands between us and an H.

White school students want to be bothered with whatever you can find for them to do because they're entire grade is predicated on making you happy and you wasting their time won't reflect negatively on their transcript.

It'll negatively affect ours. So please spare me they're better students. They aren't. They're just graded based mostly only how much you like them and how agreeable they are and we are graded based on data.
Standardized, nationwide, unbiased data.

Yea, she pissed me off today. I care about my patients lady. I care about my education. Don't treat me like a child.
Also, since you're such an asshole, Its Dr.
My name starts with Dr.