Mini-CEX 2

Mini-CEX is a formative assessment. Mini-CEX 1 is based on history taking whereas Mini-CEX 2 is based on physical examination. My Mini-CEX 1 was rescheduled and will be held tomorrow morning. This means I had my Mini-CEX 2 earlier and that was last Monday. It was the first assessment. I was not exactly nervous but I was unsure about a lot of things. Okay, maybe 5% + 50% nervous. I guess it was mainly because I did not prepare for MSK OSCE and CNS came out instead.

When things are right and I go wrong, I get mixed up unintentionally... :/

My friend said that I shouldn't be a surgeon then because when I get nervous, I'll end up cutting the wrong thing. =.= I wouldn't say it's entirely true because we are all nervous when it comes to doing things for the first time. By the time I do graduate, I would have at least that amount of confidence to not mix things up. I can make mistakes now, learn and remember it for life.

Last Monday, I was on the patient's left side because his bed was situated next to the wall. It was not an excuse definitely to get things mixed up. But, my point was proven when my friend who gave me the remark got mixed up with his Left and Right :P

Anyway, I thought things would end really badly mainly due to the "anatomy" above. When I commented about rigidity, I said that the person had 'Hypotonia with rigidity'. One thing which many should know is that I'm the last person to know stuff. If there's a group of students who answered correctly and one who doesnt, that one person would most likely be me.

I thought I might end up being scolded because I saw the VARIOUS expressions in my friends who took the exam before me. I was sweating a lot, smiling in a weird way and trying to not say silly things since I'm so prone to that. There were 5 of us. I went 5th. But, in a way, I learnt many things...


When I was first asked about whether there's a hard ice cream, I was thinking 'Yeah... those with ice as the outer layer. That's so hard that you can't straight away bite it. There are also those which have been kept in the freezer for so long that if you use a plastic spoon to scoop it, the spoon might just break. If there are chocolate chips in the ice cream, it's probably as hard as stone...'

But common sense comes in, we know that the IDEAL ice cream is semi-soft on a cone.