New Year’s Resolutions

2019 will be upon us in a matter of hours. 2018 was a challenging year and I’m hoping iA that 2019 will be a year full of joy and achievement. To that end, I have created a few New Year’s resolutions:

1. Medical goals:

- Finish MKSAP 17.

- Read select chapters from Harrison IM and Rudolph pediatrics and annotate.

- Podrid’s real world ECG course

- Derm-in-review study guide and lectures

- Secrets plus derm

- Secrets plus rheum

- Weekly audiodigest lectures and curbsiders lectures

- Core Curriculum (need to finish by June)

2. Non-medical goals:

- Minimum 4 weight workouts/week (back/biceps/abs on Monday, legs #1 in Tuesday, chest/triceps/shoulders on Thursday, legs #2 on Friday, potentially an abs and cardio workout on Saturday).

- Daily calorie logging

- Lose 90 lbs this year. 

- Minimum one cup of vegetables with every meal. 

- Read one fiction book/month.

Passed CFPC exam and about to start work again

Today, I logged into my CFPC account and under my Exam application tab was a button that said "View my results" and so I did. And I passed! Was definitely happy about this. I studied harder for this exam than the ABFM exam! I was nervous about the SOOs but thankfully, I passed both sections.

I also start work in about a week and a half.

In the time since my exam and while waiting to start, I have also been studying dermatology and I am hoping to make that a big part of my practice. Right now, I am focusing just on medical dermatology but eventually, I would like to study cosmetic dermatology to offer as an adjunct service at some point. That being said, medical dermatology is so intensive! I finished the dermatology curriculum available for free on the American Academy of Dermatology website. I have been working my way through Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy and creating summary notes. I have a week and a half to work through some of the more pertinent chapters. I've started using One Note for this purpose. I'm not sure why I didn't use this software earlier! It's great! Definitely should have started my notes bank earlier in residency. 

Once I'm done this, I am hoping to work my way through Harrison's but also a geriatrics curriculum. For geriatrics, I’m debating between getting the Geriatrics Review Syllabus versus just using a generic textbook. One will run me almost $900 CAD and the other will be free if I use the Access Medicine website through the College. Haven’t quite decided yet. In any case, That’s all for now!