The Most Ridiculous ER Rotation....Ever!!!

I never thought anything could take away my joy of being in the ghetto of all ghettos, but something has. I had orientation for my ER rotation this am, and it was ridiculous. We have to take 3 - count em - 3 tests, just for EMORY! That doesn't count the other one I have to take for my school, all in the same week, and coincidentally, the same week I just signed up to take my Boards!!!! Aaaauuugghh! And one of the tests is an OSCE!! (For the non med students, an OSCE is an "Objective Structured Clinical Exam" which is where you have the fake patient and someone is in another room marking you off for things you forget to ask/do. They're the single most tedious/stressful thing in med school, and what's more, they're basically just practice to ensure we don't fail the clinical skills part of our boards, which ALL of the students rotating in ER this month have already taken!!!) So we're being graded on something that is a practice test for a test we've already taken....Go figure...Then there is literally no end to the paperwork they want us to fill out for each shift...In addition to all the paperwork we have to do to take care of patients!!

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I am about to have an aneurysm. Seriously.