I’m not sure if I mentioned this already, but I was really getting depressed about studying constantly but not doing anything “good” for anyone else. I was praying for the Lord to give me an outlet like what I had at Oakwood, and he answered my prayer almost immediately. Surrounding the Loma Linda area is a city called San Bernadino, and from what I heard, it has the highest crime rates in all of Southern California (or maybe the whole state). Anyway, with that being said, the kids in this city really need mentoring and a real change in role models. A representative at my school was saying only 2 kids out of a class that start kindergarten in San Bernadino will graduate from college.
An opportunity opened up where every Sabbath morning I (along with other medical students) have the opportunity to have Sabbath school with the kids. We teach them bible songs, scripture, bible stories through skits, morals, etc. It feels so good to final give back again, and now I have something to look forward to every weekend. The boys are really receptive too; I can tell that they rarely have positive/uplifting encounters with older guys. I really encourage every medical student to do something outside of themselves where they are giving of themselves without any thought of material returns. For me it helps me to retain perspective about my future goals as I study.
Other than that, medical school has been rolling as normal. We are on the Cardiovascular section of our curriculum so everything we are learning is geared in that direction. It is pretty challenging, but is cool that we are finally learning more clinical information. After studying more information about the EKG than I thought existed, I was watching the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy and stuff actually made sense. Other stuff on the show was now more clearly false :), but I guess its a drama so you can only expect so much.
I’ve been attending a lot of interest groups that the school has like the OBGYN interest group, Mission interest group, etc. The specialty of OBGYN still seems really really interesting. I know that whatever I do has to have some surgery in it, but I’ll still try to stay open minded. Even though we haven’t had our first Surgery interest group meeting, alot of people seem to be gunning for office in it. I can’t lie and say that I didn’t send in my bio, but I’m not as pressed as others. I’m already the web coordinator for our class, but I just thought it would be nice if I could be involved with an interest group I’m interested in. We had a Mission interest group meeting and I’m pretty sure that my wife and I will be going on an overseas mission during this upcoming summer. I don’t think I’ll be doing research but we’ll see. Anyway, I’m babbling for now, so I’ll write when more interesting stuff comes up.
Are you ever going to update this? Looking forward to an update.