A few weeks ago, when we still did surgery, I spent an entire morning covered in a sticky, nasty, thick goo. I’m talking yellow slime that sticks to everything. It was all over my gloves and my gown and the instruments.
Any guesses as to what it was?
The inside of breast implants. Ruptured silicone breast implants are just about the worst. That stuff gets everywhere and sticks to you and whatever it gets on. It clogs the suction. It gets all over the instruments. The only thing that cuts it even a little is betadine.
So what you do is, you get lap sponges soaked in betadine to try and help clean everything up, but it doesn’t work, not really.
At some point, you take every sticky instrument off the field. You change your gloves and it’s almost ok. You’d love to take down the drapes and reprep and drape, but you can’t. There’s an open wound. So, you keep going.
As I’m doing this, I’m thinking that this is exactly how I feel about some projects I’ve got going on at home. I can’t get rid of the sticky mess I’ve created, no matter what. The mess creeps in over time, and it sticks everywhere. I think about my laptop and the mess of pictures and music I’ve got built up in there. My shared dropbox account with my wife. My garage. You want to just start over, but you can’t really. You can’t throw everything out and start again.
Studying for the PANCE can be the same. You’ve got piles of notes. Stacks of books. Index cards and sticky pads everywhere. How do you decide where to start?
I’ve got a reset button for you.
It’s called a Review course. Set all of your precious notes aside. Put your books in the bottom drawer of your desk. Clear everything off except for a clean pad of paper. Open up your computer and get started with a nice, fresh, clean slate.
This weekend, I was able to get you 15% off the Rutgers Online PANCE Review course. When you have a course like that, it’s all laid out in front of you. You can treat it like clearing the decks. Start at the beginning, go all the way through it. You don’t have to think too much about it. You don’t have to remember which book you were in and which topic you were working on.
Just go through the course like it’s its own nice clean project.
Get the course, start at the beginning, and move right on through to the end. I think this is one of the best things about review courses. The plan is already set up for you. You can supplement that plan if you want, but you don’t need to.
When you order the review course, use the code PAER15 at checkout (It works, I tried it)
Then send me the receipt by Sunday night. When you do, I’ll send you:
Bonus #1 – Secrets of the Test
This is it. Everything you wished you knew about the exam. No, this isn’t the stuff you can find on the website. This is the real deal.
I took my PANRE on a Friday morning. The kids were at school, so my wife and I were planning on going out to a really nice lunch to celebrate. I got back home at 11:45 AM and instead of heading straight out to lunch, I asked my wife to give me 15 minutes. I ran down to my office, switched on the camera, and spilled my guts.
If you’re going to be taking the PANCE or the PANRE, you MUST get Secrets of the Test
Bonus #2 – Issue No 17 of the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars Newsletter
As you’re probably already aware, I rarely make back-issues of the PAES Newsletter available, but this issue fit in so darn perfectly with the Rutgers Online PANCE review course that I couldn’t resist. Issue No 17 – Putting the Squeeze on the Hardest Topics in Cardiology has the tantalizing subtitle of How to Learn Anything and Remember it Forever. Read this issue and you won’t EVER miss another question on heart murmurs.
Here’s the link to order:
https://www.mycme.com/pages/rutgers-pilot-panre-or-pance
Brian Wallace
P.S. PAER15 is the code you need to use to get the discount. It is an affiliate code, so thanks for helping me as I help you.