I took the take-home test for patho. I thought I had a fairly good understanding of endocrinology. After all, I’ve worked in nursing for 25 years and I teach the stuff, for crying out loud. But, apparently I don’t.

There were thirty questions on the test. I was comfortable with maybe half of my answers. While the other classes emphasize focusing on broad concepts, apparently the Patho guy didn’t get the message. There was quite a bit of minutiae on it. Well, I guess it really wasn’t minutiae, but it required a level of thinking and synthesis of information that exceeded both the assigned written material and the lecture material. Some of my answers I literally divined an answer to.

Oh, well. my graduate education, part II, may be ending sooner than I thought.