medical school funny stories

Sure! Once in medical school, during a dissection class, a student accidentally dropped a small bone from the skeleton model and it bounced right into the teacher's coffee cup. The teacher just stared at it for a moment and then said, 'Well, that's one way to add calcium to my drink.'

At medical school, during a CPR training session, a student got so into it that he started doing the chest compressions really vigorously on the dummy. All of a sudden, the dummy's head popped off and flew across the room. Everyone was shocked at first, but then couldn't stop laughing. It was quite a memorable and funny moment.

Well, at another interview, a candidate was asked about a difficult medical case. Instead of answering seriously, he told a story about how his pet dog once had a similar - sounding problem and how he 'treated' it with some home remedies. The interviewers were both amused and impressed by his creativity and ability to think on his feet in a medical - related context.

One funny story is when an intern accidentally put on his stethoscope backwards while trying to impress a senior doctor during rounds. Everyone had a good laugh when the doctor pointed it out.

In a medical school, a group of students were practicing suturing on bananas. One student got a little over - enthusiastic and ended up 'operating' on the whole bunch of bananas. By the time he was done, it looked like a banana massacre. His classmates couldn't stop teasing him about it for weeks.

A medical intern was asked to draw blood from a patient. He was so focused on finding the vein that he didn't notice he had bumped into the bedside table and knocked over a glass of water. The patient and the nurse couldn't stop laughing. He was really embarrassed but learned to be more aware of his surroundings.

Another aspect of stress is the long hours. Medical school demands a lot of time spent in classes, labs, and studying. A former medical student shared that she hardly had any time for herself. She was always either in class or studying in the library. This lack of personal time and constant fatigue contributed to her high stress levels. She often felt burned out but had to keep going because of the importance of her studies.

Clinical rotations in medical school can also be very stressful for doctors. They are suddenly thrust into real - life medical situations where they have to make decisions under the supervision of senior doctors. There are real patients relying on them. I once heard from a medical student that during his first rotation in the emergency room, he was so nervous when dealing with a critical patient. He was worried about making mistakes that could harm the patient, and this stress stayed with him throughout his rotation.

There was this one time when a student was asked to describe a time when they showed leadership. And the student told a story about leading his friends in a food - eating competition in high school. It was so off - topic but made the interviewers laugh. In the end, they appreciated his honesty and sense of humor.

Yes, there were a few. There were some stories about how medical teams tried to communicate with Ebola patients who didn't speak the same language. They had to use a lot of gestures and creative ways to explain medical procedures. One time, a doctor was trying to show a patient how to take a particular medicine and ended up mimicking a very strange animal to get the patient's attention. It was a bit of a comical situation, but it also shows the challenges and the ingenuity of the medical teams in the face of Ebola.