Galveston Day 3

Day 3. Tuesday.

Today we got picked up at around 8 and had breakfast again over at UTMB. The first thing we did was team based learning where we were split into groups and given questions to answer. Basically the message was we always perform better as a team than as an individual.

Lunges while waiting.

Then we had lunch with Dr. Ainsworth. During lunch Dr. Ainsworth prepared some trivia for us to do. We used the IR clickers that we use in Dunn’s BME 335 class to click in. It was actually really fun. He had a lot about Galveston, UTMB, and Texas history. I discovered that I have forgotten everything about Texas. For example, do you know what Austin would have been called?

Answer: Waterloo. You didn’t know that.

Austin and Galveston were voted by the people to be home to the state’s university and medical university. What town came in third in the voting?

Answer: Tyler, Texas. Are you kidding? We almost had to go to school in Tyler, Texas

Then we went to see the Harvey Simulation. Harvey is also a mechanical simulation used to train medical students and staff. It’s basically a rubber dummy that has the capability to produce a heartbeat and pulse. You can change the conditions that Harvey operates under. For example you could give him a heart murmur or simulate conditions after a heart attack. The pulse can be seen through the skin and raises up at various spots on Harvey’s body. The purpose of Harvey is mainly for diagnosis training. The teaching physician and the students are all give stethoscopes attached to a radio receiver that plays the heart beat for each individual person so that 10 people can listen in at the same time instead of one at a time. We learned how to diagnose different types of heart murmurs such as aortic stenosis or regurgitation. We also learned about where the aortic, pulmonic, tricuspid, and mitrial valves are. Harvey costs around $125,000. I forgot to mention that the simulation that we saw on Monday costs $250,000. Pretty expensive.

Then we went to have our badges made. This took forever and was incredibly boring. We talked to one of Dr. Ainsworth’s assistants Cheryl for a while. She’s awesome. So we finally got our badges made.

Here’s mine.

Notice the resemblance to this guy? Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock.

We went back to the hotel and hung out for a bit before going out to dinner. Since Chanel was the only person who drove, she took a group of us out first, then went back for the other group. I went with the first group and we walked around looking for a place to eat. Along the way I lost the Frisbee and had to climb into an enclosed area under a fence to get it. The rust on the bottom of the fence got all over me. I was pissed.

We ended walking 18 blocks and decided to eat at Salt Grass. Chanel and the rest joined us.

Waiting outside

Food, good. Dessert, good.

Then we decided to go bowling. We had to fit 7 people into Chanel’s 2 door civic. This was interesting. Bowling was a great choice. ISLAND BOWL. It was so much fun. Mike Y, Clair, Jing Jing, myself, Chanel, and Kim all bowled. Michael A did not partake. The reason is he bowls a lot and is pretty tired of it. However I think he’s really good and didn’t want to embarrass us. But he helped all of us improve our game. Pretty good instructor actually.

The bowling alley was kinda small, and we were pretty much the only ones in there. It was awesome. Then we headed back to the hotel in Chanel’s car. Along the way we somehow ended up in front of the really scary building in Galveston and got really creeped out. Then we went back and to sleep. Later.

-James