Justin has two tests this week. The first one is today at 1:30 (11:30 AM central time). Its called an ICM (Introduction to Clinical Medicine) Practical. Here is a description of what this practical entails:

He picks 1 out of 14 different tasks to perform on a patient. This includes General Survey, Peripheral Circulation, Detailed Radial Pulse, Blood Pressure, Cardio examination, Respiratory examination, Abdominal examination, etc.
Each includes a series of tasks you would perform to assess if everything is normal or abnormal. Then you are asked a secondary question regarding your understanding of what you just did.
The hard part is just remembering what to do for each thing, the proper order, and why you actually are doing something since you don’t know which of the tasks you will pick.

 Wednesday is his next test. It is at 1:30 also and is called a Behavioral Oral Exam. Ya know all those questions on that form you fill out when you go to the doctors office? Questions like family history, personal history, current medications, etc. Well Justin has had to memorize all those and his test is to ask all of them to a patient while a professor is in the room grading him. Its actually a lot of stuff to memorize!!!! He has been practicing “interviewing” me. 

 Justin has been very anxious lately about this semester. Please pray the following for him: 

 Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Thanks everyone! I will be home in 16 days and cant wait to see everyone! We love yall!!

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