Performance Based Exam

I took a huge test today. It's called a PBE (performance based exam) and is the second one I've taken this semester for my Skills class. This is a class that teaches you how to be a pharmacist. Basically we learn how to counsel, find/research drug information, compound sterile products, etc etc. This test was an accumulation of everything we've learned for the last half of this semester (just in Skills class). It was 18 pages long, 200 points, and took 3 hours to complete. I'm pretty sure I killed a patient or two. Better on the test than in real life ey?

The funniest part of the exam was when I was watching an intern pharmacist counsel a lady who thought she had a yeast infection. The patient was saying that she had a fishy odor downstairs and that she was trying to treat it by douching because she didn't want her new boyfriend who is the maintenance man at her new apartment to not like her anymore. I know, I know. I'm in a professional program. I need to not laugh at these things, but during the exam I couldn't help it. Maybe it was due to lack of sleep or the fact that I'm completely burned out, but I found this encounter hilarious. *Hopefully* I won't break out into laughter when a real patient asks me what she can do to treat her "yeast infection" so she and the maintenance man can get it on.

*If you think you have a yeast infection but aren't sure, ask me, I'll tell you if it is or not and then hopefully not kill you when I tell you how to treat your predicament. :)