| 6:00 am |
Wake up, shower, eat breakfast and start my daily caffeine routine |
| 7:00 |
Drive to work (I live only 5-10 minutes from the hospital) |
| 7:10 |
Arrive at the hospital, look over articles or assigned reading for today’s conference, catch up on emails |
| 8:00 |
Daily conference |
| 9:30 |
Catch up on paper work |
| 10:00 |
Drive over to BRL at Whitney Ave. I work side by side with the molecular techs who are teaching me DNA extraction, multiple PCR methods, underlying theory and quality control of results. |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch (continuation of my daily caffeine routine) |
| 1:00 |
Meet with the lab techs to work on a new molecular test that I am bringing in-house. We are going through the process from the beginning of picking primers and promotors to validating the test results. By the end of the rotation, my goal is have the test up and running so that pathologists and clinicians can order the test as needed. |
| 3:00 |
Interpret results of routine molecular tests and signout with the Director of the Molecular Lab. |
| 4:00 |
Finish up paper work or reading new articles about my Molecular project |
| 5:00 |
Go home. :) |
| 6:00 |
Relax, catch up on phone calls, pet the cats. |
| 7:00 |
Eat dinner at home or make plans with friends |
| 8:00 |
Watch some tv, do some reading or studying for the Boards |
| 10:30 |
Go to bed |
