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Getting towards the end of the year and can't seem to focus on my school work. Anyone ever have this happen to you? If so, what have you done to get back on track? This has never happened to me before. I usually love studying and learning new material but recently it's been tough. I've consistently honored in my classes and am worried this work ethic will effect my studies...
You are going to kill patients with acute renal failure in the future if you do not study 24/7 and "honor" all your classes.
 
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Getting towards the end of the year and can't seem to focus on my school work. Anyone ever have this happen to you? If so, what have you done to get back on track? This has never happened to me before. I usually love studying and learning new material but recently it's been tough. I've consistently honored in my classes and am worried this work ethic will effect my studies...
Better get back to studying or you won't match that orthodermaneurological surgery residency.
 
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Seriously, sounds like burnout. Take time to take care of yourself, and talk to others who may be going through the same thing at your school. That being said, you've come this far and did well, so you might as well finish off strong.
 
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Getting towards the end of the year and can't seem to focus on my school work. Anyone ever have this happen to you? If so, what have you done to get back on track? This has never happened to me before. I usually love studying and learning new material but recently it's been tough. I've consistently honored in my classes and am worried this work ethic will effect my studies...
If you're a first year, just push through to pass and you'll be okay. You'll have a long vacation soon enough.

If you're a second year, you dont have the luxury of relaxing, especially with boards coming up. If you really can't study then go talk to an advisor and/or learning specialist before you run out of board prep time.
 
If you're a first year, just push through to pass and you'll be okay. You'll have a long vacation soon enough.

If you're a second year, you dont have the luxury of relaxing, especially with boards coming up. If you really can't study then go talk to an advisor and/or learning specialist before you run out of board prep time.

What? Board study? You mean I'm supposed to start that now? I was just gonna look over some stuff a week before the exam...
 
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Looks like you're a first year, right? If you're feeling burnout you need to find time to relax. Have you been doing anything fun besides studying this year? Working out? Getting outside? Socializing? etc....gotta cut loose from time to time, even if it means you get a 90 instead of 95 on your exams. Can't take care of your future patients if you're not taking care of yourself!

As long as you're doing well (not perfect!) in class, the only exam that matters is step 1.

Take a step back, go do something fun and take a breath. The year is almost over. Peoples' opinions vary but I think 2nd year is more interesting and therefore easier.

In short: Throttle back the work, increase the relaxation.
 
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What? Board study? You mean I'm supposed to start that now? I was just gonna look over some stuff a week before the exam...
haha I think technically you could get through all of Pathoma and Sketchy in one weekend if you don't sleep.
 
I've hit a wall myself. I spent a week on the beach for spring break and when I came back my brain was a well oiled machine. I was crushing lectures and retaining them highly after only one or two passes.

Now I'm looking at this pharm lecture for the 8th time and swearing I've never seen this drug before even though it's highlighted, underlined and starred. Sweet jesus only 3 weeks left.
 
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Or a 3rd year med student -- IIRC, there was a study done in that PAs/NPs were given watered down Step 2 exams and had at least a 50% failure rate -- I find it interesting that while in med school and residency, the specialists tend to deride Family Medicine types -- but once they're out in real practice, they become quite chummy when they realize that FM usually does the referrals ----
 
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Or a 3rd year med student -- IIRC, there was a study done in that PAs/NPs were given watered down Step 2 exams and had at least a 50% failure rate -- I find it interesting that while in med school and residency, the specialists tend to deride Family Medicine types -- but once they're out in real practice, they become quite chummy when they realize that FM usually does the referrals ----

It was NPs. The NBME created a watered down version of Step 3 for a group of recently licensed NPs (remember these are nurses practitioners that have years of clinical experience as nurses before getting the NP). Pass rates on that shortened and simplified Step 3 was as you said ~50%. The nursing group quickly backstepped and said the test was meaningless/unfair.
 
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It was NPs. The NBME created a watered down version of Step 3 for a group of recently licensed NPs (remember these are nurses practitioners that have years of clinical experience as nurses before getting the NP). Pass rates on that shortened and simplified Step 3 was as you said ~50%. The nursing group quickly backstepped and said the test was meaningless/unfair.
Lol. Whatever that means.
 
It was NPs. The NBME created a watered down version of Step 3 for a group of recently licensed NPs (remember these are nurses practitioners that have years of clinical experience as nurses before getting the NP). Pass rates on that shortened and simplified Step 3 was as you said ~50%. The nursing group quickly backstepped and said the test was meaningless/unfair.

Did they actually make them take the exam to practice, as we have to?

Seriously, with all the hurdles we have to go through and all the exams while doing rotations and residency when you have no time to study, we should make the playing field fair. I think the pass rate for COMLEX was like in the 90's

I'm not downing PA's or NP's in anyway, but I really am envious of the fact that they can start earning money, while my old behind has to tough it out of four more years of brutal residency before being able to pay back my loans.

to the OP, I know the feeling of being burned out, what I liked to do is to take a day to watch re runs of my favorite shows, it really recharged me and made me more productive. I watched re-runs of desparate housewives.
 
Of course it's meaningless -- which would explain the phone call I received one day when my ICU team was on-call --- it was from an NP (who turned out to be a tragically-hip, recently turned out NP graduate from a well known southern university) who began our conversation with the following," Hi, this is XXXX and I'm the NP for Dr. XXXX -- I've got a patient with a Hb of 4 -- what do I do? Dr. XXXX said I should call the ICU" -- this led to a flurry of questions and rapid fire orders complete with a sprint to the room on the ward--- only to find that the patient had been allowed to go down to US for a Doppler study for LE swelling to look for "a DVT" said proudly with a beaming smile --- after wanting to grab this NP by the scruff of the neck and drag them down the stairs -- we moved rather quickly down to US -- patient is sitting up in bed talking -- when asked about the LE edema, he responded with ,"Oh, yeah, had that for years, I've got CHF" --- the NP turned red, sank into the wall, and took a keen interest in the toes of their shoes ---

sorry, I have yet to have a good experience with an NP -- I know this can't be all of them but in my experience, I'll take a PA over an NP any day of the week.
 
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