Whats the typical day of a med student like?

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There was a big thread on this topic no so long ago...you won't have to dig deep to find it. :luck:

...but yeah, I second gro. It's not fun -- at least not the first two years (I'm second year)

-lk
 
1st and 2nd year is HEAPS different to 3rd and 4th.

Today:

9:00am - rock up for O&G OSCE
10:30am - go home

🙂
 
Personally I just kinda zone out as soon as I'm out of the shower, and remain as such until I'm in bed, and I never remember anything that happens throughout the day.
 
Agent Splat said:
Personally I just kinda zone out as soon as I'm out of the shower, and remain as such until I'm in bed, and I never remember anything that happens throughout the day.
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This sounds extremely familiar. You must be a third year too!
 
My day today:

6:20 Wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed.

7:00 Start looking up stuff on patients. Prepare to present a patient at attending rounds (which did not occur today). Do a history and physical on a patient and write a note in the chart.

9:30 Round with new attending. Answer a few questions wrong and a few questions right. Make a few comments here and there. Grab a few vitals charts here and there.

11:00 rounds end, and I don't feel like seeing patients. I read for a while; then I look up some stuff on hemmorhoidectomies from the Up to Date database.

12:00 Subspecialty lecture: Gastrointestinal bleeding.

1:05 Lunch

1:45. Look up stuff on patient. Meet with patient and counsel her on anal hemmorhoids, hepatitis C, ulcerative colitis etc. Talk to her for a long while about her fiance and life and what not. Do a quick physical. Write a note in the chart.

3:30: Look up some information on another patient

4:00 watch the insertion of a PICC (Peripherally inserted central catheter). Talk to the patient about his issues. Try to make up for the horrible communications skills of my attending at rounds. Explain to him why he needs IV ertapenem instead of some oral antibiotic.

5:00 Meet with intern and tell him what patients I'm seeing and what my plan is. He doesn't care.

5:05 Leave hospital

5:15 Change, drink glass of wine

5:40 Eat dinner at hospital cafeteria

7:00 type this post

I plan on going to the gym, doing some reading, and going to sleep at around 10:15
 
lumbering said:
My day today:

6:20 Wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed.

7:00 Start looking up stuff on patients. Prepare to present a patient at attending rounds (which did not occur today). Do a history and physical on a patient and write a note in the chart.

9:30 Round with new attending. Answer a few questions wrong and a few questions right. Make a few comments here and there. Grab a few vitals charts here and there.

11:00 rounds end, and I don't feel like seeing patients. I read for a while; then I look up some stuff on hemmorhoidectomies from the Up to Date database.

12:00 Subspecialty lecture: Gastrointestinal bleeding.

1:05 Lunch

1:45. Look up stuff on patient. Meet with patient and counsel her on anal hemmorhoids, hepatitis C, ulcerative colitis etc. Talk to her for a long while about her fiance and life and what not. Do a quick physical. Write a note in the chart.

3:30: Look up some information on another patient

4:00 watch the insertion of a PICC (Peripherally inserted central catheter). Talk to the patient about his issues. Try to make up for the horrible communications skills of my attending at rounds. Explain to him why he needs IV ertapenem instead of some oral antibiotic.

5:00 Meet with intern and tell him what patients I'm seeing and what my plan is. He doesn't care.

5:05 Leave hospital

5:15 Change, drink glass of wine

5:40 Eat dinner at hospital cafeteria

7:00 type this post

I plan on going to the gym, doing some reading, and going to sleep at around 10:15
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Oh my God. Waking at 6:20?? Going to the GYM?? Only in the hospital for 10 hours? You've got it GOOD! Here's my day:

3:30 AM: wake.
4:30 AM: pre-round on all my patients
6 AM: round with the team.
8:15 AM: conference of some sort. Often involves much pimping.
9 AM: Second breakfast, because you ate your first one at 3:35 AM and you're hungry again.
9:30 AM: Do what needs doing. Scut with intern. Or go to OR. Or hang around the ER to see what's happening.
1 PM: lunch.
1:30 PM: back to the OR. Or down to take consults. Or check in on patients. Or respond to traumas.
6 PM: leave hospital. Unless you're on call. In which case you'll be in the OR still, and will be there until 9, which is one hour after the cafeteria closes, and then you have to wait till 2 AM to get dinner. Or breakfast. Whatever.

I'm on trauma surgery. It's fascinating, but it's all I can do to survive.
 
1) Get up, eat
2)shower, proceed to doing whatever the hell i want
3) study a little bit
4) work out
5) Watch seinfeld/scrubs
6)study a little more
7) go to bed
 
i m in 2nd yr.almost twice in a week i hv to face tests so its a pretty tough routine
wake up 5:00am daily even on sunday its a rsleep rhythm that never fails.hv a cup of tea.walk or exercise for 10 min only then study till 7am.reach college at 7:30.attend lectures till 9:30am then hv anatomy time all about cadavers .finally practicals n tutorials n then back to home at 1:30pm.then after lunch sleep.1hr for tv n then study till1:00am.and the cycle goes on......................
 
I guess you're starting to see from the other posts that the pre-clinical vs the clinical years is vastly different. My first year was class/small group 8-12 and our ICM course from 1-4 once a week. This coming year will be class/small group 8-12, and physical diagnosis from 1-4 twice a week. The clinical years will vary WIDELY...during surgery and medicine you will see long days (from talking to upperclassmen ~6am-7pm on the average, but surgery is probably the longest). Family med and psych tend to be shorter, more like 7am-4pm. I say this and honestly, it depends on the school, the attending, the time of year, and your location. Trauma surg and emergency med rotations at Hopkins and Maryland in the summer are gonna get you longer days and more call than the same two at Utah in the winter. Many things are going to play a role in how long your days are in the clinical years, so it's hard to give a "typical" day. A hundred different med students are going to tell you 100 different things!
 
MSKalltheway said:
I guess you're starting to see from the other posts that the pre-clinical vs the clinical years is vastly different. My first year was class/small group 8-12 and our ICM course from 1-4 once a week. This coming year will be class/small group 8-12, and physical diagnosis from 1-4 twice a week. The clinical years will vary WIDELY...during surgery and medicine you will see long days (from talking to upperclassmen ~6am-7pm on the average, but surgery is probably the longest). Family med and psych tend to be shorter, more like 7am-4pm. I say this and honestly, it depends on the school, the attending, the time of year, and your location. Trauma surg and emergency med rotations at Hopkins and Maryland in the summer are gonna get you longer days and more call than the same two at Utah in the winter. Many things are going to play a role in how long your days are in the clinical years, so it's hard to give a "typical" day. A hundred different med students are going to tell you 100 different things!
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yeh i hv an idea how difficult the coming clinical years are going to be....the routene ll become more n more difficult as the years are rolling down.now the tough routine is a part of life so we should take it easy😎
 
After skimming the above posts, I didn't see any mention of partying or going to the bar?????

Medical school was the best time of my life. Undoubtedly you are busy, but there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy yourself. Have fun while you can because there are not very many residencies out there where you have so much free time.

I wish I was a medical student again.....
 
M4 Sub-I, IM subspecialty

0500: up
0545: leave house
0615: arrive, begin prerounding
0730: run list with senior
0745: bagels and coffee, bitching with team
0800: floor work, notes, consults, etc
1130: conference
1230: lunch
1300: continue floor work, check email incessantly
1400: rounds (afternoon rounding sucks)
1700: end rounds, begin to tie up loose ends
1800-2000: leave

shortest day: 11 hours
longest day: 14 hours (not including call)
longest week: 82 hours
 
7 am: Wake and prepare for class
9 am-12:30 am: follow lecture powerpoints
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm: attend last lecture/lab
3:30-4 pm: exercise
4-11pm: study
 
study & study & endless study
all u feel is guilt though u dont have a LIFE
am in ma 4th year!!
 
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