I am absolutely out of steam. I don't know how im gonna study for boards. I want to be off my butt and running around the hospital doing stuff already!!! How are you all forcing yourselves to study for this final stretch??
2nd years- who else has 0 motivation to study and just wants to start rotations?
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Watching the 4th years who didn't match start the scramble (or SOAP or whatever it's called) gave me a good kick back into gear...
But I hear you loud and clear... I'm pretty over MS2!
MS3 year of medical school is probably the single worst year you will ever experience. Don't mean to be a downer but it sucks not knowing anything, being treated like trash on some rotations, and running around the hospital with no one even giving you a second look. It is a tough year.
Anyway you are approaching the single most important test of your entire life in a few months. It will determine your future far more than anything else you could possible do. Residency is getting more and more competitive every year. Aim for a minimum of 240 on step 1 at all costs.
Anyway you are approaching the single most important test of your entire life in a few months. It will determine your future far more than anything else you could possible do. Residency is getting more and more competitive every year. Aim for a minimum of 240 on step 1 at all costs.
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Sounds like you had a pretty rough MS3 year, that's a shame; however, MS3>preclinical years, hands down IMO. It is tough and the hours are long, but you aren't sitting in a chair studying all day.
OP--sounds like you are getting ready to burn out. Take a day off, go do something fun. It will be worth it.
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OP, I agree. I want to do well on Step 1 obviously, but it's been rough-going studying for it. I'm on spring break right now and it's been slow to say the least, haha. One thing I've found helpful is that I can almost always do Qbank questions. It's really hard to just sit and read each and every word of FA but it's a lot more engaging to go through questions. If you're hitting a slump and want to keep going, I'd say just focus on Qbanks for a while.
And get outside some, of course.
And get outside some, of course.
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I think a lot of it is how you perceive the experience and everyone is different. For me I did not like being the bottom rung of the ladder (and yes I understand we know nothing... still sucks though lol), having to constantly change teams/rotations/ and fields! every month (so you always know nothing!), working with people I did not mesh with (surgery, obgyn come to mind), having no control over your schedule, etc etc etc. Even on rotations I liked such as IM (and the field I matched into) it still sucks because you always feel like every little thing you do is being monitored for a grade or something....
M3 year is what it is. I personally didn't like it that much. M4 year was 1000000000000000x better for a lot of reasons (control of schedule, knowing a lot more after M3 rotations, not being the lowest of the low at all times, working in the field you like, evals not mattering as much, etc).
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Not me, bra. Rotations suck and spend half of your time wasting your time. Med student rotations = whack
