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and they are ? haha
I needed to hear this 3 months ago when I was struggling through the same. dang. thing 😂
Several months into my 3rd year. I can already tell you there is quite a difference between every detail you're forced to memorize the first 2 years and what really matters day-to-day in the clinical world
This is good to know. I try my hardest to focus on the clinically relevant information while simultaneously doing well enough to pass the (often poorly written) in-house exams. It often makes me wonder what the purpose of the sheer amount of seemingly irrelevant detail we have to memorize really is.
It’s more important than you think. I’m glad I busted my @$$ so much those first two years. I definitely don’t have the mastery of all that stuff like I did back in step 1 dedicated. But I can look up a disease that hasn’t come up since preclinical and know what’s going on after like 90 seconds of review. Those first two years are much more important than people think.
My approach has been a running list of every disease we've discussed (even the ones where they are like "you'll never see this!") and the important info pertaining to that. I always try to make sure I pay attention to that kind of stuff, sometimes to the point of giving myself anxiety... but I figured I'd rather see it now and suffer now and hopefully it will make my future a little bit easier. Sometimes I just can't force myself to memorize every step of a biochemical pathway that isn't one of the major ones.
I’ve taken step and level 1 and 2. I’ve yet to have an embryo question. It’s really lower yield than people think. Now that step is p/f, there’s no utility in knowing it.
