Anyone else with premature senioritis?

[docjolly]

I'm on my very last junior rotations ( ), and I'm finding it sooooooo hard to open up a single book. Don't get me wrong, I find the subject material (Pediatrics) very interesting, but I'm just so....burnt out?

Any other MSIIIs out there with the same/similar problem?

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[Ashers]

I just started medicine -- 2 months of inpatient. While I want to know medicine pretty well, there's absolutely no way I want to do 2 months of it right now, since I know what I'm going into, and because I have 2 more required medicine-y months to do in 4th year.

 

[waldenwoods]

YES! I'm so over third year. I had no motivation to study for the last shelf I just had cause I don't want to do family med. Only one rotation left, and I'm counting down the days! Can't wait for summer break (though it's only three weeks long).

 

[lil pook]

yup

all up in there

 

[akpete]

i ran out of motivation back in February. Trying to kick things up again.

 

[Ashers]

i ran out of motivation back in February. Trying to kick things up again.

You get to be a senior in June though. You've got less than a month.

 

[Kubed]

I just took step 2, took my last shelf exam, and i'm done with all my core rotations. I've got 2 months of electives left for 3rd year.... so yeah, I've got no motivation to study.

 

[SugarDaddy]

Yea man so over this year. Its humbling daily seeing how meaningless our existence as a third year is. I cannot wait to be on the joy of m4 year.

 

[kjs197988]

you are so right.. i am more than burnt out and ready for m4! currently on night float for ob/gyn my last rotation. i have been watching tv in the lounge since 7 pm since the resident has nothing for me to do. nothing beats being a vampire for no reason!

 

[OrnotMajestic]

Considering the fact that my intellectual capacity was destroyed on Psychiatry last Jan-Feb, it's been a downhill tumble since them. The problem? I just started surgery with Q3-4 call for the next 8 weeks. Lord help me.

 

[UCLAstudent]

I'm definitely ready, but I still have 8 weeks of family/ambulatory! I took the psych shelf today and neuro shelf is on Friday. Ugh.

 

[rodeoqueen]

Seriously....I had to take off 4 weeks just to get motivated to go back.

Light at the end of the tunnel, though. Only 4 weeks (once I start back, of course) left until life as MS4 begins. At that point, senioritis is actually expected and generally accepted.

 

[rhino305]

yep, seein those 4th years around my school, without a care, that will be MDs in a few days makes me lazy.

 

[Myempire1]

I have a serious case of premature senioritis, too. I just started my 8 week Medicine rotation and cannot bear to open a book. I will try again tonight, but really wish this last rotation came with some modafinil.

 

[EternalMD]

i hear you. I have 3 more weeks left of my neuropsych rotation and it has been painfully long. Not only have I not been studying, I have been slacking whenever possible which is something I haven't done all year and never thought I would be doing. Today I motivated myself to go to the library and ended up getting distracted and hung out with friends instead.

 

[dancinjenn]

My previous rotation was surgery...loved it. Want to do surgery, worked my tush off over 100 hrs/wk. Now I'm on OB and I spend alot of time cruising the net, chatting w/ other students, and sitting watching strips. I also like time wasters like updating our lists. checking pt labs, updating the board. I still end up in 2-5 deliveries a day here (even w/ three other students on our team), but I'm not gunning for them. Sooooo have senior-itis. Can't wait for my chill "no nights, no weekends" (minus my sub-I) 4th year to begin.

 

[giules]

totally feel ya!
i've been burned out since february! had 8 weeks of surgery, which killed what motivation i had left; and now on medicine, which is like pulling teeth. even the early days, which are few and far between, when i get home at 4p i open my mksap and end up doing like 5 questions! i'm really going to need some divine intervention for this one! 5 weeks left to go of 3rd year!

 

[drbetty]

omg sooo burnt out, 5 weeks of 3rd year to go, sooooooo ready to graduate...and be an attending!

 

[Acherona]

omg sooo burnt out, 5 weeks of 3rd year to go, sooooooo ready to graduate...and be an attending!

lol so true. isn't there any way we can skip residency?? I can't take no mo of this sh*te.