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Current students - is there anything you wish you had known or done going into med school? (Like, I didn't have to study as much? 😉) Any otherwise generally helpful advice for the future entering class? Sorry if this is a repeat, the thing told me there were no similar topics found 🙂
 
I'm an entering student.... but I can tell you now that I wish I had known not to go into medicine
 
halethsonofhama said:
I'm an entering student.... but I can tell you now that I wish I had known not to go into medicine
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Why would you even say that? Just change your path now. What we (class of 2015 peeps) have put in to this point is nothing compared to what the rest of the journey holds... not to mention all the debt. Just get out now if you don't want it anymore.

But to current students, I second the OPs question. Excited to start!
 
halethsonofhama said:
I'm an entering student.... but I can tell you now that I wish I had known not to go into medicine
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I presume hale is just mocking the current students who would come in and say that.

I'm one of them. I wish I had realized how all consuming medicine is and that because of how it is it's not really just a job - it changes your whole life style. I really wasn't career driven enough for medicine. I'm not unhappy I just realize there are a million things I would have been just as happy with minus the sacrifice.

As far as things I wish I'd known...I wish I had trusted the curriculum more. I gave up on glass and started studying for boards VERY early but really didn't have enough discipline. Took a very long vacation for most of 2nd year skating by and passing tests which made my boards that year particularly painful.

I wish I'd done more for me. I didn't study that much but I mostly tried to pretend I was. I wish I'd gone to the gym EVERYDAY and made it a lifestyle long ago so it would easily continue in residency.

I wish I'd stuck around more 3rd year. I had great residents who let me go home when the work was over but I feel like if I'd stuck around I may have gotten more procedures.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with how things turned out, my board scores were fine, I ended up gettig involved I great extracurriculars that really made me stand out as an applicant and helped me get amazing letters. And I got my first choice in the match, so I guess everything worked out fine in the end.

Also, I am so glad I used less vacation 3rd and 4th year And got more time at the end. I am done with med school and still have 10 weeks to do whatever I want before residency starts.
 
alwaysaangel said:
I presume hale is just mocking the current students who would come in and say that.

I'm one of them. I wish I had realized how all consuming medicine is and that because of how it is it's not really just a job - it changes your whole life style. I really wasn't career driven enough for medicine. I'm not unhappy I just realize there are a million things I would have been just as happy with minus the sacrifice.

As far as things I wish I'd known...I wish I had trusted the curriculum more. I gave up on glass and started studying for boards VERY early but really didn't have enough discipline. Took a very long vacation for most of 2nd year skating by and passing tests which made my boards that year particularly painful.

I wish I'd done more for me. I didn't study that much but I mostly tried to pretend I was. I wish I'd gone to the gym EVERYDAY and made it a lifestyle long ago so it would easily continue in residency.

I wish I'd stuck around more 3rd year. I had great residents who let me go home when the work was over but I feel like if I'd stuck around I may have gotten more procedures.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with how things turned out, my board scores were fine, I ended up gettig involved I great extracurriculars that really made me stand out as an applicant and helped me get amazing letters. And I got my first choice in the match, so I guess everything worked out fine in the end.

Also, I am so glad I used less vacation 3rd and 4th year And got more time at the end. I am done with med school and still have 10 weeks to do whatever I want before residency starts.
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Thoughtful advice 👍 and congrats on your first choice residency!
 
It's ok to skip class and watch lectures at home. It's more productive, and you shouldn't feel guilty.

Took me almost the entire year to realize that.
 
dr zaius said:
It's ok to skip class and watch lectures at home. It's more productive, and you shouldn't feel guilty.

Took me almost the entire year to realize that.
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Are UFs lectures online this year? They told us it was in the works still.
 
1) how much free time you have during 1st and 2nd year. Seriously, I don't even know what I did with myself during these year, have fun! Take random weekend trips, go out with your friends on weekdays. These are much harder to do during 3rd and 4th years.

2) Don't sweat about your grades at all during 1st and 2nd year. At all! Seriously. Just rock step 1,no one cares about else you do during the 1st two years (unless you publish)

3) Don't be one of those guys in your class that wears your white coat and stethoscope around campus, lame.
 
Thats really what I meant. I decided to go into medicine cause it seemed like a great job. I didn't know that it would become my life (at least for the time being).

I've always advocated the "your job doesn't define you" mind-set... but with medicine it sort of does (whether you like it or not).


HOWEVER.... In the long run it will work out. At least I tell myself that cause what else am I gonna do with a microbio degree?
 
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Try to make friends with ppl in the class(es) above you. They can make your life 1000000x easier.
 
dr zaius said:
It's ok to skip class and watch lectures at home. It's more productive, and you shouldn't feel guilty.

Took me almost the entire year to realize that.
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The question of what percentage of students of the class come to lectures was asked at so many of my interviews. I always wondered how much the response mattered since technology pretty much allows everyone to get the info in other ways
 
r1012 said:
Current students - is there anything you wish you had known or done going into med school? (Like, I didn't have to study as much? 😉) Any otherwise generally helpful advice for the future entering class? Sorry if this is a repeat, the thing told me there were no similar topics found 🙂
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I wish I knew how much easier it was to get laid when I pretended I was a resident instead of saying I was in med school.
 
HAV000 said:
The question of what percentage of students of the class come to lectures was asked at so many of my interviews. I always wondered how much the response mattered since technology pretty much allows everyone to get the info in other ways
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60-70% still attend lectures. I go for every physiology lecture, but I just can't sit through biochem when the lecturer is on 1x speed.
 
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