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SilverCat said:
Same here--but we have histo (microanatomy labs) all year, I think.

Gross lab--how do people cut the face of the cadaver? Just cutting the back of the neck made me nauseous.
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Meh, dissecting the face was better than some other parts IMO.
That being said, I'm glad to be out of anatomy.
 
WhovianDO said:
80% attendance requirement. :|
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WhovianDO said:
80% attendance requirement. :|
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We have an attendance policy at my school as well. 85%, yep it sucks. I would never go if we didn't have one. Tegrity is a so much better experience. It's like the difference between live Football and NFL red zone.
 
Currently taking a final for one of my classes (medical information for decision making). Thankfully, it is open note and we have a week to do it. It is actually a little harder than I thought (probably because I did not study prior to opening it). Good thing I still have a week!
 
sinombre said:
Is anyone using Firecracker alongside their classes? How many cards/questions do they have? Trying to see if it's worth paying for.
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For me, it's hard to do with the classes because the info is sometimes more than you have been taught.

I am using it after the class ends to keep everything fresh. You would be amazed by how much you have already forgotten. And I am doing like 20 cards on average of anatomy per day. But I take days off, so it's like 40 cards every other day.
 
Juan Solo said:
Would this be for step 1 preparation?
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Eh, I think of it like using first aid while you go through classes to figure out what you will and won't eventually have to know. Hopefully sticking with a spaced repetition program will help form a solid foundation of step 1-relevant information so when it comes time to actually start studying/preparing (crazy how not-far-away that test really is) I'll be in good shape.
 
BABSstudent said:
For me, it's hard to do with the classes because the info is sometimes more than you have been taught.

I am using it after the class ends to keep everything fresh. You would be amazed by how much you have already forgotten. And I am doing like 20 cards on average of anatomy per day. But I take days off, so it's like 40 cards every other day.
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Cool, thanks.

There's a free 30-day trial available right now for anyone interested.
 
sinombre said:
Is anyone using Firecracker alongside their classes? How many cards/questions do they have? Trying to see if it's worth paying for.
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I am doing it. I have banked everything we've covered so far as we've gone over it in class, which has me at a little over 10% right now. I've found it to be super helpful for me so far, but BABSstudent is right in that sometimes what's on the cards will be more (i.e. clinical correlations of the physiology that we cover this year) than what you were taught in class so you'll end up either learning extra stuff or not banking that card yet. For the most part thought that aspect of it hasn't become too bad; I don't know if I'm lucky or what but most of the stuff we've been taught so far can be found straight in the FC cards, so it's both Step 1 (I guess) and class review for me. It is amazing how much more I remember than my classmates from our first few months of class, and it's actually been a help on exams because I remember most of the stuff we learned four weeks ago rather than having totally forgotten it in the intervening time.

It can be a burden, though. The time doesn't bother me because I view it as studying for class rather than something extra, but if your school stuff isn't covered that well in FC it would be annoying. So in my case we've been plowing through upper and lower limb anatomy with brachial plexus and sacral plexus. My study quiz today is 181 questions, which will probably take a little over an hour. Which reminds me, FC only works if you're the type of person who can look at a card with info you didn't remember, try to understand what's going on, and then move on quickly. If you're going to thoroughly review everything you don't remember there's no way it's a good investment of time; you just have to trust the spaced repetition to work, which I have found largely successful so far.
 
mcloaf said:
Wtf? Only in Ohio. :banana:
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All this front loaded anatomy is killing me. We've covered all the nerves, muscles (action, origin, insertion, innervation) and blood/lymph supply of the musculoskeletal system in 1.5 weeks. Basically my entire undergrad anatomy, which took a semester. #mehdskool
 
mcloaf said:
Wtf? Only in Ohio. :banana:
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All this front loaded anatomy is killing me. We've covered all the nerves, muscles (action, origin, insertion, innervation) and blood/lymph supply of the musculoskeletal system in 1.5 weeks. Basically my entire undergrad anatomy, which took a semester. #mehdskool
 
IncognitoGuy said:
All this front loaded anatomy is killing me. We've covered all the nerves, muscles (action, origin, insertion, innervation) and blood/lymph supply of the musculoskeletal system in 1.5 weeks. Basically my entire undergrad anatomy, which took a semester. #mehdskool
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Holy ****, really? That sounds unbearable.
 
mcloaf said:
Holy ****, really? That sounds unbearable.
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Yeah, they frontloaded a lot in the first week but now this second week we had a lot of "free time" to study it. After being able to study it, it hasn't been so bad.

That first week also included dissections of pretty much all the muscles of the body. I was so happy my cadaver didn't have too much fat to scrape away.
 
mcloaf said:
I am doing it. I have banked everything we've covered so far as we've gone over it in class, which has me at a little over 10% right now. I've found it to be super helpful for me so far, but BABSstudent is right in that sometimes what's on the cards will be more (i.e. clinical correlations of the physiology that we cover this year) than what you were taught in class so you'll end up either learning extra stuff or not banking that card yet. For the most part thought that aspect of it hasn't become too bad; I don't know if I'm lucky or what but most of the stuff we've been taught so far can be found straight in the FC cards, so it's both Step 1 (I guess) and class review for me. It is amazing how much more I remember than my classmates from our first few months of class, and it's actually been a help on exams because I remember most of the stuff we learned four weeks ago rather than having totally forgotten it in the intervening time.

It can be a burden, though. The time doesn't bother me because I view it as studying for class rather than something extra, but if your school stuff isn't covered that well in FC it would be annoying. So in my case we've been plowing through upper and lower limb anatomy with brachial plexus and sacral plexus. My study quiz today is 181 questions, which will probably take a little over an hour. Which reminds me, FC only works if you're the type of person who can look at a card with info you didn't remember, try to understand what's going on, and then move on quickly. If you're going to thoroughly review everything you don't remember there's no way it's a good investment of time; you just have to trust the spaced repetition to work, which I have found largely successful so far.
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Awesome, thanks for the response mcloaf
 
Dang, maybe I shouldn't have been so quick to veto the crew neck. I just never wear them myself...
 
Oh by the way, I stumbled on this website earlier. ipetcompanion.net
You can see cats in shelters around the country. Control the webcam to look at them and even activate toys in the "cat room" and try to get them to play. At first I was unconvinced, but after I got a kitty to attack a toy, I was hooked. Lol
 
I just signed up for a 30 day trial of firecracker. I flagged a bunch of stuff in behavioral sciences, anatomy, & biochem but it keeps just showing be behavioral questions. Does anyone know how to put this thing on shuffle?
 
BABSstudent said:
Currently taking a final for one of my classes (medical information for decision making). Thankfully, it is open note and we have a week to do it. It is actually a little harder than I thought (probably because I did not study prior to opening it). Good thing I still have a week!
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That final took way longer than I thought it would. At least I didn't fail, which felt possible for a minute.
 
Ellie Arroway said:
That final took way longer than I thought it would. At least I didn't fail, which felt possible for a minute.
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I did fail by one question. I emailed him and he said to not worry because that score normally will pass once they drop questions and if it doesn't I will have to fix the ones I got wrong until my score passes. So no big deal but I still feel like crap.
 
BABSstudent said:
I did fail by one question. I emailed him and he said to not worry because that score normally will pass once they drop questions and if it doesn't I will have to fix the ones I got wrong until my score passes. So no big deal but I still feel like crap.
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I failed my first med school test just last week. Mine was the first test of MCBM and I missed passing by three questions. Not too torn up over it since there's two more tests to make up the grade. Plus I was a little burned out for that last one. Just needed a solid weekend to regroup.

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At least I got the unintentional top!
 
IncognitoGuy said:
I did not expect to be so.. involved when I signed up to shadow Labor & Delivery today.

Good luck getting through the rest of MCBM! Is it possible they'll drop questions and your grade will become a passing one?
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Yeah that's possible too. The test is still in the challenge period so you never know...
 
How often do they let you shadow like that? And are you interested in OB?
 
dudeliness said:
I failed my first med school test just last week. Mine was the first test of MCBM and I missed passing by three questions. Not too torn up over it since there's two more tests to make up the grade. Plus I was a little burned out for that last one. Just needed a solid weekend to regroup.

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At least I got the unintentional top!
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Well it is a one test class, so I potentially failed a class... But I can make it up if I end up failing by redoing the questions I missed.

It is a stupid, one credit, statistics class. It is taught poorly at our campus and apparently people were using another campuses notes to do better. I didn't know about it.
 
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