Clerkships with greatest learning curve

[Yoyomama88]

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Which clerkships/shelf exams have the most amount of information that is "new" and fairly unrelated to information tested on Step 1???

After perusing review books, it seems that Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry have information that were already well established in the pre-clinical years.


I feel as if OB/GYN and Surgery are the ones that will have the toughest learning curve and have the most "new " information.


Can anyone comment if this perspective seems accurate.

 

[tco]

I think that OB/GYN had the biggest learning curve. There was a point that I actually became bored with the rotation...Not because I didn't like it (which I didn't, actually), but because it wasn't intellectually stimulating at all. The common conditions are so common that the nurse midwives can treat them just as well as the docs, and the uncommon conditions are so uncommon that they need specialists to treat them.

I think it's the surgery aspect that takes 4 years to learn...Not the medical aspect.

And delivering a baby is boring after you've done two or three. No challenge at all. "Here it comes! Okay...Now I have to make sure it doesn't rip the perineum on the way out." or, "It's stuck! Let's go to the OR!"

 

[Doctor Bob]

Dang, this thread looks familiar.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=1024830

 

[tco]

I knew I made an early response to this thread! Weird. Wonder how he double posted it...

Edit: Nevermind. Cross posted.