CV Physio... so much to know that it is frustrating

[silverhorse84]

.... dude, i cant be doing anything else anyways right now.. all my friends are in class... what should i be doing... watching soaps on TV?? that is a total waste of time I went out last night, going out tonight, plan to go out tommorow night..

my life revolves around studying and going out with friends at night, but i need a balance in both.. if i study too much i get depressed... if i have fun too much with friends when i go out, and that takes up all my time, i also feel depressed... yes, i dont need sleep

i am actually quite happy to be in the situation i am, and cant wait to start med school in august

but i just am kinda stressed about cardio-phys

If you continue this you will end up a work-a-holic; guaranteed. Just because you're friends are all in school doesn't mean you can't have hobbies and find new friends who share them. You could find a job to help pass the time and earn some more money before starting school again. Find non-medical hobbies that you're interested in, and continue at least some when you start medical school. Going out at night with friends is fun and encouraged, yes, but not really a hobby. Making school and studying your entire life will make you miserable eventually. I get that you like it now, but you will be learning medicine for the REST of your LIFE! Do things now that have nothing to do with medicine, so you have interests outside of medicine. Several professors have seriously stressed the importance of life outside of medicine in order to keep from being a work-a-holic and becoming a bitter, miserable physician down the road.

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[Frazier]

If you continue this you will end up a work-a-holic; guaranteed. Just because you're friends are all in school doesn't mean you can't have hobbies and find new friends who share them. You could find a job to help pass the time and earn some more money before starting school again. Find non-medical hobbies that you're interested in, and continue at least some when you start medical school. Going out at night with friends is fun and encouraged, yes, but not really a hobby. Making school and studying your entire life will make you miserable eventually. I get that you like it now, but you will be learning medicine for the REST of your LIFE! Do things now that have nothing to do with medicine, so you have interests outside of medicine. Several professors have seriously stressed the importance of life outside of medicine in order to keep from being a work-a-holic and becoming a bitter, miserable physician down the road.

You can lead a horse to water but...

 

[J1515]

Physiology was the easiest class in med school. This won't prepare you at all.

 

[Ischemic]

You know ... is it me or does this nonsciencemajor dude sound like those annoying asian premeds that sits in the front of the class and asks the professor stupid questions and run around before tests asking people random **** and saying they didn't study enough?

Thank God med schools accept 10 of his kind per year while everyone else seems to be able to balance studying hard, partying and NOT being a douche on a day to day basis. I can't imagine being in a class filled with kids like this, I"d rather shovel **** for the rest of my life than deal with asinine people like this.

Someone please ban this guy already.

 

[nonsciencemajor]

i get it now!!! 🙂... i asked my prof today in the grad level physio class, and he taught it to me, and all of a sudden the light bulb turned on, and its all making sense....

I have realized the importance of going to class in med school. I throughout undergrad (right after freshman year first semester) thought going to those huge science pre-req classes was a waste of time and stopped going. And I was usually in the library from like late morning till dinner time, thinking my time is better being utilized than as going to lecture and falling asleep. And this schedule allowed me to have fun after dinner, while everyone would then start studying.... and i was planning to do the same in med school

but i today realized the benefit of going to class, as these med school and grad school professors really know a lot, and will teach you after school if you need the help.... i just didnt get this in undergrad, and I am glad this experience happened...

it makes it even more of a strong arguement to myself that pre-studying may help... pre-study now, then in august when med school starts, pre-study briefly before lecture, go to lecture and get some concepts clarified, and then post-lecture wont be spent that much time in studying.....

i i dont pre-study now, i know i will resort back to my undergrad ways of "guess I will go to the library since I fall asleep in lecture and dont learn anything anyways".. but with pre-studying, it makes me motivated to go to lecture

so even if i dont come out of this semester with anything, at least i learned the importance of going to lecture

chillin the rest of the night... tommorow biochem.... that is ez.... i will pick up physio again on monday 🙄

 

[dude1344]

I'm going to bookmark this thread as an example for my future children of what I DON'T want them to become.

 

[nonsciencemajor]

If you continue this you will end up a work-a-holic; guaranteed. Just because you're friends are all in school doesn't mean you can't have hobbies and find new friends who share them. You could find a job to help pass the time and earn some more money before starting school again. Find non-medical hobbies that you're interested in, and continue at least some when you start medical school. Going out at night with friends is fun and encouraged, yes, but not really a hobby. Making school and studying your entire life will make you miserable eventually. I get that you like it now, but you will be learning medicine for the REST of your LIFE! Do things now that have nothing to do with medicine, so you have interests outside of medicine. Several professors have seriously stressed the importance of life outside of medicine in order to keep from being a work-a-holic and becoming a bitter, miserable physician down the road.

most nights are spent on going out with my frat brothers which is a real fun experience and really drains away all the academic stress..... the other nights are spent on intramural sports...playing sports is a huge hobby for me... and plan to continue it in med school

 

[nonsciencemajor]

You know ... is it me or does this nonsciencemajor dude sound like those annoying asian premeds that sits in the front of the class and asks the professor stupid questions and run around before tests asking people random **** and saying they didn't study enough?

Thank God med schools accept 10 of his kind per year while everyone else seems to be able to balance studying hard, partying and NOT being a douche on a day to day basis. I can't imagine being in a class filled with kids like this, I"d rather shovel **** for the rest of my life than deal with asinine people like this.

Someone please ban this guy already.

lol what do you think I mean when I say i go out with friends at night.....

and if you have been reading this thread, you would see that I was one of the people in undergrad that almost never went to those huge science pre-req classes lecture halls, and was in the library... how can i ask questions if I wasnt in class....

so honestly, stop making conclusions about people when you dont have the facts straight

 

[RogueUnicorn]

i get it now!!! 🙂... i asked my prof today in the grad level physio class, and he taught it to me, and all of a sudden the light bulb turned on, and its all making sense....

I have realized the importance of going to class in med school. I throughout undergrad (right after freshman year first semester) thought going to those huge science pre-req classes was a waste of time and stopped going. And I was usually in the library from like late morning till dinner time, thinking my time is better being utilized than as going to lecture and falling asleep. And this schedule allowed me to have fun after dinner, while everyone would then start studying.... and i was planning to do the same in med school

but i today realized the benefit of going to class, as these med school and grad school professors really know a lot, and will teach you after school if you need the help.... i just didnt get this in undergrad, and I am glad this experience happened...

it makes it even more of a strong arguement to myself that pre-studying may help... pre-study now, then in august when med school starts, pre-study briefly before lecture, go to lecture and get some concepts clarified, and then post-lecture wont be spent that much time in studying.....

i i dont pre-study now, i know i will resort back to my undergrad ways of "guess I will go to the library since I fall asleep in lecture and dont learn anything anyways".. but with pre-studying, it makes me motivated to go to lecture

so even if i dont come out of this semester with anything, at least i learned the importance of going to lecture

chillin the rest of the night... tommorow biochem.... that is ez.... i will pick up physio again on monday 🙄

lol ok, so you are saying you couldn't learn it just on your own, and that a professor was needed to elucidate, and therefore it is a good idea to continue to try to learn this on your own?

 

[Ischemic]

wow, it seems that not only are you annoying but completely lacking in reading comprehension. If you read what I wrote I said "you sound like ..." which puts you in the category of "people exhibiting annoying behavior". No where did I specifically say you did any particular behavior. Furthermore, there were three categories I mentioned: studying hard, partying AND NOT being a douche. You conveniently disregarded the third criteria. There are gobs of intelligent people that can balance work and play but not that many that consistently come off as being a douche like yourself.

Finally, this is the internet, I have no other way to base or form conclusions on you other than what you say online. Thus far, you've made it abundantly clear that you're annoying with all these useless and redundant threads you've created. Honestly, I feel like you're enjoying getting a rise out of people here because no one who is intelligent enough to get into medical school can be so completely clueless or oblivious to the fact that you're continuously asking the same bull**** question and hoping for a different response EVEN after you constantly try to negate those answers by saying that it works for you. Unless of course you're that arrogant.

Do whatever the hell you want in your life, but if you're not gonna take our suggestions stop ****ing asking the same goddamn questions.

 

[J1515]

most nights are spent on going out with my frat brothers which is a real fun experience

Not buying it. You sound like an alien trying to fit in on this planet.

playing sports is a huge hobby for me... and plan to continue it in med school

Still not buying it. You're not fooling anyone.

 

[howelljolly]

i get it now!!! 🙂... i asked my prof today in the grad level physio class, and he taught it to me, and all of a sudden the light bulb turned on, and its all making sense....

I have realized the importance of going to class in med school. I throughout undergrad (right after freshman year first semester) thought going to those huge science pre-req classes was a waste of time and stopped going. And I was usually in the library from like late morning till dinner time, thinking my time is better being utilized than as going to lecture and falling asleep. And this schedule allowed me to have fun after dinner, while everyone would then start studying.... and i was planning to do the same in med school

but i today realized the benefit of going to class, as these med school and grad school professors really know a lot, and will teach you after school if you need the help.... i just didnt get this in undergrad, and I am glad this experience happened...

it makes it even more of a strong arguement to myself that pre-studying may help... pre-study now, then in august when med school starts, pre-study briefly before lecture, go to lecture and get some concepts clarified, and then post-lecture wont be spent that much time in studying.....

i i dont pre-study now, i know i will resort back to my undergrad ways of "guess I will go to the library since I fall asleep in lecture and dont learn anything anyways".. but with pre-studying, it makes me motivated to go to lecture

so even if i dont come out of this semester with anything, at least i learned the importance of going to lecture

chillin the rest of the night... tommorow biochem.... that is ez.... i will pick up physio again on monday 🙄

Im pretty sure that I mentioned something about attending lectures and labs as being an integral part of understanding med school classes.

Cardiovascular is one of the easier, if not the easiest of the divisions. It was the easiest for me.... or maybe respiratory was... If you think neurophys is the easiest, you must not understand it.

Cardio and respiratory are the easiest.... renal and endocrine were the most complicated.

 

[circulus vitios]

lol what do you think I mean when I say i go out with friends at night.....

There is seriously something wrong with you.

 

[nonsciencemajor]

I read the entire chapter on the cardiovascular section in Constanzo big book. I read it and understood it, but wasn't sure whether I really truly understood it... so after reading the chapter in constanzo, I picked up BRS and then really I guess mastered the material cause I flew right through it... so it took me two times (one time in big book and one time in BRS) to read through it to master it... is this normal?...

med students: how many times do you have to read it to truly master the material... is twice taking too long?

 

[howelljolly]

I read the entire chapter on the cardiovascular section in Constanzo big book. I read it and understood it, but wasn't sure whether I really truly understood it... so after reading the chapter in constanzo, I picked up BRS and then really I guess mastered the material cause I flew right through it... so it took me two times (one time in big book and one time in BRS) to read through it to master it... is this normal?...

med students: how many times do you have to read it to truly master the material... is twice taking too long?

No... 2, more like 3 times is good.

Now, to see if you really understand what you read, do practice questions... BRS, Kaplan, online question banks.... Most people aim for about 70% correct.

 

[XRanger]

I read the entire chapter on the cardiovascular section in Constanzo big book. I read it and understood it, but wasn't sure whether I really truly understood it... so after reading the chapter in constanzo, I picked up BRS and then really I guess mastered the material cause I flew right through it... so it took me two times (one time in big book and one time in BRS) to read through it to master it... is this normal?...

med students: how many times do you have to read it to truly master the material... is twice taking too long?

I try reading the material about 5 times before a test

 

[howelljolly]

I try reading the material about 5 times before a test

I also used a lot of different books for each division in physio... at least 2 text books, and a review book or two, and questions.... maybe about 5 books for each division. I went through each text and review 2 or 3 times each.

Texts - Guyton, Boron/Boulpaep, Ganong
Reviews - NMS > BRS (most people like First Aid... I dont)
Questions - PreTest, Kaplan, NMS