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Hello all!
So I've been doing some research on what the first two years of medical school will be like, and I am slowly reaching an unpleasant conclusion: please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Do the first two years mostly serve to prepare students for USMLE 1?
In other words, how important is the information learned as MS1-2 in one's practice as a physician?
The idea of learning for two straight years for ONE test, information half relevant to medical practice kind of bums me out. It reminds me of the MCAT (which I thought was pretty stressful), where I had to learn basic physics and O-chem reactions, which was obviously 99% irrelevant to medicine. I understand why the MCAT is the way it is: it's important for doctors to be scientifically literate and it serves as a good weeding process. But I was hoping that the hoop jumping would end after getting into medical school.
So, do you guys feel that the USMLE 1 (and 2 and 3 for that matter) are good tests that accurately measures a student's capacity to be a good physician? Or is it just another hoop to jump through, but instead of the 3 months it takes to prepare for the MCAT, it's two years?
Thanks!
So I've been doing some research on what the first two years of medical school will be like, and I am slowly reaching an unpleasant conclusion: please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Do the first two years mostly serve to prepare students for USMLE 1?
In other words, how important is the information learned as MS1-2 in one's practice as a physician?
The idea of learning for two straight years for ONE test, information half relevant to medical practice kind of bums me out. It reminds me of the MCAT (which I thought was pretty stressful), where I had to learn basic physics and O-chem reactions, which was obviously 99% irrelevant to medicine. I understand why the MCAT is the way it is: it's important for doctors to be scientifically literate and it serves as a good weeding process. But I was hoping that the hoop jumping would end after getting into medical school.
So, do you guys feel that the USMLE 1 (and 2 and 3 for that matter) are good tests that accurately measures a student's capacity to be a good physician? Or is it just another hoop to jump through, but instead of the 3 months it takes to prepare for the MCAT, it's two years?
Thanks!