nutmegs said:
get ready guys, M1 was cake, M2 hits like a load of bricks 😉
say that again and again, you have NO idea. Espe for the kid who said they didnt even start neuro first year.. add that to the hell of it all.
Listen everyone medschool years 1 and 2 are ridiculously easy. They are also insanely and almost impossible hard. It depends on what you want to get out of the years ILl use myself for example
As ms1 started the first month i was so overwhelmed, just reading anatomy which id never seen before, i swear i spent more time getting ggood at moores anatomy glossary setup and whatthe anterodorsolateral aspect of a bone is or something.I meanit was excruciating to get through vocabularly like that. However after month 1 you get the hang. The next decision is if you want to honor or just scrape and pass. You can pass medschool so damn easily with soooo little workout- you just memorize the teachers hand outs. YOu learn jack **** most times but i have seen 100s do it. Alot of those people probably honored.. Oh and if you havent figured it by year 1, honoring classes is for poeple who sit there andmemorize verbatim a teachers syllabus, no matter how useless it is. however those same people dont often learn.
Second if you want all honors and you want to learn. You are going to be studying a HELL of a lot. Especially if you go to class and need outsiding reading. I stopped going to class after the first month of m1 and never again wetn and now im an m3. I had TONS more time to complete my work and then still go out 3 or 4 times a week for the year. I really did have a fun first year but i wasnt honoring everything, nor did i learn 2 subjects that i later spent my summer doing becaseu i did not want to come out of first year not having "learned" all the material well. Its so true.. you better have LEARNED it the first go round cause with second year and your measly 6 weeks of boards, you ONLY have time to cruise over what you konw, and if you dont know it, you dont have time to spend a week learning the thalamus and all its inputs and outputs. You have an hour. So for example if you skated by neuro year 1 and passed but knew it was only cause you memorized your way through then id suggest learning any subject matter thoroughly yourself before ms2.
Even anatomy, sure one can say you wont remmeber the details, and the details you dont have to but its the whole pattern of anatomy, the big picture stuff and general relations of the body, general vessel paths, general lymph flow, General nerve path and the big nerves and dermatomes.. WIth that founcation that should never really be forgetton too poorly, that is the bulk of what you will need to have to answer step 1 questions. It doesnt matter that some tendon crosses under in 20 percent of people and over in 80 or some bull****.. LEARN first year and if that means sacrificing honors cause you couldnt memorize every tidbit, than still LEARN.. youll thank youself for step 1, ms3 and for yoru career as a competant physician. No other time in your life will you have a whole year, all daya nd all night to READ and LEARN.. not much else going on 2nd year. So take advn. While on clinics i cant imagine it to be the same coming home exhausted after 10 work hours and trying to read a couple chapters of something. 2nd year is agreat time to buckle down and study hard.. Remember you see people in your class going out maybe and they convince you, but remmeber its EVERYONE in teh COUNTRY you are competing with, not thos lazy ass classmates. just keep taht in mind, dont compared yourself to yhour class, compare yourself to the country, and i tell ya the country is full of smart people who study 24/7 and then clearn up every last good resid/ spot and laugh in the slackers face.
(contrary to what may have been written in dissension).
Someone assuage me asap! (First I look at old exams at my school and freak out and now this.. eeek)
