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How much do you study per week on average?
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"Average" weeks aren't all that easy to come by, especially second year in my curriculum. Lab work becomes the all-consuming beast, while our monthly exams are generally considered irritants (= my opinion and no one else's) that require a week of cramming that could be better spent working on our lab projects. Ergo, studying becomes a binge-and-purge thing. We had a monthly this past Monday, for example, and I've probably forgotten more information these past five days than I learned in four years of undergrad. 😉
Har har. 😉trypmo said:
Ditto EXACTLY what Bill said.
# of hrs studied will vary hugely from year to year. Not only are you in class more during the 1st & 2nd year than you are during 3rd & 4th, but by the time you've finished 2 yrs of school plus national boards (with more to come) you just don't have the energy you once had to study for hours/days at a time.
I would say 1st sem of 2nd yr was the worst. There is so much lab work (remov/fixed prosth, operative, pedo, endo) combined with some of the hardest classes (path, pharm and many more). With test and practicals hitting you each week, I honestly couldn't tell you which I'd consider "irritants", lab or didactic work.
It's true just about every traditional school (prob even non-traditional or pbl programs) will be memorization heavy. And in any such system you're bound to forget a great deal. The important thing is that the necessary concepts are repeated in multiple classes year after year. And I do think that at some point it becomes important for you to self educate. For example: if you don't understand how aspirin works or how/why it's important by your 3rd yr you should look it up. Eventually, what's important will stick and for all else you may encounter, buy a good reference book - drug handbook, internal medicine, complete dentures - whatever.
I would say 1st sem of 2nd yr was the worst. There is so much lab work (remov/fixed prosth, operative, pedo, endo) combined with some of the hardest classes (path, pharm and many more). With test and practicals hitting you each week, I honestly couldn't tell you which I'd consider "irritants", lab or didactic work.
It's true just about every traditional school (prob even non-traditional or pbl programs) will be memorization heavy. And in any such system you're bound to forget a great deal. The important thing is that the necessary concepts are repeated in multiple classes year after year. And I do think that at some point it becomes important for you to self educate. For example: if you don't understand how aspirin works or how/why it's important by your 3rd yr you should look it up. Eventually, what's important will stick and for all else you may encounter, buy a good reference book - drug handbook, internal medicine, complete dentures - whatever.
