I know nothing

[jeff2005]

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I just started an I.D. elective and I don't know squat! It is very traumatizing. I have been so obsessed with this residency stuff that I haven't learned a thing in months. In fact, I know less now than I did as a 3rd year. My self-esteem is going down the toilet and never mind that I take Step 2 next week! Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm transitioning from the "I'm not going to match" worries to "I'm going to suck as a resident" worries.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I just started an I.D. elective and I don't know squat! It is very traumatizing. I have been so obsessed with this residency stuff that I haven't learned a thing in months. In fact, I know less now than I did as a 3rd year. My self-esteem is going down the toilet and never mind that I take Step 2 next week! Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm transitioning from the "I'm not going to match" worries to "I'm going to suck as a resident" worries.

Honestly jeff, I try not to think about this. Not having done a post-sophomore fellowship, I know I'm gonna be a complete dunce when residency starts. But the good thing is I can't get any worse. I can only improve and gain more knowledge.

I got boards next month. It's gonna suck.

 

[cytoborg]

Yeah, every time I start feeling confident (i.e., the end of an elective), I get knocked right back down again and begin having flashbacks to my underling days as a new medical student. Here I thought 4th yrs were supposed to move with the foxlike grace and style that comes with wisdom and experience. Yet, I am still a dunce. I can only imagine how I'll feel at the start of residency. Gee thanks Andy, it had actually never occurred to me that I may have colleauges who have done post-soph fellowships! Here I was relying on my colleagues being as clueless as I. 🙄 😀

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Yeah, I'd say that about 80% of path applicants this year have done PSFs. Hence, every 4 of 5 colleagues we associate with this summer will have a leg up on us and we will look really really stupid.

 

[yaah]

Yeah, I'd say that about 80% of path applicants this year have done PSFs. Hence, every 4 of 5 colleagues we associate with this summer will have a leg up on us and we will look really really stupid.

Andy is pulling our legs, everyone. I call shenanigans!

But yeah, that happened to me last year too. It usually happened when I would go and spend an hour working up a patient with a history and physical, reviewing labs, old records, etc, and then the attending would say, "So, how do you want to treat him?" Then I would kind of slump backwards and mumble something like "antibiotics" or "IV fluids." No one expects you to know everything, don't worry. Med school is not about becoming an expert - it's about learning contexts and associations and HOW to learn.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I hope and think my sarcasm was quite clear on that one 🙂. If I wanted to make it more believable I would've said something like 1 out of every 5 which even isn't true either.

Addendum-I would like to direct you to the fact that our forum has surpassed the IM forum. We shall take over Gas shortly.

 

[deschutes]

I have been so obsessed with this residency stuff that I haven't learned a thing in months. In fact, I know less now than I did as a 3rd year. My self-esteem is going down the toilet and never mind that I take Step 2 next week!

Ooh, another worrywart thread!

I'm with you on the self-esteem. That's the thing about final year - there's no med student more senior than you. I wish I had someone around to show me how the heck I'm supposed to make it through 3rd year rotations and match at the same time. I'm tired of being different!

Our school did a CaRMS pre-interview forum for the class - I went anyway, since there was free dinner. All Canadian interviews are done in January, can you imagine! And they tend to organize the dates so that candidates don't have to criss-cross the country.

I know that we're all basically all right, but it seems that so much depends on so little. I honestly don't know why people gamble. The adrenaline rushes I've had from the past 8 months alone.... 🙄

 

[Doctor B.]

I just started an I.D. elective and I don't know squat! It is very traumatizing. I have been so obsessed with this residency stuff that I haven't learned a thing in months. In fact, I know less now than I did as a 3rd year. My self-esteem is going down the toilet and never mind that I take Step 2 next week! Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm transitioning from the "I'm not going to match" worries to "I'm going to suck as a resident" worries.

Those feelings will continue to haunt you during residency 🙂. Every time I miss a pimp question from an attending or totally tank on a case, I wonder if I should even be doing this. Everyone goes through the same feelings at one time or another. An believe me, no one expects you to know squat about pathology when you start. Just keep at it and you'll do fine.

 

[cytoborg]

Yeah, I'd say that about 80% of path applicants this year have done PSFs. Hence, every 4 of 5 colleagues we associate with this summer will have a leg up on us and we will look really really stupid.

Even I didn't fall for that one. Nice try. 😉

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Even I didn't fall for that one. Nice try. 😉

Haha! Good. If you did fall for it, THEN I would call you stupid (kidding). 😀