I'm confused...

[PreMed86]

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Okay, the first two years of med-school are in class, and the last two are clinical rotations, correct?

After that, typically, you would become a resident?

So if I plan to go into psychiatry, then I would start my psychiatry residency after graduating from med-school? (Does this mean I won't have to do any of that other stuff like operations and all the dirty work?)

Can someone please clear this up for me? Thanks a lot!

 

[docB]

You will do 2 yrs of classroom med school. Anatomy, Biochem, path, physio, pathophys, etc. You will then do 2 years of clinical rotations including medicine, surgery, OB/GYN, FP, peds, etc. This is where you will do your dirty work. Long hours, caustic attendings, frequent humiliation... med school. Once you graduate med school you will not touch bodies again to paraphrase The House Of God. To get info about the particulars of a psych residency check out the psych forum.

 

[Adawaal]

Once you graduate med school you will not touch bodies again to paraphrase The House Of God.

If it's psych you're interested in, forget about The House of God and instead read another of Shem's books, Mount Misery. It follows the protagonist from the original through a portion of his psych residency and in many ways is MUCH funnier than HoG was.

 

[Mirror Form]

You still have to do an internship if you go into psych. So after finishing med school, you'll still have the one year of dirty work.

 

[PreMed86]

Oh great... so it's the third and fourth of years of medical school where you're working 80 hours a week? (All this time I thought that was after med school).

And about the surgery and dirty stuff... do you actually have to <b>lead</b> in the surgery, or are you just one of the people that you see standing by the surgeon who assists? (I so hope it's the latter...)

 

[Heeed!]

If it's psych you're interested in, forget about The House of God and instead read another of Shem's books, Mount Misery. It follows the protagonist from the original through a portion of his psych residency and in many ways is MUCH funnier than HoG was.

How can it be funnier than the original HoG??? I find that difficult to believe. I nearly hurt myself from laughing while reading it...

 

[Seaglass]

No, in Med school there is no 80 hour limit for students.

C

 

[PreMed86]

Goodness...

How are you graded anyway? Just on the job, or do you have written tests over what you may/should have learned during a set period of time in the clinic?

 

[njbmd]

Goodness...

How are you graded anyway? Just on the job, or do you have written tests over what you may/should have learned during a set period of time in the clinic?

Hi there,
Grades in the pre-clinic stuff are by exam. Grades during the clinical years of medical school are by exam and subjective evaluation. After medical school, you are subject to evaluation by your chief residents and attending faculty physicians in addition to your In-training exams.

njbmd 🙂

 

[PreMed86]

Thanks everyone.

 

[16846]

Hi there,
Grades in the pre-clinic stuff are by exam. Grades during the clinical years of medical school are by exam and subjective evaluation. After medical school, you are subject to evaluation by your chief residents and attending faculty physicians in addition to your In-training exams.

njbmd 🙂

There are "In-Training" exams? 😕

 

[Mirror Form]

Oh great... so it's the third and fourth of years of medical school where you're working 80 hours a week? (All this time I thought that was after med school).

And about the surgery and dirty stuff... do you actually have to <b>lead</b> in the surgery, or are you just one of the people that you see standing by the surgeon who assists? (I so hope it's the latter...)

well, fourth year of medical school is traditionally pretty easy, so don't worry about that year so much. In surgery, the amount you do as a medical student varies greatly. You'll find that standing around for five hours not touching anything while an operation takes place is pretty boring, and that you're much better off helping out in the operation. However, as a third year med student you will NEVER lead an operation, you'll usually just be happy when somebody lets you put some stitches in. Fourth year you can avoid surgery alltogether if you wish.

 

[16846]

Okay, the first two years of med-school are in class, and the last two are clinical rotations, correct?

After that, typically, you would become a resident?

So if I plan to go into psychiatry, then I would start my psychiatry residency after graduating from med-school? (Does this mean I won't have to do any of that other stuff like operations and all the dirty work?)

Can someone please clear this up for me? Thanks a lot!

I can't think of a single residency that doesn't have at least one internship year of "dirty work", I could be wrong though...?

 

[Asher]

In a psychiatry residency, the first year usually contains six months of psychiatry, two months of neurology, and four months of primary care (various combinations of family medicine, internal medicine, peds, er).

 

[PreMed86]

In a psychiatry residency, the first year usually contains six months of psychiatry, two months of neurology, and four months of primary care (various combinations of family medicine, internal medicine, peds, er).

What do you do in neurology? (That's not the same as neuro-surgery, is it? I'd hate to take part in something that risky and get sued or something)

 

[Mirror Form]

What do you do in neurology? (That's not the same as neuro-surgery, is it? I'd hate to take part in something that risky and get sued or something)

In neurology you do a full year of internship I believe. And it VERY different from neurosurg!