Issues with anatomy...

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W19 said:
I don't freaking know what to do with anatomy! I had a low 70 in my first exam, then I studied my butt off and still got in the mid 70 in my second exam... Maybe I am not cut out to be a physician... I definitely don't know what to do. I have 3 more exam left and If that situation does not improve like getting 85+ in my next exam in ten days, I will definitely consider dropping out... Maybe I am not smart enough to be a physician and probably got into med school by chance.

My objective is to graduate med school with all classes above 79 as final score...
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if you aren't going to be a surgeon or radiologist, you really don't need to know much of anatomy at all.
once you are past M1 year, the only anatomy you need to know is google image search.

I need to know to order a chest CT to see the lungs, abdominal CT to see the appendix and head CT to see the brain, that's the extent of anatomy knowledge i need as am internal med attending^^.
 
Meerkatology said:
if you aren't going to be a surgeon or radiologist, you really don't need to know much of anatomy at all.
once you are past M1 year, the only anatomy you need to know is google image search.

I need to know to order a chest CT to see the lungs, abdominal CT to see the appendix and head CT to see the brain, that's the extent of anatomy knowledge i need as am internal med attending^^.
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Except as a med student/intern/resident, the IM attending makes you read the chest x-ray, etc. so anatomy is important as you can't just say I'll wait for the report.
 
touchpause13 said:
I decided I can no longer complain about histo after realizing that one of my friends here is colorblind and it sucks a million times more for him than for me
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I like Histo, because the text we use is high yield to the exam and is well written. I like being able to learn via text v. ppt slides.
 
NontradCA said:
I like Histo, because the text we use is high yield to the exam and is well written. I like being able to learn via text v. ppt slides.
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I really liked the Ross-Pawlina "Histology" text. Is that the one you use? One lecturer was really good too, but when she wasn't teaching the topic then Ross was there in a clutch.
 
DermViser said:
Except as a med student/intern/resident, the IM attending makes you read the chest x-ray, etc. so anatomy is important as you can't just say I'll wait for the report.
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And, generally, even as an attending in the ER right? I don't know how many radiologists like to wake up at 2 am just to say "...yep, dumby, thats pneumonia..."
 
southernIM said:
Well yes in a lot of cases you look at your own imaging, but most EDs will have 24/7 radiology coverage - often using "nighthawk" type services. You actually end up getting a lot of imaging studies overnight (esp in a busy ED that takes traumas)
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Ah I see. Yeah, we've been told there will definitely be many hours where we're looking at our own images a lot of the time (this coming from a school training predominantly rural docs). In contrast, we're probably not going to be looking at our own histo slides, outside of its use of garnering an understanding of disease processes.
 
I'm sorry, but if you're a doctor that cant read images at all within your specialty and just blindly wait for the read, you're a piece of **** doctor.
 
xffan624 said:
I really liked the Ross-Pawlina "Histology" text. Is that the one you use? One lecturer was really good too, but when she wasn't teaching the topic then Ross was there in a clutch.
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Yep, that's the one!
 
Lol, this thread is still going. 🙄

The best thing you could do is to talk to a couple of 2nd years and ask how they studied for internal exams. The teaching styles varies from school to school, so not all advice given here is applicable to your internal exams. I used BRS, Pretest and Gray's Anatomy Qbook to prepare for internals.
 
Frazier said:
Who planted these seeds in your mind?

Where did you get the idea that 70's in preclinical anatomy course is going to stop you from obtaining a psych residency?

...I mean, come on.
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This.

70 is PASSING. Below an 80(79) is a PASSING GRADE FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL. You don't need to get 80s in every class to pass Step 1. You don't need to get 80s to match into IM.
 
KnuxNole said:
This.

70 is PASSING. Below an 80(79) is a PASSING GRADE FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL. You don't need to get 80s in every class to pass Step 1. You don't need to get 80s to match into IM.
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OP wants a B average across all courses, for some reason. Maybe he/she gets extra in allowance or something.
 
DermViser said:
OP wants a B average across all courses, for some reason. Maybe he/she gets extra in allowance or something.
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I wanted at least B in every single class because of what I have read in SDN... People here kind of make you feel like if you are below average in med school and you don't have a good step1 score, PD will toss your residency application in a trash can. Overall, I was probably misinformed about the process. I talked to the school psychologist yesterday and it did not even take her 5 minutes to figure out that my fear of not finding a residency in psych or FM if I rank at the bottom of the 3rd quartile or below was grossly exaggerated. I was able to speak also with the person who counsel students on residency application and it was clearly evident that I was uninformed after she spoke to me... She went over some of these stuff during orientation, but I was not there that day. I was so relieved after talking to her yesterday. Boy! I was torturing myself for no reason whatsoever... Now I am going to study hard and have a good time in med school; I won't care that much about class rank as long as I can pass my classes...

Do you guys/gals think she is correct when she said that as long as I pass my courses and pass step1 (first attempt), I should have no problem matching in psych or FM? She knows that I will have some research under my belt since research is mandatory at my school.
 
W19 said:
I wanted at least B in every single class because of what I have read in SDN... People here kind of make you feel like if you are below average in med school and you don't have a good step1 score, PD will toss your residency application in a trash can. Overall, I was probably misinformed about the process. I talked to the school psychologist yesterday and it did not even take her 5 minutes to figure out that my fear of not finding a residency in psych or FM if I rank at the bottom of the 3rd quartile or below was grossly exaggerated. I was able to speak also with the person who counsel students on residency application and it was clearly evident that I was uninformed after she spoke to me... She went over some of these stuff during orientation, but I was not there that day. I was so relieved after talking to her yesterday. Boy! I was torturing myself for no reason whatsoever... Now I am going to study hard and have a good time in med school; I won't care that much about class rank as long as I can pass my classes...

Do you guys/gals think she is correct when she said that as long as I pass my courses and pass step1 (first attempt), I should have no problem matching in psych or FM? She knows that I will have some research under my belt since research is mandatory at my school.
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Ok, it started off reading well, and then you went into la-la land ridiculous territory. The lesson to be learned is not to overanalyze every little thing to where you're questioning med school at every single exam. It's to do your very best, take care of yourself physically/mentally/emotionally, and do the very best that you can and reach your potential. And why, I must ask, did you skip orientation??

Whatever you do - don't just aim for "Pass". If you get a "Pass" even after your best efforts, then let it go, but don't AIM for a Pass. The better you do the more options you have in terms of location and programs even in Family Med or Psych.
 
What I've been *trying* to do is to aim to do my best in all my classes. That's really all you can ask of yourself and I feel like just aiming to pass would encourage slacking while aiming for a 4.0 will stress you too much for no reason.

Honestly I feel like OP is seeing things wayy too much in black and white
 
DermViser said:
Ok, it started off reading well, and then you went into la-la land ridiculous territory. The lesson to be learned is not to overanalyze every little thing to where you're questioning med school at every single exam. It's to do your very best, take care of yourself physically/mentally/emotionally, and do the very best that you can and reach your potential. And why, I must ask, did you skip orientation??

Whatever you do - don't just aim for "Pass". If you get a "Pass" even after your best efforts, then let it go, but don't AIM for a Pass. The better you do the more options you have in terms of location and programs even in Family Med or Psych.
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When I said 'I won't care that much about class rank', I meant to say that I am going to buss my behind without thinking about it...

I was late one day during orientation because of traffic... She told me to schedule an appointment with her so she can go over what she talked about that day regrading residency application, but I never followed up on it... That 30 minutes of orientation that I missed made me miserable for the last 4 months...
 
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touchpause13 said:
What I've been *trying* to do is to aim to do my best in all my classes. That's really all you can ask of yourself and I feel like just aiming to pass would encourage slacking while aiming for a 4.0 will stress you too much for no reason.

Honestly I feel like OP is seeing things wayy too much in black and white
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Probably... But all I can do right now is study to get a 4.0 and not worrying about stuff that are beyond my control.
 
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W19 said:
Probably... But all I can do right now is study to get a 4.0 and not worrying about stuff that are beyond my control.
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Nice to know you've been relieved, but it might be good to keep an eye on what look like your neurotic/anxious tendencies, because that's what the school psychologist is there to help you with, not to assuage your anxieties about some technical nut/bolt in the entire med school process.
 
redpanda said:
Nice to know you've been relieved, but it might be good to keep an eye on what look like your neurotic/anxious tendencies, because that's what the school psychologist is there to help you with, not to assuage your anxieties about some technical nut/bolt in the entire med school process.
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😱😱 What would make you ever say such a thing? 😉
 
redpanda said:
I may be a MS4 and pretty removed from patients at this point, but even I can see this one. It could be a Step 1 question! 😀
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Yes, it reminded me of a Case Files clinical vignette to the letter.
 
If you have a pulse, you can match psych.

FM is a bit more competitive, but literally any graduate from a US school with no red flags (eg fails/professionalism) can match into decent programs.
 
Anatomy was a struggle, so glad to be done with it. My class' syllabus was actually very detailed, and anything else that I wasn't quite getting was supplemented with Robbins and Moore.
 
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