Learning vs. Grades

[TTSD]

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You know, it's not that hard getting good marks on your test. But I'm constantly amazed by the professors and upperclassmen in lab. I wonder, is it experience, better memorizing, studying or what? Right now, I can just about tell what a structure is, clinical importance, etc etc. But I don't know if I could get into a dissection and start talking about all the related geography, probable pathways, loops, etc. So I don't feel as if I'm really learning it yet. Is this a problem, or do you guys just get it down as you go along and see it more often?

 

[tupac_don]

You know, it's not that hard getting good marks on your test. But I'm constantly amazed by the professors and upperclassmen in lab. I wonder, is it experience, better memorizing, studying or what? Right now, I can just about tell what a structure is, clinical importance, etc etc. But I don't know if I could get into a dissection and start talking about all the related geography, probable pathways, loops, etc. So I don't feel as if I'm really learning it yet. Is this a problem, or do you guys just get it down as you go along and see it more often?

Yea but aren't you at a Carribiean school???

 

[phoenixsupra]

Yea but aren't you at a Carribiean school???

Ok, that explains it. Thanks. 🙂

 

[Paws]

TTSD,

repetition, repetition, repetition is key for me.

 

[UCSBMed1]

Yea but aren't you at a Carribiean school???

D*mn, that was harsh. Especially coming from someone who has never even been to med school... 👎 🙄

 

[thackl]

Yea but aren't you at a Carribiean school???

Carib schools may have easier entrance requirements, but I have heard they can be more difficult on their students. Board scores out of most carib schools are suposedly pretty good.

 

[Super Rob]

A school is a school

Some have connections to little networks of well-known research institutions and can do a better job of hooking you up with a job in academia, but every single medical school teaches you how to be a doctor.

When it comes to clinical skills, don't assume top ranked research school equals the best place to learn medicine.

 

[Wednesday]

You know, it's not that hard getting good marks on your test. But I'm constantly amazed by the professors and upperclassmen in lab. I wonder, is it experience, better memorizing, studying or what? Right now, I can just about tell what a structure is, clinical importance, etc etc. But I don't know if I could get into a dissection and start talking about all the related geography, probable pathways, loops, etc. So I don't feel as if I'm really learning it yet. Is this a problem, or do you guys just get it down as you go along and see it more often?

Don't worry. Everything you're seeing and memorizing (and then probably forgetting) for the first time this year, you will see again next year and again the next year for the rest of your career. I mean there is new stuff too, but you will constantly revisit the basics as you add it on. One day you will slowly realize that you have built a nice little nest of understanding around the things that are important. The thing that never seems to change is the feeling that you will never know everything that you want to know or that you feel that you should. But I think that's a problem that doctors have for their entire careers, at least that's what I've heard from some attendings who have been doing this for a long time. Keeps us humble, I guess.

 

[tupac_don]

D*mn, that was harsh. Especially coming from someone who has never even been to med school... 👎 🙄

Not really, maybe not started med school yet, but already finished a professional school plus an undergrad degree. Although I haven't started classes yet, I know the difficulty level. Some of my courses weren't far off in difficulty level at all from med school. And yea I had a friend in Caribbiean school, says it's cake over there. Two you are 2nd year, oh yea you are definitely an expert, in the not at all kind of way. Case and point medical school is not eazy. The material is not hard but it is voluminous.