M1's Typical Day.

[JourneyToMD]

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For those of us matriculating in the fall, could M1s (or M2/M3/M4) share an outline of what your "typical day is"? Maybe you can give us your personal outline of when you awake, when you study, squeeze room in for exercise, go out (if ever?), etc etc. It'd be much appreciated for those of us who are, well, 😱 . Thanks in advance!

 

[colbgw02]

It really depends on whether or not you decide to go to class. As I'm sure you're aware, most schools have some sort of system for getting lecture material to the students without actually having to show up.

If you decide not to go to class, then the day is yours, for the most part. There may be an occasional lab or clinical skills class that's mandatory, but that's it.

Class started at 8am for me and ended on average between 2 and 3pm. That wasn't always straight through lecture though, and you'll almost always get the lunch hour off. In fact, there was almost always a free lunch somewhere. Again, after that, the day is yours. Keep in mind that if your schools still does cadaveric dissections, expect to spent a lot more time at school during gross.

During the pre-clinical years, there's no reason why you can't expect to go out with regularity, but don't expect your entire class to do so. You'll find many people who will stay home on a Friday night to study. It was always an interesting dynamic between those who studied/those who went out, those who just got out of college/those who already had a career, etc. Of course, if there's a test block, then nearly everyone tends to go into crisis lockdown mode.

 

[deleted50541]

I'd say you summed up my experience with first year pretty nicely. 👍

 

[Hurricane95]

Like colbgw02 said above me, it all depends if I'm going to class that day of course. Assuming I'm going to all my classes, I wake up at 6:40 and leave home by like 7:30 (for my 9am class) because of the insane Miami traffic. I commute 12 miles or so to the undergrad campus in coral gables (which takes an hour in morning traffic) and jump on the metrorail for a 20 minute ride to the med campus. Class goes form 9-12, and lunch is at 12. Here it varies: some days every now and then, this ends our day at school, and the rest of the day is free. On other days we have additional class at 1pm for 1 or 2 hours or small groups / clinical skills sessions. We rarely ever have anything scheduled past 3pm. This varies during anatomy of course, during which we had this schedule + dissection lab from 2 to like 6 or 6:30, 3-4 days a week. It sucked by the way.

To answer your fears, yes, you can have a life in med school. It all depends on how you manage your time. I usually try to study 1-2 hours a day, and on some days I slack and do nothing. I hang out with my friends a lot and go out on the weekends (except on the weekend just prior to a major monday exam, thats when you have to go full power on the studying). You can have free time to enjoy yourself, workout, etc. It all depends on your time management.

 

[SeventhSon]

Wake up at 8am and don't attend my 8am class, or any lecture, for that matter.

Eat breakfast, go to coffee shop to study until 1 or 2. Come home, go running, eat lunch, some combination of study/TV/guitar/take a nap until 6 when I eat dinner, then study 7-12 or so.

Go to the 5 or so hours of required class a week, in which case I will study at the library most of the day. Go to free clinic for 5 hours every monday (my elective).

Sat and Sun - Study all day, or go to the beach if its nice and I don't have a test.

Go out friday and/or saturday night.

Probably average of 50 hours studying per week, with 5 hours of required class attended.

 

[Flopotomist]

Daily life will be hugely different based on which school you go to. At my school (Loyola) the overwhelming majority of us (130/140) attend nearly all of the lectures during the first year.

For a snapshot of what your day will look like, it would be best to talk with students at the school you are considering. Oh... and yeah, there is still room for a life, albeit a carefully scheduled one.

 

[Critical Mass]

Wake up at about 1000. Exercise and do elliptical for an hour or so while thumbing through BRS. Eat lunch. Make phone calls. Work from 1400 to 2230. Come home, read mail, SDN, go to bed, and watch taped programs. On the weekend, substitute clubbing for working. On days with required class, nix the working or go in at 1600. Fortunately class wasn't required that often.

On weeks prior to exams, substitute the class syllabus for BRS and multiply the elliptical time by four. During exam weeks, I did about 30 hours of elliptical over six days.

 

[Law2Doc]

For those of us matriculating in the fall, could M1s (or M2/M3/M4) share an outline of what your "typical day is"? Maybe you can give us your personal outline of when you awake, when you study, squeeze room in for exercise, go out (if ever?), etc etc. It'd be much appreciated for those of us who are, well, 😱 . Thanks in advance!

I actually think there is no typical. Some people will find they get more out of lecture and attend, others will not. Some people need to study 24/7, either just to get by or to put themselves in a better position for future goals, others not. Some people find early morning studying more effective than late evening studying. Some people find going out after studying pretty regularly to be a nice release, while others limit their fun to the night after the exam. In truth, you will hardly find two people in med school who do the exact same thing. The goal in med school is to find whatever schedule and methods and balance works for you as rapidly as possible. What worked in college frequently doesn't in med school, so expect to work hard and be flexible and ready to adjust things as they don't pan out.

 

[45408]

I'm with L2D on this one. There is no typical. Some people on SDN have razor sharp minds, and when they say they don't study much, that applies to THEM, and not EVERYONE, because I've had to study a pretty significant amount.

There are definitely slacker days, most especially right after an exam block, but as finals get closer, there will be few (or none, if you're me) of those days.

 

[lilnoelle]

Wake up at about 1000. Exercise and do elliptical for an hour or so while thumbing through BRS. Eat lunch. Make phone calls. Work from 1400 to 2230. Come home, read mail, SDN, go to bed, and watch taped programs. On the weekend, substitute clubbing for working. On days with required class, nix the working or go in at 1600. Fortunately class wasn't required that often.

On weeks prior to exams, substitute the class syllabus for BRS and multiply the elliptical time by four. During exam weeks, I did about 30 hours of elliptical over six days.

wow 😱 I don't think I could pass with this type of schedule.

I get up at around 7:30, get my kids ready and take them to daycare (8:30) go home and go over lecture material around noon. Then I'll take off and do something I want to for an hour or two, come back home and listen to that day's podcasts. That probably takes 2 hours. I'll then goof off for a while or maybe exercise, pick up my kids around 6:00, and then the rest of the night is filled with kids and maybe some TV/or a movie. On Saturdays I spend 6-8 hours at the school trying to go over all of the weeks material once again.
Sunday I probably study for 3-4 hours and try to finish up whatever I couldn't get done on Saturday.

Every week we also have 2-3 afternoon activities at the school. Those require about 3 hours of my time, so on those days I goof off less.

Test weeks are more intense.

 

[SeventhSon]

I'm with L2D on this one. There is no typical. Some people on SDN have razor sharp minds, and when they say they don't study much, that applies to THEM, and not EVERYONE, because I've had to study a pretty significant amount.

There are definitely slacker days, most especially right after an exam block, but as finals get closer, there will be few (or none, if you're me) of those days.

also understand the massive amount of BSing that people do with each other in med school. 99% of people who claim they studied 4 hours total for a test are lying or failing.

 

[Trismegistus4]

Keep in mind that if your schools still does cadaveric dissections, expect to spent a lot more time at school during gross.

"Still?" Is dissection of a cadaver something medical schools have been eliminating? I thought it was a sine qua non of medical school and that they all did it.

 

[Law2Doc]

"Still?" Is dissection of a cadaver something medical schools have been eliminating? I thought it was a sine qua non of medical school and that they all did it.

I think as med school classes increase and access to cadavers becomes more difficult/expensive, a handful of schools are opting for less traditional, more cost effective options, such as computerized virtual dissection. But you are correct, the majority of med schools still use cadavers, and hopefully always will.

 

[Law2Doc]

also understand the massive amount of BSing that people do with each other in med school. 99% of people who claim they studied 4 hours total for a test are lying or failing.

Agree with this - for some reason people think it makes them "cool" to brag about how little studying they do. Probably some holdover college mentality when many less ambitious classmates were truly coasting through school/life.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

On non-small group days

Wake up at 1 or 2, download the lectures, watch and take notes, then a combo of study old material and reviewing the days lectures, along with TV, video games, and exercise until I go to sleep around 3am.

When I have small group:
Wake up around 8:45, go to SG at 10, at 12 head home, and do previously what I did during the day, going to bed slightly earlier.

Unfortunately in 2nd year this will all change for me 🙁. Mandatory small groups and they're at 8am to boot! Boo!

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I'm not very organized, and my school doesn't have much required attendance so I don't have a typical day. On my more responsible days, I wake up around 9am or so and study off and on for a decent chunk of the day. I normally don't study much after dinner. During the day I also take breaks for eating, working out and wasting time online. On my less responsible days, there's a lot more wasting time and a lot less studying. During exam week and the week leading up to it, I study most of the time.

 

[browniegirl86]

First, let me say that I always go to lecture.

Class usually starts at 8, but sometimes it's not until 9 or 10. A typical morning is a mixture of lectures, small group sessions, and/or patient presentations.

Lunch hour is free time, and usually I either go to spinning at the gym or grab a free lunch at journal club or some talk or the other.

Afternoon is either free or taken up with lab, preceptorship, or other clinical activities. 2 hours a week on Thursday I have Foundations of Patient Care, which is a 6-person small group that meets weekly all 4 years of med school. We do H&P practice, PBL, and talk about things like end-of-life, etc.

After that, I read, watch tv, cook, take my dog to the park and/or go to homeless clinic.

 

[Critical Mass]

wow 😱 I don't think I could pass with this type of schedule.

In all fairness, most people wouldn't be happy with my string of B's. 😕

Some days I just think about LN when I'm on the elliptical. It hurts my exam scores, but I feel energized later on.

 

[Kris1]

In all fairness, most people wouldn't be happy with my string of B's. 😕

Some days I just think about LN when I'm on the elliptical. It hurts my exam scores, but I feel energized later on.

I'm with you on your schedule. I have two kids so I get up earlier, but you and I put the same amount of studying in I would say. I skip class, study for a few hours, goof off, study some more and then wind down. Also like you, I have all B's. I'm satisfied to have that and have a life also. Not saying that those who make A's have no life, but I would be required to have no life to get A's.

 

[OrnotMajestic]

1) Wake up to alarm at 8am.
2) Turn off alarm and roll over to sleep more.
3) Wake up at noon, cursing that I've "wasted the day".
4) Check my email/SDN/etc for a half hour, then go into the bathroom to take care of the 3 S's.
5) Make breakfast and call study-buddy to find out where he's been for the past 4 hours. I tell him I'll be "right there".
6) Realize Maury Povich is on. Can't leave till I find out just who the father is.
7) Arrive at Panera/Barnes & Noble/Library at 3pm. Apologize to study partner. He rolls his eyes since he's used to it.

After that, nothing is set in stone.

Too bad things are going to change July 2nd when I start my OB/GYN rotation. 🙁 I'll actually have to get up finally!!

 

[OrnotMajestic]

I'm with you on your schedule. I have two kids so I get up earlier, but you and I put the same amount of studying in I would say. I skip class, study for a few hours, goof off, study so more and then wind down. Also like you, I have all B's. I'm satisfied to have that and have a life also. Not saying that those who make A's have no life, but I would be required to have no life to get A's.

I like having a life outside of school, too! Finally, I have something to squander. 😉

 

[Law2Doc]

In all fairness, most people wouldn't be happy with my string of B's. 😕

Actually, I think she was suggesting that at some schools a lot of people might be doing a string of repeated courses/years with that schedule.

 

[indo]

last week:
up at 6am
study
lunch
study
dinner #1
study
dinner #2
study
lay in bed wide awake due to insomnia and anxiety.

 

[CCLCMer]

For those of us matriculating in the fall, could M1s (or M2/M3/M4) share an outline of what your "typical day is"? Maybe you can give us your personal outline of when you awake, when you study, squeeze room in for exercise, go out (if ever?), etc etc. It'd be much appreciated for those of us who are, well, 😱 . Thanks in advance!

Good grief, you can read about every single day of my entire M1 year if you want to. Click my blog link. And don't worry. You will have time to exercise and sleep, but you just have to be reasonable about it. Good luck this fall. 🙂

BTW, for the people asking if all med schools do dissections, we don't. Our anatomy labs are prosections, so we spend a lot less time in anatomy lab than most med students do. We also continue going to occasional anatomy sessions during our second and third year, which is not the norm either. For people who want to dissect, we have optional dissection during the second year.

 

[Rogue Synapse]

My typical day does not really involve studying. I usually go to most lectures and labs, unless I decide that I don't benefit from a certain professor's lecturing. Often, I will then skip that class and go read the notes from that lecture instead. Otherwise, I'm one of those people that leads a relatively low-stress lifestyle, at least up until exam week. I honestly don't know where my time goes - it seems like I keep busy somehow, but I don't have any sort of routine whatsoever. I will meet with friends for about 1.5 hrs twice a week to review; this constitutes my sole source of studying until exam week.

However, since MUSC has an entire week of class-free study time before our exam (which is a comprehensive, cumulative, day-long exam taken from all classes), I spend that weekend prior and the entire study week studying 8am-midnight or so. I guess that's cramming, but it seems to work out okay for me. It's not even all that stressful, because I always study collaboratively with a group of friends, and it's actually kind of fun to talk through things and learn things with other people like me (i.e. slackers and procrastinators).

My grades aren't the best (A-B average), but just the other day I found myself thinking "I can't wait for school to start back up next month", so I really enjoy med school. Some of my friends say that they would actually stress out more by leading a life like mine, but then again they're the type A geniuses who are making better grades than me anyway. I love school, and if you can learn to relax in the face of what really doesn't have to be a stressful situation and just get things done, you'll enjoy school too.

 

[Trindelinberg]

During the week I wake up an hour before class, go to class usually around 9-10am, class runs until 3-4pm, after that chill at the library until around 8-9pm, hit the gym, eat something light (captain crunch), and go to bed around midnight. On weekends I like to study early so that I've usually gotten 5-6 hours of study by 3pm. Depending on the course load you can sometimes take several days off a week. Before exams I feel like I study less because I'm usually hanging out in review groups and just talking about the material instead of reading but it's a lot of fun, like one of the posters above mentioned, and it relieves stress to study in groups. Anatomy will take a lot of time but what's good is that you shouldn't have to study too much for it out of class or lab because you learn a great deal during dissections. Good luck to you.

 

[rmorriso]

Wake up next to the supermodel I'm sleeping with that week.

Go to lecture for an hour.

Photographically memorize all the material for the day over lunch.

Compete in a triathalon.

Help an old woman across the street.

Volunteer at a children's center.

Do 10,000 pushups.

Go to a club.

Buy a bottle of Patron.

Find the next supermodel.

On exam weeks I might switch the bottle of patron for a bottle of kristal and the triathalon for a half marathon. I never neglect the old lady though.

 

[tulane06]

Wake Up

Shower

Study

Wallow in Self-Pity

Study

Wallow in Self-Pity

Eat

Study

Sleep

 

[odrade1]

Typical day for my first year:

up at 8 or 8:30
arrive at school 9 or 10 (usually skip first hour of class each day)
attend the rest of the day's lectures
done between 3 and 5
visit with friends 30 minutes to 1 hour &/or workout
drive home
have dinner & relax with my partner till 6:30 or so
drive to a bookstore & study till 11
once home, I read or play video games from 11:15 to 2am

Weekends
(add 1 hour of sleep per day)
instead of going to school I visit with partner and my parents
study 4-8 hours per weekend day, depending on proximity of exams

my first year grades: As & Bs
my first year stress: low
my first year happiness: very good

good luck to you next year.

 

[CarolinaGirl]

My typical day does not really involve studying. I usually go to most lectures and labs, unless I decide that I don't benefit from a certain professor's lecturing. Often, I will then skip that class and go read the notes from that lecture instead. Otherwise, I'm one of those people that leads a relatively low-stress lifestyle, at least up until exam week. I honestly don't know where my time goes - it seems like I keep busy somehow, but I don't have any sort of routine whatsoever. I will meet with friends for about 1.5 hrs twice a week to review; this constitutes my sole source of studying until exam week.

However, since MUSC has an entire week of class-free study time before our exam (which is a comprehensive, cumulative, day-long exam taken from all classes), I spend that weekend prior and the entire study week studying 8am-midnight or so. I guess that's cramming, but it seems to work out okay for me. It's not even all that stressful, because I always study collaboratively with a group of friends, and it's actually kind of fun to talk through things and learn things with other people like me (i.e. slackers and procrastinators).

So did you organize the group you study with your self or is this something most students do?
So when it is exam week you just have one big exam that covers all current classes? How do you like that? Do you feel it intergrates the material more?
Does MUSC require a certain amt. of class attendance?
-sorry for all the q's I applied there this summer and have q's-🙂

 

[psipsina]

Non classgoer here. During first semester of M1 we had mandatory cadaver dissection so for those days I showed up at school at 8am for anatomy lecture and stayed until noon for dissection. This seriously cramped my style because it meant I had to start studying after lunch instead of being almost done. Otherwise:

Wake up at 7am, shower, make breakfast, check e-mail
8am - noon: study in 45 minute blocks with breaks for video games/internet etc that usually stretch out longer than the planned 15 minutes
noon-1pm: lunch break

from here on depends entirely upon 1) how much I actually got done in the morning, 2) how close to an exam I am and 3) whether I have to show up to school for a skills lab or a small group that afternoon

I generally worked out or took a nap every afternoon, whichever felt like it would be more beneficial to my mental state, sometimes both. The less I got done in the morning or the closer I was to an exam the longer I would continue to work in 45 minute blocks. I usually try for 5-6 study blocks minimum, which for me is going through 2-3 lectures worth of material. Near a test I will continue this till bed at midnight with only an hour dinner break at some point in the midst of this.

 

[Rogue Synapse]

So did you organize the group you study with your self or is this something most students do?
So when it is exam week you just have one big exam that covers all current classes? How do you like that? Do you feel it intergrates the material more?
Does MUSC require a certain amt. of class attendance?
-sorry for all the q's I applied there this summer and have q's-🙂

Study habits vary so widely between different students. It seems like the go-it-alone approach (become a hermit and study alone until you go crazy) is pretty popular, but I can't handle that, nor do I have the self-discipline. Others do organize structured study groups and have regular meetings. Again, I'm not disciplined enough for that.

My group sort of evolved naturally. A few people in my class that I didn't even know that well were studying one afternoon, and I tagged along. It was at the very beginning of exam week, and we wound up really talking through stuff well. We just started meeting more regularly during exam weeks, and our grades went up as a result. By the end of the year, it was just assumed that we would all be camping out in a room in the library all week and we planned on studying together. It worked out great because we all had similar learning styles and procrastinatory habits. I recommend at least reviewing with other people, because when you have to explain concepts to other people, it's amazing how well they stick.

Regarding the exam schedule: I love it. It had to grow on me, but I like not having to worry too much about exams until they actually loom on next week's schedule. Studying for all classes at the same time seems like it would be a pain in the ass, but it actually really helps integrate everything. MUSC has a quasi systems-based approach to the material, so it's really gratifying to learn about something that applies to three classes at a time; you really feel like you master something that way.

I love Charleston so much, and MUSC is a good (underrated) school. Please PM me if you have any questions about it.

(edit: "camping out" does not entail actually sleeping there; it's just our slang for living there 18 hrs/day)

 

[megadon]

As far as M1 is concerned, deffinitely dependant on two factors, your school's curriculum and your desire to go to class. Our first semster, three blocks, was Gross Anatomy (which pretty much every one attended and was 8-10), physiology, and Molecular Basis of Disease (hodge podge class that covered genetics and such). MBOD was typically the blow off class, cause the non MD's sucked, and once podcasting starting, no point. Physiology, as an engineer I understood, can't speak for you. First semester sucked, 8-3,4,or 5. After Christmas, sans GA, pick up immunology. Generally in school till 1. Unless there is a lab, but very uncommon.

MS2, having done six weeks of it. 8-1. Unless lab. Unfortunately you actually do need that time if you are me to study. Now coming back in four weeks and picking up patho-phys, I expect a 8-2 course. However, that's shooting from the hip.

If you are PBL, completely ignore my answer, find a rosary, and ask for God's mercy on your soul. There is nothing more fun that spending time with four other people who have no idea what's going on. Twenty minutes of a lecturor telling you what's a problem vs three hours of google, guess what I pick. Thank goodness my school relegated PBL to the least releveant class.

 

[akpete]

1) Wake up to alarm at 8am.
2) Turn off alarm and roll over to sleep more.
3) Wake up at noon, cursing that I've "wasted the day".
4) Check my email/SDN/etc for a half hour, then go into the bathroom to take care of the 3 S's.
5) Make breakfast and call study-buddy to find out where he's been for the past 4 hours. I tell him I'll be "right there".
6) Realize Maury Povich is on. Can't leave till I find out just who the father is.
7) Arrive at Panera/Barnes & Noble/Library at 3pm. Apologize to study partner. He rolls his eyes since he's used to it.

After that, nothing is set in stone.

Too bad things are going to change July 2nd when I start my OB/GYN rotation. 🙁 I'll actually have to get up finally!!

Yup, this sounds about right. My first rotation (medicine) has been a little rough for the sleep schedule. I was used to getting 10 or 11 hours per night during 1st and 2nd year. Hitting surgery in September, so these 2 months are a "warm up" I guess for even less sleep.

And unless it was a weekend before exam week, I pretty much always went out. And after a while into 2nd year, the no going out before exam week rule kinda got ignored.

 

[Hayden2102]

I have roughly 35-40 hours contact with uni per week, most of it mandatory (we have to attend 80% of the classes that they actually take attendance at or we're not allowed to sit the exam).

- Usually 15-20 hours are lectures (come if you want, notes are provided but there's usually extra stuff to be gained from the lectures).
- CBL 3-4 hours (compulsory)
- Seminars (smaller lectures with class input and participation) 6 hours. (compulsory)
- Labs/clinical skills/etc (anatomy/path/micro/patient stufF) around 10 hours. (compulsory)

So usually it's 9-5 every day, with 1 or 2 hours break for lunch, hanging around and stuff.
Usually exercise after that if I'm not too tired.
Go home, make dinner and hang about for an hour or two, then study for a few hours.

Weekends, usually try to study all day (9-5 if I can). Don't go out much.

It's pretty hectic at times but I have a great cohort to hang out with and chat with between classes, so I use that as "the social side of my life". Try and see non-med friends and my family on weekend nights.

As far as study habits go, I have a study group that I meet up with maybe once a week, but it's mainly to clarify stuff that we aren't sure about, rather than actually learn stuff together. My study method is to write out all my lecture notes, and the lecturer's notes, with supplementary information from the text, into a big mega file during the semester, trying to make it as well-organised as I can. We also get learning objectives so I make summaries based on them as well. Then just before exam study break, I get it all printed into a book and then learn from that. It's worked so far, and I learn a lot just by processing the information while I write it.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Study habits vary so widely between different students. It seems like the go-it-alone approach (become a hermit and study alone until you go crazy) is pretty popular, but I can't handle that, nor do I have the self-discipline. Others do organize structured study groups and have regular meetings. Again, I'm not disciplined enough for that.

My group sort of evolved naturally. A few people in my class that I didn't even know that well were studying one afternoon, and I tagged along. It was at the very beginning of exam week, and we wound up really talking through stuff well. We just started meeting more regularly during exam weeks, and our grades went up as a result. By the end of the year, it was just assumed that we would all be camping out in a room in the library all week and we planned on studying together. It worked out great because we all had similar learning styles and procrastinatory habits. I recommend at least reviewing with other people, because when you have to explain concepts to other people, it's amazing how well they stick.

Regarding the exam schedule: I love it. It had to grow on me, but I like not having to worry too much about exams until they actually loom on next week's schedule. Studying for all classes at the same time seems like it would be a pain in the ass, but it actually really helps integrate everything. MUSC has a quasi systems-based approach to the material, so it's really gratifying to learn about something that applies to three classes at a time; you really feel like you master something that way.

I love Charleston so much, and MUSC is a good (underrated) school. Please PM me if you have any questions about it.

(edit: "camping out" does not entail actually sleeping there; it's just our slang for living there 18 hrs/day)

You mean to say that procrastinators can survive medical school?!

 

[blue_feiyan]

You mean to say that procrastinators can survive medical school?!

yes..absolutely. living proof here. I paid the price of it with my class rank but I passed and I'm now a 3rd year 🙂

 

[LifetimeDoc]

Yup, this sounds about right. My first rotation (medicine) has been a little rough for the sleep schedule. I was used to getting 10 or 11 hours per night during 1st and 2nd year. Hitting surgery in September, so these 2 months are a "warm up" I guess for even less sleep.

And unless it was a weekend before exam week, I pretty much always went out. And after a while into 2nd year, the no going out before exam week rule kinda got ignored.

Just curious for those types of people that have a pretty relaxed life in medical school, do you have a photographic memory or just absorb/retain material the first time you are exposed to it, never needing to review it again? I have to sit down and spend some time with the material to master it, even after going to lecture and reading the material.

 

[caffienefree]

med school sounds fun tho

I mean it's true that you will have to manage your time well and etc but it sounds great that you can take on a huge responsibility 🙂

I'm still deciding my field

 

[CCLCMer]

Just curious for those types of people that have a pretty relaxed life in medical school, do you have a photographic memory or just absorb/retain material the first time you are exposed to it, never needing to review it again? I have to sit down and spend some time with the material to master it, even after going to lecture and reading the material.

I'm a re-reviewer too. I also need to come up with some kind of framework to organize the info. I don't do too well with just memorizing random lists of facts. Luckily, we don't have to do that here too much. 🙂

 

[amolamedicina]

Bumping! These are very fun to read😀