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I'm assuming you're an MS-1, you haven't even begun to taste how hard medical school is.
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Med school is a 60 hour a week job?
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I'm assuming you're an MS-1, you haven't even begun to taste how hard medical school is.
Unless you're one of those students whom being able to study and memorization is your forte, and you flounder on the wards when it comes to presenting succintly with all eyes on you, difficulty with interacting with people on topics other than medicine, being socially shy or socially awkward, etc. Not to mention if you're unlucky enough to have a really bad resident (perpetually miserable, stressed etc.) - where you're not given fair handshake to make an impression (but this is life). The MS-3 component does have huge subjective component in which your attending/resident/intern evaluation of you is more of a gestalt impression of you. For many, MS-3 was hardly easier, than the first 2 years in which you have the protection of the classroom.
Does your school not have recorded/videotaped lectures? Because IMHO, watching the lectures is going to class. Except you're at home in your pajamas.
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Which medical school make you go to a laboratory? (outside of Gross Anatomy for obvious reasons)
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Ours has microbiology lab component
We had mandatory path lab for most of second year, histo and micro first year.
Oh, I forgot, of course Histology lab to view slides. Surprised schools still do that considering most histologic images are readily available on the internet. I guess some schools still do lab practicals, and all. For Micro, I can understand doing so in Undergrad, but in medical school doing a gram stain or a Kirby-Bauer is quite useless.
They were in the process of digitalizing all their slides the year I took the course. But we were old school with slide banks and microscopes. And the younger students in subsequent years still had mandatory labs with the faculty, but instead of looking through scopes they were looking at big HD touch screens (which actually made for better teaching I'd imagine since a whole group could look at an image with the faculty much more easily).
While I think 20 hours a week is a little low (as an average since exam weeks will def be more) I can agree with the bolded. Seems like the majority of 'study' time was truly facebook/hulu time.
This. Different strokes for different folks.
brb you must study 60+ hours a week in med school or you'll repeat the year
brb you must have 10+ publications by 2nd year or you'll never match
brb 3.9+ GPA, 40+ MCAT or you'll never get into med school
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It can be similar. But there is something to be said for actually attending class. It keeps your head in the game to a greater extent then staying at home in your pajamas. Even if you are watching the same content.
Disagree. Grades went up a bit and morale went up a ton when I stopped going to lecture. Also I stopped getting whatever nasty sinus infection is perpetually cycling amongst my classmates.
Oh, please. At home you can rewind the lectures and play it back at 2x speed.
Wow! My friend told me to be prepared to put in 5+ hours/day regularly and 8+ hours during exam week, just to be the average Joe in my class. I am REALLY scared!
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As this thread clearly shows, there is a wide range, and within that wide range, a very high standard error in peoples' estimates.
Come in prepared to work your butt off. Find out what works for you, and how much time YOU need. Everyone elses' estimations are worthless.
Can't agree more.
