Med School is Easy

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Originally posted by Hero


right after smallville 9pm tonight 😀

Smallville rocks! I wouldn't want a doctor who didn't watch smallville so I think that you all should take a break from your studying and watch smallville.

 

[DrMom]

Originally posted by Fenrezz
I think he has a point starting this thread. Except for the late nights studying, no sleep, constant anxiety over tests, never ending lectures and labs, and that histo test that completely kicked my ass this morning, med school IS easy.

Yep, that histo test was awful!!!! 😱 I've already come up with quite a list of mistakes I made!! 🙁 😡

 

[Tenesma]

Currently a resident... and it makes me smile when i read some of these posts. It reminds me of my good ol' med school days...

I think everybody goes through different phases: one minute you think you are a badass and that you can do anything, and the next minute you realize how useless you really are (in case you don't believe me, wait until your third year 🙂

In retrospect, the most important thing is what the patient wants... Unless they are an insecure cosmetic surgery patient, almost all patients don't care how talented or book smart their doctor is. All they really want is a doctor who genuinely cares and who shows it... Imagine if you had a terminal disease, would you want a smart-alec (mycin1600 would be one of those) or somebody who will hold your hand?

The only thing that ruins that utopian world is that you gotta have good board scores for good residency programs... so keep on studying guys and gals and good luck

 

[8744]

Originally posted by yaoming
To reemphasize my point: panda you are stupid.
did i ever say i study that much to pass? we am honoring my classes. it doesnt mean that i want to go to a competitive residency. i cant imagine myself looking at eyes and skin every freakin day. maybe i just like to get honors and study hard. dont make assumptions about my goals and intention based on one post.
i went to ucla, a school known to rear competitive premeds. had to kick some ass and conquer competition to get my A's, no freebies up in that school.
maybe you should start your own thread: "medical school for family practitioners are easy." then i might agree. some of us actually have the opportunity to not care for 3 kids and want to specialize.
i socialize with people in my class during breaks and a little bit after class, and sometimes after exams. but the other times, i'm busting my ass. it's my choice. it's your choice to have kids. but that aint easy either. i'm not antisocial, and probably as easy going as you. but dont categorize everything into one. med school means diff things to diff people.

Didn't you say earlier that you barely passed your tests? Who's stupid? The guy who studies 80 hours per week to barely pass or the guy who studies 20 hours per week and is doing pretty well.

I am glad you are "busting your ass" but remember this is self-inflicted ass-busting and is not the same as "required" ass-busting.

Obviously your education didn't include verb conjugation.

 

[Hero]

Originally posted by Moleculo
hero: you are stupid.

yea yea... sukkit 😛

 

[Arunski]

well well mycin, aren't we proud of our SAT score....

 

[souljah1]

I study maybe 3 hours every week day, take saturdays off, and study maybe 4 to 5 hours on sunday. We have midterms for our block coming up next friday ( a four hour written exam and a two hour combined anatomy/histology lab practical). I'll pick it up a notch and study saturday and probably 4 to 5 hours every day next week. We only have 4-5 hours of class/lecture/lab/smallgroup/clinicalinterviews per week so they give us time to do other things aside from studying.

All this 16 hours a day **** doesn't make any sense. There isn't that much material. A calm mind is an absorbant one. I am a strong proponent of balancing your medical student life with outside activities that allow you to relax, have fun, and get the mind ready for more studying.

Yaoming, you study an insane amount and I am sure that you will 'textually' succeed in medical school. I also hope that you are developing some personal characteristics that will enable you to foster effective physician-patient relationships. There is a lot more to medical school than learning every factoid (the half that isn't in books). I hope to truly master all of the material, but I am even more focused on becoming the best clinician possible. I'm not saying that you don't have intentions of developing your person, but some of your posts have tones that have a canorous immaturity to them. You may think that medical school is all about studying from 9am to 1am both saturday and sunday, but don't insult a person who feels that there is more to medical school than burying a head in a book.

Peace.

 

[yaoming]

i'm not writing a formal essay you idiot. i never said i was studying to barely pass. u do well in medical school but obviously u dont know how to read.

neither idiot panda or souljah know me. so i'm not gonna need to feel a need to defend my personality. but panda is definitely the biggest idiot i've met on sdn thus far.

 

[fourthyear]

Originally posted by Panda Bear
Let's just say it's harder than slinging burgers at McDonalds for nine hours per day.

Although I agree with most of what Panda says, this statement I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH!!! And the scary thing is many of you share this attitude. Have you ever slung burgers at McDonalds - it's not too fun after a few days, let me tell you.

So many med students get all wrapped up into thinking they are doing the hardest thing in the world. I met so many patients, mostly during third year, who were working 2 full time jobs at or near minimum wage, with no insurance benefits - some of them are also trying to go to school and better their career options.

No matter how hard we think med school is a times, there are plenty of people in this country busting their butts just as many hours a day as we are, only they will NEVER make the kind of bucks we will, and, more importantly, will probably never get the kind of job satisfaction we will out of getting the opportunity to do a job we truly love and enjoy.

We all choose med school b/c this is what we want to do in life and I for one am extremely grateful that life's opportunities have come my way for me to be able to do it, no matter how much time or effort it takes.

 

[cmspilot]

It is about time someone said something sensible, thanks Fourthyear. I just got accepted yesterday to Medical School and certainly hope I don't end up in the same school as some of you people.

 

[gbv]

yaoming, with all due respect, I think you need to be more respectful of people on the forum--everyone is doing their best to offer advice and be supportive, but insulting people and slinging names completely hurts the spirit of the threads. I don't know you, but if your study routine works for you, that is fine--but please learn to be mindful of others who may have differing opinions about how to balance school with other activities. gracias!

gbv

 

[o.neel]

😀 med school is easy???????????
i don't know which year you r in but when you get to the third year you really get pissed off from studying.

 

[Street Philosopher]

Originally posted by mycin1600
I just took an exam and owned it.

ditto

 

[lattimer13]

feel better now? did you save the link to that thread so you could one day add to the post?

 

[Street Philosopher]

no i used the search function

 

[omarsaleh66]

i think it comes down to priorities...

for me, working out is a priority over med school. I will do my cardio on an empty stomache, lift weights and eat my 6 meals a day, and then worry about med school...

dude, if i wake up; i am gona workout and eat and then if there is time, try to hit up a class...

i homeschool, so after all the working out, i use rest of the time to study, i take breaks to watch some comic view hhahahaha

i hope to specialize... so i am hitting it hard for the next 2 weeks for block one exams, thas what xenadrine is for,.... hahahah

whats the point of being a doctor unless ur ripped??

later

Omar

 

[doc05]

Originally posted by omarsaleh66
i think it comes down to priorities...

for me, working out is a priority over med school. I will do my cardio on an empty stomache, lift weights and eat my 6 meals a day, and then worry about med school...

dude, if i wake up; i am gona workout and eat and then if there is time, try to hit up a class...

i homeschool, so after all the working out, i use rest of the time to study, i take breaks to watch some comic view hhahahaha

i hope to specialize... so i am hitting it hard for the next 2 weeks for block one exams, thas what xenadrine is for,.... hahahah

whats the point of being a doctor unless ur ripped??

later

Omar

going into ortho?

worry not, they don't read either.

 

[omarsaleh66]

ortho would be cool, kinda leaning towards anesthesia or EM

EM would be great cuz u dont have to be on call...

I would hate to get paged in the middle of a set on bench press
that would totally mess up my pump...

later

Omar

 

[Street Philosopher]

working out is good. that is my next goal. thanks for the reminder.

 

[kaos]

Wow all the old peeps up in here! Diogenes, Moleculo, DrFoxy! HIIII! Missed u all in here!

Way to instigate the n00bs, mycin!



I'm going to go work out at the gym now before this pre-exam stress kills me.

 

[ilovetexas]

ummm.....to those with such high self-perceptions, think of all the little 12 and 13 yo old kids starting med school and finishing with MD/PhDs at the age at we graduated college. now you should feel like the rest of us "lessers" and come back to earth.

 

[ilovetexas]

muhahha. i forgot the "which"

age at which....

 

[Street Philosopher]

12/13 year olds are geniuses. so what? i'm smarter than them anyway.