Medical School Reading Assignments

[preparedness]

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Could someone give me an example of their weekly reading assignments that they recieved in either first or second year? Maybe jot down your weekly agenda here just so I could get an idea of what it looks like in medical school.

 

[DoctwoB]

Could someone give me an example of their weekly reading assignments that they recieved in either first or second year? Maybe jot down your weekly agenda here just so I could get an idea of what it looks like in medical school.

For my school, there are no reading assignments. You know the material in the syllabus for each lecture. If you want to get ahead, you read the syllabus and understand the material before the lecture. Each lecture may be about 10 pages of syllabus, but that is in condensed, note-style format that you need to know cold.

Each lecture does come with supplemental reading that no one uses, but gives pages in textbooks that correspond to similar material.

 

[preparedness]

So, I guess my curiosity lies in wanting to know the volume of material you would cover for each "test" or evaluation of a clump of material. Just for giggles, how many test questions do you see? what format? Thanks for your help. Which school do you attend?

 

[dude1344]

A month of material in med school is comparable to one semester in undergrad I would say.

 

[fahimaz7]

We do about 1000 slides a week. In the first module of the year, I also read Clinical Micro Made Redicuously Simple (cover to cover) and about 200 pages of pharm and path to go with it. That's in addition to the 5000 power point slides that we covered in those five weeks.

 

[gravitywave]

For my school, there are no reading assignments. You know the material in the syllabus for each lecture. If you want to get ahead, you read the syllabus and understand the material before the lecture. Each lecture may be about 10 pages of syllabus, but that is in condensed, note-style format that you need to know cold.

Each lecture does come with supplemental reading that no one uses, but gives pages in textbooks that correspond to similar material.

We do about 1000 slides a week. In the first module of the year, I also read Clinical Micro Made Redicuously Simple (cover to cover) and about 200 pages of pharm and path to go with it. That's in addition to the 5000 power point slides that we covered in those five weeks.

this is about right. we have fewer slides at the moment, but that's because we're doing anatomy right now, so less time in the day for lecture.

the course we're in now only has exams once a month, but they are three-part exams that run about 4.5 hours altogether. the pass rate is very high, but most people work like dogs just to pass.