Never in class?

[SaginawPremed]

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Can somebody clear something up for me? Whenever I read posts by current medical students, it'd discussed often how lax attendance is and that it's better to be out of class then in... why is this? I just graduated from high school, but I've taken a buttload of college classes for dual-enrollment over the past year, and it's been my experience that yeah, while you can skip whenever you want, it's much more conducive to the educational process to be there for lecture... so do this flipflop in medical school? With pass/fail first year at some places, is it better to study/read on your own, as opposed to hearing a professor discuss histology, or pathology, or biochemistry?

I'd love to have someone fill me in about the med students never being in class.

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Thanks!

 

[cdreed]

As a MSII, I usually never go to class unless attendance is absolutely required. The best tool you'll have in med school is good time management skills. For me, skipping class is more beneficial. It allows me more than adequate time to study, exercise, housekeep, and most important- sleep. If I were in class from 8-5 every day (and believe me, I tried it), my sanity suffers. There is just not enough time in the day to accomplish the tasks of living and attend all my lectures. Besides that, by the time a student is in grad school he/she already knows what study methods work best. Why should I waste an hour in lecture that goes so fast that I can't keep up or that I'm too tired to listen to attentively when I could be actively studying on my own?

I suppose what I'm trying to convey is that med students are aware of how to assimilate info in the most efficient method possible. And you will do the same. Some students do attend lecture... they benefit from it. Others prefer to ditch. They benefit from using their time differently. You'll have to decide which method works best for you.