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Okay. Some background first, I entered medical school with ROAD(E) aspirations. I have now realized I am probably not smart enough. Admittedly I am disappointed that I am having to switch from excellence mode to survival mode. I'm not going to dwell on it since there's nothing I can do. People here are just that much smarter than me.
I attend a P/F school. In an effort to optimize my match (if I'm bound for IM I would still like to get in somewhere nice in terms of quality of the program or location etc) should I just give up trying to compete with grades/internal rank. I can't win in this arena. It isn't structured enough. The difference between the top students and the middle ones is who can learn the most minutiae. I am burning out trying to keep up with them in this regard. In fact, I nearly failed an exam recently because I spent too much time on minutiae and ended up running out of time to cover the rest of the material.
I think my time would be better spent just surviving my preclinical courses but then hammering out Step1 material really early and board relevant material to maximize my board scores. I have no problem reading kaplan, FA, GT, etc since they are so structured.
If this is ill-advised please let me know soon.
Thank you
I attend a P/F school. In an effort to optimize my match (if I'm bound for IM I would still like to get in somewhere nice in terms of quality of the program or location etc) should I just give up trying to compete with grades/internal rank. I can't win in this arena. It isn't structured enough. The difference between the top students and the middle ones is who can learn the most minutiae. I am burning out trying to keep up with them in this regard. In fact, I nearly failed an exam recently because I spent too much time on minutiae and ended up running out of time to cover the rest of the material.
I think my time would be better spent just surviving my preclinical courses but then hammering out Step1 material really early and board relevant material to maximize my board scores. I have no problem reading kaplan, FA, GT, etc since they are so structured.
If this is ill-advised please let me know soon.
Thank you