Playing hooky to study for Step 1

[mesoderm]

Am I the only one? Fess up, pardners!

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[DrThom]

I wish I was. Today is my birthday and yet here I am celebrating my 24th year on this earth with my good friend High Yield Neuroanatomy.

There's not even candles....

 

[mesoderm]

Happy Birthday!

 

[DrThom]

Happy Birthday!

I'm gonna live vicariously through your playing hookiness

 

[mesoderm]

Yeah, big fun to be had by all as I tread the waters of the endocrine system

I saw a thread a while back about people blowing off classes to study for the boards, lots of views for and against, can't recall what the consensus was. I used to think that was not good, but here I am!

 

[UCLAstudent]

I haven't so far, but we're having a two-week review block in April, and you can bet that I'll be staying home with the books during that time.

 

[UCLAstudent]

Happy birthday, DrThom!!!

 

[domer621]

I wish I was. Today is my birthday and yet here I am celebrating my 24th year on this earth with my good friend High Yield Neuroanatomy.

There's not even candles....

Please tell me you're going to do something fun tonight, man.

 

[Medikit]

I wish I was. Today is my birthday and yet here I am celebrating my 24th year on this earth with my good friend High Yield Neuroanatomy.

There's not even candles....

Congrats dude!
It's sad when a smiley is having more fun than you are:

 

[pinky65]

I wish I was. Today is my birthday and yet here I am celebrating my 24th year on this earth with my good friend High Yield Neuroanatomy.

There's not even candles....

haha that was me two weeks ago on my bday - crappiest bday in recent memory. This better be worth it.
happy bday!!

 

[Taus]

Could be worse....this year on my bday I had my training session w/ a standardized patient for the male genital and rectal exams....probably the only year I'll ever remember exactly what I did on my birthday....

 

[Adcadet]

I was ruthless in skipping lectures that I didn't feel were worth my time. I would usually use that time to study for my current classes with a focus on Step 1 and/or the class, but some of it was definitely for other topics I needed to study up for Step 1. The only type of class I would not skip to study on your own would be the intro to clinical medicine/professionalism/ethics type of classes. That material isn't on Step 1 (at least not very much) and it's actually more important in the long run.

 

[lord_jeebus]

intro to clinical medicine

The NBME actually has a committee specifically assigned to write these types of questions for Step 1. I'd post a link but I couldn't find it with a quick search. Agreed, don't neglect this stuff.